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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2006 15:17:34 GMT
Well watching eeast enders today, it seems every shot of the outdoor market there's a bridge and you hear the sound of a C stock (I think) rolling past.
Do any drivers or anyone know where the set is? which line passes it? and which is the station it's just come from?
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Post by CSLR on Mar 5, 2006 15:33:33 GMT
Well watching eeast enders today, it seems every shot of the outdoor market there's a bridge and you hear the sound of a C stock (I think) rolling past. Do any drivers or anyone know where the set is? which line passes it? and which is the station it's just come from? |
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Post by CSLR on Mar 5, 2006 15:45:23 GMT
Of course the question that should be asked is, what is a Leslie Green designed station doing on the District line in East London?
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Post by tom2506 on Mar 5, 2006 15:48:32 GMT
Has anybody seen these "Trains passing", are they D Stock?
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Post by chris on Mar 5, 2006 16:10:32 GMT
Has anybody seen these "Trains passing", are they D Stock? Only once has a train been seen, and they had to do up one for it. It wasn't C Stock. I think it might've been Metropolitan. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2006 17:19:36 GMT
On the site it says the trains are pushed. I cannot understand that because a) they are olympic runners or they have greased up rollerskates b) they would need pre-recorded sounds of the train..
Next time it's on a market shot, sometimes you see a little slither of grey and white and red zoom past.
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Post by Colin on Mar 5, 2006 17:29:06 GMT
The buses you see used to be supplied from Upton Park garage - quite often the engine noise was completely different from the bus you saw in the shot. They had a routemaster once, with a dennis dart engine!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2006 17:33:51 GMT
Colin, do you ever see the set from a drivers P.O.V?
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Post by c5 on Mar 5, 2006 17:36:11 GMT
The buses you see used to be supplied from Upton Park garage - quite often the engine noise was completely different from the bus you saw in the shot. They had a routemaster once, with a dennis dart engine!! And now they have a plastic bus with routemaster noises. EastEnders (or another soap) once went to the Bluebell Railway in Sussex(quick plug) to film a steam train, which was then added into the scene using computer wizadry. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2006 17:52:45 GMT
Colin, do you ever see the set from a drivers P.O.V? The set is not any near the District line, it's in Elstree. |
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Post by CSLR on Mar 5, 2006 18:11:13 GMT
On the site it says the trains are pushed. I cannot understand that because a) they are olympic runners or they have greased up rollerskates b) they would need pre-recorded sounds of the train.. They used to push them around, now they use CDA. The train sounds are dubbed. |
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Post by Colin on Mar 5, 2006 19:37:11 GMT
Colin, do you ever see the set from a drivers P.O.V? Only certain managers had the pleasure of taking the buses up there  ;D. The only set i've seen is Coronation Street. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2006 21:07:33 GMT
Ah but you could hear our real whistles when Big Brother was filmed next to the District! ;D
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Post by chris on Mar 6, 2006 7:55:06 GMT
Next time it's on a market shot, sometimes you see a little slither of grey and white and red zoom past. I've never seen a train in Eastenders. Though maybe thats because i don't really watch it............. But still, it would make it a whole lot more interesting. |
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Post by CSLR on Mar 6, 2006 8:35:18 GMT
Next time it's on a market shot, sometimes you see a little slither of grey and white and red zoom past. I've never seen a train in Eastenders. Though maybe thats because i don't really watch it............. But still, it would make it a whole lot more interesting. From what I can establish from the link that I posted, the station that this line serves is supposed to be in very close proximity to the bridge - so why is anything zooming past? Is the District now running non-stop services in this part of London? Does the computer generated T/O continually overrun. Or does the station entrance that we see in the photo actually lead down to a branch of the Piccadilly via Aldwych and Holborn (a branch line that the rest of us have forgotten) and therefore have no connection with the line on the bridge? The station entrance is certainly a Yerkes fascia as opposed to a District exterior. Perhaps we could find the definitive answer if anyone actually admitted to watching this programme. Unfortunately, everyone I speak to denies that they have ever seen it. This of course begs the question, why is it still being made? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2006 9:16:45 GMT
OK, I admit: I've been watching Eastenders for the past week while I've been on the sick.
I've never actually seen a train, but you do hear the sounds. They usually whistle as they pass as well, and that doesn't sound like either a C or a D stock!
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Post by Phil on Mar 6, 2006 10:10:08 GMT
Alan, mate, now I AM worried. To admit to watching Eastenders means you must be far sicker than you're letting on.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2006 10:48:28 GMT
i used to watch Eastenders, but the delights of late turn means I don't see it now nor would I if i could ! However, I was going to say Walford East is nominally Bromley-By-Bow in terms of location on the system ...but I see that is covered in the web link  The sound effect, is, or was when I used to watch, a C stock train, probably recorded by poking a microphone out of the BBC tv center at a passing H & C train ! The first appearance of a train on the bridge in the set was at Lou Beal's funeral, as the hearse passes under the bridge a C stock train passes over it. (It was a popular quiz question at the time "what was unique about the scene ....etc etc") The train was super imposed. I believe the limited appearance of super imposed trains is because they require a camera angle pointing straight, side on, to the bridge and the camera can't pan. I seem to recollect a very isolated few other such super imposed views, a D stock was used last time i saw one (prior to refurbs) but had the standard sound effect of a C stock dubbed on !  garrrrr More recently from the point where Stagecoach had an RM permanently loaned to the BBC. The buses are now supplied by Sullivan Bus, some of their vehicles have special route 15 blinds and a destination of Walford East on their standard blind sets. Several Sullivan Bus vehicles also appeared in the last Dr Who series. |
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Post by Chris W on Mar 6, 2006 13:48:08 GMT
Alan, mate, now I AM worried. To admit to watching Eastenders means you must be far sicker than you're letting on. Alan.... next you'll be admitting that you're a trainspotter  |
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Post by trainopd78 on Mar 7, 2006 10:38:24 GMT
The sound used mostly is an Unrefirbished C stock. Suppose thats what they recorded when the soap first started. They sometimes also use a 96 stock sound effect too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2006 11:54:29 GMT
Nowadays it is a 95TS entering a tube station.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2006 13:55:53 GMT
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Post by ejitrafik on Mar 7, 2006 19:35:47 GMT
Nowadays it is a 95TS entering a tube station. Yup, I remember someone running away from home, and running onto a Northern line train, now THATS what you call a wrong stick! |
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Post by tom2506 on Mar 7, 2006 21:05:55 GMT
Its annoying when the don't get it quite right but its fun to pick holes in it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2006 11:18:50 GMT
someone needs to update the station as the multifare machine is still the old push button one rather than the touch screen, also there was an rci who was still wearing the old blue uniform recently
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Post by pgb on Mar 11, 2006 7:34:44 GMT
Eastenders is indeed filmed in Elstree (well Borehamwood actually) which is where I used to live. Every fortnight or so a Routemaster would appear in the High Street and could been seen parked on the set just under the tube bridge. The tube line itself only stretches for the length of the bridge spans. I used to watch Eastenders when I was younger and can remember three occasions where a train could be seen. As pointed out earlier, a C-Stock during Lou Beales funeral was one, a D-Stock on another episode and steam loco 80079 (I think) during the VE celebration episodes a few years back. On another note, Big Brother is now also filmed in Elstree, so if we here district whistles on that, the wind is very very strong. Hope that answers a few questions for people
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