I love it when a soap, like Corrie, has a railway scene, especially when it includes a steam engine.
However for us serious railway historians and steam train enthusiasts it is hard on us when silly errors are made by programme makers, like pre-war scenes including engines built in BR days post 1948! We notice such things, as sad we are!!
Tonight Corrie has had a scene, featuring Black 5 44871, masquerading as
Lancashire Fusiliers, with the evil character scary
Mary managing to uncouple the last coach and the train departing, with that coach, until 'losing' it down the line ----- impossible!!!
No way could the train have been tampered with in that way without someone noticing, then the train would not have been able to leave the station with a carriage coupling detached, as the first jolt would have broken the vacuum pipe and the brakes would be locked on. Even if the coach could be pulled along for so long with its steam heating and vacuum pipes attached, when the vacuum pipe eventually broke the whole train would come to a halt!
Finally the train was obviously meant to be on a steam preservation line where intermediate signal boxes would probably manned, and the signalman would have noted, when checking for the red tail light, that it was a 'broken train'.
Why can't tv and film directors get these things right?
Who else notices such mistakes when their speciality is wrongly portrayed in tv and film productions?
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