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« on: January 14, 2019, 22:26:48 »

Found programme 1 on the Alps rather superficial, but prog 2 on the railways of Spain seemed to be that much more fascinating and detailed.

Series 2 only seems to be available on  DVD Region Australia according to Amazon.
Annoying when you want the whole set.
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2019, 15:08:09 »

Yes I enjoyed the Spanish program too. Maybe the disused station at Canfranc should be disassembled and rebuilt alongside the long platform at Gloucester to improve the facilities there. I think it's so long there would still be some of it left over for another deserving station somewhere. 
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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2019, 15:18:31 »

Now then , my EPG  info button on the TV is referring to Series 4 while the Radio Times channel 5 listings says Series 5  ! Who is right ?!
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2019, 15:24:37 »

Yes I enjoyed the Spanish program too. Maybe the disused station at Canfranc should be disassembled and rebuilt alongside the long platform at Gloucester to improve the facilities there. I think it's so long there would still be some of it left over for another deserving station somewhere. 

Yes, Canfranc is pretty impressive:


Image: Marc Celeiro [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

The station was built as an international interchange at the French/Spanish border - at the time, passengers had to get off their trains and go through customs to travel from one European country to another. Hard to imagine having to do anything like that in these more enlightened times...
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2019, 17:00:17 »

Some parts of the development of the high speed network in Spain have not been without problems in more recent years - the disconnection of Granada for example, which was supposed to be for a few months but has been bustituted now for several years from Algeciras with the 'classic' line closing and may not be reconnected until 2020.
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2019, 19:23:42 »

Yes I enjoyed the Spanish program too. Maybe the disused station at Canfranc should be disassembled and rebuilt alongside the long platform at Gloucester to improve the facilities there. I think it's so long there would still be some of it left over for another deserving station somewhere. 

It's also recently been shown on the Abandoned Engineering programme on Yesterday. It has been shown several times already and will be shown again on Monday at 11am and 5pm.

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DOCUMENTARY: Abandoned Engineering
On: Yesterday (19)   
Date: Monday 21st January 2019 (starting in 5 days)
Time: 11:00 to 12:00 (1 hour long)

The Abandoned Nazi Railway.
The Canfranc Railway Station is a large and elaborate abandoned Nazi railway station in the Spanish Pyrenees. Why was it built?
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, Series 2, Episode 5)
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« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2019, 22:19:35 »

The two series of 'Abandoned Engineering', including the Canfranc Station episode, are currently available to watch anytime on the UKTV Play streaming service. That's available online through website and device apps, through smart TV apps,  through Sky/Virgin Media, Youview based set top boxes (BT, Plusnet, TalkTalk) and through Now TV/Roku/Amazon Fire TV boxes/dongles.
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« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2019, 09:09:03 »

Yes. I would love to be able to explore Canfranc station. When staying near Arnhem I sometimes catch the hourly local train that constitutes the current service from Emmerich in Germany. Another former border station with massive platforms and facilities. I always close my eyes and try to imagine what it was like when the Rheingold and lots of other TEE (Trans Europe Express) and trans continental day and night services would stop for 15 minutes or so for inspections. A busy and exotic station in those days. Thread drift, sorry.
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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2019, 11:16:46 »

Now then , my EPG  info button on the TV is referring to Series 4 while the Radio Times channel 5 listings says Series 5  ! Who is right ?!

This is indeed series 5
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2557458/
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« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2019, 11:19:26 »

Found programme 1 on the Alps rather superficial, but prog 2 on the railways of Spain seemed to be that much more fascinating and detailed.

Series 2 only seems to be available on  DVD Region Australia according to Amazon.
Annoying when you want the whole set.

Many DVD players are multi region nowadays, are you sure you can't play region 4 disks?
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« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2019, 11:56:15 »


Many DVD players are multi region nowadays, are you sure you can't play region 4 disks?

Sharpen your needle, turn up the vox humana, make sure there's no sock in the horn and... relax!

...or alternately, get yerself a NAS with Plex, rip 'em, and then fill your wheelbarrow with space junk and jog down to the charity shop!
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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2019, 12:39:08 »

Sharpen your needle, turn up the vox humana, make sure there's no sock in the horn and... relax!

Don't forget to get a fox terrier/Jack Russell cross or similar to sound check the horn.

Finn can offer his services for a reasonable fee. He responds well to his master's voice.
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