Help Remembering Old Steam Train Childrens Programme?
Discussion
My nephew loves trains and wants to learn more about the mechanics of them. I was chatting with my sister about this and we recalled a childrens TV programme from our youth (would have been on during the 1980/90s) about a group of children finding a steam engine on an old line and getting it running again. Does anyone remember this and what it was called? Google-foo failed me this time.
P5BNij said:
Are you sure it was the 80s / 90s..? I'm wondering if you're thinking of 'The Flockton Flyer' which IIRC was shown c.1977.
Thanks, will send that over to my sister. It's certainly the right era but the story-line doesn't seem to fit with what we remembered - which was the restoration of an old line following a locomotive being found.fakenews said:
My nephew loves trains and wants to learn more about the mechanics of them. I was chatting with my sister about this and we recalled a childrens TV programme from our youth (would have been on during the 1980/90s) about a group of children finding a steam engine on an old line and getting it running again. Does anyone remember this and what it was called? Google-foo failed me this time.
Ghost Train?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Train_(TV_seri...
Even I don't remember this one.. I would have been watching TV in this era as well (born 1985)
fakenews said:
Thanks, will send that over to my sister. It's certainly the right era but the story-line doesn't seem to fit with what we remembered - which was the restoration of an old line following a locomotive being found.
I don't recall this programme at all and, given my personal history and the fact that I had under school-age kids cluttering up the house at the time, I'm surprised I don't recall it!Now this may sound daft and it is a long shot, but the plot you describe is not at the opposite end of the spectrum to the 1952 film "The Titfield Thunderbolt." which has been shown on TV umpteen times over the years. Is it a possibility? The link to your scenario is them dragging an elderly engine out of a museum to run a Board of Trade inspection special the next day. (Film scriptwriters and directors clearly knew nothing about boiler certificates back then...
)Just a thought.
Not the same story the OP depicts, but two other films would be the Great St Trinians Train Robbery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_8ZisNSk8 - and Runaway Railway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDd6hmj6_U - both filmed on the Longmoor Military Railway in 1966. The latter is based on a bunch of small kids operating a tank engine and getting involved in a heist. I recall watching these as a train obsessed boy in the mid 80's.
Edited by theboss on Monday 10th September 18:06
rs1952 said:
fakenews said:
Thanks, will send that over to my sister. It's certainly the right era but the story-line doesn't seem to fit with what we remembered - which was the restoration of an old line following a locomotive being found.
I don't recall this programme at all and, given my personal history and the fact that I had under school-age kids cluttering up the house at the time, I'm surprised I don't recall it!Now this may sound daft and it is a long shot, but the plot you describe is not at the opposite end of the spectrum to the 1952 film "The Titfield Thunderbolt." which has been shown on TV umpteen times over the years. Is it a possibility? The link to your scenario is them dragging an elderly engine out of a museum to run a Board of Trade inspection special the next day. (Film scriptwriters and directors clearly knew nothing about boiler certificates back then...
)Just a thought.
rs1952 said:
silverfoxcc said:
IIRC
There was aprog filmed on the SVR about that time.
Are you thinking of the comedy series "Oh Mr Porter" which used Highley for all the outdoor shots (featuring most of the cast from "Hi di Hi"), or a specific children's show?There was aprog filmed on the SVR about that time.
Scrump said:
Come Midnight Monday?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Midnight_Mond...
If it is, get ready for some nostalgia OPhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Midnight_Mond...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDN7aTFpV30
Casey Jones theme ... drop the Corgi toys, run to the black and white telly, stare enraptured.bobbo89 said:
Nailed it. That's the one. Thanks all. 
theboss said:
Runaway Railway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDd6hmj6_U - both filmed on the Longmoor Military Railway in 1966. The latter is based on a bunch of small kids operating a tank engine and getting involved in a heist. I recall watching these as a train obsessed boy in the mid 80's.
Ahhh that brings back old memories, my mother still has a whole bunch of VHS tapes with a load of programs about trains on them my grandfather recorded and this one is definitely on one of them 
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