Great British Railway Journeys

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A new series starts tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l5kf0

Set your boxes !

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Does anyone else thing it's pretty much ran out of steam now ?

In the new series, the train is now inconsequential. So the train hardly gets a mention and his Bradshaw's Guide rarely gets a look in anymore. All he seems to do now is go from one location to another (okay, on a train) but that's it. And the places he now visits (okay, not all) are fairly inconsequential affairs, which he sort of bigs up; it's like he's visiting places connected with z-list celebrities of their day.

I get the impression they have ran out of places to go and line trains to talk about and they are now scrapping the bottom of the barrel in quite a few cases.

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Alex Langheck said:

Isn't he now using a later version of (Edwardian)Bradshaws, as opposed to the earlier (Victorian) version? So is basing his visits on events/ people from the Edwardian era.

Yes, he did say he's using an early 20th century edition and does mention the period leading up to the 1st World War quite often.

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I see the new American version starts this Monday.

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Riley Blue said:

I wouldn't call David Lloyd George a z-list celebrity.

I did say "not all".

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Riley Blue said:

True, you did but his DLG segment more than made up for them - whoever they were.

I've just finished watching the last 3 episodes from this week. They were actually about the best ones I think.

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The US one is so far very good, better than the last UK one I reckon. He's actually presenting about railways.

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Riley Blue said:

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The US one is so far very good, better than the last UK one I reckon. He's actually presenting about railways.

Isn't it a repeat? I caught a bit of one programme and was sure I'd seen it before.

It's a new series:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mdvbd/episodes/...

Boston area so far.

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Kitchski said:

If they're running out of railway lines to make a TV show about, they could move onto disused railways. You can walk/ride/drive most of them, and they could trawl through the archives finding historical images, speak to people who went on them, explore why they closed etc. They could even bring up Beeching every now and then, so railway lovers can get all foamy at the mouth!

More closed railways than open ones. The railways today don't really interest me much, but there's always loads of history and drama involved in the ones that got closed.

That's quite a good idea.

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He's back again with another new series starting this Thursday (8th of March) of Great Continental Railway Journeys:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vjw8m

The man must spend his entire life on a train !

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Kitchski said:

BOOM!

Someone from Ch5 is a PHer, and owes me some royaltiez innit:

http://www.channel5.com/show/walking-britains-lost...

Setting up to record

Well spotted - thanks !

I've just set my box as well.

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A bit poor. Basically a tourist advert dressed up as being about disused railways. Somewhat tenuous connections at best.

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I watched the second one and that was quite a bit better.