Railway Mania! Building the Victorian Railways in Britain
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Simon, William Huskinsson was my great great great great grandfather!! I have commented on other videos to do something about the Rocket and my relative being a fatal claim to fame for me 😀 Great video!!
Anyone can claim anything without evidence
@@outrageousgamer315thats a lot of generations back depending on how many kids he had he could have loads
Good shout out for the Middleton Railway. The patents and works of Matthew Murray (for the Steam Locomotive to Blenkinsop's Designs) deserve a video of their own. Murray mostly patented improve wool spinning equipment and other things, but was sufficiently advance for Boulton and Watt to both send spies to his Round Foundary works in Leeds, and buy up adjoining land thereto to prevent expansion. The successors to Fenton, Murray, and Wood over the years established a number of Leeds based Railway Locomotive and Equipment manufacturers , with Hudswell Clarke and Hunslet being among the last to still manfacture until fairly recent years.
Hey! First time I have heard Crewe mentioned on any YT channel. We are a south Cheshire town with a great railway heritage, far from the tourist trail. Most of the heritage has been demolished. That’s progress for you. The expression “all change at Crewe” is
Oh Mr Porter. ( as in going to Birmingham being some kind of euphemism.
Isn't 0.6m about 2 feet, instead of 1 foot? 08:40
Good and interesting video otherwise!
yup, that would be 2ft x 2 ft
the british are also confused about how much tea they need to send to the USA
@@RichardMigneron Yeah, okay. So I'm not suddenly going crazy 😂
I think Factboi got confused that one hamburger per bald eagle actually equals two feet. The conversion table does not specify whether these are left or right feet, or one of each, which only adds to the confusion.
This guys reads off the teleprompter and the scripts are banged out under a strict deadline. You remember how people used to say "oh you're studying history are you gonna get a job in the history factory hahahahaha"? Simon Whistler channels are the history factory xD
the prequel to Thomas the Tank Engine was more hardcore.
OG steam punk Thomas
Everyone knows that the best Monopolies are the railroads
Love the reference. As a kid the railways were the best.
I'm gonna be that guy and say I think it's actually the light blue and orange properties with 4 houses on them. Forget the hotels and hog all the houses so nobody else can use them.
Capitalists - what Bastards!
2:20 - Chapter 1 - Pre locomotives
3:35 - Chapter 2 - An invention to change the world
6:00 - Chapter 3 - Earliest major lines
8:50 - Chapter 4 - Railway mania begins
12:20 - Chapter 5 - After the boom
13:00 - Chapter 6 - A changed country
could possibly do a video on the beeching cuts of the 1960s which sold of most off the railways
Sorry to be a railway nerd, but the engine shown in the thumbnail is an ex-LMS “Black 5” mixed traffic loco from the 1950’s, not from the Victorian era.
I know that “Black Fives Matter”, but I would have chosen the ‘Stirling Single’ as the best representation of British Victorian steam motive power. 👍
Thanks for the tip, googled that engine and it's beautiful. Like functional art
Black Fives definitely matter !
Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but its actually an LMS Jubilee. Very similar, only a bigger boiler, extra cylinder, and a name!
Never, EVER apologise for having an interest in trains.
I live next to the Strathspey steam railway and often see a Black 5 steaming past my house :-)
Very interesting ... I learned some new things from this excellent video, and I'm speaking as someone born not too far away from Stockton and Darlington, so I've always had some awareness of railway history. Thank you!
I've been asking for this one for a while. Compared to the building of the railways in Great Brittain, the building of the railway across the praries was child's play. 47 bridges in a 32 km stretch!
What a historic turning point!
1 of Britain's proudest moments!
George Stephenson. A name recognizable everywhere!
LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS West Yorkshire! MY HOME CITY! - Thanks for bringing up making a reference Simon whistler, Callum(?) /Broadcast team!!! 😍😍
Uk's industrial heartland during the 1800s! Boy am I Proud of that!
😁👍👏👏
Mallard still holds fastest steam train record. 🚂🚅🚝
Including a bit about how a common gauge was chosen would have been interesting.
after watching many of your various videos on your different channels I would like to say: I love your delivery, you are a great host. Also, I am super jealous of your beard. Mine seems to be an untamable monster.
The Peppercorn A1 Tornado would be a great topic as well as the mobilization of Britain’s rail network during WW2.
