Titfield Thunderbolt

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Kestrel
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Titfield Thunderbolt

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The Titfield Thunderbolt is on BBC4 on Christmas Eve at 7:00pm
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Reissued for the 60th anniversary around a year ago digitally re-mastered and available on Blu-ray - a considerable improvement in definition and quality.

Great shame that the Hornby Titfield Thunderbolt set mixed up the train vehicles; a 4mm scale model of the Wisbech & Upwell tramway coach would have gone down a treat and could also have sold with Toby the Tram engine in Henrietta guise.
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Micky wrote: " Talking of railway films a railway film NOT worth showing at christmas time this year (or any year) is a 1955 b&w film called 'The love match' starring Arthur Askey as a Midland railway loco driver who drives as his regular loco a Midland 4F 0-6-0 tender loco. Virtually all the railway scenes are 'joke shots' such as goods trains going backwards at a fast speed on running lines (speeding the film up and reversing it at the sametime) and express passenger trains going at 150mph (speeding up the film to obtain a 'joke effect' i presume?) .... "
...Sounds likely to be the one I was trying to think of a few weeks ago, where, rostered to a Sat. p.m. (local?) freight, they decide to stop on an embankment for an inordinate length of time (20 mins.?), just to watch the local football team's afternoon match down below. :shock: :roll:
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Well, it couldn't have been WGC box, then. You'd have had that in a shot, Micky.
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Did anyone notice the error in the cricket match? The players race to see the train just after the bowler has bowled a ball. It goes over the stumps but the bails fall off.
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There is another goof in TT.
Watch the 'race' between the coach ( Bedford OB) and the train, which is just before the hearing. The coach changes from RH to LH drive and back to RH!! film reversed.

Link to clip. watch from 0.45 to 1.30


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexGJsppkP0
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