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Does anyone else watch the episodes in the above series?
I've seen a fair number of them, and whilst the video tend to be well done, the spoken commentary does seem to have many "schoolboy errors". On the most recent one about The Royal Scot, there was mention of Chat Moss being in Cheshire! Born in Urmston, Lancashire, I object! Chat Moss is in Lancashire, and it's Carrington Moss in Cheshire. There were other errors later.
A repeat presumably, think the episode in question (Series 6 episode 3) was originally broadcast in early June 2022.
P.S. Was that the episode where the production team got at least one random passenger to do a number of continuity announcements, with (narrator) Bill Nighy nowhere to be seen?
A repeat presumably, think the episode in question (Series 6 episode 3) was originally broadcast in early June 2022.
P.S. Was that the episode where the production team got at least one random passenger to do a number of continuity announcements, with (narrator) Bill Nighy nowhere to be seen?
I saw one about the metre gauge CF de Provence going up from Nice to St Aubin in France. There was a section behind a steam loco which Bill Nighy said was a class E327 which had spent most of its time working in Finisterre, when the loco was clearly an ex Portuguese 2-4-6-0, E214, which had spent most of its time on the Corgo line between Regua and Chaves.
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I'm getting as bad as Bill Nighy. The Ng line goes as far as Digne, the standard gauge line(now closed) went from there to St Aubin.
I saw one about the metre gauge CF de Provence going up from Nice to St Aubin in France. There was a section behind a steam loco which Bill Nighy said was a class E327 which had spent most of its time working in Finisterre, when the loco was clearly an ex Portuguese 2-4-6-0, E214, which had spent most of its time on the Corgo line between Regua and Chaves.
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I'm getting as bad as Bill Nighy. The Ng line goes as far as Digne, the standard gauge line(now closed) went from there to St Aubin.
So far as I'm concerned, there's no shame in pedantry ! In my opinion, those making documentaries of any kind ought to do their damnedest to get things right -- no matter how perceivedly petty; or how little the "punters" care, and how little the stuff may mean to them. To confuse a French conventional 4-6-0T (and not "class" E327 -- that's its individual number) with a Portuguese Mallet 2-4-6-0T, is extremely sloppy: admittedly, both locos happen to have "E plus three digits" numbers (at a guess, the "E" signifies "narrow gauge" -- similar words, Etroite and Estreita respectively), adding muddle-potential -- still no excuse ! And the French loco having spent most of its time in Finistere -- it's from the Reseau Breton metre-gauge network, which ranged over the adjoining departements of Finistere, and Cotes-d'Armor (formerly Cotes-du-Nord) -- maybe this machine spent its working life at the western end of the system -- but what with the other stuff, one has to wonder ...
And, "St. Aubin" -- granted, this may have come across in spoken commentary only: sound not noticeably betraying spelling; but the junction of the now-closed s /g Digne branch, with the Grenoble -- Marseille route: is properly not St. Aubin; but St. Auban -- and that station's name in full, is Chateau-Arnoux-St. Auban. (Yes, I know the way to make myself popular, all right ...)
St Aubin was my mistake. I did travel on the line from Digne on the one daily train. It was hauled by a large diesel loco (67xxx?) and proceeded along the ropey track at about 15mph.
On my visit to those parts -- late 80s / early 90s, I think (notes taken, no longer with me) -- it was a short break: home, to the Med. at Nice, and back; together with then lady in my life -- lengthy waits and messing-around, with view gricing, would not have been appreciated. Essential "on the ground" travel was Grenoble -- Veynes-Devoluy -- Digne -- Nice, and return; middle section both directions, between V-D and Digne, done by SNCF bus.
I watch this show and it's okay. To be honest, it's not even really about railway journeys; it's more about the people who live and work along those lines. That makes the show a bit hit and miss, with some episodes being much better than others.
