Eastenders - Charlie Slater

NP15 is the NB starter, 21rd/platform 1. East Finchley.

Wow me and Charlie were just talking about this!

Does anyone know if Walford East Station still exists?

I haven't. I know they film in elstree, but the thing is they had tried to make it less obvious by putting walford east on the roundel... but they have a d78 carrage to use, i think dawn had her baby on it in one episode. looking on youtube for previous locations now...

They used a District line interior recently with a scene with Heather and Ronnie.

Re the OP, this scene was unusual as it was filmed on the main Northbound platform, rather than the usual middle ones. Thank God, Charlie Slater has left, the actor couldnt act for toffee.

Robert, Derek Martin cant act. Bit parts playing thugs in the Sweeney [mainly physical stuff] and playing a cabbie in Eastenders who most of the time was filmed eating. What else has he done of any note.

If I recall, he also played a thug in an episode of Minder too.

There was a DVA heard from on-board the train: "This station is Walford East. The next station is Bow Road"

You could also hear a platform announcer reminding customers to mind the gap.



It was more of a prototype refurbished D78 stock. For example it still had the original door open buttons.

I think you're getting muddled up with that other actor, James Marcus, who looks a bit like Derek Martin.



Oddly enough, he occasionally played thugs in Minder as well.

Any other Derek Martin lookey-likey's we should be considering?

I love Eastenders but it really annoys me when they do things like this.

The station is said to be on the District Line in place of Bromley By Bow. The CGI Train that passes over the rail bridge is a D Stock train. All good so far.

But then you have their D-Stock car for interior filming and it is not accurate to a current D-Stock train. The LED is different & there are door open and close buttons. Also you see tunnel walls on both sides of the train. In the episode where Ronnie is in labour on the train they come out of a tunnel straight into Barking Station where as there is no tunnel on either side of Barking (except the Pass under, but it is only about 15 seconds long). Not to mention the fact that Barking hasn't had a hospital with a maternity ward in many years.

Secondly, when they shot the episode of Phil Mitchell on the bridge they showed a clip of a train approaching. But it was a train exiting the tunnel at Golders Green.

Also as we have all noticed, this latest episode was filmed at East Finchly where there is a roof. This shows that the entrance and walkways are above the station, but as we all know, you go up stairs at Walford East to reach the platform. However I did like the fact that they put 'Walford East' in the roundel.

Lastly, slightly off topic but they don't even use a London Bus.

Continuity has never been a really strong point in soaps. Most soaps are pure trash after the first few months. boring, repetitive............but millions watch them night in night out.....I think that says a great deal about the average TV viewer. Like most things in TV and films everything is written around a basic tried and tested formula. Some directors are good enough to create new variations on a theme but they are perhaps the exception to the rule and of course they are all bound by the producers who hold the purse strings.

Yep I can't help but agree with every word, an excellent assessment.

I notice the DMI seems to say **STAND BACK, TRAIN APPROACHING** in the background - guess the train was held outside the station until the right moment for them

How I miss the sounds of the 95 stock though!