What Was It Like To Travel On The First Victorian Steam Trains? | Full Steam Ahead
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- Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn visit Beamish in County Durham to examine how railway companies began to develop ways of moving people, rather than just stone, coal and iron, around the country. The comfort of the early passenger wagons is put to the test on one of the earliest steam trains, and Ruth finds out how people were moving further than ever before.
Peter and Alex are put through their paces discovering what life was like for the railway navvies, the people that built thousands of miles of iron roads across the country and in all weather conditions. They come face to face with the harsh realities faced by countless workmen.
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What I love about this kind of video, is that we are archiving the earliest things we can get our hands on for future generations' history.
Ya, I can't wait for my future children to mock me for how dumb we are.
@@eddiesroom1868 we are there!
@@eddiesroom1868 Why be negative? So people can't make videos like this in case they might be wrong?
I think the OP was just saying it's nice these historical sites and devices, like trains, are recorded in case they're torn down or destroyed. Future generations will make mistakes too.
This channel is so underrated
Overrated! 😑😐
It’s more addictive than opioids. 😂
welp it is kinda not..735 thousands subs)
@@marialiyubman nice 👌 reference
true, i can t comprehend why it doesn t have more views. I wished we had such programme and series in and on Germany life in the 19th century....i love to learn about old craftsmanship and about the way normal people lived, worked, clothed and ate back then.
There documents are just absolutely wonderful
Especially i admire Ruth in all of the farm documents, and also in these railway ones, she shows her wonderful spirit and sense of humour, with the tremendous amount of hands on knowledge she has gathered..
She's so enthusiastically willing to get down and dirty too.
@@crenee4742 indeed... she really is a wonderful, wise, hardworking lady
You mean 'documentaries', not documents.
@@lisakalfus4706 well, i'm not a native english speaker, and it gladdens my heart deeply, that that was the message and point, you liked to hang on to from what i wrote down :3.. in any case, i like to salute you on your endless effort to right every wrong usage of the holiest of languages online... it's utterly 1337 off you...
@@Lyserdigi *Their
The 3 Musketeers of History! Great and glad to see them together again!🤗
Peter got GREY 😳
@@eddiesroom1868 yes it's good :)
I'm here for the history, I stay for the Peter Ginn
like EXCUSE ME, PETER, who tf gave you the right to that look at 2:43. warn a girl, gd, daddy LOL
As a super big railfan, I love this almost as much as the castle documentary. On our side of the pond, I've had several family who were railroad men. My great grandpa would fire the Union Pacific 844.
Biden would love *you*
Ruth, Peter and Alex....the best!!!
In the next series, they're going back to the stone age to build Stonehenge.
@Corey Dailey I hope so!
I hope they do "Modern Farm", where the trio explore the 21st century British farmers and what they are like.
@@ersatzvitamin1 I second this. It doesn't have to be British either.
How about Hawaii, and they take over Roseanne Barr's Macadamia nut farm?!?!
@@lakrids-pibe What if dinosaurs made Stonehenge?
At 20:03 the narrator means METHanol not Ethanol if someone was wondering.
Can you imagine e85 in there hahaha
@@joshschneider9766 its the same minus the petrol, e85 means fuel that's 85% ethanol. ethanol is also the form of alcohol that we drink in spirits or beer. Methanol, which the narrator prolly meant to say, is incredibly toxic and carcinogenic
I was going to comment the same thing.
@@voxhominem Methanol is no more carcinogenic than ethanol.
Meaning both can rarely cause cancer through direct cell destruction stress.
Hence most alcohol abuse cancers being in the upper digestive tract and mouth.
Since most people don't make it a practice of frequently drinking methanol, there'll be virtually no cases of methanol causing cancer in humans.
It's still lethal in sub 10 ml amounts though, and even smaller amounts can turn you permanently blind.
Due to methanol being metabolised to toxic formic acid rather than the common acetic acid our body already produces copious amounts of during fat metabolism.
Same way that 'snti freeze' i.e. Ethylenglycol kills you.
Just that it is turned into oxalic acid rather than formic acid and oxalic acid binds calcium. If you are lucky your only problems will be oxalate kidney stones, but if the dose is high enough it'll bind all the Calcium essential electrolytes from your blood making your heart stop.
@@emilychb6621 Yeah I mean I don't think the risk of cancer is really the problem with methanol. It's sorta more the whole making you blind thing.
