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« Reply #75 on: June 17, 2020, 13:17:27 »

Is the Architecture programme repeated? I missed last nights and forgot to set the recorder.

Yes. It will next be on "Yesterday" channel 25 at 11pm on Saturday. Also available at any time on UKTVPlay.
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« Reply #76 on: June 17, 2020, 15:08:02 »

Thanks, i was looking through Channel 25 in the Radio Times but didn't look that late. 
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« Reply #77 on: June 18, 2020, 10:02:30 »

Yesterday channel 25 at 12:30pm Michael Portilo  Paddington to Newton Abbot via WARMINSTER S4 Ep.16
yesterday at 19:00pm Michael Portilo Salisbury to castle cary S.4 Ep.17
yesterday channel 25 at 19:30pm Michael Portilo Taunton to Minehead S.4 Ep.18

BBC2 18:30pm Michael Portilo Liverpool Maghull Liverpool Dalgarrog and into North Wales features frank hornby S.9 Ep.14

yesterday channel 25 at midday  Invergordon to john o greats Michael Portilo S4 Ep.15
yesterday channel 25 Norway the Nordland line trondheim to bodo S.1 Ep.4

Talking pictures channel 81 at 16:45pm John Betjamin Norfolk kings lynn snettisham to hunstanton from year 1962 
Talking pictures channel 81 at 19:50pm Railways for ever from 11 August 1968  steam across the pennines

CCXTV channel 23 at 17:30pm Changing face of Railways

Quest channel 12 at 16:00pm Salvage hunters Leeds street lights at a heritage railway and Museum S.14 Ep.12
Quest channel 12 at 20:00pm Salvage hunters Dorset Steam train museum S.10 Ep.5


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« Reply #78 on: June 19, 2020, 08:58:25 »

Sony Movies channel 32
at 23:45pm The taking of Pelham This is the 2009 re-make

Talking pictures on channel 81
at 16:35pm made in year 1936 Royal mail night postal train directed by Harry watt and Basil Wright narrated by Pat Jackson

Together channel 88
at 15:00pm Battersea Junction NOT SURE IF THIS IS RAILWAY RELATED

BBC2 at 18:30pm Michael portilo Hull to Caernarvon S.9 Ep.15

channel 5 at 20:00pm NEW? Worlds mose scenic railway with Bill Nighy Sri Lanka columbo Nine Arch bridge S.2 Ep.7

yesterday channel 25
at midday Michael Portilo  Paddington to Newton Abbot via WARMINSTER S4 Ep.16
at 12:30pm Michael Portilo Taunton to Minehead S.4 Ep.18
at 15:00 Liverpool to Manchester rail line S.1 Ep.6
at 18:00pm  Nazi gold train in Poland
at 19:00pm Michael Portilo Lynton and Lynmouth to Exeter S.4 Ep.19
at 19:30pm Michael Portilo Exmouth to newton Abbot S.4 Ep.20



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« Reply #79 on: June 20, 2020, 07:50:09 »

Talking pictures on channel 81
at 09:55am Nine elms depot at Battersea in the 1960's seven years before closure RUNNING TIME IS  FIVE MINUTES

BBC2 Glasgow station inside central station feature fans heading to glasgow for the Scotish cup final
at 19:00pm S.1 Ep.2

Sony Movies channel 40
at 21:00pm Von Ryans express made in 1965

Together channel 88
at 21:00pm operation pied piper about evacuation of kids to the country side during WW2 might be some railway/train footage

Yesterday channel 25
at 23:00pm Architecture the railways built London underground and the Barmouth bridge with Tim Dunn



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« Reply #80 on: June 21, 2020, 16:57:05 »

I decided to head out early on Sunday 21 June,apologise for no rail programme info on this date.
Its surprising how long it takes me to put the rail programme info together each day,nearly two hours.
Scrolling through the freeview guide,takes approx an hour,
and then the typing and getting the series and episode guide correct with the help of the Sky and freeview guides takes another hour.
So I will continue up to and include the Sunday 5th July 2020,as by this time I think we will be able to get out and about more than we have been able too recently.

