East Coast Documentary

[pethadine82]

A few months back, Sky announced that they would be filming for an East Coast Trains documentary which will be screened in autumn.

Does anyone have any info on this. Google / Sky's website does not show much.
Thanks

 

[YorkshireRider]

Starts Wed November 13th on Sky 1.

 

[ModernRailways]

There is a MK4 set which is going around now in full Sky 1 livery with staff on the side of the carriages advertising the show. They've done a similar job to the Skyfall set whereby a whole set is wrapped, from DVT to Loco and carriages, looks really nice in my opinion.

 

[Bungle73]

Starts Wed November 13th on Sky 1.

Are you sure about that? Tuesday the 12th according to DigiGuide.

 

[northern156]

Pics of the mk4 set (not mine, respective owners on the Flickr pages):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steam60163/10558475316/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steam60163/10558450545/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steam60163/10558476506/

Absolutely marvelous if you ask me. I really cannot wait to see it!

 

[Class 92]

Starts Wed November 13th on Sky 1.

I haven't got sky will it be available anywhere else?

 

[capital12]

Looks pretty good in the photos - it's a shame they don't use the base blue and white as a replacement for their awful grey undercoat livery!!

 

[anthony263]

I haven't got sky will it be available anywhere else?

More than likely it will end up on youtube or one of the other video hosting website a few days after it is aired.

Mind you it only took a few hours before some of the episodes from the BBC series "the railways" ended up online

 

[ainsworth74]

You know if you took off the pictures of the people that looks like it would make quite a nice livery on those trains.

 

[rdwarr]

There is a MK4 set which is going around now in full Sky 1 livery with staff on the side of the carriages advertising the show. They've done a similar job to the Skyfall set whereby a whole set is wrapped, from DVT to Loco and carriages, looks really nice in my opinion.

Saw that at Stevenage this morning and wondered what it was all about. Must have been the 0735 Kings Cross to Leeds service.

 

[1e10]

More than likely it will end up on youtube or one of the other video hosting website a few days after it is aired.

Mind you it only took a few hours before some of the episodes from the BBC series "the railways" ended up online

It will most likely be on torrent sites a day after air, usually in HD too.

 

[Mainliner]

Can we assume that as EC were happy to do this, the series mustn't be uncomplimentary?!

 

[ModernRailways]

Can we assume that as EC were happy to do this, the series mustn't be uncomplimentary?!

Speaking to staff, the production team actually wanted to film problems. It will obviously show the things that staff have to overcome whilst travelling on the network and at stations.

It wouldn't surprise me though if they mainly made East Coast look great with great customer service etc.

 

[Wyvern]

If it was under DOR wouldnt they want to show how bad it was under public control?

 

[ainsworth74]

Sky want good TV, they don't care about some grand public vs private debate so I'm not sure what the company being in the public sector has to do with anything.

 

[YorkshireRider]

Are you sure about that? Tuesday the 12th according to DigiGuide.

No not 100% sure, just what I was told off a crew manager at work, he could well be wrong, thanks for the correction.

 

[YorkshireBear]

You know if you took off the pictures of the people that looks like it would make quite a nice livery on those trains.

Was just thinking that!

 

[ModernRailways]

East Coast themselves have confirmed it will begin on the 12th November.

More info along with some photos of the new train set here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.532867416831364.1073741853.285564588228316&type=1

 

[OMGitsDAVE]

I have to admit, it does look very attractive! (The livery!)

 

[thelongestroad]

They offered to wrap us in a class 143 for the FGW documentary but we politely declined.

 

[ModernRailways]

They offered to wrap us in a class 143 for the FGW documentary but we politely declined.

FGW never seem to be very good with full train wraps, and a 143 would be difficult to do too wouldn't it?

 

[telstarbox]

I hope there's a full episode devoted to the First Class catering, with pieces to camera from Butts et al

 

[jon0844]

Isn't the whole series about first class and the food on offer each day?

