Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Paul Merton's Secret Stations.

man_at_milletts
man_at_milletts Posts: 5,622
in Not Sports Related
I just thought one or two on here might have watched this. Quite interesting little programe, if you put the trains to one side, of course.
152 request stops on the railways, who'd have thought that?

Comments

  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 987
    No wonder we're anoraks
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    A real Charlton thread.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    IT was very entertaining.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    I was a little disappointed to be honest.
    Too much Paul Merton trying to be funny and not enough trains for me.
    Happy to give it another go next week though.
  • TeslaGirl
    TeslaGirl Posts: 184
    The book by Dixe Wills (on the same topic) is much better.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,622
    mistrollingin said:

    I was a little disappointed to be honest.
    Too much Paul Merton trying to be funny and not enough trains for me.
    Happy to give it another go next week though.

    Yes have to agree there.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,403
    Fantastic. You can't have enough programs about trains IMHO!
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,914
    not a programme I'd choo-choose to watch.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,679
    A little tale about Drigg station.
    I've used it 5 or 6 times when visiting the lake district.
    Well, one night i decided to stay in the Victoria Hotel which backs onto the station. When i spoke to the guv and his wife he went visibly pale, he asked where i was from and why i was there.
    Turned out they were from Woolwich and owed someone a lot of money. They thought they'd disappeared. Friends in the area told me they moved out soon after.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,622
    soapy_jones said:

    Fantastic. You can't have enough programs about trains IMHO!

    What do you reckon the chances are of Merton bumping into Portillo on a platform somewhere, and Tarrant being on the train they get on.

  • Sponsored links:



  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,403
    edited May 2016
    man_at_milletts said:

    soapy_jones said:

    Fantastic. You can't have enough programs about trains IMHO!

    What do you reckon the chances are of Merton bumping into Portillo on a platform somewhere, and Tarrant being on the train they get on.
    That would make one hell of a program MAM and if Pete Waterman brought along his model railway engines... I mean just wow!

    (Apologies to any lost Spanners or Nigels who have just spontaniously combusted reading this thread...)
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,210
    I first read this as Paul Merson's Secret Stations. Wondered how the hell everyone's favourite ex Arsenal Commentary Buffoon got a gig doing a documentary on the railways.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,622
    Baldybonce said:

    A little tale about Drigg station.
    I've used it 5 or 6 times when visiting the lake district.
    Well, one night i decided to stay in the Victoria Hotel which backs onto the station. When i spoke to the guv and his wife he went visibly pale, he asked where i was from and why i was there.
    Turned out they were from Woolwich and owed someone a lot of money. They thought they'd disappeared. Friends in the area told me they moved out soon after.

    Did you have your missus with you? :-)
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,679
    man_at_milletts said:

    Baldybonce said:

    A little tale about Drigg station.
    I've used it 5 or 6 times when visiting the lake district.
    Well, one night i decided to stay in the Victoria Hotel which backs onto the station. When i spoke to the guv and his wife he went visibly pale, he asked where i was from and why i was there.
    Turned out they were from Woolwich and owed someone a lot of money. They thought they'd disappeared. Friends in the area told me they moved out soon after.

    Did you have your missus with you? :-)
    'course not. On my own.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,386
    Baldybonce said:

    A little tale about Drigg station.
    I've used it 5 or 6 times when visiting the lake district.
    Well, one night i decided to stay in the Victoria Hotel which backs onto the station. When i spoke to the guv and his wife he went visibly pale, he asked where i was from and why i was there.
    Turned out they were from Woolwich and owed someone a lot of money. They thought they'd disappeared. Friends in the area told me they moved out soon after.

    you could use that as a plot for a TV series .. 'Line of Duty Goes to Drigg .. and Back'
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,724
    Loved the couple from Peckham! Nelson Mandela House do you think? She did all the talking and the husband never said a word. Now that bit is true to life. Actually I did enjoy the programme. I don't mind the occasional comedy as I like Paul Merton, but think the fell walking bit needed serious editing as the running (excuse the pun) joke got a bit tedious.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,609
    Albany Park that's a bloody secret !
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,622
    Bastards! BBC 4 goes head to head with More 4 at 9pm tonight.

    Pete Waterman's The Joy of Train Sets v Paul Merton's Secret Stations.

    Decisions, decisions.

  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,622
    RaplhMilne said:

    Albany Park that's a bloody secret !

    Best kept that way, allegedly.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    The More 4 is a repeat of the first program.

  • Sponsored links:



  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,622
    mistrollingin said:

    The More 4 is a repeat of the first program.

    Yes, I just noticed that, thanks. A chance to get the numbers I didn't get first time :-)
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,402
    man_at_milletts said:

    RaplhMilne said:

    Albany Park that's a bloody secret !

    Best kept that way, allegedly.
    Interesting point. I was brought up In Charlton and know the whole area well. Albany Park must be the nearest station to Charlton that I couldn't find without a map or satnav.

Categories

“Marketplace”