RMweb Premium figworthy Posted January 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2022 12 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Yes Birmingham is built on a bumpy plateau, from memory about 300' above sea level. The canal network there is only beaten for height by the Trans Pennine canals. I'll have a look at that clip I always liked Dexy's Midnight Runners. Wasn't it two tone records. Jamie The main canal level in Birmingham city centre is 453ft above sea level. Adrian 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 It's less about the hills. More about the huge drops to the side when walking along the pavement in the city centre! Don't go there if you are scared of heights. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 I've already mentioned 'The Sweeney' here a few times, well I've just found a couple of suitable screen grabs from one of my favourite episodes 'I Want The Man' from series 2 in 1975, where there's a well shot scene featuring a bit of fistycuffs at Chelsea Wharf Sidings, now the site of Imperial Wharf station on the West London line.... For context, this is the location as seen from the air with Lots Road power station dominating the scene - the yellow circle marks where the blaggers drive under the mainline to get to the sidings.... And from another episode called 'Golden Boy' we have the LSWR mainline between Vauxhall and Queenstown Road stations.... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Plymouth, Yealmpton and the Princeton branch makes an appearance in this lovely nostalgic video. A Brief Journey - sailor's run ashore in 1954 to Plymouth, Dartmoor and Looe (and sixpence for a pastie) 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 The Titfield Thunderbolt is on BBC2 at 2.55pm on Friday 4th February. A chance to do some research for those contemplating the forthcoming models! steve 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2022 5 hours ago, steve1 said: The Titfield Thunderbolt is on BBC2 at 2.55pm on Friday 4th February. A chance to do some research for those contemplating the forthcoming models! steve Such as Heljan, Dapol et al?1 Mike. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whart57 Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 The Railway Man is on BBC1 tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 (edited) A couple of interesting offerings on Talking Pictures TV. A 1954 B&W movie called Suddenly. starring Sterling Hayden and a very young Frank Sinatra. The plot is that some paid assassins (led by Sinatra) invade a house overlooking the Suddenly (name of the town) Southern Pacific depot in order to shoot the President who's supposed to be leaving his special train there to visit a local resort. It's not the greatest movie but there's quite a lot around the depot where the telegraph brings news to the local sheriff that the President is coming (with Secret Service men arriving a few hours earlier) and you see the track display in the station master's office. The Wiki entry has a link to the entire movie. The other is a fascinating forty minute long B&W British Transport documentary from 1950 called Berth 24. It tells the story of the British Transport Docks through a medium sized cargo ship, the 1795 ton Hull registered SS Bravo, arriving in Hull Alexandra Dock from Gothenberg on its regular scheduled run with a cargo of grain and timber , being unloaded and a few days later- probably five if my memory of cargo ship working in the 1960s is anything to go by- leaving with its 10-12 passengers (cargo ships were and probably still are permitted to carry up to twelve without being registered as passenger vessels) and a full cargo of Brtiish exports for Sweden including umpteen boxes, bales and barrels, loose vehicle wheels, a certain amount of coal, a digger and a prize bull, as last minute addition to the cargo, for a Swede (actually an actor) who is supposed to have come over on the ship to collect the digger and, being a farmer as well as an engineer, decides to buy the prize bull from a British breeder as well. There's quite a lot of railway operation in it including a British Railways shunter pulling a load of timber carried on bolsters (presumably just within the docks ) and work involving the Docks and "Hull wagon control" to get the appropriate numbers of empty wagons into the dock for arriving cargo. The whole thing gives a pretty comprehensive picture of how docks were in those days long before containerisation and when most cargo still came and went by rail (and by inland waterways) . I can't find the complete film on line but I think Talking Pictures TV are showing it again on the 16th of this month. Well worth watching, particularly if you like "proper" ships as opposed to box carriers. It was apparently the first film made by BTF and does suffer a bit from their attempts at poetry- (WH Auden it ain't) Edited February 8, 2022 by Pacific231G 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted February 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2022 I was watching the first part of The Secret Life of the Motorway on BBC4 last week; in the closing credits there is a 5-second clip of the M1 under construction at the point where the WCML Northampton loop crosses over. I'm 99% certain the train crossing the bridge is hauled by 10000 or 10001. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted February 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2022 5 hours ago, Pacific231G said: The other is a fascinating forty minute long B&W British Transport documentary from 1950 called Berth 24. Berth 24 is one of those that seems to come up every few months. Adrian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted February 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2022 On 02/02/2022 at 18:34, whart57 said: The Railway Man is on BBC1 tonight. Unusually, the train depicted at the beginning is too old for the era depicted. It is supposed to be 1980 but the coaches are maroon. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whart57 Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Watched Miss Potter last night, Renee Zellwigger, aka Bridget Jones, as Beatrix Potter. I was amused by the scenes of her and her family getting the train to the Lake District. Shot I suspect at either Horsted Keynes or Sheffield Park it featured a loco that was clearly a Southern one - olive green with sunshine lettering. Only the directors clearly felt that even the most railway-ignorant viewers would figure out that the Southern was an unlikely company to be serving Windermere. So patches were applied to the tender replacing "SOU" with "NOR" 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted February 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2022 Tonight's Call The Midwife, every train crash cliche in the book trotted out, the event being signposted way in advance. The green syp class 20 nose first on Mk1's from Chelmsford to Poplar in November 1967 just about acceptable but the colliding train, BR blue TOPS number Class 08 on a 1980's Shell Oils TTA tank? Nah... And as for the signalling and safety systems, dear oh dear. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 2 hours ago, John M Upton said: Tonight's Call The Midwife, every train crash cliche in the book trotted out, the event being signposted way in advance. The green syp class 20 nose first on Mk1's from Chelmsford to Poplar in November 1967 just about acceptable but the colliding train, BR blue TOPS number Class 08 on a 1980's Shell Oils TTA tank? Nah... And as for the signalling and safety systems, dear oh dear. RMers are not the prime audience for CTM unless they are fond of sobbing women giving birth with each episode in Poplar which is in the East End tended by a bunch of nuns and midwives. We have yet to see this show in the US; can't wait! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davknigh Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 3 minutes ago, brianusa said: RMers are not the prime audience for CTM unless they are fond of sobbing women giving birth with each episode in Poplar which is in the East End tended by a bunch of nuns and midwives. We have yet to see this show in the US; can't wait! FWIW, CTM has been on PBS in the US for ten years now. Cheers, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted February 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2022 1 hour ago, davknigh said: FWIW, CTM has been on PBS in the US for ten years now. Cheers, David PBS = Primarily British Service… Cheers Darius 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikcdab Posted February 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2022 9 hours ago, John M Upton said: Tonight's Call The Midwife, every train crash cliche in the book trotted out, the event being signposted way in advance. The green syp class 20 nose first on Mk1's from Chelmsford to Poplar in November 1967 just about acceptable but the colliding train, BR blue TOPS number Class 08 on a 1980's Shell Oils TTA tank? Nah... And as for the signalling and safety systems, dear oh dear. Was filmed on the midhants last October. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Other than the railway inaccuracies (which are, I suppose the norm these days) being talked about all over the 'net this morning I was surprised that no-one on the train tried to help those in the other carriage. Considering most of them would have been brought up/around in the war years only twenty years before this is set and in a section of London which would be used to bombs and carnage I'd have thought there would be plenty of people around who'd have tried to "do their bit" by attempting to rescue people, rather than run away from the train? Or is this just yet another poor plot line? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 I don't think that was too bad by TV drama standards... better than the last one I saw on Casualty last year shot on the Dean Forrest Railway, with high-speed BR green diesel shunters, even if the CTM scene with the speeded-up footage of the 08 Propelling the goods train was a bit St.Trinians Train Robbery Maybe if they'd done it as two combined, overlayed shots, with the 08 propelling at normal speed, and the footage of the 20 sped up, it wouldn't have looked as jarring. But other than that, I'd say not too bad an effort. From memory the best of these BBC Drama Train Crashes was the Casualty one shot in the 1990's. Admittedly a 25 on a passenger train was unlikely for the time, but I think the fact it was all done with practical effects made it look sufficiently real to young me, and left an impression. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Actually, after a quick look on Youtube for the 1990's Casualty train crash, I've realised that probably the only place that has more railway-related accidents than Holby City is probably the island of Sodor! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Think that the scenes were filmed very well apart from the class 20 and the shunter ,the actual scenes were worth watching and next weeks show will be interesting.Call The Midwife is one of the best dramas on tv its attention to detail is very good and as one who lived through the era they are spot on. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted February 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 14, 2022 Usually they are quite accurate, aside from the cash register which was in decimal a few years back, it reappeared in the next series corrected to pounds/shillings/pence! The thing I was trying to fathom out was why the two signals passed at danger after the driver had passed out actually changed from green to red as the train approached? In theory they should either have been green for the passage of the passenger or already red for the protection of the shunt movement. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 41 minutes ago, lmsforever said: Call The Midwife is one of the best dramas on tv its attention to detail is very good and as one who lived through the era they are spot on. I thought much the same until last night! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 14, 2022 14 hours ago, John M Upton said: Tonight's Call The Midwife, every train crash cliche in the book trotted out, the event being signposted way in advance. The green syp class 20 nose first on Mk1's from Chelmsford to Poplar in November 1967 just about acceptable but the colliding train, BR blue TOPS number Class 08 on a 1980's Shell Oils TTA tank? Nah... And as for the signalling and safety systems, dear oh dear. Good grief. It's a drama not a railway documentary. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted February 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 14, 2022 I found it hilarious. A TOPSblue 08 in the 60s doing about 60mph. The acceleration from the ultra potent 20. And what happened to AWS? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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