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London To Brighton In 4 minutes

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In the 1950's the BBC recorded several interludes which were shown between programmes - often because they weren't ready to broadcast the next programme, a lot of which were live. The most famous interludes were the potters wheel, kittens playing, and this classic from 1953, a timelapse film of the journey from Victoria to Brighton by train, filmed from the drivers cab.The cameraman had to hand-crank the camera at 2 frames per second instead of the usual 25 for the entire journey to create the effect. Every so often he would run out of film & had to replace it. To hide the missing gaps while he changed the roll of film, a view of the train driver at the controls was shown.The effect is we get a view of the train rushing down the track faster than the speed of sound at 765mph.

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: TVnostalgia

Length: 05:19
Rating: 4.45
Views: 26477

Tags: brighton  lapse  london  time  timelapse  train  

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Anowreck (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
It's the old Gatwick Airport Racetrack station. I can't remember the exact history but the Racecourse was created just before the war iirc but abandoned not too long afterwards - probably early 50s.
TVnostalgia (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
It was made in 1983 as part of the BBC's 60th birthday. The video is on my profile.
TVnostalgia (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
It takes about an hour, but you can't go non-stop any more.
kalikoura (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
makes me want to go and ride this line for real great vid
danlefou (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Thanks, asparagustips. Horley is easily recognisable by the gasworks a few seconds before the station. The next two stations are approximately equidistant, very close together.I think the third station, with its typical old canopy, must be the original Gatwick, making the intermediate one Gatwick Airport. That has two footbridges and bare platforms, built around the signal box!It would make sense to close the old Gatwick station once the airport interchange was open.
asparagustips (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
There was a colour version called London to Brighton in 3 minutes, though this would be a contradiction as the journey now takes longer than in the 1950s
asparagustips (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
My railway clearance maps say Earl's Wood, Horley, Gatwick then Three Bridges then Balcombe - in 1904. There is a Salfords (Goods) between Earlswood and Horley on the 1955 map.
eszettfromhell (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Did they ever do an updated version of this, say, 50 years on?
sooofunny37 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
are we there yet?
danlefou (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Which is the station at 3.05, immediately after Gatwick? It doesn't appear on current maps or the 1980s timelapse film.I lived in Horley as a toddler, and the skew bridge by the gasworks on Balcombe Road was one my favourite places. The other was the footbridge overlooking the shunting Q.1!

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