One very small point about the amount of views each posting I have made.

Most postings I have made have reach nearly 100,I think thats a fair number.
What I have noticed is that on every occasion that the same person comes back to look at the same posting it counts as a "view"

The reason I raise the above point is that going back a little while ago e-bay changed their viewing system.
If the same person came back to look at the item they were selling,they would keep clicking the same posting and it pushed up the those "viewing" the item.
Grahame not sure if the forum could have a similar system installed.
 
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« Reply #81 on: June 21, 2020, 17:33:02 »

I decided to head out early on Sunday 21 June,apologise for no rail programme info on this date.
Its surprising how long it takes me to put the rail programme info together each day,nearly two hours.
Scrolling through the freeview guide,takes approx an hour,
and then the typing and getting the series and episode guide correct with the help of the Sky and freeview guides takes another hour.
So I will continue up to and include the Sunday 5th July 2020,as by this time I think we will be able to get out and about more than we have been able too recently.

Gosh, thank you very much for all the work you have put into this. I've certainly watched a few very interesting programs that I would otherwise have missed, so it's been much appreciated. I can understand why you want to draw a line under this before too long!
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« Reply #82 on: June 21, 2020, 17:48:12 »

I decided to head out early on Sunday 21 June,apologise for no rail programme info on this date.
Its surprising how long it takes me to put the rail programme info together each day,nearly two hours.
Scrolling through the freeview guide,takes approx an hour,
and then the typing and getting the series and episode guide correct with the help of the Sky and freeview guides takes another hour.
So I will continue up to and include the Sunday 5th July 2020,as by this time I think we will be able to get out and about more than we have been able too recently.

One very small point about the amount of views each posting I have made.

Most postings I have made have reach nearly 100,I think thats a fair number.
What I have noticed is that on every occasion that the same person comes back to look at the same posting it counts as a "view"

The reason I raise the above point is that going back a little while ago e-bay changed their viewing system.
If the same person came back to look at the item they were selling,they would keep clicking the same posting and it pushed up the those "viewing" the item.
Grahame not sure if the forum could have a similar system installed.
 

Infoman, I (for one) and many more appreciate the time it takes to do things like this and the time you have put  in - another 2 weeks, to the time we expect much to re-open - looks to be an utterly sensible cut off.   I am looking forward to being able to see if I can find a train with social distance (be that 2 metres, pi/2 metres or 1 metre) fairly soon, and I suspect others will be moving out of this current phase too.  

It's great, been especially so, but I think I and others have probably seen most of the repeats by now.   Hopefully they'll have made some more by the time Covid-37 comes around - Michael Portillo visits St Andrews Road and Shirehampton, and Jeremy Corbyn finds a seat because people haven't flocked back to the trains, perhaps.  

Forum stats ... and "number of reads".   The number ticks up at each view, so I believe it can be pumped up by one visitor, and 100 views might be less people.   HOWEVER - and especially the case with threads of immediate information such as these, a "view" is NOT recorded when they come up easy on in someone's "recent" feed and across the forum as a whole that's used over 1000 times on a typical day.  Once a thread is followed up and people start accessing it to read the whole thread, the number can increase very quickly.

That's a long answer on forum stats, I'm afraid.   Looking back at yesterday's 81 so far - purely a guess - I would thing 50 to 60 different IPs, and another 40 or so via "recents".   Of the latter, perhaps a half would scroll past rapidly and half the remainder would stop briefly, the final quarter doing a thorough read.  Of the specific clicks on the thread, perhaps half doing an intense look (going there to read) with the others being crawlers.

