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« on: December 26, 2024, 10:45:08 » |
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I've just been watching the docudrama about the notorious master of disguise and jewel thief Feathers McGraw, and his attempt to again steal the fabled Blue Diamond. While making his escape on a goods train I noticed this semaphore signal. [Image from here is not available to guests]The signal is 'off' but the red spectacle is in front of the lamp. <shakes head>  Oh and Feathers is on the last wagon of an unfitted goods train. Where's the brake van? |
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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2024, 11:24:33 » |
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More importantly, where is the tail lamp?
A lower quadrant in the upper quadrant!! Spotted that yesterday.
Family called me a nerd
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Mark A
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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2024, 11:45:39 » |
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'Feathers' should be allowed no where near a railway line and will already have done for the brake van. Also, the upper quadrant / red light... that is possibly an easter egg put in for the likes of coffeeshoppers to find and the forum has not fallen short on that count.
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Ralph Ayres
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2024, 12:28:53 » |
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Hadn't spotted the anomalous signal light. Think I might have to watch it again as there was far too much detail to take it all in at one viewing, and I was still chuckling from the "No parkin" sign at the Yorkshire border.
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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2024, 12:36:39 » |
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Hadn't spotted the anomalous signal light. Think I might have to watch it again as there was far too much detail to take it all in at one viewing, and I was still chuckling from the "No parkin" sign at the Yorkshire border.
unfitted freight should have a brake van. But I don't wish to take away from what is an excellent Wallace and Grommet film |
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« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2024, 12:45:17 » |
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It was an excellent bit of Christmas telly.
So many great gags for us big kids to delight in. I particularly enjoyed the canal boat 'chase'.
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« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2024, 15:39:40 » |
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It was an excellent bit of Christmas telly.
So many great gags for us 'big kids to delight in. I particularly enjoyed the canal boat 'chase'.
The "Yorkshire Border - Keep Out" sign was one thing. The Lancashire side's "No, You Keep Out" showed insider knowledge. |
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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2024, 15:44:52 » |
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It was the white seal pup on Feather McGraw's lap, Blofeld style, that nearly had me spitting out my Gluhwein.
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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2024, 16:46:52 » |
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Very lazy signalman! The signal arm was still raised after the train disappeared into the tunnel!
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« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2024, 22:21:40 » |
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Family called me a nerd
I do sympathise, Oxonhutch.  I, too, get a load of grief from my wife and daughter when I mutter about such 'errors' in television programmes.  |
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« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2024, 22:40:01 » |
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I do sympathise, Oxonhutch. I, too, get a load of grief from my wife and daughter when I mutter about such 'errors' in television programmes. Many years ago there was a programme about Mozart, and he boarded a train in Vienna for Moscow. When he arrived in the same carriage in the Russian capital I cried BS!! On universal disapproval, the nerd informed the perplexed and annoyed family that the gauge changed at the Polish border. I was not popular. |
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« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2024, 08:32:31 » |
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Many years ago there was a programme about Mozart, and he boarded a train in Vienna for Moscow. When he arrived in the same carriage in the Russian capital I cried BS!!
On universal disapproval, the nerd informed the perplexed and annoyed family that the gauge changed at the Polish border. I was not popular.
There could be a more fundamental inconsistency there. Mozart died in 1791, and according to Wikipedia the first main line railway in Austria opened in 1837. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2024, 09:40:28 » |
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There could be a more fundamental inconsistency there. Mozart died in 1791, and according to Wikipedia the first main line railway in Austria opened in 1837. I think you can see, I know my railways better than my composers! |
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« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2024, 15:06:00 » |
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I think you can see, I know my railways better than my composers!
Could it have been Tchaikovsky? I’m posting on my phone, and so can’t easily provide a link, but I believe he visited Vienna several times between 1870 and 1892, by which time the railways were operating. |
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« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2024, 16:45:51 » |
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Sitting watching it on the day I remarked about the lack of a tail lamp !
And was greeted by a chorus of Trust You....
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