And
now, as they said on Monty Python, for something completely different.
I’m
not a fan of Top Gear, the BBC TV show about cars because, well, it’s about
cars—not trains. But I happened to catch a re-run the other day; my wife saw it
while clicking through the channels, and called me to come see it.
On
this particular episode, the show’s hosts--Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and
James May--attempt to make train travel cheaper, faster and more interesting by
replacing conventional passenger cars and locomotives with fifth wheel trailers
and cars to pull them.
The
Top Gear team spent three weeks making the trains; they were filmed on the
Great Central Heritage Railway. (Britain’s only double-track mainline heritage railway.)
In
addition to the regular footage, the show also features one of the trains on
fire and a crash.
I
told you it was different.
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