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A preview of his jacket colour for tomorrow's episode:
That's a bit more sedate, really!
silverfoxcc
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Just digressing, did anyone see the ITV prog Train V weather on Monday ( or was it yesterday?) however i didnt realise that the Class 37 was 17,500 hp machine Yes thats seventeen thousand five hundred HP. They kept that quite, apart from that very good view of the problems trackmen have to face, and the utter banality of some of the travelling public
You are a power of 10 out with your power! They are only 1,750hp. 17,500 hp would probably blow a few things up!
silverfoxcc isn't a power of 10 out, that is what was actually said in the quoted programme.
scott118
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Portillo pink, apparently..
Ash Bridge
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Just had a quick look on iplayer, did you mean the archive film sequence at around 19 mins into the programme? (b/w footage with steam locomotive crossing) if so you're correct in stating it was Stockport viaduct.
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Quite amusing when he did his piece to camera on that crowded 150(?) to Salford, seeing the looks on the faces behind him 
Bletchleyite
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Did anyone else spot the ScotRail 158 sneaking in to the mostly Northern Rail footage a few times last night?
The 156 he was sitting in was also a ScotRail one. They are the only ones left with the original seats.
IanD
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Shame he didn't paint a wall and try and hide himself as he suggested...
scott118
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I'm liking the cut of his jib.....
Quite amusing when he did his piece to camera on that crowded 150(?) to Salford, seeing the looks on the faces behind him
Watched the Tuesday one last night and as he was waiting at Carnforth, there was someone just on the edge of the camera. I can't help but wonder if the cameraman would have been jesticulating for the bloke to walk round the back of the camera...what with Portillo only getting one attempt at the shot!
northwichcat
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Quite amusing when he did his piece to camera on that crowded 150(?) to Salford, seeing the looks on the faces behind him
They must have been thinking a former Conservative Minister travelling on public transport in Salford? What next the Queen on a Merseytravel Pacer?
It was definitely a 150, one of the ones FNW refurbished around 15 years ago. I wonder why there was no-one on the middle seat next to him despite the standees near the doors.
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Kite159
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At the end of tonight's program when he was doing a piece to camera with a 158 rolling in, was that Preston (looked like it had overhead wiring)?
Indeed! When I saw the trailer I thought it looked like a "spectro" - where I work we have a couple (but for matching automotive paints, rather than household)
Did anyone else spot the ScotRail 158 sneaking in to the mostly Northern Rail footage a few times last night?
I did notice it at least once
Greybeard33
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Yes, I think so - certainly not Knutsford, and preceded by aerial shots of St. Helens! In the previous programme there was a glimpse of him boarding a 158 at Preston to go to Blackburn (immediately before a shot of a 150 pulling away from a different platform!), and he then did a piece to camera on board the 158. Perhaps they shot the Knutsford/Tatton sequence before going to Preston, then added the concluding piece to camera as an afterthought.
Tomorrow he will apparently start from Ashley, so helicoptered back to the Mid-Cheshire from Preston - the editing could be better!
Bletchleyite
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Because nobody likes a middle seat. Unless Northern passengers are a bit more sociable than those in the Sarfeast!
We are being far too critical about a programme which is meant to entertain and educate. We must be thankful that we have such a popular programme dedicated to rail travel which doesn't knock it or make fun of it.
To edit in the way many have suggested would require a vast amount of time and crewing which would probably make the programme uneconomic. The logistics of train travel in the UK can be "difficult" at the best of times, so to schedule all the travel, aerial shots, platform shots, interior shots, appointments with interviewees, etc. etc. would be totally beyond most of us on this thread.
Just rejoice in seeing the trains and enjoy the fact that the programme will be getting people onto the railways who would otherwise not have done so.
To edit in the way many have suggested would require a vast amount of time and crewing which would probably make the programme uneconomic. The logistics of train travel in the UK can be "difficult" at the best of times, so to schedule all the travel, aerial shots, platform shots, interior shots, appointments with interviewees, etc. etc. would be totally beyond most of us on this thread.
Just rejoice in seeing the trains and enjoy the fact that the programme will be getting people onto the railways who would otherwise not have done so.
northwichcat
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Because nobody likes a middle seat. Unless Northern passengers are a bit more sociable than those in the Sarfeast!
With the ex-FNW 150s I find it's rare for the middle seats to be left empty when the train is full. However, people travelling with other people often choose to stand together over sitting apart from one another. With the Pacers it's a different matter with big build people sitting in a way that presumes only two people are supposed to be sat on the 3 seaters.
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Yep you certainly don't see Northern 158s at Knutsford, if you see a 158 it'll an ATW one running an ECS or being diverted. The number of information displays also gave away it wasn't Knutsford as well.
I was wondering why the train he was on seemed so quiet, I know a couple of middle of the day services are usually very quiet leaving Chester but apparently he filmed it on a Saturday when Northern decided to run most Mid-Cheshire services as 4 car and he travelled in the rear train of a doubled up formation.
OuterDistant
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Well, on today's episode he departed from Consall, then arrived at... Consall!
Although I did enjoy trying to decipher John Peake's Potteries accent against the noise on a footplate - even though I sound like that myself!
Although I did enjoy trying to decipher John Peake's Potteries accent against the noise on a footplate - even though I sound like that myself!
Because nobody likes a middle seat. Unless Northern passengers are a bit more sociable than those in the Sarfeast!
Or thinner
backontrack
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Did this happen? I'm going to watch them all this weekend.
Or thinner
I think Neil means London Midland. Peak-hour 377s on the Brighton Main Line tend to see all seats filled unless one of the passengers in a bank of 3 seats is out of gauge.
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I thoroughly enjoy Portillo's programme, although I also rather enjoy (and am intrigued by) the editing process, especially when the episode involves a familiar area.
In the instance of last night's episode, Michael arrived at Ashley and describes it as a leafy commuter village, and covers a piece about chimney-sweeping (and the demand for domestic service in the local suburban villas).
However, Michael didn't actually stay in Ashley as he then went straight to Hale to meet a local chimney-sweep, and from there they went to sweep the chimney of a house on The Downs, Altrincham.
Maybe the episode should've been titled Altrincham to Alton(?). Or even Hale to Alton.
In the instance of last night's episode, Michael arrived at Ashley and describes it as a leafy commuter village, and covers a piece about chimney-sweeping (and the demand for domestic service in the local suburban villas).
However, Michael didn't actually stay in Ashley as he then went straight to Hale to meet a local chimney-sweep, and from there they went to sweep the chimney of a house on The Downs, Altrincham.
Maybe the episode should've been titled Altrincham to Alton(?). Or even Hale to Alton.
Greybeard33
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Ah, but then they would have lost the excuse for the shots of Ashley station, with the trains in opposite directions passing each other.
A bit more "poetic licence" when he claimed to have traversed the Stockport Viaduct, after saying he was changing at Stockport from a northbound to a southbound service!
However, he would have had a 25 minute wait at Stockport for his connection to Macclesfield, since he waited for the xx:43 Virgin service rather than taking the xx:35 XC (perhaps he is a Voyager-hater?) So he would have had time to cross the viaduct twice by staying on the ex-Chester train to Heaton Chapel (arr. xx:20) then getting the Hazel Grove stopper back to Stockport (dep. xx:31, arr:34).
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