Newsgroup: it.media.tv
Titolo: fiction and railways

Yesterday evening I saw a fiction on Italian TV (RAI 3). There was a
character, an architect, who had to travel from Rome to Milan, and was told to
be catching the 21:10 train. 
Now it is apparent that the author of the fiction has never travelled by
train, nor looked up a timetable !!!
In fact I can't remember the existence of a train leaving at such an awkward
hour ever !  Back in old Intercity times, the last "normal" train for Milan
was leaving Rome around 6 pm, and now, in Eurostar ETR times, about one hour
later, in order to get in Milan around midnight.
Sleeper services instead depart around 11 pm in order to arrive in the
morning.
Is this mis-attention to "real" railway facts common in TV fiction also in
other countries ?
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other countries ?
Same here in Austria, and I think everywhere in the world.
Andreas
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 Same here in Austria, and I think everywhere in the world.
	Everywhere.  In the US, the phrase is:
 
		It's only a movie.
	Check the thread in uk.railways on Runaway Train...
	Its not unique to railways.  The military guys dissect those
	movies, etc, etc...
		It's only a movie...
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I'm surprised that you are complaining about such a small error. Most films 
and TV programs make much worse ones than that!!
Brian Rumary, England
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 other countries ?
Ever seen Mission:Impossible (the movie)? It has a wonderful scene on which
the hero takes a TGV Atlantique or Reseau train from London to Paris
(should be Eurostar). The TGV doens't have any problem with running without
the catenary! :-)  Also it seems the train runs 300kph on a non-high speed
line. And the channel tunnel suddenly had one tube with two tracks (instead
of two tubes each with one track). I had a good laugh with that movie...!
Only detail they had right: in channel tunnel trains there IS a driver in
the back cabin, for in case the train needs to be split up in the tunel. 
Greetz,
David Eerdmans

 of two tubes each with one track). I had a good laugh with that movie...!
And a helicopter flying into the tunnel, which is of course impossible
as well. But, look at the title, there's already a hint that the film
consists of impossible scenes!
Another "impossible" movie is "Death Train". In it, a terrorist hijacks 
a "German" freight train in Bremen (which actually consists of Slovenian 
rolling stock with a DB logo stuck on) and then takes an impossible 
route via Stuttgart - Zürich - Campocologno to somewhere in Yugoslavia. 
All scenes are shown with no overhead wire. In reality, this route goes 
via the narrow-gauge Bernina line of the RhB, which has no tunnel at 
Campocologno as it is shown in the movie. The "Italian" work train is 
Slovenian as well. The interior of the locomotive does not match the 
exterior. And, best of all, in the movie there is a control center for 
all European railways with electronic display of the location of all 
trains. (The network shown on their screens is very simplified and
incorrect, however.) All this clearly shows that those making the movie 
have never even remotely been to Europe. Well, perhaps to Slovenia, for
the exterior shots. ;)

 
Yep, also seen this movie. That's with Patrick Steward in the 'European'
control room, isn't it? 
Well, perhaps international traffic would be running smoother than now if
such a control room was reality...!
;-)
Greetz,
David Eerdmans