NYMR loco stolen

davvydo · Post by **davvydo** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:35 pm

no it hasn't been rally stolen !!!!!

GWR loco 6619 is to be filmed by Heartbeat as a loco stolen by robbers and is returned to the railway in a filthy state. i saw it all weathered today on the santa specials (hells express i call it !!!!!!!)

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:02 am

A likely as ever storyline.................

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:51 am

I heard a similar story from my Nephew who was up the NYMR last week.

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:13 am

Nope I meant as usual the strory writers for TV are getting things as authentic as ever.............not only a 56XX in Yorkshire, but whenever did any such thing happen in real life?

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:21 am

I think the more unlikely the loco, the more it gets used! They'd be pushing it with most of the steamers there; WD 2-10-0 maybe but not on passenger; Black 5 unlikely, but I wouldn't be surprised if one mede it over the line. The only trains that ever seem to be remotely accurate are the freights, usually hauled by an ex LNER loco, although I remember a 25 being used a long time ago, and possibly a DMU, although even then the type might not have got anywhere near!

Still, the program is set in the 60s (starting in '63 I think) and has been on TV for just over 10 years! Where's the blue diesels then?!

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:08 pm

The preserved railway better weld their engines to the rails after this eposode goes out.

The joyriders might get ideas.

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:14 pm

A number of years ago I remember a joy-riding sory on Heartbeat. Greengrass and one of his mate had been out drinking and decided the quickest way home was by train, except they'd missed the last one......

Nothing like rehashing old storylines!

nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:56 pm

Ha well they have been consistently using cars that wern't released until the 70s for a while.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:07 pm

nwallace wrote:Ha well they have been consistently using cars that wern't released until the 70s for a while.

With a long running 'period' soap like this one you need a continuous flow of vintage vehicles to fill out the road scenes, if you keep reusing the same vehicles too often even the least observant viewer begins to notice. There are only so many of these available for hire to TV companies and no doubt they are running short of genuine 50s and 60s ones

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:14 pm

Even so, in an area like the North Yorkshire moors there wouldn't have been a great number of cars around then, even in the 60s so you could get away with using just a few.

It's not even like it's just heartbeat though. In the film, Bullitt last night a Brunswick green Beetle seemed to appear a few times too often for my liking!

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:44 pm

spartacus wrote: It's not even like it's just heartbeat though. In the film, Bullitt last night a Brunswick green Beetle seemed to appear a few times too often for my liking!

You mean more than once ?

nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:14 pm

Wasn't the street scenes from Bullit shot without closing the roads though?

[quote = "saddletank"]With a long running 'period' soap like this one you need a continuous flow of vintage vehicles to fill out the road scenes, if you keep reusing the same vehicles too often even the least observant viewer begins to notice. There are only so many of these available for hire to TV companies and no doubt they are running short of genuine 50s and 60s ones [/quote]

It is true that avaliability of period cars isn't good, but its a bit strange to have a car very much newer than what they are trying to claim the period is, theres possibly also the same issue with the music. Might make sense to shift on the decades if they are struggling to get a good amount of 60's and earlier gear.

I woudl ahve thought there would also still have been the odd pre-war machine around at the time as well.

davvydo · Post by **davvydo** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:33 pm

the filming has been done.

i know what you mean about a 56xx in yorkshire. they used repton one day.

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:37 pm

buffy500 wrote:
spartacus wrote: It's not even like it's just heartbeat though. In the film, Bullitt last night a Brunswick green Beetle seemed to appear a few times too often for my liking!
You mean more than once ?

About 4 times in a 5 minute sequence, and I think a couple of times at other times!

Some of the shots may have been done on unclosed roads, but if you ever manage to see and documentarys or travel films about San Francisco from the lase 60s, early 70s (not sure which decade, a bit like Heartbeat!), or even low budget films, you realise alot of those roads were very, very quite! More traffic in Aidensfield!

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:37 pm

I suppose a 56XX going missing wouldn't do much harm..........find a replacement Standard 4 with the insurance...........ooops did my bias slip in again.