Thanks for the heads up. DVR programmed ready!

 

Nice one Gerry - I'll sort that as soon as!

QUOTE (steam-driven boy @ 9 Aug 2010, 16:09) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>he of the 'Penguins being the staple diet of Polar Bears' classic)
Oooh - that's not nice!

Regards

 

Thanks for that Gerry.

 

Many thanks Gerry, recording all set.

Best regards

Willy............

 

The programme was quite interesting but somewhat spoiled by Cruikshank's "overdramatised" commentary - even whispering at times. Hope parts two and three are better
Jim

 

I saw this episode earlier in the year on the Geographic channel but enjoyed watching it again. The program is what it is a program with a general railway interest running through it. Not sure about the title "Great Railway Adventures" & Cruickshank does have a way of putting things across but any program with a train in it is a good program to me.

Roll on the next episode

 

Enjoyed watching these.
Frame.

 

Hi,
Just finished watching the first, having edited out the ads first. There's no mistaking his 'style', and if we must have a personality in front of the camera it's far preferable - IMHO - to Portillo or Sergeant.
The second is 'Brilliant Brunel' . I note the website I'm linking to is calling it Series 1...

I'm typing this while Rolf Harris is fretting away about some penguins ("...otherwise this little thing won't last the week..."), Penguin Cafe? Where's the Orchestra

Regards, Gerry.

 

Watched this have to say its been on before on another channel. Remembered the small petrol trench loco.

Unfortunately all of these types of programs have glaring errors in them which for me spoil them. Thing like progs about the battle of Britain where they refer to Hurricanes and show Spitfires taking off. Then a 109 being shot down into the channel when it can be seen it's a Spit. Sadly these errors creep in as the editors are usually too young to know what's what. The classic is of cos the showing of planes going on a raid and then coming back afterwards in the opposite direction. This was achieved by 'turning the film over' so that the serial numbers and the squadron markings are all backwards.

Only last night a D-Day stripped Spitfire with 4 bladed prop was purported to have been at Biggin Hill in 1940. For purist it spoils the prog but for the other 98% of the viewers it's good stuff.

 

Hi,
Just a reminder that the third programme, Steam Revolution giving the Stephenson's the 'treatment', is coming up on Tuesday at 8pm.

Regards, Gerry.

 

One mistake he did make in the Brunel one, is when he went underground, he wasn't anywhere near the railway line. That chamber he was in is called Cathedral, and it is in Box mine. Which is about 80 feet above the railway tunnel. The tunnel airshafts are a couple hundred feet to the south of cathedral.
This is cathedral