steve1 Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 It doesn’t look like it to me. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84zekpmyl4o steve 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted April 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21 4 minutes ago, steve1 said: It doesn’t look like it to me. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84zekpmyl4o steve Behave yourself. Most of the BBC researchers will be back at school following the Easter break😉 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted April 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21 Looks very much like UK track to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 ... though it doesn't look to be fenced from the road(s) alongside .......... tramway p'raps ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimC Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 (edited) It's a stock photo from Getty Images by Gustave Deghilage, a photographer who appears to be Swiss, but works internationally. Unlikely to be in the UK. Edited April 21 by JimC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted April 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21 By looking at the way the track is secured to the sleepers, looks like European metre gauge track to me, but happy to be proved wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibelroad Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 The way the check rails are held is definitely not British, perhaps someone will recognise this fitting. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted April 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21 2 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: ... though it doesn't look to be fenced from the road(s) alongside .......... tramway p'raps ? Yep, fair point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibelroad Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 4 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said: Behave yourself. Most of the BBC researchers will be back at school following the Easter break😉 But it’s train track innit? Wot trains and goods carriages run on. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 Can't be British, there's no sign of an idiot wizard. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18B Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 The BBC and other Media often purposefully use a none "BR" track or train, to avoid an come backs from those depicted. At least it's not as bad as the Daily Fail using a pic of stored stock as a representation of the effects of strike action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave750t Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 6 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said: Behave yourself. Most of the BBC researchers will be back at school following the Easter break😉 A bit unfair. It's not as though the story is about a particular piece of track that the picture is purporting to show. It's just a nice-ish stock photo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morello Cherry Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 6 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said: Behave yourself. Most of the BBC researchers will be back at school following the Easter break😉 This smacks of rivet counters punching down. It is easy to mock but local journalism has been cut to the bone. Almost all local news stories carried by the BBC use stock photos (there is another story about an assault in Hull which uses google streetview...). Almost certainly someone has gone onto Getty or one of the other photolibrary resources and put 'railway tracks' into the search box and this as a 'indicates it is a railway but not of an identifable place'. Having used these search engines for work they are something of a blunt instrument and no doubt this was a 30 second search and select for the story to get it out by a harrassed, overworked, underpaid and under-staffed local journalist (they certainly won't have a researcher working for them). The story doesn't live or die on the image, no one is going to be misled or misinformed so why care that it is a generic shot of some track that probably isn't in the UK. 1 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpendle Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 7 hours ago, steve1 said: It doesn’t look like it to me. Does it matter? The article is about track work and the picture shows some track. The journalist clearly does not build her own track but neither do 99.999% of the people for whom this article is intended. Regards, John P 4 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 If Aunty Beeb wants to know what British track looks like - here's some I photographed last Tuesday : - Taken with permission. 3 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted April 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21 14 minutes ago, jpendle said: Does it matter? Here, here!! Talk about getting *nal about minutae! CJI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimC Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 (edited) Its amusing to use Google Lens and see in how many places round the world this image has been used. Here's the Getty Images source page. Its in Switzerland. The BBC has used it before. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/simple-way-royalty-free-image/187555173 Edited April 21 by JimC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 2 hours ago, cctransuk said: Here, here!! (sic) Let's not get an*l about minutiae. Sorry! The irony was strong. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morello Cherry Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 42 minutes ago, 'CHARD said: Let's not get an*l about minutiae. Sorry! The irony was strong. But writing 'here here' instead of 'hear hear' when saying don't be anal about minutiae is not ironic. It'd only have been ironic if he'd been being anal about minutiae, or spelling. Something being unfortunate does not make it ironic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 To answer the Q - No it's not 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21 3 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: If Aunty Beeb wants to know what British track looks like - here's some I photographed last Tuesday : - Taken with permission. La'al Ratty. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted April 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21 3 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: If Aunty Beeb wants to know what British track looks like - here's some I photographed last Tuesday : - Taken with permission. stud contact too! Andi 1 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 1 hour ago, Morello Cherry said: But writing 'here here' instead of 'hear hear' when saying don't be anal about minutiae is not ironic. It'd only have been ironic if he'd been being anal about minutiae, or spelling. Something being unfortunate does not make it ironic. Comedy. GOLD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted April 22 Author Share Posted April 22 I asked the original question merely out of curiosity, as I wasn’t sure. Just that. No criticism of BBC journalists or researchers was intended or implied. steve (who was a type of journalist for 12 years) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted April 22 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22 12 hours ago, JimC said: Its amusing to use Google Lens and see in how many places round the world this image has been used. Here's the Getty Images source page. Its in Switzerland. The BBC has used it before. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/simple-way-royalty-free-image/187555173 Isn't this the same picture that @steve1 posted at the start of this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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