Do one on the canal system Britain has. It's super interesting!
There is one already and it is very interesting
bro. he did that 2 weeks ago
Already did that one :)
@@megaprojects9649 yeah I didn't remember. Sorry.
@@megaprojects9649 thanks
Thanks for this megaprojects im on a mad spree atm on victorian railways and reading books about them victorian railways are my favorite subject
You could do a mega project on those giant diggers that mines use, that or ITER fusion reactor.
9600 km does not equal 600 miles.
he reads these so fast, he's not even processing it. LOL
Also, 0.6 x 0.6 meters is said to be 1 x 1 FT.. oops
And a reference to "cubic square meters". Vast as the quantities of rock moved were, I think we can express them without needing to resort to six-dimensional spaces.
Excellent, Simon! As always - a great production with a wealth of information. How about covering the Garrett 15 and 20 Class locomotives. I did a stint on them after I came out of the Army - to avoid being called up again! Having already spent 3 years as a Flight Lieutenant, flying around the country side, shooting stuff up.
Please do a video about the most useless megaprojects ever made.
@adolf hitler I've learnt alot of interesting and useful stuff on their to be fair. I'd say Facebook.
Ah, so you want a video on Brexit? Just wait another year. . . . 😎
@@abbofun9022 have you seen the wage growth, unemployment figures, etc compared to the EU? We're outperforming them in practically every statistic, especially those that matter. We had *worse* unemployment numbers than Germany etc before brexit and have better numbers than them now. And that's the power of Brexit.
And just cause I seen a lot of idiots spreading this story recently, both the EU (selected countries of the EU as reported in this story) and the UK have lower trade figures. It's being spun that the EU is booming, despite those trade figures being lower than they were, but the UK "isn't doing as well outside the EU". Well the fact it's the only number remoaners got to go on, which they've got to both cherry pick (using a selection of EU countries), and lie about (cause they said trade was booming even though it's down) should tell you everything you need to know about the media and remoaners approach to economics.
@@nicosmind3 , you get your numbers from the daily fail I assume? You’re talking complete nonsense and are just selectively shopping in numbers.
@@nicosmind3 yeah I seen them, low unemployment because we don't have enough workers to keep buisness open never mind expand. Wages will drop as business decline due to lack of growth.
Oh and have fun with the extra tax food, fuel, gas and electric prices this year.
This is the Blain Braze comment you're looking for
Poke smot and me berry?
Am i right Peter?!?!?!??
Allegedly
Yes
Legendary
Simon and trains! Let me get coffee and comfy on the couch!
Sometimes living round here feels very humdrum - but then when I stop and think I live just a few miles from were (essentially) the modern machine age world began (Rainhill) I think 'Oh, wow!'
Hey I live there too!
Loved that Simon, pls more about the Victorian era
this was one of the most remarkable periods of invention and dwarfs even the automotive and highway system. railroads had shown that a network that connects everyone is possible. Rail roads built on the canal system ideas (canals, aqueducts, bridges, etc) but canals did not require the equipment and organization of fast moving trains moving hundreds of passemgers per trip.
And you failed to mention that this fantastic expansion lead to the British building trains across their empire and everywhere else. The trains of India, South Africa, and even the USA today lead back to the trains and export of train technology of the 1870's and later. Russia and Europe jumped into the train building world as a result of Britians success.
Maybe ony the 'Dreadnaught' ship technology had a similar effect on contries around the world.
Rail is the most efficient transport method on land.
The railway system wasn't made by dwarfs...
Yes, train is convenient in trip☺️ Hope the rail tickets bought in a cheap price can use🥺
The YF-23 vs the YF-22. PLEASE cover it.
It was a well-documented contest that decided what the future of the Air Force would become.
Thank you.
Not to mention that the British government passed the Gauge Act In 1846 making 4’ 8 1/2” (1.435 meters) standard - also called the Stephenson or Standard Gauge. Much of the world still uses this gauge.
Last time I was this early, Simon only had 34 channels on TH-cam.
Back when biographics first started with the blue, yellow or red pictures.
The Grand Junction Railway was opened in 1837, so it was 6 years after the Warrington and Newton, not 2. Also the London and Birmingham Railway wasn't the first line to run in London, just the first intercity one. It was preceded by the London and Greenwich Railway in 1836, which was considered suburban back then.
