Trainspotting Live Confirmed for BBC Two on 11, 12 and 13 July from 8pm to 9pm
Trainspotting Live will bring three nights of spotting, joy and excitement to BBC Four as Peter Snow, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry and engineer Dick Strawbridge along with a team of rail train enthusiasts revel in the tantalising intricacies, trade secrets and true pleasures of trainspotting... live!
Live from the historic Didcot Rail Museum, Peter Snow will be asking the audience to join the spotting by recording the most frequent to the most elusive trains on the tracks all over country during the three days of live broadcast. Our team of expert spotters will also be waiting in anticipation to catch the full range of British rail stock on camera - from classic steam, to diesel locomotives, to high-speed electric and our rarest beauties - explaining how they did it and delving into their importance in our British heritage.
I think we may have a few Palarse closet train spotters also. Their chairman owns the 'Lord Dowding' steam locomotive.
This train does heritage rides which are reasonably expensive.
It did an excursion the other week and they had to turf the paying punters off at Stevenage to make their own way home, as the loco was fed with 'The wrong type of coal'.
I think we may have a few Palarse closet train spotters also. Their chairman owns the 'Lord Dowding' steam locomotive.
This train does heritage rides which are reasonably expensive.
It did an excursion the other week and they had to turf the paying punters off at Stevenage to make their own way home, as the loco was fed with 'The wrong type of coal'.
I kid you not.
Didn't he put it on for CP's last away game of the season for the fans to travel on?
What a load of rubbish. Can't believe I'd been looking forward to that. And Peter Snow, he's the worst. He keeps asking questions that have just been answered, if only he was listening.
In the video clip of the ill fated double decker train one of the passengers is Herbert Morrison, then deputy prime minister in the post war Labour government. He lived at Eltham and was one of the first 'celebrity' Charlton fans. However, there is a much stronger connection between CAFC and trams rather than trains. There is a dwindling number of us left who remember these fine vehicles - the Woolwich Road with lines of trams on routes 36, 38 and 40. And, believe me, they were stacked full of fans on a match day at The Valley. Also some of the players came to the ground by the same way.
One of the Glikstens complained to London Transport that the replacement of trams by buses would adversely affect crowd numbers. The last trams of the first generation ran on 5th July 1952. They were all scrapped at the 'tramatorium' just off Penhall Road.
Many of the trams sported a board on the side which announced NEAR CHARLTON FOOTBALL GROUND. The preserved London tram in the LT Museum had one. And if you really wish to experience some nostalgia, Youtube has the film 'The Elephant Will Never Forget' a prize winning documentary of 1952, and for a flavour of post war life there is the feature film 'The Pool of London' . And yes, one of the scenes is on the top deck of a London tram. Somehow buses just don't have the same magic....
@FiveGoalSummers - I wrote about LT trams and CAFC in a thread entitled For March51 and all CL-tramistas - Normal Folks Should Look Away Now. May be of interest.
What a load of rubbish. Can't believe I'd been looking forward to that. And Peter Snow, he's the worst. He keeps asking questions that have just been answered, if only he was listening.
Watched it last night for the first time, have to agree Snow's the wrong man. He seems as if he wants to be elsewhere.
Still Full Steam Ahead next week on Thursday night I think, with Ruth what's name and guys that did the Edwardian/Victorian farm series.
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The bogs, however.............
This train does heritage rides which are reasonably expensive.
It did an excursion the other week and they had to turf the paying punters off at Stevenage to make their own way home, as the loco was fed with 'The wrong type of coal'.
I kid you not.
Glancing through the Sportingold auction catalogue for their next sale, the following item is listed for sale amongst the other Charlton item.
http://www.sportingoldauctions.co.uk/cat_lot2.aspx?Lot=466
Yup, its 2 bus destination boards!
As far as I can see no other club else seems to have similar items for sale amongst their football memorabilia.
It really could only happen to us! :-)
Cringe-worthy. Made my corned beef sandwiches curl up at the edges.
One of the Glikstens complained to London Transport that the replacement of trams by buses would adversely affect crowd numbers. The last trams of the first generation ran on 5th July 1952. They were all scrapped at the 'tramatorium' just off Penhall Road.
Many of the trams sported a board on the side which announced NEAR CHARLTON FOOTBALL GROUND. The preserved London tram in the LT Museum had one. And if you really wish to experience some nostalgia, Youtube has the film 'The Elephant Will Never Forget' a prize winning documentary of 1952, and for a flavour of post war life there is the feature film 'The Pool of London' . And yes, one of the scenes is on the top deck of a London tram. Somehow buses just don't have the same magic....
Trains. On a boat!
@FiveGoalSummers - I wrote about LT trams and CAFC in a thread entitled For March51 and all CL-tramistas - Normal Folks Should Look Away Now. May be of interest.
Still Full Steam Ahead next week on Thursday night I think, with Ruth what's name and guys that did the Edwardian/Victorian farm series.
In memory of March51 and for all the other tram fans (both of you)
Any idea on date of above. Clapton Orient narrows it down but not significantly
from the artwork 1930s
1937 Charlton 1 - 1 Leeds Utd 30,978