Railway enthusiasts - there's some good stuff on TV at the moment!

[Basil.B]

Really enjoyed that programme on the Flying Scotsman last night.
Went on her when I was a nipper, beautiful!

 

[MontyVeda]

I'll have to keep an eye out for that

 

[bikepacker]

Even though I do like outdoor and railway programmes I do have a problem with most presenters (including Julia Bradbury, Nick Crane and others) as they hog the camera shots and appear to be giving the message; "look at me how clever I am".

 

[Hover Fly]

Most of the railway documentaries on the telly are PuffPuff Porn i.e. concentrated on steam trains. There isn't a lot of interest in hardware after the 1960s and Beeching is a convenient villain because he realised that carrying your fuel with you was a dead technology, even though BR had clung onto it twenty or thirty years too long.

The "Modernisation Plan" under which steam was replaced by diesel and electric dated back to the 1950s under (guess, CBA googling) Lord Robertson. 20 years before that Gresley of the LNER considered diesel, similar to the German "Flying Hamburger" instead of the steam A4 class (such as "Mallard") but it just couldn't compete with the loads at the time.