Topic: Re: Clyde Puffer Rebuilding Series (3 Part) on BBC Alba (Read 6954 times)

Tug Fanatic · « **on:** December 22, 2015, 10:03:59 am »

I will be watching a 3 part series about the rebuilding/ restoring of a VIC Auld Reekie Clyde Puffer on BBC Alba starting Tuesday 29th December 2030hrs.

I hope that it is good as it has the potential to be very interesting and obviously follows the documentary a couple of weeks ago. I am hoping that it is in English unlike the page that I have linked to below!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tkxys

Netleyned · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2015, 10:11:03 am »

I hope your Gaelic is up to scratch

Ned

derekwarner · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2015, 10:12:13 am »

I wish we could see the program on OZ, however our moderators may take issue

with the text sub titles not being in the English language....Derek

Tha sgioba Ìlich a tha measail air pufairean a' strì gus seann tè mheirgeach bho àm a' chogaidh, a' VIC 27, a shàbhaladh mus tuit i às a chèile. Air a toiseach tha an t-ainm Vital Spark - bhon àm a bhai ainmeil air sreath sgeulachdan 'Para Handy' a rinn am BBC ann an 1994.…

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #3 on:** December 22, 2015, 10:14:33 am »

Subtitles?

derekwarner · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2015, 10:22:10 am »

Yes....'subtitles' are not just words for the hearing impaired, but also include translations from one tongue

to another

The text I copied is from the WEB site....so can only assume it also refers to the subject matter ..... Derek

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #5 on:** December 22, 2015, 10:25:20 am »

Quote from: derekwarner_decoy on December 22, 2015, 10:12:13 am

I wish we could see the program on OZ, however our moderators may take issue with the text sub titles not being in the English language....Derek

Tha sgioba Ìlich a tha measail air pufairean a' strì gus seann tè mheirgeach bho àm a' chogaidh, a' VIC 27, a shàbhaladh mus tuit i às a chèile. Air a toiseach tha an t-ainm Vital Spark - bhon àm a bhai ainmeil air sreath sgeulachdan 'Para Handy' a rinn am BBC ann an 1994.…

Can you not get it on the internet using one of the catch up services? If not I understand that you could use a proxy server to get a UK location.

I am guessing that chunks of the programme will be in English as I doubt that all of those doing the restoration speak Gaelic.

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #6 on:** December 22, 2015, 11:05:40 am »

Why has someone amalgamated this BBC Alba thread with the previous BBC Scotland thread that was for a completely different programme on a completely different TV channel? Is this the thread for anything to do with Puffers anywhere and at any time in the future?

Arrow5 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 22, 2015, 11:35:26 am »

I presume it is the confusion of what is BBC Scotland (English language) and BBC Alba (Gaelic language). The usual north of Watford or in this case, Hadrian`s Wall syndrome. BTW. It is pronounced Gallick (Scots) not Gale-ick( Irish)

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #8 on:** December 22, 2015, 11:54:26 am »

Duncan

I don't think that this is on BBC Scotland.

I started this as a separate thread & would much have preferred it to stay that way so as to let the largest number of interested modellers be made aware. The new topic heading was much more likely to catch the eye than a post on page 2 of a long thread that has the wrong "subject".

Netleyned · « **Reply #9 on:** December 22, 2015, 12:06:05 pm »

The programme is on BBC Alba a TV Channel that transmits programmes in Gaelic throughout Scotland.

Ned

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #10 on:** December 22, 2015, 12:11:55 pm »

I can re-separate out the two topics no problem but I though we were talking about the same series of programs?!

Arrow5 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 22, 2015, 12:12:09 pm »

Correct but I dont think a lot of people appreciate that BBC Alba is the Gaelic language only channel and not BBC Scotland which is the English language BBC programme, mostly like BBC One but with a few regional variations, seldom, any Gaelic. Now watch a weather programme on both BBC Scotland and BBC One and see the differances

. Iceberg/Goldberg syndrome.

Arrow5 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 22, 2015, 12:12:54 pm »

Quote from: Martin [Admin] on December 22, 2015, 12:11:55 pm

I can re-separate out the two topics no problem but I though we were talking about the same series of programs?! Case explained.

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #13 on:** December 22, 2015, 12:14:35 pm »

Quote from: Martin [Admin] on December 22, 2015, 12:11:55 pm

I can re-separate out the two topics no problem but I though we were talking about the same series of programs?!

They are both about Puffers but that is where the commonality ends. As I said I think more will be informed about the existence of this if it has my original "subject" heading.

Chris

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #14 on:** December 22, 2015, 12:36:34 pm »

Topic split! - http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,53352.0.html

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #15 on:** December 22, 2015, 12:43:59 pm »

Thank you Martin.

Now lets just hope that it is worth watching!

Nemo · « **Reply #16 on:** December 22, 2015, 01:22:22 pm »

For those who cannot get the programmes from UK, here is a small Youtube slideshow showing Auld Reekie partial dismantling and slipping. Shows what a task lies ahead of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4U_bznFgK8
Better than nothing!

derekwarner · « **Reply #17 on:** December 22, 2015, 09:21:44 pm »

Thanks Nemo......

0:34 minutes....is that a result of using 'Mac & Myer for hire' as riggers?

...[I imagine them as similar to the builder [Mr. O'reilly] that Basil Faulty uses]

1:22 minutes ...would be an old engine fitters delight

if any others surface please just post them

Derek

Nemo · « **Reply #18 on:** December 23, 2015, 11:42:57 am »

Derek - as an old engine fitter - I agree with your -

!! But I truly would love to get my hands mucky on this old girl.

Here is a vid of the wonderful engine-room restoration so you have a sort of 'before and after' -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g59RXsDGy8 As Para Handy would say, 'It is chust sublime!'.

*A few years back I did a few weekends on the SS Shieldhall (http://www.ss-shieldhall.co.uk/) and got stuck into some pump repairs in the engine-room, loved it!
Bob.

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #19 on:** December 29, 2015, 08:09:31 am »

Tonight & the next two Tuesdays. BBC Alba 2030hrs. On Sky, Freesat, Virgin & transmitted Freeview in Scotland only (I think). Probably on iPlayer later.

Arrow5 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 01, 2016, 09:55:14 am »

Watched all three episodes. Without spoiling it, they have a lot to go yet before the auld girl gets afloat. So far new boiler new lum, engine rebuilt, still some hull plates to be replaced and a new wheelhouse to replace the old one which just fell apart during the lift. If you cant get it on iplayers etc at least they have a website and are on facebook. www.vic27.co.uk Beeb Alba will no doubt be following the rebuild to the end. I wonder if we asked for an English version on BBC1 or 2 would they transmit for the enthusiasts as they have done for the canal system.

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