Of course, if someone reads the thread and then watches a program with their SO, that's someone else reached.
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« Reply #83 on: June 22, 2020, 08:24:21 »

Channel 5 at 19:00pm Sri Lanka Columbo Nine elms bridge with Bill Nighy S.2Ep.7

Yesterday channel 25
at 09:00am Abondoned engineering about Nazi Gold train in south west poland Poland
at 10:00am Abondoned engineering this should feature a rail tunnel in  Virginia USA and a steel unloading rail terminal in Almeria in Southern Spain
at 15:00pm with Chris Tarrant Australia Queensland table lands railway ravenshoe from Cairns and port douglas S.1 Ep.6
at 19:00pm with Michael Portillo Ireland  kilarney to cobh county kerry to galway  S.4 Ep.21
at 19:30pm with Michael Portillo Ireland charleville to waterford S.4 Ep.22
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« Reply #84 on: June 22, 2020, 11:19:12 »

I'd like to add my thanks too.

While one of my Tuesday routines is to go through the new Radio Times each week to seek out programmes I want to record, there have been several on your daily list which I would otherwise have missed.
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« Reply #85 on: June 23, 2020, 08:41:29 »

Yesterday channel 25
at 12:00pm with Michael Portillo Ireland  kilarney to cobh county kerry to galway  S.4 Ep.21
at 12:30pm with Michael Portillo Ireland charleville to waterford S.4 Ep.22
at 15:00pm Bangkok to Mandalay Myanmar with Chris Tarrant S.2 Ep.1
at 19:00pm with Michael Portillo Ireland  Kilkenny to anty S.4 Ep.23
at 19:30pm with Michael Portillo Ireland Newbridge to roscrea with a visit Irish National stud in Tully S.4 Ep.24
at 20:00pm NEW? Architecture the railways built with Tim Dunn Stockton to Darlington and Essex Chapple viaduct S.1 Ep.9

Channel 5
at 22:00pm Chris Tarrant the great railways of World war one S.6 Ep.1
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« Reply #86 on: June 24, 2020, 08:51:27 »

BBC1
at 16:30pm the bidding room about bidding on a toy steam loco

Channel 5
at 21:00pm The railway 24/7 S.1 Ep.3 in Lancaster which is classed as fare dodger land,
bet it wouldn't happen at Trevor Howards Carnforth station.

Talking pictures on channel 81
at 18:35pm Southend on sea small section on trams from year 1959

at midday with Michael Portillo Ireland  Kilkenny to anty S.4 Ep.23
at 12:30pm with Michael Portillo Ireland Newbridge to roscrea with a visit Irish National stud in Tully S.4 Ep.24
at 15:00pm with Chris Tarrant Chile across the Andes
at 19:00pm with Michael portillo Athlone to galway
at 19:30pm Manchester to Birkenhead features a famous Football club
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« Reply #87 on: June 24, 2020, 09:42:00 »

at midday with Michael Portillo Ireland  Kilkenny to anty S.4 Ep.23
at 12:30pm with Michael Portillo Ireland Newbridge to roscrea with a visit Irish National stud in Tully S.4 Ep.24

at 19:00pm with Michael portillo Athlone to galway

Enjoyed the first two yesterday evening (on Yesterday) ... looking forward to 19:00 today on Yesterday for the continuation.   

Many thanks for flagging these us ... utterly enjoying some recent memories, and without the daily log here I would have missed them (we have far too many none-rail TV channels  Grin )
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« Reply #88 on: June 24, 2020, 10:22:29 »

Monday BBC1 at 10:00am Your money of your life covering West coast trains cleaning at Manchester its in two parts and part two is before 10:45am
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« Reply #89 on: June 25, 2020, 07:56:11 »

Yesterday channel 25
at midday  with Michael portillo Athlone to galway S.4 Ep.25
at 12:30pm with Michael portillo Manchester to Birkenhead features a famous Football club S.5 Ep.1
at 15:00pm Chris Tarrant Moscow to Artic Circle S.2 Ep.3
at 19:00pm with Michael portillo Southport to Leyland S.5 Ep.2
at 19:30pm with Michael portillo preston to Rochdale  S.5 Ep.3
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