On 24 May, 13:06, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Marc wrote:
The past is like a foreign country they do things differently there....

That's from a film that I've progected somewhere, long ago. The Go-
Between?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyz5d3entBw

Brilliant! Crossposted to uk.transport.london and uk.railway so they can
enjoy it as well. Lovely shot of the aerials at the NPL around 3:50, and a
lovely section about the canal in the second part.

Cyclists back then must have been made of cast iron. Nobody had anything
more advanced than a Sturmey-Archer three-speed [1], and yet they still
tackled open roads, hills, whatever. Makes my 27-speed setup seem a bit
wimpish really.

Belay that! In part two, they have to get off and push up a hill!

tom

[1] Some, of course, would deny that any such thing exists.

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Re-enacting the future

Thank you fot that; this must be one of the few BTF films that I've
never seen.

On Sun, 24 May 2009 09:55:06 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:


Thank you fot that; this must be one of the few BTF films that I've
never seen.

The New York Central made a similar set of films. One of which used
Barwick Green as the music which got played at completely
inappropriate times - the other club members (Kingston Model Railroad
Club, New York) couldn't understand why I kept bursting into laughter.