TV programme tonight

Hi,

Just letting people know about a programme on BBC 4 tonight. "The joy of train sets: the model railway story". 9pm Wednesday 23/1/2013. Some of us might enjoy it.

Gary

watching it now..............

mildly interesting

history is good though

It's a shame that steam powered larger loco models were not covered in greater detail - model engineering is far too complicated for the BBC.

Hi Garry
Thanks for pointing me to this, very interesting

Bob

An interesting bit of social history.  Not really my thing but I can admire the skills.  Nice to see Mike Sharman and his Cramptons though, as I have his book. Does anybody know which programme the clip was from?

I may be wrong, but I am getting the impression that there is less derision being poured on people who have technical interests these days - perhaps as a reaction to the failures of the money manipulators?

Rod

Edited By Roderick Jenkins on 24/01/2013 09:31:29

Seems like it to me. Science too.

Gray,

Thanks - I did wonder as we had a clip of Bob's talking head but I couldn't remember the name of the series. I used to watch it but I was probably more interested in model aircraft at the time. I didn't know that some were YouTube, I''ll have a search.

cheers,

Rod

When I were a lad, he was Bob Symes-Shutzman, if I recall correctly. Model World was a great series and an inspation, shame they don't do something similar instead of the pdding on 95% of the channels.

Nice to see he is still going strong as I see his name/ face in the magazines now and then.

Neil