Trainspotting TV Show

[TheEdge]

For those who are bored at home and have access to Discovery Turbo all day they are showing episodes of Trainspotting.

Not sure how old it is, but given there has just been a film at Toton with 37s, 47s, 58s, 60s and only a trickle of 66s plus a XC Voyager naming I would assume it was early 00's.

*Edit* Credits say 2002.

 

[charlie873]

Cheers Edge, that's my Sunday sorted : )

 

[Beveridges]

No access to Discovery so no Trainspotting for me!

Trainspotting as a hobby certainly is under represented on TV instead you get the endless amount of rubbish thats on every day.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trainspotting as a hobby certainly is under represented on TV instead you get the endless amount of rubbish thats on every day.

My wife says that when ever she tunes into BBC1 in the daytime, "Bargain Hunt" with Tim Wonnacott in full swing, seems to be on...

 

[MK Tom]

No access to Discovery so no Trainspotting for me!

Trainspotting as a hobby certainly is under represented on TV instead you get the endless amount of rubbish thats on every day.

In this day and age of eight hundred billion channels, you'd think there'd be one dedicated to transport hobbies at least. Could show a mix of bus/rail/air programming. It would be a start!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In this day and age of eight hundred billion channels, you'd think there'd be one dedicated to transport hobbies at least. Could show a mix of bus/rail/air programming. It would be a start!

It always amazes me that how one person can be aware of what particular programme is available on these channels that seem to offer a myriad of channels.

Are some weekly TV guides now as thick as a copy of "War and Peace".....:roll:

 

[Beveridges]

My wife says that when ever she tunes into BBC1 in the daytime, "Bargain Hunt" with Tim Wonnacott in full swing, seems to be on

Well worth that £100 per year TV license!! [/sarcasm]

The government must make many £ billions from TV licenses yet what do we get back for it ??? really cheap & nasty programmes on BBC that aren't worth even watching. The money they make really goes on wars, super salaries and expenses for MP's, and paying people on benefits £30k a year tax free.

It certainly does not go on BBC.

 

[ex-railwayman]

For those who are bored at home and have access to Discovery Turbo all day they are showing episodes of Trainspotting.
Not sure how old it is, but given there has just been a film at Toton with 37s, 47s, 58s, 60s and only a trickle of 66s plus a XC Voyager naming I would assume it was early 00's.
*Edit* Credits say 2002.

Well, I don't have cable TV, however, I went on t'internet and looked on the Discovery Turbo website, but, couldn't see any videos, or, anything else to do with British trains, it's all cars and Japanese Bullet Trains, do we need to look for anything in particular, or, aren't any of the videos available for us to watch on our computers??

Thanks for the heads up anyway......

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

 

[route:oxford]

No access to Discovery so no Trainspotting for me!

Trainspotting as a hobby certainly is under represented on TV instead you get the endless amount of rubbish thats on every day.

Press the "Youtube" button on your TV homepage, and do a search - there are thousands of rail fan videos out there.
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It always amazes me that how one person can be aware of what particular programme is available on these channels that seem to offer a myriad of channels.

Are some weekly TV guides now as thick as a copy of "War and Peace".....:roll:

Try pressing the "guide" button on your remote.

If you've got a semi-decent tv, it should have a 14 day guide built-in with search functionality.

 

[transmanche]

The government must make many £ billions from TV licenses yet what do we get back for it ??? really cheap & nasty programmes on BBC that aren't worth even watching. The money they make really goes on wars, super salaries and expenses for MP's, and paying people on benefits £30k a year tax free.

It certainly does not go on BBC.

Right. So you're saying that the TV Licence money collected by the BBC, in order to fund the BBC, is not actually given to the BBC - and that the government keeps some if it for other purposes?

 

[Beveridges]

Right. So you're saying that the TV Licence money collected by the BBC, in order to fund the BBC, is not actually given to the BBC - and that the government keeps some if it for other purposes?

The government get approx. £200 billion a year on TV licenses.
You can tell by the cheap rubbish that dominates BBC that only a tiny fraction of that goes to the BBC.

 

[DavyCrocket]

Right. So you're saying that the TV Licence money collected by the BBC, in order to fund the BBC, is not actually given to the BBC - and that the government keeps some if it for other purposes?

The govt decide how much goes to the BBC. It has been used for digital switchover publicity and now for funding S4C, broadband, local TV operated by private companies, World Service and free licences for old people.

 

[transmanche]

The government get approx. £20 billion a year on TV licenses.

£20 billion eh? Would that be from the 137 million households in the UK then?

If you're going to make stuff up, at least try to make it believable.
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The govt decide how much goes to the BBC. It has been used for digital switchover publicity and now for funding S4C, broadband, local TV operated by private companies, World Service and free licences for old people.

Well things like funding for BBC World Service are merely the government deciding to withdraw Foreign office funding and the BBC agreeing to meet the costs from the licence fee from 2015. Similarly the BBC has always part-funded S4C by providing programming free-of-charge, but will provide more funding - again by 2015. As for the digital switchover help scheme, it was made clear in all publicity that it was 'brought to you by the BBC'.

