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London Tonight regularly uses the same footage to illustrate railway stories.

Some of it must be from the mid-90s judging by the pre-privatisation train liveries and logos.

And the presence of slam-door trains is also a giveaway when they use old pictures of Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Waterloo.

James Hatts wrote:London Tonight regularly uses the same footage to illustrate railway stories.

Yes, doesn't that sort of thing get really annoying.

I do remember once on a Saturday morning, probably about a couple of years ago, News 24's projector screens were showing a montage of newspaper mastheads, including Today for their paper review.

Whenever there is a story about drunken yobs they show stock footage of outside the "Two Trees" pub on Union Street in Plymouth.

Or when they discuss people sleeping rough in the city you'll always see the same stock footage of Bretonside. It also seems obligitary for a report on any serious crime to include a live shot outside Charles Cross police station, regardless of whether or not another police station (or other more suitable location) is closer to the crime scene.

There's also lots of stock footage of the city centre from before the shopping centre was built still knocking around (some of them date back to the time when Westcountry Television held a lot of the advertising banner things (the turquoise poles with a banner down either side that are all over the place).

London Tonight regularly uses the same footage to illustrate railway stories.

I think that's commonplace everywhere. Down here rail stories come in two types; if they're about national travel they *must* feature a First Great Western HST in defunct green and gold livery that hasn't been used since 2002, if it's about regional travel then it *must* include footage of a class 150/2 DMU in MK1 Wessex Trains livery. Rather ironically, after saving the pennies by using ancient stock footage, they usually trundle down to a railway station to do a live - you'd think they could take a few pictures of some trains whilst there!

A recent story about who is in the running to win the East Coast Mainline franchise was illustrated on Look North using the old National Express logo

Also a story about First Leeds buses being on strike in Leeds was illiustrated using pictures of First Mainline (in red/yellow Mainline colours) and Yorkshire Terrier buses in Sheffield, when they could have just stepped outside for 5 seconds and recorded more relevent footage