ITV SCHOOLS - STOP LOOK LISTEN: Train Station (1976) 

Me too!👍😝

​​@@MissFeline was life better then I always feel like it was before I was born

I would have been six at the time and halfway through infant school! Now aged 53!

I was two. But so much of it is familiar and part of my memory

Yes - I was just six and halfway through infant school in 1976. Now in my early fifties!

I get such enjoyment watching these old videos; sometimes more than a good film.

And I would have remained 6 years old and halfway through infant school!

@@angelacooper2661 Me Too!! And wot a great time it would be... unless you were still wetting the bed 😂

​@@cerneuffington2656Why would I want to wet the bed, as I don't recall doing so, especially that era. You have unusual nomenclature - how on earth did you get called Cerne Uffington?

And we just took it for granted back then🙄

Jesus, thank god it didn't

He gets a credit...

It's definitely Chris.

What may have caused you to doubt that the voiceover was Chris Tarrant was the fact that he identifies himself with the man seen on the film (e.g. "And a ticket for me", "out train" etc) even though the man we can actually see is not Chris. It makes me wonder if the man we can see originally did the voiceover on this episode, but then it got redubbed by Chris, perhaps to fit in with the fact that Chris was narrating other episodes, but for some reason he used the exact same script as the original man, rather than adjusting pronouns etc. If it's a re-dub, and 1976 was just the date of the original version, then you could even be right about it being later. All speculation of course...

I've just done a little research and established that the man in the film on the train is Harvey Higgins, a teacher, and the children are his class. He made the first series of Stop Look Listen in 1971, simultaneously teaching his class and the audience, and many of the episodes (including one called 'Rail' used here) were repackaged, with Chris Tarrant narrating, for the second series in 1975-6. According to one source the sequence involving buying the tickets was refilmed for the 1976 version, with a different teacher and children, to bring it up to date. Apparently Chris narrated Stop Look Listen for 15 years from 1975-1990, before being replaced by Matthew Kelly.

Chris Tarrant was the presenter of this show from the mid 70s. He done this before Tiswas.

I would have been just six and halfway through infant school in 1976, leaving senior school ten years later with O Levels! Remember the programme and the theme tune very well.

Lol Greg. Lol.

I prefer the English words anytime, as it makes sense and I know what's going on!

The prices in this are way too cheap to be modern rail.

I remember it I was about 5 year old at the time. I'm 55 now. So I'd say they'll be nearing 60.

@@Boilingfrogg You are the same age as my brother Anthony, who turns 55 in October. These kids are therefore older than him!

@@angelacooper2661 Yeah I remember watching this at primary school. I remember the kids looking a lot older than me.

The film footage was first used in an autumn 1971 episode of Stop Look Listen, presented by Harvey Higgins (seen in the film footage), and was then repurposed for this newer 1976 version, narrated by Chris Tarrant. The children probably made the train journey in about Spring 1971, and if they were about 10 at the time (I'm just guessing) then they'd be 60 or so now, though realistically, with the passage of 50 or so years since the film was shot, there's the sad possibility that perhaps one or two are already no longer with us.

​@@MrDannyDetail The original version was therefore during my infancy - my first birthday was in summer 1971, as I was just eight months old when decimalisation arrived!

More like, no one would buy a ticket because no staff can be arsed to check tickets!

Yeah they don't use them anymore

They seem to be travelling between Kidderminster and Birmingham New Street on the pre-1995 direct route, but the film jumps all over the place. I used to commute on this line in the 80s, so it's interesting to see how it looked 10 years earlier. 0.30 Approaching New St from Wolverhampton tunnel 0.49 Buying tickets and getting on train at Kidderminster 2.40 Leaving Smethwick West heading towards Kidderminster 2.59 Emerging from tunnel towards Kidderminster (NB this tunnel was shorter then, and was later extended to the next road bridge when the Symphony Hall was built on top!) 3.44 Passing Soho train depot 3.57 Langley Green level crossing heading towards Kidderminster 4.08 Stopping at Old Hill heading towards Birmingham 4.27 Approaching Smethwick Junction towards Birmingham 4.37 Naughty children - I think this is in the deep cutting near Smethwick West 4.38 Signalbox - I think this is Rowley Regis and Blackheath box but I could be mistaken 5.14 Bridge over Cradley Road near Cradley Heath (probably) heading towards Birmingham 5.37 Bridge over Beauty Bank near Old Hill heading towards Kidderminster 5.48 New flats at Riddens Mound, between Cradley Heath and Old Hill, heading towards Birmingham. This bit is steeply uphill and you can hear the train's engine labouring up the gradient 6.08 Signals and junction on the Birmingham side of Stourbridge Junction. The route straight on is the closed line to Dudley, which was then still open for freight only 6.42 Approaching Old Hill tunnel from Old Hill, towards Birmingham 7.16 Deep cutting near Rowley Regis, with St Paul's church (Blackheath) clearly visible on the right 7.27 Various countryside locations between Blakedown and Kidderminster 8.47 Getting off train at Kidderminster, on the Worcester platform

@@prontford much respect for working all that out

Somewhere near Birmingham judging by the accent.

Same age as me, as I was 6 then. I found these programmes actually interesting. Star Wars isn't my favourite.

If its singles, according to national rail, it's £53.90 now

RE-NATIONALISE THE RAILS

Looked like people inspecting the track. I like the fact that only a couple of them were wearing those yellow reflective jackets.

Extreme dogging

​@@mjstefansson7466Woof Woof!!!