I love this channel so much. Ever since you guys put up the series' with Ruth Peter and Alex, I can't watch any other history shows
We’ll be sad when they’re all done! 🥺
@@TheRealSmithFamily I'll contain my sadness by buying all the DVDs lol
Same.
I feel the same hahaha made everyone get in to it
Brits have a saying for the likes of that there trio: clever clogs..barfingly cute, huh 💩
Colin is so awesome! I love him in all of these series. He’s an expert in everything.
how the hell can you provide high quality content for free on youtube like this.
i mean.. i'm not complaining.
HELLISH AD BLITZ!
Ask BBC 2,3 and 4 the makers of 100% of the channels content...Not sure if they are stealing, or if they have a license, or if its BBC in desguice
The ads. BBC is "public service" and are willing to license these shows, but expect their money's worth. So... I put up with ten ads.
@@mathiasandersen3401 The channel is run by a subsidiary of All3Media, the company which originally produced the documentaries. They're basically just old "end of life" documentaries being republished on TH-cam for a little extra revenue.
John. You are pardon
I find it interesting that walk-through railcars didn't become common in the UK until the 1910s apparently. Even 1840s cars in America had a center isle walk through configuration, I suppose since especially in the west trips were much longer and stations weren't close enough to have bathroom and refreshment breaks every couple of hours.
53:54 I find the furniture interesting, specifically the weed pattern
I suppose a lack of corridors persisted for a long time in Britain for the same reason clerestories did in America: tradition. But innovation came along eventually...
Train carriages in Britain have to be a lot smaller to fit through the tunnels and bridges, with the result being that it made less sense to devote so much interior room to something that did not increase carrying capacity.
@@eddiesroom1868 I'd imagine that's a hemp leaf
That train detonator was the coolest part of this video lol I didn't even think about what they did in emergencies when they were stopped to alert other trains !!
We Yanks call them torpedoes.
used to watch it on TVO station, no ads/commercials.....love this, Ruth, Alex and Peter are awesome historians.
I would love to watch a tv show like Downton Abbey that takes place in a late Victorian Railway Station. The lives (and drama) of the railway staff and their passengers.
Interesting, I want Ruth to either do a podcast, with dating advice, or a school where she can teach me to be a lady.
I might be too old and far gone tho ✌️
This is a good idea :)
That and a Cotton Textile Mill where the original old mill is put back into working condition with a historic Victorian staff who live either at the mill or in the village. The train can be in the sametown with their staff. A working town during the Industrial Revolution.
“The railway children” BBC 1999
The film Hugo is kinda similar in concept, but its not set in the Victorian era but Paris in the 1930's
Oh my giddy aunt! I haven't heard that for many years. Love Ruth and her huge store of knowledge, the boys are great fun too.
Who'd have thought horsehair upholstery fabric could be so bloody beautiful! The dyed tails looked like they were taken from unicorns, lol.
So happy to see that Collin made his way into this series with our favorite trio of historians. Collin had a part in every farm series. Ruth wore pieces of every period costume she wore from Tales of the Green Valley to War Farm. Henry even was feature too!
All that is missing is an elderly steeplejack to explain to us the glories of the Victorian era Craftsman. 😀👍
That water powered saw mill is simply brilliant.. But absolutely wonderful, the whole video. I really wish I could come and see all of this in person.
Jesus imagine your first time in the train and the handbook says "I hope you brought a weapon with you for the tunnels!"
MAGNIFICO! Best show on early RR development ever - for information, clarity, and beauty. 1 million Railfans will bless u.
It's here!!! I was just thinking when ep.2 would be out... TH-cam listened to my wishes
Haven't watched but just wanna say I'm in love with Peter.
Get in line ... 🤣
He’s a handsome devil! I like his dark features with his blue eyes. Another looker with similar features: Jennifer Connelly (actress) is also very lovely (dark hair/hazel eyes). 🥰
@@KittyHelio I also have a crush on peter
@@christinecole330 lol
This my new favorite channel oh my god I love history and these three professionals are the best!
"We are the navvies who work upon the railway, swingin' our hammers in the bright blazin' sun. Layin' down tracks and buildin' the bridges, bendin' our backs till the railroad is done." -Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy"
Thank you for including GL's lyrics in your comment. Great place for it!
@@twistoffate4791 Thank you! 🙂👍
Such a wonderful series. And I love Ruth. Like a child on an adventure.
I read a wonderful story about the first trains in Japan. A number of VIPs were given their first ride on a train. Being polite and Japanese they took their shoes off before getting on the train. The train pulled out and left the shoes on the platform.
Brilliant, was wondering where episode 2 was and bingo !
