Railway Programes on BBC4

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Railway Programes on BBC4

Post by laalratty » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:06 pm

Im suprised nobody has mentioned the railway programes on BBC4 recently, these have featured many takes on the Beeching axe, railway walks, some reapeats of progrmes on long ago including the one edition of Great Railway Journeys that was set in Britain, as well as a programe about Tornado (don't start William and Andy :lol: ). Been very intersting to watch, and nice to see some railway programes on, although it would be nice to see some narrow guage
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Post by alan2525 » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:31 pm

Sorry...no time to post...too busy watching...railway programmes on BBC 4...

That prog on Tornado was wonderful, the quality of the engineering looks absolutely superb, and was great to see such an upbeat programme too. After seeing an article on it on BBC news where the whole slant was that we didn't have any skills and couldn't do it anymore.
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Post by SLRmidge » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:21 pm

Its been really great to have all these railway related programmes every Thursday evening. Looking forward to watching 'Metroland' by John Betjemen as we get to see Len Rawle's home installed Wurlitzer organ (my other vice)! :D
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Post by ACLR » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:56 pm

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Post by mhlr » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:04 am

I have been enjoying them too. Some great progs, I like 'Steam Days' the most.
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Post by ptlrcecil » Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:45 am

I havent seen much of them but I did see that one on Tornando. It really does look a fantastic piece of kit. So when are they building an LMS garret?
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Post by Austin Rea » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:52 pm

Not sure if this has been posted before, but 'Swiss Railway Journeys' on one of the Sky travel channels is an easy watch. Have been showing all day on a Sunday and Tuesday. Mostly diesel but there is some occasional steam footage.

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Post by ptlrcecil » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:21 pm

Hi Austin fancy a steam in 2 minutes :D
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