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4. Rail Points West - 1985

Rail Points West is a brave attempt at a magazine style staff update programme, mimicking the Points West BBC regional news show in the West Country. This is listed as being the second show in the series, so if anyone has access to the first, or indeed any subsequent editions, then I'm sure we would all like a look at them. They say there's nothing new on the railway, and the introduction to this video maybe proves that. The show starts with news of the refurbished station roof at Paddington, then the rebuilding of Reading station. Only this is 1985, not 2012. The feature on Reading betrays the heritage, with the Peter Sutcliffe alike architect drooling over a scale model of his proposed masterpiece, rather than the rimless spectacled modern day stereo-type, hyperboling over a CAD screen. A fleeting glimpse of the back of someone with a mullet is all that is deemed necessary to demonstrate the introduction of APTIS, before heading off to Wales for a 'hard hitting' investigation into the valley lines. The opening scene is of a non-uniformed Red Star employee taking a precariously loaded barrow down a snow bound platform without ever bothering to take the roll-up out of his mouth. A gruff voiced car salesman off to a Del Trotter lookalike convention has a moan about the service as a class 116 with a 101 centre car rumbles past. Welsh TV celebrity Arfon Haines Davies then has his name misspelt before the current Cardiff Central station manager proves that a 'tache never really suited him. A somewhat optimistic future for the Valley lines is then predicted on the back of the introduction of Sprinters, an enthusiastic South Wales Provincial Manager John Davies looking forwarded to the next two years of overcrowding, door faults and units being unable to couple. Still, gave him something to write a book about. Next it's Regional CCE Bill Grant, who spends the duration of the interview rocking on his heels to send the viewer into a state of sea sickness as he describes TSR improvements on possession hand backs. More engineering then, as the assistant CCE talks about the renewal of Chipping Sodbury aqueduct which, as we all know, solved flooding issues in that area for good. Plaudits are handed out to the mysterious 'Ashton Gate Slip and Drainage Gang' by the present day MD of the Barry Railway Centre. The PR department then seem to have a bit of fun as they get Intercity Manager John Bourne to say "vewy, vewy" on a number of occasions, though the folk festival at Pad to celebrate the 21st birthday of Intercity does sound fun. Back to the valleys and its no surprise to find that the manager get excited about the re-engineering of the 37/9s, now has the exciting role of 'Franchise Sponsor Rail Sustainability' at the DfT. One of the Slugs is shown being named by a group of people who seem to have invented Borat twenty years before Sacha Baron Cohen did. Finally, details of upcoming sporting details are given. If you were the winner of either the 1985 BR staff Western Region Small Ball Skittles title, or the Sea Angling competition (live from Mevagissy), then we would like to hear from you, the world needs to share your success.