ITV SCHOOLS - STOP LOOK LISTEN: Train Station (1976)
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- čas přidán 17. 04. 2020
- Chris Tarrant takes us on a railway journey. We buy tickets, get on the train, see the driver, see the signal boxes and see the sights! It's a real gem for railway fans and shows us how the railways operated in the 1970s. Made in 1976 by ATV.
1976 ,This is the world I was born into.
Me too!👍😝
@@MissFeline was life better then I always feel like it was before I was born
I would have been six at the time and halfway through infant school! Now aged 53!
I was two. But so much of it is familiar and part of my memory
Simpler, happier times.
Yes - I was just six and halfway through infant school in 1976. Now in my early fifties!
Wow England 🇬🇧 has changed so so much
And not for the better
Why don't you say what you really mean?
@@gavindouglas3196 True
England, i remember you❤😢
I sometimes wish time had stood still in 1976 🙂
And I would have remained 6 years old and halfway through infant school!
@@angelacooper2661 Me Too!! And wot a great time it would be... unless you were still wetting the bed 😂
@@cerneuffington2656Why would I want to wet the bed, as I don't recall doing so, especially that era. You have unusual nomenclature - how on earth did you get called Cerne Uffington?
And we just took it for granted back then🙄
Jesus, thank god it didn't
I would pay good money for Chris to do a parody reboot. With a good writer it would win a BAFTA
I get such enjoyment watching these old videos; sometimes more than a good film.
Lockdown Schools with Chris Tarrant 😁🤜🤛
What's that really Chris Tarrant
The Radleys Fish Bar is still there in Sheldon, Birmingham - though it looks a bit different now. Thanks so much for posting this.
Love watching these archive films as I'm a child of the 70's, but all these 'weren't it great in the good old days' comments do my head in. No, it wasn't great for everyone.
Nice caring teacher.
Lovely to see this. I grew up watching Stop, Look, Listen as a child in the 1980s, but I am sure that's not Chris Tarrant narrating - he started narrating for the show much later on into the early 80s.
He gets a credit...
It's definitely Chris.
What may have caused you to doubt that the voiceover was Chris Tarrant was the fact that he identifies himself with the man seen on the film (e.g. "And a ticket for me", "out train" etc) even though the man we can actually see is not Chris. It makes me wonder if the man we can see originally did the voiceover on this episode, but then it got redubbed by Chris, perhaps to fit in with the fact that Chris was narrating other episodes, but for some reason he used the exact same script as the original man, rather than adjusting pronouns etc. If it's a re-dub, and 1976 was just the date of the original version, then you could even be right about it being later. All speculation of course...
I've just done a little research and established that the man in the film on the train is Harvey Higgins, a teacher, and the children are his class. He made the first series of Stop Look Listen in 1971, simultaneously teaching his class and the audience, and many of the episodes (including one called 'Rail' used here) were repackaged, with Chris Tarrant narrating, for the second series in 1975-6. According to one source the sequence involving buying the tickets was refilmed for the 1976 version, with a different teacher and children, to bring it up to date. Apparently Chris narrated Stop Look Listen for 15 years from 1975-1990, before being replaced by Matthew Kelly.
Chris Tarrant was the presenter of this show from the mid 70s. He done this before Tiswas.
Kids behaving sensibly
It’s basically a look at modern day Northern Rail
The prices in this are way too cheap to be modern rail.
Translated into American:
Driver-engineer
Points-switches
Signal box-tower
Goods train-freight train
Railway-railroad
Carriage-car
Lorries-trucks
Flats-apartments
Lol Greg. Lol.
I prefer the English words anytime, as it makes sense and I know what's going on!
I remember Stop Look Listen at school, however, I was 20 in 1976, I left school in 1972, this may have run for years.
I would have been just six and halfway through infant school in 1976, leaving senior school ten years later with O Levels! Remember the programme and the theme tune very well.
Ruddy Hell ... I was 11 then, mid 1970s Britain
Then days railways were railways were was that railway station
Proper train. A train you actually drove, not operated. 15mph, close throttle, count to 4, change into second gear, count to 2, open throttle notch by notch. Reckon I could still make a reasonable job of it even now.
...and the train goes... Faster and faster - but probably late!!!!
R.I.P Chris Evans
4:33 "Those children shouldn't be playing there!" Robbie: "Hold my Beer!" 🍺 🚄 💥 🚑
I remember this programme and the distinctive tune in G major. Here I would have been six and halfway through infant school. What age would these kids have been - chances are they are now about fifty (I am fifty one).
I remember it I was about 5 year old at the time. I'm 55 now. So I'd say they'll be nearing 60.
@@Boilingfrogg You are the same age as my brother Anthony, who turns 55 in October. These kids are therefore older than him!
@@angelacooper2661 Yeah I remember watching this at primary school. I remember the kids looking a lot older than me.
