Call me biased but I think the trains were the stars of the show last
night.

Very entertaining as ever, though ‘we like to keep these things
(races) as close as possible’ did amount to sending May and Hammond on
the train via Kyoto. That’s a bit like racing from Aberystwyth to
London with the train passengers having to go via Edinburgh.

May was impressed by the trains (he’s a bit of crank on the quiet
apparently) whilst Clarkson acted the pratt brilliantly, as usual –
the Bill Oddy face mask was priceless.

Nice car as well but really, car and gearbox have to be a matching
pair???

More of this please.

allan tracy typed:

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:11:27 +0100, "Dogpoop" hotpop.com>
wrote:

In message
<564fa8e7-442f-4464-896c-7c168ab667c7@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, at
06:08:32 on Mon, 14 Jul 2008, allan tracy hotmail.com>
remarked:

It was great fun. I especially liked the splitting metro train. And at
one point the car was filmed going over a bridge across Tokyo Bay with a
hotel I'd stayed at a few years ago in distant view. Here's the bridge
viewed from the hotel (and no, I wasn't in New York by mistake):

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/tokyo-bay.jpg

There was also a metro line running round the hotel, but I can't seem to
find those pictures at the moment.

On 14 Jul, 14:11, "Dogpoop" hotpop.com> wrote:

Has jumped the shark a bit in recent years, but does have its moments.

Someone once said it's the best sitcom on the BBC, which is quite a
fair assessment as to the level of seriousness and spontaniety.

"Mike Plowman" mydomain.net> wrote in message
news:nbkm74t61ubaem5oj1pv2dvlgu9uahoq2a@4ax.com...

I liked last week when Clarkson trashed a tyre on the Bentley with his
antics - I can't see there being much change out of a

In article <564fa8e7-442f-4464-896c-7c168ab667c7
@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, allan tracy says...

I was too. "Late" is a minute over its due time and they recompense you
with a free rail trip and a letter to your employer to explain why you
are late. Average delay times in the last year SIX SECONDS. Makes ours
look like a right fooking joke.

Oe thing I applauded them for was their attitude to twats using mobile
phones on trains and buses.

--
Conor

In message <487b5ac2$0$770$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>, at 14:55:04
on Mon, 14 Jul 2008, MB remarked:

And the reason they didn't finish the testing was presumably the lack of
a spare, and not the excuse they gave.

abe22@cam.ac.uk wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:08:32 -0700 (PDT), allan tracy
hotmail.com> wrote:

There is no more direct rail route. They may have tunneled a M-way
though those mountains but have yet to work out how to tunnel for a
train. Trains need a flatter straighter route that would need 100's of
miles of tunnel in an earthquake zone making the Channel Tunnel look
like a breeze. Crossing the mountain backbone of Japan is quite an
extreme short haul plane trip, to operate with the required climb rate
the engines have a special rating just for ANA to do it.