Found it by chance on YouTube (it's towards the end of the collection):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiXnGLVU5OU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiXnGLVU5OU
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Network SouthEast TV advert (early 90s)
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Yikes! That was terrible! And yet BR produced some good adverts in their time...
Most of the others on the collection were quite amusing in their dated-ness though.
Most of the others on the collection were quite amusing in their dated-ness though.
37401
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errrm.....
37401
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that was my thoughts when it first came on..
minus the end bit, what makes you think of trains?
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Thanks for posting this. I like old nostalgic stuff like this, and have a slowly growing collection of it on my computer. (I just spent an hour trying to find one of the old OLD simpson's episodes with the intro where Bart steals the bus stop sign)
One thing I do find interesting is how different TV commercials are nowadays to when they were then. For instance, the Matteson's sausage advert; it didn't contain one bit of innuendo then, now think of the current Matteson's advert, it's embarassing
EDIT: Yeah, the Network SouthEast advert was pretty crummy.
One thing I do find interesting is how different TV commercials are nowadays to when they were then. For instance, the Matteson's sausage advert; it didn't contain one bit of innuendo then, now think of the current Matteson's advert, it's embarassing
EDIT: Yeah, the Network SouthEast advert was pretty crummy.
37401
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and I thaught Jimmie Savile and "the age of the train" was bad 
the advert has nothing to do with trains or a train service.
the advert has nothing to do with trains or a train service.JustinStacey.x
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...yeah agree that was terrible. its amazing what you remember, I remember that sure sensive ad vaguely...hock:
I remember when the X-Files was broadcast on terrestrial television and that it was actually worth talking about; also that I was too young back then and it was on too late for it to be deemed acceptable for me to watch.
I also remember when more programs were on terrestrial TV and channels 1-5 were actually decent; now the digital switchover is looming, terrestrial has lost all of the decent TV (except the afternoon installment of Diagnosis Murder / Murder, She Wrote - terrestrial television is still well and truly stuck in the 90s in that aspect, usually weekday afternoons!) and we're forced to use digital anyway.
I watched a video around my parent's house (yes - they haven't moved on to DVD yet) which was recorded in the mid eighties. The adverts were as interesting as the film. What struck me most though was how angular all the cars looked.
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Tell me about it, everything nowadays is all plastic, rounded corners and lasts for a quarter of the time it did back then...
Drsatan
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Like washing machines.
Back to that advert, when watching it on YouTube I thought it was an advert promoting suicide at first. And no, not every "Off-peak outing" is a treat!
JoshW1992
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That didn't really serve a purpose at all... Nothing lead to 'a train company' in the advert, apart from the train at the very end... bit silly really.
thefab444
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You seem to be suggesting that there was once a time when Channel 5 was decent!
37401
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You seem to be suggesting that there was once a time when Channel 5 was decent!
I remember when it was decent, it was back when it didnt exist, last great show on that channel was the test card!
back when MTV was a music channel?
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The Network South East advert was pretty awful.
This old BR one featuring the HST alot was better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7naLLeB0A&feature=related
This old BR one featuring the HST alot was better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7naLLeB0A&feature=related
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SouthEastern-465
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Anyone seen the Network SouthEast documentry that is very good made in 1991?
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43021HST
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I,m not a fan of that, its just of a bunch of people moaning about engineering works.
SouthEastern-465
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I love it,only part ones moaning about enginering works the rest is brilliant theres EPBs,CIGs, everywhere orginal Class 465s when they were new and much much more.....
43021HST
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trust you, I bet you enjoy the video to much LOL
Sir John Betjamin at his brilliant best.
I normally HATE poetry, but his words on this commercial (and not forgetting his excellent Metroland poems too) say it all.
He couldn't save the doric arch at Euston, but we do have him to thank for St. Pancras in all its restored glory.
At least he is imortalised in bronze on the concourse there!
SouthEastern-465
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Too true, and plenty of satisfying clackety clackety clack sounds as well
Very true I could not agree more.
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