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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 22:25:47 GMT
Fairly recently I'd say. Not that I follow Eastenders you'll understand  but you can generally get the idea of one of their plotlines by eavesdropping conversations in breakfast cafes. Extrapolating these sources, whilst consuming my ham omelette and black pudding, I'd deduce that the recent baby swap story line attracted such a high level of complaints (due to the plot being even greater incredulous ball hooks than usual) that a load of stock filming had to be dumped and a quick fix inserted forthwith. On the other hand, does it really matter? ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 22:44:31 GMT
I remember chuckling to myself at Cold Feet when they did shots on the tram in Manchester: I was a student there at the time and they sent that tram on very improbable routes  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 22:47:24 GMT
I remember chuckling to myself at Cold Feet when they did shots on the tram in Manchester: I was a student there at the time and they sent that tram on very improbable routes This is bang out of order. The thread is Charlie Slater on the Northern Line and you start going on about Cold Feet........ ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2011 0:17:47 GMT
Annoying as it is they did not use the District line or D78 stock at least they used the Underground and he was heading away fom London . As the Eastenders set is located in Elstree (so I'm told :-) ) let's be thankful Charlie wasn't seen boarding a Thameslink/FCC class 319 or 377/5 at Elstree and Borehamwood.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2011 0:28:44 GMT
Would of been funny if they used the W&C
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Post by causton on Jan 15, 2011 10:37:47 GMT
Annoying as it is they did not use the District line or D78 stock at least they used the Underground and he was heading away fom London . As the Eastenders set is located in Elstree (so I'm told :-) ) let's be thankful Charlie wasn't seen boarding a Thameslink/FCC class 319 or 377/5 at Elstree and Borehamwood. "Slightly" OT, but here's an aerial view of the set. www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=sm8tq4gz9608&lvl=19.30117851470204&dir=5.711145270627965&sty=b Warning: may ruin any feelings of magic and mystery behind the scenes of the soap...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2011 13:47:09 GMT
Looks like a tinker's yard doesn't it?
'Arold........Arold......I'm dyin' Arold...........
Wait a minute, are the producers of Eastenders using old Steptoe scripts for inspiration and just dropping the funny bits?
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Post by Deep Level on Jan 28, 2011 12:36:31 GMT
Hold on just one minute! Looking at this map and the BBC Interactive map it appears that somehow trains run down the tracks above R&R, The Arches and passed the park. They then somehow jump (or teleport) to a new set of tracks to run over the Argee Bhajee and then run into the station.  The producers really didn't think this through. |
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Post by ducatisti on Jan 28, 2011 14:54:05 GMT
Silly routes are a tradition with any transport in tv though...
My own personal favourite was Inspector Morse accellerating up Queen's Lane in Oxford (single lane, and gated several times with 90-degree corners) and coming out in North Oxford (where it doesn't go).
Apparently the Bill was largely filmed on an industrial estate in Croydon, and they always did the driving round a particular roundabout that lead to nowhere...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 20:57:49 GMT
This is all very interesting (says he, not being an Eastenders follower, but always being amazed by the totally outrageous plot-lines)!
