Top Gear Return [with 31]

[Coxster]

Got the TG newsletter today and whilst looking through the preview gallery found this. Slightly delayed due to Hammond's slight bump, but looks like we'll finally get to see the 31 destory a Renault!

http://www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/galleries/other/tg_preview2/12/

 

[Dennis]

The caption for image 2 in that gallery is incorrect...it is not a Reliant Robin but a Reliant Rialto, the model which superceeded the Robin.

 

[The Snap]

When can we see this Top Gear episode with the 31 in?

 

[Coxster]

When can we see this Top Gear episode with the 31 in?

Dunno. The series starts Sunday so it shouldn't be too long.

 

[Respite]

Trouble is You have to sit through that ego maniac Clarkson as well though,the hamster & May are good though.

 

[Coxster]

I think the trio make a good team.

 

[Respite]

Agreed, the other two calm him down a bit. I just don't like his anti everything but a car attitude. Funny thing is I have a mate who was born & bred & still lives in the next village to where Clarkson is from. He is exactly the same(although does like trains(He's a signalman on the ECML)),must be the coal dust in the air.

 

[devon_metro]

Its a fantastic show!

 

[Nathan]

Well obviously not in todays episode. looks like we're waiting another week, maybe more. Was a deadly looking crash.

 

[Coxster]

Well obviously not in todays episode. looks like we're waiting another week, maybe more.

Can't say I'm personally upset as I enjoy the show for what it is anyway - a decent motoring programme.

 

[nath9425]

Yeah It was a Great Show! Now we have all moved on and the crash is over! Back to work tomorrow to face those Raod Works! Oh Dear I mite have to leave early and on the way home Pick up 75 Fish and Chips!

Nath

 

[Nathan]

Can't say I'm personally upset as I enjoy the show for what it is anyway - a decent motoring programme.

Can't say im upset either, but there somethings you would prefer to see than others.

 

[Oracle]

I have asked my pal who works in the TG office and who got me those rare tickets last year..I was actually on TV twice for a few seconds. However as you can imagine the producers deliberately pose the loveliest dolly birds where they might be seen on camera behind the team members. If you're ugly you get pushed out!

 

[Coxster]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/medi...am=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&clip=topgear_280107_clip1# and click on "what's coming up".

 

[westcoaster]

what a crash missed the show, was going to watch the repeat but im not now, ONE lucky man

 

[960012]

This was posted on WessexRail

Watch this Sunday’s (4 February) Top Gear to see what happens when a train
hits a family car on a level crossing (8pm, BBC2).
We helped the programme set up the stunt last August to graphically show
motorists the consequences of level crossing misuse, supporting our ‘Level
crossings: don’t run the risk’ public information campaign.
In the staged crash – which our teams helped to organise and supervise – a
people carrier is parked on a level crossing in rural Lincolnshire. An
unmanned locomotive set off by remote control hurtles towards the car at speeds
approaching 70mph. You won’t want to miss the impact and what happens to the
car. Even Jeremy Clarkson was shocked.

 

[Nathan]

Hopefully the'll open the throttle right away, plenty of hellfire!

 

[960012]

Hopefully the'll open the throttle right away, plenty of hellfire!

No coz it was pushed towards it by a fellow 31!

 

[Nathan]

Ohh I thought when it said remotely then it would have been remote controlled.

 

[960012]

Nah my guess is thats just the brakes!!!! as it was defo pushed as ive got pics in a railway magazine!

 

[kettlefan]

Trouble is You have to sit through that ego maniac Clarkson as well though,the hamster & May are good though.

everyone likes the hamster! As for James May, when I found the following film I respected him even more (I'm a Dublo collector by the way, many collectors would be horrified by his actions and immediately fall over dead, but not me!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8IjZ3tUas

 

[kettlefan]

Ohh I thought when it said remotely then it would have been remote controlled.

operation Smash Clarkson

(and yes I know the Peak in Smash Hit wasn't actually RC!)

 

[960012]

(and yes I know the Peak in Smash Hit wasn't actually RC!)

No coz ive seen the movie and u see the driver jump from the bottom steps as the loco is moving away!

 

[Nathan]

everyone likes the hamster! As for James May, when I found the following film I respected him even more (I'm a Dublo collector by the way, many collectors would be horrified by his actions and immediately fall over dead, but not me!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8IjZ3tUas

Great video, in what program was it broadcasted in?

 

[kettlefan]

No coz ive seen the movie and u see the driver jump from the bottom steps as the loco is moving away!

there was a valve under the steps that basically vented the train pipe rapidly when everyone was off.

 

[kettlefan]

Great video, in what program was it broadcasted in?

James Mays top 10 toys (I think)irate:

 

[Turbostar]

Looks like BBC arn't showing the L/C crash, at least for the forseeable future, due to this weeks L/C accident up in Invergordon in Scotland.

Mart

 

[adambro]

One would hope the public don't need reminding about the dangers of level crossings just at the moment.

 

[Coxster]

Looks like BBC arn't showing the L/C crash, at least for the forseeable future, due to this weeks L/C accident up in Invergordon in Scotland.

Surely that's all the more reason too! Get it stuck into people's heads about the dangers.

 

[Nathan]

Surely that's all the more reason too! Get it stuck into people's heads about the dangers.

And if they can't show the crash then they can't show the program, some how I doubt they're going to want to edit out the clip and shuffle it around by replacing it with others.