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« on: April 20, 2020, 12:11:43 »

Hosted by railway expert and architecture enthusiast, Tim Dunn, this is due to air on Yesterday TV on April 28th and run weekly for 10 weeks.
It will celebrate the design and construction of station buildings across the UK (United Kingdom) and Europe, as well as viaducts, signal boxes, tunnels, railway hotels and more.
Rail magazine 904 will have an article by Dunn on the challenges of making the series.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2020, 20:31:04 »

The first series looks like it was such a success that there's been not one but two new series commissioned on the Yesterday channel.

Here's Tim Dunn's announcement on Facebook.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3727161707328291&id=116308548413643&ref=content_filter
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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2020, 11:22:55 »

By coincidence I have just finished watching all ten episodes of Series One.  Although it does dance about a bit between venues within each episode rather than concentrating on one and then moving on - you cannot fault Tim Dunn's enthusiasm!
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2021, 12:15:15 »

The new series starts at 8pm on the 19th January on Yesterday.
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« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2021, 13:31:37 »

From trailer it looks as if the GW (Great Western) Windsor Branch will be included.
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« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2021, 17:02:45 »

..and the Lynton & Barnstaple among others.
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2021, 18:17:27 »

By coincidence I have just finished watching all ten episodes of Series One.  ...

The new series starts at 8pm on the 19th January on Yesterday.

I'm guessing it will be available on replay?

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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2021, 19:40:14 »

I'm guessing it will be available on replay?

I expect so. Yesterday is part of UKTV and programmes can be found on UKTV Play - https://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/

Series 1 is still available.
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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2021, 13:33:04 »

The new series starts at 8pm on the 19th January on Yesterday.

https://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/shows/the-architecture-the-railways-built/watch-online

SERIES 2 EPISODE 1 ON AT 8PM TUESDAY ON YESTERDAY

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« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2021, 20:36:24 »



And repeated very frequently indeed like everything else that goes out on Yesterday  Grin
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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2021, 11:43:03 »

Tim Dunn was on Radio Berkshire this morning talking about the programme the week after next which includes Windsor, he's on at 1:50:30 at this link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p093fsm2
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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2021, 13:08:56 »

The new series starts at 8pm on the 19th January on Yesterday.

I'm guessing it will be available on replay?


Funny you should ask.  My Sky box died on Thursday and had to be replaced so losing all my recorded programmes.  Thankfully many still available on catch-up - including Mr Dunn.

As an aside excellent service from Sky - new box arrived within 18 hours of reporting it and at no charge.
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« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2023, 10:42:27 »

If you missed the first of Tim Dunn's new (fourth) series on Tuesday, you know where to look for it (UKTVplay). At the end Tim trailed next week's show as visiting that grand historic edifice ... Reading station. IanVisits devotes a page to it, which includes the subjects:
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Episode 1 – Forth Bridge: Tim heads north of the border to scale a Scottish railway icon – the Forth Bridge, without doubt one of the engineering wonders of the world. Tim conquers his fear of heights to learn its story from its foundations, deep under the Firth of Forth, to its summit 110 metres above the water. At Goathland, North Yorkshire, is a railway station where movie magic was made, possibly better known today as Hogsmeade from its starring role in the Harry Potter films.

Episode 2 – Manchester: In Manchester’s Castlefield area, Tim discovers how viaducts still dominate the cityscape. In Reading, a railway station is transformed and ready for the commuter challenges of the 21st century.

Episode 3 – Channel Tunnel: Tim goes deep beneath the waves to explore the Channel Tunnel, stopping off at Ashford International to take in this underappreciated piece of 90s railway architecture. Folkestone Harbour Station, once a great hub for international travel, is leading the way for the regeneration of a whole area of the town.

Episode 4 – London Bridge: Tim gets to grips with his local station – London Bridge, meeting the architects who turned this one-time Frankenstein’s monster of a station into the bright, airy and tranquil modern terminus. At the National Railway Museum, Tim gets access to Borough Market Junction Signal Box.

Episode 5 – Coventry: Tim visits the striking post-war Coventry station. In Scarborough he discovers the birthplace of Britain’s funicular railways. And in a TV first, Tim delves into Network Rail’s archives.

Episode 6 – Goole Bridge: Tim explores railway ingenuity at Goole swing bridge in Yorkshire and takes in Edinburgh Waverley from roof to underground vaults. At the National Railway Museum learns how railways demarked their land.

Episode 7 – Lincoln: Tim Dunn sees how quirky railway architecture has shaped the city of Lincoln.?The rivalry of two competing Victorian railway companies and their refusal to share infrastructure not only resulted in two railway stations, but two level-crossings that cut the busiest thoroughfare in the city in two. In Birmingham, Tim takes an exclusive look at a brutalist signal box, just before it switches off the lights, for the very last time. And, at the Network Rail archives Tim gets his hands on Stephenson’s drawings for two great Victorian bridges – the Newcastle High Level Bridge and the Britannia Bridge.?

Episode 8: South Devon: Tim revisits his childhood holiday haunts in South Devon, following the route of Brunel’s experimental atmospheric railway.? In Wingfield, Derbyshire, Tim checks in on an ambitious restoration of an early rural railway station.? And, at the National Railway Museum in York Tim finds out how Great Western Railways embraced the holiday business in the 1930s by exploring their railway posters from the era.

Episode 9: Leeds: Tim explores the birthplace of British locomotive manufacturing – Leeds. Starting at the Round Foundry, the combined engineering works that turned out Salamanca, the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive. In Halifax, Tim discovers a story from the beginnings of the railways, when the canal was still king, and railway architecture demonstrates the rails’ deferential position. And at the National Railway Museum in York, Tim dishes up the facts on railway dining, including the unusual story of Swindon Refreshment Rooms.

Episode 10: Hull: Tim explores the surprisingly beautiful Hull Paragon station, a spectacular example of how George Hudson, “the Railway King” indelibly left his mark on the city. But not all the rail passengers who passed through Hull were able to experience the grandeur of this station, as Tim reveals in the much less known railway story of the 2.5 million migrants who passed through Hull station, on their way to a new life in the new world. In Leamington Spa is a strikingly rare art deco station, funded by a loan scheme designed to create jobs during the Great Depression. And, at the Network Rail archives, Tim discovers some railway war memorials and understands the impact of the Great War on railway workers throughout the UK (United Kingdom).
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« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2023, 15:08:26 »

Episode 7: if at that point I start waxing lyrical about the qualities of a winter evening view of the cathedral from a train taking the Lincoln avoiding line then please stop me.

Its reinstatement on the original alignment would now need extensive demolition of residential property and alternatives would involve around 14Km of new construction and I'm led to believe that the avoiding line as well as offering one of the best views from a train in the UK (United Kingdom), was also valuable both to the operation of the railway and to Lincoln's road system.

The avoiding line's bridge over the high street was demolished two years after the line closed in 1984: film of its demolition here:

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2018/01/blast-past-footage-shows-1986-lincoln-bridge-demolition/

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