Sky already has another 20 seasons booked...

 

[Butts]

I hope there's a full episode devoted to the First Class catering, with pieces to camera from Butts et al

If the service is good I'm fissed as a part on complimentary scotches and will say anything for another

A feature on me would have been good viewing.....

"East Coasts biggest scrounger exposed"....

Seriously there is room for improvement...

1. Attempt to serve the full English (adding BP) while the toast is still warm.

2. Get some better Coffee and serve it after or with the meal.

3. On the Chieftain serve more than one lot of food between Edinburgh and Kings Cross.

4. Offer to "double up" on the last booze run.

5. Serve full evening meal on services out of EDB and NCL.

6. When serving coffee between meals offer a biscuit to go with it.

 

[thelongestroad]

FGW never seem to be very good with full train wraps, and a 143 would be difficult to do too wouldn't it?

I was joking. I have no idea!

 

[ReverendFozz]

I haven't got sky will it be available anywhere else?

If you have an Ipad or Android Device and have a friend with a Sky account, download Sky Go and if you have the friends blessing use there online user and pass and watch on your phone/tablet/ipad

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[jon0844]

Does anyone else wonder how Sky will manage to fill so many episodes, when clearly the Channel 5 FGW one struggled - and was curtailed at the end (can't say I can remember another time where a series was cut part way through).

All of my fears about padding, with most of it being 'coming up <show half the programme>', 'after the break see <more of the remaining programme>', 'before the break <repeat stuff we've already seen>' and so on, didn't actually happen with the FGW one - but possibly will here?

 

[Fred26]

Does anyone else wonder how Sky will manage to fill so many episodes, when clearly the Channel 5 FGW one struggled - and was curtailed at the end (can't say I can remember another time where a series was cut part way through).

All of my fears about padding, with most of it being 'coming up <show half the programme>', 'after the break see <more of the remaining programme>', 'before the break <repeat stuff we've already seen>' and so on, didn't actually happen with the FGW one - but possibly will here?

I wonder the same thing. I hadn't realised that the FGW had been cut short, but did find parts repetitive. For instance, how many festivals did we need to see?

 

[jon0844]

Channel 5 originally stated it was going to be 12 episodes I believe. Presumably some of the editing was still going on when it was being broadcast, and a decision was made to either re-edit to fit in less episodes, or some episodes were never made at all.

10 episodes is quite a tall order for just one TOC, especially one that doesn't have those branch lines that allowed Ch 5 to dedicate time to certain events and how people do thinks at quiet, rural, stations.

But perhaps Sky is going to be bigger on the actual members of staff - and follow them more than looking at the actual service and how it's run? You could then, potentially, have them followed even outside of work - what they get up to off shift etc?

I'm guessing here, but I'm very intrigued as to how Sky will pull it off.

 

[northern156]

Yes it is Tuesday November 12th.
Sky 1 at 8pm, 1 hour long.
http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/cp5jb6/all-aboard-east-coast-trains--series-1---1-at-your-service

You wait years for a documentary series about train companies to come along and what do you know, coachloads of them arrive at once…BBC2’s Keeping Britain on Track, Channel 5’s The Railway: First Great Western and now All Aboard, Sky’s breezy contribution to this burgeoning genre. We join the indefatigably jolly staff of East Coast trains as they wrangle well-oiled stag and hen parties on a Friday night at Newcastle station when everything’s delayed by a signal failure, and cook breakfast on board the first train of the day, the 4.45am from Newcastle to London. Every rail documentary must have a retiree and at York station, “JR” prepares to dispatch his last ever train after a career of 47 years.

About this programme

1/10. Documentary following East Cast rail employees as they work to maintain one of the UK's busiest transport networks. Cameras follow breakfast crews as they struggle to stay enthusiastic while serving sleep-deprived early-morning commuters. Rookie station security recruit Liam is asked to investigate an alarming situation, and a veteran platform attendant dispatches his last-ever train at York Station before retiring.