Trainspotting Live also featured pre-recorded reports and interviews as well as the real-time broadcast.
Live cameras showed railway activity on the nearby Great Western Main Line.
Viewing figures from the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB).
[1] In the first episode, Peter Snow mistakenly said that a five-month-old video of Class 66s on delivery was live.
A spokesman from the BBC said that the show had made a mistake in the “excitement of a live broadcast.”[5] In the second episode, Peter Snow mistakenly called an LNER Thompson/Peppercorn Class K1 No.