Excellent docu. Don't forget that UK also STEMed/innovated the first use of an electromagnetic railway in the the world's oldest and second longest underground transport syatem to service the needs of what was then the world's largest city London
Probably one of your best. Signed train Geek
8:36 Wait, "cubic square meters?" So a cubic meter (m3) by a square meter (m2), or a meter to the 5th power (m5), so 5th dimension meter. That is a lot!
A big thanks to Simon and "High Pressure Steam"
(un)fortunately there's an endless supply of content for the new channel.
Your videos are always great but i wish you would do a 1hr doco on something this cool :)
If we’re doing rail megaprojects check out the spiral tunnels in BC Canada. It was an insane undertaking in the kicking horse pass
That 5-way race was also instrumental in establishing the standard gauge used around the world, because it's almost all due to Stephenson's prestige of having won the race that he got to choose the gauge of the first passanger railway which others followed.
Parts of the original line used by Richard Trevithick in Merthyr Tydfil are still there. 🤘🏻
One of the main reasons that train lines became so convoluted and inefficient is cause many companies got in the pocket of government and politicians got into the pockets of those companies, trying to create mutual back scratching.
Governments would offer money per mile of track built, politicians would insist on many unprofitable stops be built in exchange for government contracts. Essentially it wasn't the economics of a project, ie the market driving things forward, but other reasons. Easy money and government enforced cartels for train companies drove many of them forward (not all of them but a lot), and politicians had a means to win votes and also line their pockets.
Wait what, families lost their savings on a rail project 100 years before the "Chunnel" already ?
yeah, the Railway boom was the first boom/bust economic bubble. It was seen as so profitable that you could pretty much hand over a share certificate as a bond for a loan. And then overnight 90% of those companies went bust and their shares weren't worth the paper and ink.
This is the video I've been waiting for my whole life.
Woah this is so cool
I always love when you cover railways.
All your videos are informative and well done, but this filled the biggest information vacuum of any topic I can think of. The one thing missing, that I would've loved to know about, was a comparison to the rest of the world. When did Germany start building railways in earnest, and what were the economic advantages created for the first country to be connected by rail? How long did The UK maintain a trade advantage with other countries due to the dramatic lowering of it's transportation costs? Or were these only experienced within the country ?
Much of it is still original. beeboo The service to waterloo is delayed by approximately 23 minutes beeboo
Nice to see a video on railways :D
how about one looking at the Dedicated Rail Freight Corridors under construction in India? The kind of rail backbone Britain wishes it had :)
Shldnt gather in one place like that!!
I bet Queen Vicky was thinking "I wake up every morning, I stumble outa bed, stretchin and a yawnin, Another day ahead, It seem it lasts forever..." oh wait.. that was Sheena, my bad. haha.
OI! WHISTLA!
Simon, don't use the RPI deflator to calculate relative cost of large infrastructure projects like this! It almost always results in a gross understatement of the value. If you compare the L&MR construction to the wages of the average working person (the biggest cost in a project like this) a better relative cost would be about £556m today. However, if you compare that cost to its relative proportion of the whole economy of the country (using GDP proportion) the cost comes to closer to £3 billion today. Both these values, although debatable and not perfect, are much better indicators of how much money would have had to be put together to get the line built.
Great video.
Can you do a video on the Tay Rail Bridge disaster, Dundee?
Megaprojects idea: Simon's conglomerate of podcasts and channels
Simon and his trains
Good video 👍
Can you do a video about the highways in the capital city of Myanmar? It's a great example of a megaproject that went unused
Hi Simon
It would be awesome if you could do a spot about the sydney harbour bridge and the building of Australia 108 in melbourne the tallest building in the southern hemisphere.
Love your content :)
Leeds, me home town, - we may of not invented them, but we made trains popular
You have many good channels.
All 12 are good imho
Liverpool and Manchester Rly was not the first to "link two major Cities" as neither were Cities, nor would they even become Cities for decades.
Liverpool 1880, and Manchester 1853.
Every railway ever built in the US: thats cute, hold my beer...
Here's a Megaprojects idea. Duesenberg model J.
It was only a matter of time till simon made a new channel 🤣🤣🤣
Nice video 👍🏻👌🏻
Simon, you should definitely do an episode on either (or both) Bagger 288/293 and/or Bingham Canyon copper mine!
