London to Brighton in Three-and-a-Half Minutes
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- In 1953 the BBC produced a short black and white film of a train journey from London to Brighton in four minutes. Here, the journey is repeated in colour and takes 30 seconds less.
Broadcast on:
BBC Four, 7:30pm Friday 31st October
Recommend you view it in "High quality mode"
This is where I get nerdy and timestamp stations and points of interest. Sorry.
0:30 Victoria
0:39 Battersea Park
0:46 Clapham Junction
0:52 Wandsworth Common
0:55 Balham
1:02 Streatham Common
1:05 Norbury
1:08 Thornton Heath
1:12 Selhurst
1:18 East Croydon
1:23 Purley Oaks
1:27 Purley
1:30 Coulsdon North (station closed later that year)
1:48 Quarry Tunnel
1:56 Redhill Tunnel
1:59 Earlswood
2:11 Horley
2:13 Gatwick Airport
2:21 Three Bridges
2:31 Balcombe Tunnel
2:38 Balcombe
2:44 Ouse Valley Viaduct
2:53 Haywards Heath Station
2:55 Haywards Heath Tunnel
3:06 Wivelsfield
3:09 Burgess Hill
3:18 Hassocks
3:22 Clayton Tunnel
3:37 Patcham Tunnel
3:42 Preston Park
3:49 Brighton
Correct. I live by Coulsdon South which it chose to not go through which was annoying. I live sort of 1:40 in the video. I walk under that bridge on my way to the shops.
Actually it's:
1:23 South Croydon
1:27 Purley Oaks
1:30 Purley
1:38 Coulsdon North
Thanks for uploading. I remember watching this as a kid and loving it. The music in particular. It might seem odd to someone of this era why anyone would watch a video like this on TV. But watching this when it was needed as a time filler between programmes was amazing when you only had 3 or 4 channels to choose from.
Remember seeing this on BBC1 in 1983, when I was about 13, at about 7pm, as a fill in programme.
Still great. The music will always be memorable.
Snap, I was ~11 at the time, pretty sure it was on one lunchtime as one of the little gap filler programs, and never saw it again until online years and years later. Always *loved* the music to it, many years ago I dropped the composer a line and had a brief chat about it. Would be so good if someone 'discovered' the original film and could do a HD transfer!
I haven't seen this since I was a kid, managed to record it on our VCR and I must have worn the tape out watching it over and over again!!
BR Southern region. Went on that trip in about 1959 with Ma. I was about 15. It took about an hour or so. All I can vaguely remember about the whole holiday was having a massive ham sandwich with mustard and a cup of tea on the down trip, when the vittals cart passed us. I was, and still am, very partial to an ham sandwich!
I also remember this as a kid, I would have been around 10 or 11.
Was mesmerised by the visuals and the music, and then remember wanting it to be reshown - obviously back then you couldn't just jump online and grab it.
I'd love to get a broadcast quality copy of it so that fullscreen on a PC wouldn't look quite so blocky.
16 years old and it still looks great!
I remember this one also. Superb music and video!
The BBC needs to do an update and make a 2013 version of this. Would also be 30 years after the 1983 version and 60 years after the 1953 version.
They did. :3
I sent them an email telling them to do it in late 2012. I wonder if my email made them do it or not. I watched this religiously as a kid on my vhs and it means a lot to me.
"Hit It" by Sinister Dexter is the music. Unfortunately, that isn't exact as this as it's set at 0.85 speed and the notes of the two melodies are different and doesn't go up 7 semitones (1:36-2:44). Kim McCroddan went under the name "Sinister Dexter".
It's actually 27 years old now. It first came out in 1983.
I was on duty @ Keymer Crossing that day
(I signalled the E.C.S) Shh!
Remember this when it was originally broadcast in 1983. Part of the BBC's 60th anniversary.
Brilliant!
They have! Found on the BBC News site today. All three side by side.
Great music too. Was Kim McCroddan a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop?
It sounds like their style.
Remembered this when it was first broadcast on tv, btw so far noone seems to know the piece of music used? must've been specially made piece for the video
i am so gonna watch this next time i get high :D
wow!! ive not seen this version in YEARS!! i found it recorded on a video cassette and used to watch it when i was off school ill!!
thanks for uploading it!!
zaze
Recorded from a super class 47 at 400 MPH
Same here.
Correct.
@SilsdenCougar I don't think it will happen, while it was easy under BR for the BBC to make such a project, nowadays, even if a train company like Southern were up for it, Network Rail would probably say no to a train traveling undisturbed from Victoria to Brighton, as it would hold up the other train companies like Gatwick Express and First Capital Connect (Thameslink), not to mention the EWS freight services. Bring back British Rail!
It certainly was not "easy under BR to make such a project". The rules were just as cumbersome and difficult to navigate as they are now, perhaps more so, this was very much a one-off. BR had just completed resignalling the Croydon to Gatwick section in 1983, leading to major time savings, my guess is that they were keen to show off the new faster journey times and to promote the line ahead of the launch of Gatwick Express the following year in 1984, the time savings likely explain the "3 and a half minutes" aspect of the video compared to the original 4 from the 1950s version.
............And into the station buffet to recover. lol
whats the title of the Music i like it !!
Was that Gatwick around 2:13?
Which rail line are you working on?
yep, definitely in the British part of UA-cam.
Does not look fast even sped up ! So why does it now in 2012 take like an hour to do that journey ?
Probably because it's still 50-ish miles .............
Second that .......
whats that song called? please reply
"Hit It" by Sinister Dexter. Unfortunately, it isn't exact as this as it's slower and different. Kim McCroddan went under the name "Sinister Dexter".
hehehehe progrees cos its noooo in colour