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Post by theblackferret on Dec 5, 2015 10:33:56 GMT
Judge for yourself vide the photos here: CarolRAnd the images on the 2'52" clip. I think the nose is key here, rather than the lack of claiming to be in TBWTY on her appearances. Who is looking at her nose?  I thought we all were, now @reganorak has sorted the station situation out. |
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Post by stapler on Dec 5, 2015 15:22:11 GMT
Interesting that the recruitment poster in the first shots says that £27-a-week jobs were seemingly open to men and women, except guards and foremen. Did LT apply the same guard eligibility rules (lifting a 3-link coupling at the end of a 4ft pole) that BR did? - see thread "Motorman".
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Post by theblackferret on Dec 5, 2015 16:14:49 GMT
Interesting that the recruitment poster in the first shots says that £27-a-week jobs were seemingly open to men and women, except guards and foremen. Did LT apply the same guard eligibility rules (lifting a 3-link coupling at the end of a 4ft pole) that BR did? - see thread "Motorman". The Equal Opportunities Act wasn't until 1975, so it may well be LT could have done that and gotten away with it. I can't remember exactly when, but some time around 1978, there was one hell of a storm when a member of a BR recruitment panel came out with the infamous remark that a woman's place was barefoot, pregnant & in the kitchen. How times change! |
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Post by countryman on Dec 7, 2015 13:04:14 GMT
Hello I've been a long term lurker, but this is my first post. It was interesting to see the comments about Carol Royle. However I'm surprised that no-one seems to have found this! www.imdb.com/title/tt0068311/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. |
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Post by John Tuthill on Dec 7, 2015 13:20:59 GMT
Hello I've been a long term lurker, but this is my first post. It was interesting to see the comments about Carol Royle. However I'm surprised that no-one seems to have found this! www.imdb.com/title/tt0068311/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. Sorry to disappoint you, but that was the first place I looked.  Welcome to the Forum. Let us know what your knowledge is good on. Never be afraid to ask, no matter how 'stupid' the question might be. When I started work, one thing I was told and I've never forgotten it: "The man who knows the answer never asks the question." |
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Post by DavidH on Dec 7, 2015 22:10:12 GMT
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this, a copy has been ordered. I love the CFF films, the 1970s ones were my favourites, although 1958's 'Salvage Gang' is excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 10:08:20 GMT
I just wanted to add my thanks for posting this clip and images. I have memories of seeing this film at a kids' club in a Pontins holiday camp some time in the mid-Seventies. I don't remember the scene on the train though, which is hilarious!
Am I the only one who finds the sight of a bright yellow train coming into the station somehow disturbing?!
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Post by brigham on Jun 13, 2016 11:13:47 GMT
"...Am I the only one who finds the sight of a bright yellow train coming into the station somehow disturbing?!"
The silly old bag on the platform appears to find it terrifying!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 11:21:01 GMT
"...Am I the only one who finds the sight of a bright yellow train coming into the station somehow disturbing?!" The silly old bag on the platform appears to find it terrifying! She does a proper "AAAIIEEEE!" scream, doesn't she?! I also love how the kid makes a meal out of his escape. Instead of just bolting for the exit he manages to run around just about everyone else on the platform first. Comedy running at its finest. |
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jun 13, 2016 12:12:00 GMT
Am I the only one who finds the sight of a bright yellow train coming into the station somehow disturbing?! we have had something similar:  © bowroaduk |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 12:24:25 GMT
Wow, how much did Yellow Pages pay for that?! That would have startled me a little but nowhere near as much as a train that was purely one colour.
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Post by brigham on Jun 13, 2016 12:27:18 GMT
I'm impressed with the kid's performance, which is odd. My usual reaction to child actors is "I want to hit that kid!".
(I may have been exposed to Junior Showtime at an impressionable age).
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Post by su31 on Jun 13, 2016 18:00:37 GMT
I remember watching this film at my local library when I was a kid. This post has brought back some memories!
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jun 14, 2016 10:04:42 GMT
Am I the only one who finds the sight of a bright yellow train coming into the station somehow disturbing?! Not disturbing, but annoying, as I would assume it would be a maintenance train and stand clear  |
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Post by class411 on Jun 14, 2016 10:18:53 GMT
I can't remember exactly when, but some time around 1978, there was one hell of a storm when a member of a BR recruitment panel came out with the infamous remark that a woman's place was barefoot, pregnant & in the kitchen. How times change! Indeed. Allowing them shoes was one of the landmark achievements of the feminist movement. I'll get me coat. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2016 10:48:28 GMT
I've seen these around a few times, of course. They make an almighty noise when they pass through a Tube station. Again, I'm always slightly startled by them because I'm so used to 'normal' trains that they are part of the landscape, and anything unusual grabs my attention.
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Post by Chris M on Jun 14, 2016 20:14:55 GMT
I can't remember exactly when, but some time around 1978, there was one hell of a storm when a member of a BR recruitment panel came out with the infamous remark that a woman's place was barefoot, pregnant & in the kitchen. How times change! Indeed. Allowing them shoes was one of the landmark achievements of the feminist movement. Being serious for a moment, being barefoot while pregnant is often done by choice - pregnancy can make your feet swell (I guess due to and/or to aid the increased weight you are carrying) and so your normal shoes can be uncomfortable and/or painful. It should (but sadly doesn't) go without saying that it should be the choice of the person who is pregnant (subject to H&S considerations) whether and where to go barefoot. |
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Post by arun on Jun 16, 2016 13:32:51 GMT
Hmm Chris- several reasons for swollen feet and ankles in pregnancy - not all of them very nice. The simplest and most benign is having 25lbs [baby + amniotic fluid + placenta + enlarged uterus] pressing downwards on the pelvic veins and preventing blood and lymph return against gravity - Hence in part also a reason why varicose veins might arise. Other reasons to watch out very carefully for [at ante-natal clinics] are early heart failure decompensation and the nastiest, pre-eclampsia where fluid retention and elevated high blood pressure can cause a dramatic, very sudden kidney failure.
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