{"id":13141,"date":"2013-08-28T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2013-08-28T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:18:13","slug":"fabulous-rail-footage-london-to-brighton-train-ride1953-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/fabulous-rail-footage-london-to-brighton-train-ride1953-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous rail footage: London to Brighton train ride,1953-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/fabulous-rail-footage-london-to-brighton-train-ride1953-2013\/london-brighton-1953-2013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Fabulous rail footage: London to Brighton train ride,1953-2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13142\" alt=\"Fabulous rail footage: London to Brighton train ride,1953-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sixty years ago, the BBC filmed a train journey from London to Brighton and used &#8216;trick photography&#8217; to condense the entire trip down to four minutes of high speed footage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/fabulous-rail-footage-london-to-brighton-train-ride1953-2013\/london-brighton-1953-2013-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Fabulous rail footage: London to Brighton train ride,1953-2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13143\" alt=\"Fabulous rail footage: London to Brighton train ride,1953-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013-1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013-1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1953 it was possible to travel direct to Brighton non-stop (courtesy of the quaintly named Brighton Belle, comprised of splendid looking Pullman coaches). The \u00a0journey took one hour, with a top speed of 75mph.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years later &#8211; in 1983 &#8211; the BBC re-filmed the trip, and today they&#8217;ve released another video showing a trip down the line in modern times. \u00a0Today&#8217;s trains can hit a top speed of 90mph and cover the journey from London to Brighton in 52 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>With non-stop trains no longer running to Brighton, a special train was used to record the 2013 footage, and a video has been compiled showing all three journeys side by side (see below):<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tGTwSNPqAqs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original 1953 film:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkRiOfwxPR0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>More info:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-23853863\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty years ago, the BBC filmed a train journey from London to Brighton and used &#8216;trick photography&#8217; to condense the entire trip down to four minutes of high speed footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193,90],"tags":[115,1200,231],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","category-railways","tag-brighton","tag-railways","tag-trains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/london-brighton-1953-2013.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3pX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13145,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions\/13145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}