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London to Brighton in 4 minutes - 51 miles - 765 mph

submitted by heathen
1 decade 4 years 10 months ago

BBC Interlude from the 1950s.

From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished the next one was not ready yet and the gap had to be filled. So the BBC developed a number of interludes to fill these gaps.

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*vintage

Adding video to channels (Vintage) - requested by eric3579.

LOL at the 2:17 shot of the conductor, looking rather bored as he casually drives his 50's vintage train at the speed of sound.

So what ever happened to this bullet train named Trick Photography ? Was there some horrific accident in the 50's or 60's and Parliament passed a law setting a maximum speed limit for trains?

heathen says...

>> ^spawnflagger:
So what ever happened to this bullet train named Trick Photography ? Was there some horrific accident in the 50's or 60's and Parliament passed a law setting a maximum speed limit for trains?

It was too expensive to run, as it could only achieve top speed when a television crew was present.
The British public wouldn't accept the necessary increase of the BBC license fee.

Croccydile says...

I feel real geeky trying to follow the train path on Google Earth. Somewhat not surprisingly the path it takes (track layout) is almost identical to what is there today.

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