Top Gear - The Train Effort

[Sham]

I've been falling out with this program for a while now, but the recent episode with the cars on train tracks confirmed for me that this show has to change.

Too staged, too scripted, too comfy. It's almost imitating Last of the Summer Wine. Three older blokes, getting up to 'zany, hair-brained schemes'. It still has some good points, and some shows are very good, but they are getting thin on the ground.

Sorry, I know there are a lot of fans on here....

Rant over......for now!

[pinkyfloyd]

I still enjoy Top Gear but its gone from a great fun car program with humours antics to nothing more than filler.

It kills an hour when theres sod all else on the TV.
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because racecar.
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[lukamon]

out of interest, anyway know why you cant coat the driven wheels in rubber? ie. cut up an old car tyre and stretch it round the driven wheels? would this give any more grip?
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[J4mes]

normal trains have electricity passed through the wheels in order to operate track circuits which control the signalling system, and in the case of electric trains the power drawn from the overhead line or 3rd rail goes through the motor and then passes through the wheels and back to the track which acts as the negative conductor back to the supply.

For the cars, it may not have been a good idea to put rubber on the wheels as it could cause the wheels to jump out of the track and derail

[Imonster]

It seems I'm alone in thinking that the train escapades were one of the better things I've seen on Top Gear in a while
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[dransy]

I still think top gear is the bees knees !
So what if its scripted its funny as fuck and they get to mess around in some shit hot cars .

Still the best program on tv for me !
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[dransy]

I still think top gear is the bees knees !
So what if its scripted its funny as fuck and they get to mess around in some shit hot cars .

Still the best program on tv for me !
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[angryjonny]

Oh come on they've been staging this sort of thing for years. The cow on the roof of the Camaro in America. Sleeping-in-a-random-place and finding oneself at the bottom of a massive dam in the morning. Setting a lorry on fire. Reverse-parking a caravan and destroying "someone else's" awning. The train was no more staged than half the stuff they've done in the past half-decade. Get over it and enjoy the show despite the fact that the Stig has probably actually jumped over a shark in an Ariel Atom, or stop watching.

[sickpup]

[Fairies attack]

[Sham]

[Fairies attack]

Trains have tyres.

Yes good for noticing that the main part of the wheel is steel. You get a gold star for observation. But they do have wheels.

I have spent many a time working on Loco's with my mate to know they have tyres.

If not why grind the tracks back to the prefect profile?

Sham
Hmm Lick window,
Durrrbbbbb
*Shit one self
Try think of ones name
Go on BCF sprout shit about stuff you don't know about.

I have driven a fair few loco's. And even had the pleasure of driving my mates rare swedish loco down the local track the night it was delivered, before been stripped down a is currently in a state of full restore.

I'll upload the video's off the train I drove (not in the video I was filming Kye was driving) and then the Swdish one.
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[oldpink]

yeah its contrived and mostly predictable
but my wife likes it and thinks its funny, she has no interest in cars and thinks HP means hire purchase

my youngest son watches the old dave episodes all the time
he is interested in cars (but more into bikes)
me I just watch it for a mixture of the funny bits, the car reports the do
and the feature episodes or the specials they do

put it this way its the only thing the licence fee I have to pay to the BBC
that I feel was well spent as it gives me something to watch on another wise boring Sunday night
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[Pete.]

[Fairies attack]

Nope your right, they don't grind them at all. Not like anyone has ever made a specific machine for the job.

*Cough*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z3edFLjkBI

P.s. yu do I have the feeling you meant people with 4 1/2 inch grinders on their hands and knee's doing it.
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Ariel Badger said - Ever tried Chinese preserved (100 year) eggs? Man are they rank, like eating fart flavoured snot.

[J4mes]

[Sham]

[Fairies attack]

[J4mes]

Sadly, I'm AT WORK and can't view youtube. I have no doubt that you played on a mates train, good for you.

But the fact still stands that trains on the UK network don't have rubber tyres. Seriously. But you know this anyway, you dirty little troll you

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

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