One thought (with apologies if this has already been mentioned). I don't think that one would expect to find a Leslie Green station on the District line - unless it had been built by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London as an interchange between a tube line and the District.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 21:19:44 GMT
An interesting aerial view! One thing that I've noticed - behind the bottom right hand corner of the set (as you look at it on the photo), there's a building that looks as though it has a TfL/LT roundel on it, above the doors! Curious! |
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Post by causton on Jan 28, 2011 21:21:26 GMT
Don't forget it's a film/TV set... probably something like filming On the Buses |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 21:23:51 GMT
Funnily enough, the "On The Buses" films did come to mind! They were filmed at Elstree, I recall - apart from the one that was filmed at Pontin's Holiday Camp in North Wales, that is!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 21:27:36 GMT
I'm wondering whether that particular building was used as the Town and Country bus depot. (It was Luxton and District in the TV series, I think, but for some reason (possibly copyright) the bus company name was changed for the films). I might have to watch the DVDs again! ;D
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Post by flippyff on Jan 28, 2011 21:44:01 GMT
<snip>Apparently the Bill was largely filmed on an industrial estate in Croydon, and they always did the driving round a particular roundabout that lead to nowhere... Trying to drag this back to the Northern line..... The set of The Bill was at Deer Park Road SW19 (almost handy for Colliers Wood / South Wimbledon). I went there one weekend to update the software on the scriptwriter's computers. Having entered a typical office style reception area it just 'flowed' into the set - suddenly I was walking down a corridor in St Hughs Hospital (??) and a sign that pointed to the IT Department on the hospital set led to the real life IT dept. (ok, IT office) for the complex. There were big A2(?) sized A-Z type maps on the walls showing the fictional geography of the program - IIRC the real-life Blackwall Tunnel crossing became a dual road bridge on the program's maps. They had a TfL bus stop and shelter in the complex's car park too. |
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Post by phillw48 on Jan 28, 2011 22:07:59 GMT
I'm wondering whether that particular building was used as the Town and Country bus depot. (It was Luxton and District in the TV series, I think, but for some reason (possibly copyright) the bus company name was changed for the films). I might have to watch the DVDs again! ;D The bus station used in 'On the Buses' was Eastern Nationals Wood Green depot. The interior shots were done in another EN depot IIRC it may have been Maldon. EN hired out a lot of buses for filming, one of their buses appeared in Z-cars. I know because my dad was driving it! Most of the outdoor shots in Z cars were done in Basildon near the Ford Tractor factory. (Now New Holland tractors.) |
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Post by Bighat on Jan 28, 2011 22:19:02 GMT
I'm wondering whether that particular building was used as the Town and Country bus depot. (It was Luxton and District in the TV series, I think, but for some reason (possibly copyright) the bus company name was changed for the films). I might have to watch the DVDs again! ;D The bus station used in 'On the Buses' was Eastern Nationals Wood Green depot. The interior shots were done in another EN depot IIRC it may have been Maldon. EN hired out a lot of buses for filming, one of their buses appeared in Z-cars. I know because my dad was driving it! Most of the outdoor shots in Z cars were done in Basildon near the Ford Tractor factory. (Now New Holland tractors.) So the A127 had to double as the East Lancs Road? |
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Post by phillw48 on Jan 28, 2011 22:28:09 GMT
The bus station used in 'On the Buses' was Eastern Nationals Wood Green depot. The interior shots were done in another EN depot IIRC it may have been Maldon. EN hired out a lot of buses for filming, one of their buses appeared in Z-cars. I know because my dad was driving it! Most of the outdoor shots in Z cars were done in Basildon near the Ford Tractor factory. (Now New Holland tractors.) So the A127 had to double as the East Lancs Road? No, they used the road on the other side of the factory, Cranes Farm Road the A1235. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 28, 2011 23:13:37 GMT
This is all very interesting (says he, not being an Eastenders follower, but always being amazed by the totally outrageous plot-lines)! One thought (with apologies if this has already been mentioned). I don't think that one would expect to find a Leslie Green station on the District line - unless it had been built by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London as an interchange between a tube line and the District. The stations on the Whitechapel and Bow line, built in 1903, look similar in style to Leslie Green's slightly later stations. Bow Road in particular. does anyone know who designed them? |
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Post by phillw48 on Jan 28, 2011 23:35:20 GMT
This is all very interesting (says he, not being an Eastenders follower, but always being amazed by the totally outrageous plot-lines)! One thought (with apologies if this has already been mentioned). I don't think that one would expect to find a Leslie Green station on the District line - unless it had been built by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London as an interchange between a tube line and the District. The stations on the Whitechapel and Bow line, built in 1903, look similar in style to Leslie Green's slightly later stations. Bow Road in particular. does anyone know who designed them? The MD's architect at that time was Harry Wharton-Ford. |
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Post by phillw48 on Jan 28, 2011 23:48:43 GMT
Further information on Harry Wharton-Ford, he worked with Leslie Green in the Underground Groups architecture office. He became the Underground Groups Staff architect from 1899-1911.
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but you can generally get the idea of one of their plotlines by eavesdropping conversations in breakfast cafes. Extrapolating these sources, whilst consuming my ham omelette and black pudding, I'd deduce that the recent baby swap story line attracted such a high level of complaints (due to the plot being even greater incredulous ball hooks than usual) that a load of stock filming had to be dumped and a quick fix inserted forthwith.