I can't see where any TV Licence money has been spent on 'wars' or 'mass immigration'

But Beveridges seems to think that the BBC collects £20billion in TV Licence fees (an amount that would require over 137million TV Licences to be issued), but the government only lets the BBC keep a tiny amount of it.

 

[bnm]

The government get approx. £20 billion a year on TV licenses.
You can tell by the cheap rubbish that dominates BBC that only a tiny fraction of that goes to the BBC.

The BBC collected £3.6 billion in licence fees in 2010/11.

£2.4 billion was spent on TV. Equivlanet to £7.96 per month per household
£0.6 billion was spent on radio. £2.11 pmph
£0.2 billion was spent on online services £0.66 pmph
£0.4 billion was spent on digital switchover, investment in new technology and licence fee collection. £1.40 pmph.

The government kept nothing.

And the figure is nowhere near £20 billion. For that to be so the licence fee per household in the UK would have to be £757 a year. :roll:

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Try pressing the "guide" button on your remote. If you've got a semi-decent tv, it should have a 14 day guide built-in with search functionality.

It appears that my attempt at a little humour at expecting a normal person to "trawl through" the vast number of available channels each hour to obtain the optimum maximum personal viewing daily televiewing enjoyment has fallen upon stony ground...:cry:

 

[MK Tom]

It appears that my attempt at a little humour at expecting a normal person to "trawl through" the vast number of available channels each hour to obtain the optimum maximum personal viewing daily televiewing enjoyment has fallen upon stony ground...:cry:

I got that. I still have to point out you can't have a 'myriad of' though

The BBC does turn out some good stuff, like Doctor Who and Sherlock, but the low quality of most of their output reflects the low expectations and requirements of the average person. They make what people watch, and most people don't watch quality.

As for rail stuff, youtube and direct to video/DVD productions are all we have. Like I said, having a transport channel would help a lot.

 

[David57]

A good (couple) of series for enthusiasts, funny, witty, and not at all 'anoracky'

Shame only two series were made.

I worked with Mark Collins at Northants Radio for a year or so in the early 90's , and neither of us knew each other had an interest in railways !....

 

[yorksrob]

It's a shame. I'd like to see another series of this.

I guess they need the money to address the appalling shortage of cookery/DIY programmes at the moment.

 

[Tiny Tim]

It seems a pity that this trainspotters' extravaganza has been scheduled for a daytime slot when you consider it's target audience really ought to get out more.

 

[Manchester77]

I quite like bargain hunt

Is it any good because I had a couple TiVo-ed but wasn't sure wether they were going to be this is a fast train or whether it actually went no detail and stuff??

 

[Condor7]

The show is interesting from a nostalgia point of view, being over 10 years old now, and it's prevalence for preservation and narrow gauge type railways.

I personally always found it not to my tastes.
It seemed to make a grudging nod to the modern (then) scene and seemed to concentrate on just about anything other than what was happening on the railways at that time.

 

[yorksrob]

The show is interesting from a nostalgia point of view, being over 10 years old now, and it's prevalence for preservation and narrow gauge type railways.

I personally always found it not to my tastes.
It seemed to make a grudging nod to the modern (then) scene and seemed to concentrate on just about anything other than what was happening on the railways at that time.

Personally, I thought it had a reasonable mix of history and modern - particularly given the broad range of railway enthusiasts they had to aim for.

 

[IanD]

The show is interesting from a nostalgia point of view, being over 10 years old now, and it's prevalence for preservation and narrow gauge type railways.

I personally always found it not to my tastes.
It seemed to make a grudging nod to the modern (then) scene and seemed to concentrate on just about anything other than what was happening on the railways at that time.

You must have been watching a different programme! They always seemed quite interested in the modern stuff - especially in season 2.

 

[Condor7]

Well I watched a lot of the programs but admit to not watching them all.

When you say they did look at the modern scene, I will grant you that there were items on transport police, and vandalism, and items of some of the London stations, but actual footage of the actual trains running on the railway at that time was few and far between.

I did think however the coverage of the sleeper to the Kyle was good, and would have liked to have seen a lot more of that sort of thing.

 

[jon0844]

The government get approx. £200 billion a year on TV licenses.
You can tell by the cheap rubbish that dominates BBC that only a tiny fraction of that goes to the BBC.

I am pretty sure the accounts are public. The BBC employ quite a few people, so if they stopped getting paid someone might say something. :roll:

Surely there's something on the BBC you watch, or on BBC Radio that you listen to? Never watched BBC News to follow something happening around the world?

I bet you've had enough to pay for the fee, just as everyone else probably has. Some people get more than others, but so what? It's personal preference.

I think some people are just too lazy to search out interesting things. Given the forum this is, hasn't the BBC done pretty well with documentaries about the railway in recent years?