SIMON! It may sound like a wierd question but can you do a video about the beirut explosion? I'd like to know if it's now the new worst modern industrial accident.
Would you do a video about the British railways modernisation plan if the 50s and 60s! If you want one that’s alittle controversial definitely give that one ago Simon :)
I love and hate Europe. I was fascinated by the stunning scenery and rich history, but I was overwhelmed by the high cost. I think TRIP's discount coupon saved me.
@megaprojects - Just to point your attention to 10:26 segment - little note on the bottom left corner shows correct numbers... You on the other hand say out loud a "bit" smaller number (in miles)...
THE quintessential Megaprojects episode!
Imagine what the country would look like now if 'Lord' Beechings had been around in these days
Britain’s rail network was probably the biggest technological achievement since the Roman wall, in travelling time completely shrunk the UK for the first time in history you could have your breakfast in Newcastle and afternoon lunch in London the change in society is unimaginable. My wife keen on the family history discovered George Stevenson‘s brother was one of her ancestors how could a Family forget they are related to such a well-known figure
One day someone will do a Megaproject video about Simon Whistler and how he made so many videos.
Good megaproject or sideproject would be Westinghouse Air Brake
8:40 is it 0.6m or 1 foot? It can't be both
Could you guys do the Iowa/ Montana class Battleships?
08.33 Novel measuring system...cubic square metres....?
Oh lol, so there was another mistake in the part I commented about. (0.6 m =/= 1 foot)
So thats where greenwich time came from. I feel smarter.
It is said that most people traveled 20 miles or less of where they were born. The railways changed all that. Excellent video as always.
actually it was the bicycle that had the fmost impact on rural life, the railways mostly just took people into cities where they stayed enslaved to their jobs in factories.
Most Americans still don’t move far from home
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When ya young to to do the Canadian transcontinental railroad built by the CPR threw the hardest terrain (worse then the us) and unionized the country
It's called "Computers for the masses, not the classes"
Was curios to know if you'd be willing to do a video on Project Pluto, because that is one thing that has truly put the fear of God in me
I was expecting some more on the expansion of commercial tourism with people like Thomas Cook able to take hundreds/thousands of people on excursions and holidays around the country and abroad, all largely thanks to Railway Mania in Britain. Have you done a video about tourism on your channel?
Have you heard of the Union Pacific's 10,000 HP gas turbine locomotives.
Is there a website which keeps track of the number of Simon's YT channels?
this is the victorian era of Simon reading wikipedia articles and everyone freaking out
08:20 - "Nobody likes traveling through Hell." Speak for yourself, Simon. ;)
Ok
The downfall of Trevithicks train, was not the weight it selves, but because it used cast-iron rails, witch broke under the weight. Stevenson insited on usin wrourgt-iron rails, whitch could stand the strain. And things didn´t rearly be good untill the use of steelrails, witch didn´t weir out so fast.
Can we get some more railroad docs ❤
Next do the history of Victorian Railways in Victoria Australia
Quite a few of the film clips he used are in fact the Victorian Railways of Australia. The busy scenes with lots of dressed up passengers alighting from early four and six wheeled short carriages,
Compare them to the trains arriving at the 1896 Melbourne Cup.
Also on TH-cam and likely the oldest film taken in Australia.
@10:28 LOL... Oh boy.
Can you make a video on the demise of the British railway system? Including Scotland (not just England and Wales)
The Waverley route has been reopened in recent years, and probably a little more to come.
Stockton and Darlington Rly. 1825, (not 1826)
200th anniversary next year....
The Railway Mania was the first boom/bust economic disaster.
Not really, don't forget tulips in the Netherlands
@@joesnow34 true, but that was all physical sales, the investors weren't buying pieces of paper with promises of money, they were buying actual bulbs. It was the sudden ability to grow hundred of thousands of each bulb that destroyed the value. In this case investors were throwing money at imaginary items, gambling with the hope of a massive return on the investment.
Norwegians travel through Hell quite often. Some of them even live there.. :D Fortunatly, their trainstation has a Gods expedition.
Only thing missing is TRXN's station joke
Richard Trevithick puffing dragon 🐉 please please please look it up x
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thanks for the video. just wonder if this is your actual pace of presentation or are you speeding up the video somewhat?