Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuz94ZIPfJk
Some ones I can think of from the top of my head:
Hue & Cry's "Looking for Linda" (circa 1988) - contains the lines "...'Is this one for Paisley? Oh you've got to help me'/(She used to work there a long time ago)" and also "Then she kept running straight down to Leeds Central/Took Intercity and left her remorse"
It's surely Czech, mostly looks like Praha Hlvani to me - but yes, at the end could be the smaller Masarykovo.
Deep and original lyrics in the song, I must say - not.
I've always wondered where they filmed that. Thanks
Do you or anybody know where they filmed Frank Spenser hanging off the side of the train in Some Mothers?
There were a couple of episodes of SMDAE with railways. The one where they stay in that crummy hotel is Herne Bay station but I think the episode you refer to was the one with him meeting some MP? That was filmed on the fledgling West Somerset because apparently BR thought it too dangerous to film on their stations.
Ah thanks for that Mr Tra. You've reminded me of a couple of others too:
The Flockton Flyer - filmed at The West Somerset
Gods Wonderful Railway - filmed at The Severn Valley
Supertramp 'Rudy' has class 50 and station announcement noises in it.
And the then young trainee who made that announcement is still on the railway, as one of it's expert timetablers.
"Theme from S-Express" by S-Express has lots of HSTs going past on it.
The intro to the Likely Lads - couple of bits of Tyneside railway scenery plus some buses.
The HST whoosh in "Theme from S'Express" by S'Express
The tube train noises in This City never sleeps by the Eurythmics (track from their second album)
The glimpses of the DLR in the video to Passion by Gat Decor.
More DLR toing and froing in the video to "Gotta get thru this" by Daniel Bedingfield.
Multiple railway scenes in episodes of the Professionals.
Bodie and Doyle gallavanting around searching coaches at Temple Mills carriage sidings. Class 302 whizzes past.
Doyle nearly getting flattened by a Class 31 freight somewhere near Old Oak / Willesden by the looks of things.
Someone with a fatal infection getting off a train at Paddington and umpteen people dropping like flies not long afterwards.
Bodie tailing a suspect spy on a RT bus and then 72 stock on the Jubilee Line in NW London. There's an episode featuring 73 stock and A stock - don't ask! Let's say the continuity was a tad ropey.
Others have mentioned the Class 210 with a starring role alongside Bronski Beat complete with tiny glimpse of the AEC Southall site I believe.
James Bond having a love of long distance train journeys across Europe and Asia.
Jason Bourne using Eurostar, AVEs and changing from Waterloo Main line to Charing Cross tube in a nanosecond.
Also need in Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot who use trains and both investigate murders on trains. Also steam train action in several editions of Foyle's War as well.
What about Amberley chalk pits museum in the Zorrin airship scene in A View to a Kill? -can't recall if any of the narrow gauge lines feature.
Also has a Class 56 cut away diagram on the cover
The first track off Elbow’s second LP Leader’s of the Free World describes that familiar feeling of returning home to the city that you love, documenting singer Guy Garvey’s walk from Piccadilly Station along Station Approach: ‘The streets are full of goths and Greeks/ I haven’t seen my mum for weeks/ But coming home I feel like I/ Designed the buildings I walk by.’
One which sticks in my mind is the opening credits of Crossroads (literally the first few seconds) which featured a 47 hauling a DMU and brake van. I used to tune in just for that then switch over to something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynHL2e4ztII
A friend who was very knowledgeable about all things Western Region and came from Berkshire and liked Supertramp said the announcement was recorded at Didcot even though It is clear that it's for the 1945 from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads.Wow. Didn't expect that. Was it recorded at Paddington or Reading would you know?