The film footage was first used in an autumn 1971 episode of Stop Look Listen, presented by Harvey Higgins (seen in the film footage), and was then repurposed for this newer 1976 version, narrated by Chris Tarrant. The children probably made the train journey in about Spring 1971, and if they were about 10 at the time (I'm just guessing) then they'd be 60 or so now, though realistically, with the passage of 50 or so years since the film was shot, there's the sad possibility that perhaps one or two are already no longer with us.
@@MrDannyDetail The original version was therefore during my infancy - my first birthday was in summer 1971, as I was just eight months old when decimalisation arrived!
Contemporary version: 'After asking how much it would cost for 12 tickets everyone abandons the journey and goes home.'
More like, no one would buy a ticket because no staff can be arsed to check tickets!
Everyone runs onto the train and if you complain or shout stop...you'll be arrested for being white/racist.
Strange continuity error on this programme. The teacher and childfren arrive at the station and asks for tickets to Kidderminster, strangely they are already at Kidderminster ticket office, Having worked at Kidderminster station I know it well!
There's a lot of continuity errors. Especially during the train journey itself. When it drives away as they go from 'Birmingham' it's actually driving away from Kidderminster station.
On the approach to Kidderminster you'll see they're heading away from Kidderminster passing by the big farm shop on the left of the train track.
I recognised Chester Road by Lye station, didn't realise there had been houses there prior. I always wondered as I used to often pass by Cradley and Chester Road was mostly derelict.
Check out that ticket machine. Repetitive strain or what?🤣
Yeah they don't use them anymore
May I have a return ticket please? Back here of course.
That's thirty pence a ticket on average!
do u like trains choo choo
Programmes like this were stiflingly boring as a 6 year old in 1976. Thank god Star Wars was around the corner...
Same age as me, as I was 6 then. I found these programmes actually interesting. Star Wars isn't my favourite.
What route were they taking?
They seem to be travelling between Kidderminster and Birmingham New Street on the pre-1995 direct route, but the film jumps all over the place. I used to commute on this line in the 80s, so it's interesting to see how it looked 10 years earlier.
0.30 Approaching New St from Wolverhampton tunnel
0.49 Buying tickets and getting on train at Kidderminster
2.40 Leaving Smethwick West heading towards Kidderminster
2.59 Emerging from tunnel towards Kidderminster (NB this tunnel was shorter then, and was later extended to the next road bridge when the Symphony Hall was built on top!)
3.44 Passing Soho train depot
3.57 Langley Green level crossing heading towards Kidderminster
4.08 Stopping at Old Hill heading towards Birmingham
4.27 Approaching Smethwick Junction towards Birmingham
4.37 Naughty children - I think this is in the deep cutting near Smethwick West
4.38 Signalbox - I think this is Rowley Regis and Blackheath box but I could be mistaken
5.14 Bridge over Cradley Road near Cradley Heath (probably) heading towards Birmingham
5.37 Bridge over Beauty Bank near Old Hill heading towards Kidderminster
5.48 New flats at Riddens Mound, between Cradley Heath and Old Hill, heading towards Birmingham. This bit is steeply uphill and you can hear the train's engine labouring up the gradient
6.08 Signals and junction on the Birmingham side of Stourbridge Junction. The route straight on is the closed line to Dudley, which was then still open for freight only
6.42 Approaching Old Hill tunnel from Old Hill, towards Birmingham
7.16 Deep cutting near Rowley Regis, with St Paul's church (Blackheath) clearly visible on the right
7.27 Various countryside locations between Blakedown and Kidderminster
8.47 Getting off train at Kidderminster, on the Worcester platform
@@prontford much respect for working all that out
Somewhere near Birmingham judging by the accent.
2.40 is the train leaving Kidderminster station. I recognise this having regularly taken a train from there and recognising the houses above the embankment.
At 5.14 the train is leaving Cradley Heath station heading to Birmingham, the road that we can all see (into the lorries) is Chester Road. There were houses then and somehow they got all demolished and the road, whilst still in use was left derelict for years until some new houses were built recently.
fucking yes! been looking for this tune forever
13 tickets
WE NEED TO BUY SOME TICKETS BUT HOW MANY TO WE NEED? IS IT A1 B2 C 12 COUGH COUGH! OR D, 4
1 ADULT 12 CHILDREN = £3.77 total fares paid
53p adult 27p child
If its singles, according to national rail, it's £53.90 now
RE-NATIONALISE THE RAILS
Thanks e
3:23 Absolutely no explanation as to why there are people standing directly on the opposing track. At the opening to a dark tunnel, no less.
Looked like people inspecting the track. I like the fact that only a couple of them were wearing those yellow reflective jackets.
Extreme dogging
@@mjstefansson7466Woof Woof!!!