“What have you done with your hair, Peter?”
“Nothing” 😂
I still love the smell of musk because my friend’s dad used this perfumed oil and he was the one who spoiled us as kids. smells are so powerful, I bet you could get an entire generation’s memories with one wiff of it. ❤️
At 77 I still loath the smell of lavender, an Aunt used to pinch my cheeks very hard along with a personal comment, her white kid gloves reeked of lavender
I used to wear Aviance Night Musk until they quit making it. How miserable I felt. One smell that makes me a bit sick is patchouli because a friend in college's refused to bathe and covered it up with a generous sprinkling of patchouli.
Very nicely articulated i must say. Kudos.
Peter is so cute!
41:00 these explosives are called "torpodoes" in the US.
Better than some Netflix shows👍👍
We need a show like this in the us.
You've got jon tomphson and suns
If it weren't for sports, I'd drop cable entirely. So much wonderful content like this on TH-cam - for free!!!! What a great time we live in ...
Crazily enough, compartment stock like the ones shown here lasted on Southern Region suburban services up until 1995!
It took me awhile and some googling to figure out that in the UK a railway "sleeper" is the rail tie!
@caseyflorida A tie is what one wears with a shirt !
@@trespire it ties the rails together
imma hold this rail up and... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@@trespire and a sleeper is one piece pajamas for children/babies. What's your point? We are talking about railroad ties here.
They're called "sleepers" here in the US as well although they're colloquially known as a "railroad tie".
Good to see the trio back at it...Ruth has eschewed the costuming for this one but was she ever spry on the carriage roof !...Kudos for posting this...
AHHHHHH, traveling for these 3, seemed to have been, truly enjoyable! I wonder if we could've said the same thing for passengers of that period. Well done! Even Alex, seemed halfway realistic. At least in this video! 😀👍
What a thoroughly fascinating series. My favourite!!
This is funny, this was uploaded while I rewatched episode 1.
can you point me to ep 1?
Episode 1: th-cam.com/video/cD8vibuQYSs/w-d-xo.html
@@7rotorhead thank you kindly
I've been in a water-powered sawmill (Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia) - that one is very similar to the one in the video, but it *does* have a water-powered winch to pull the logs out of the mill-pond for you, and it has a water-powered auto-reverser. That would most definitely be a labour-saver!
"Do you think it's possible to get it up to... 90?" -Marty McFly
"The only thing that could go that fast is a locomotive"
Doc Brown
Back when I worked as a "railwayman" or as we were called by most, the then defunct name of Porter, we were still known as railway servants, loved it :D'
This is wonderful - informative and entertaining. This should be part of every child's/person's education.
5:52 I love how the iron elephant is almost smokeless
I truly enjoyed that. Thanks for all your hard work you put into producing this .
This gave me the feel of how life was back in the days. I love the saw mill. Zero emissions.
Great history!
Wonderful! Thank you guys very much! I ever loved old trains.
Thank You. Liked, and Shared.
Enjoyable I can't stop watching Ruth, Alex and Peter.
What a silly name.
@@ashleelarsen5002 I will take that as a compliment. It is about 12 to 15 years old. I have a lot of silly names. My Xmas name is Too Cool To Be Frosty
@@toohottohandletoocooltomel4199 it was meant to be a compliment, very mysterious :)
@@ashleelarsen5002 I'm probably more silly than mysterious. But don't tell anybody.
@@toohottohandletoocooltomel4199 I'm like 80/20 heavy on the silly, and your secret is safe with me 😉
55:09, he leaves the book behind!! Shock! Horror! :D
Yes! But it amazingly reappears in his hands on the train.
@@nancymontgomery8897 It can only be explained by Black Magick of the most arcane sort.
Ruth Goodman AND trains??? *automatic like*
As always guys wonderful video please continue the good work
Lovely. These people have such a fun job!
Thank you for a wonderful video
I live near a train line in Australia. When there are workmen on the line, but the line is still in operation, it is common to hear those triple detonators going off. In this case, I think it is to warn both the train driver that there are workmen ahead and to slow down, but also to warn the workmen that a train is coming.
Absolutely excellent historical narration !! Hear ! Hear !
9 pints of beer a day? Considering it was safer to drink beer at the time than water, that makes perfect sense, considering they had to have something to drink if water was not drinkable.
In the U.S. the trains had a Conductor, I'm guessing that function was mostly taken by the Guard/Breakman.
I mean, the brakeman and or guard came first.
"We are the Navvies who work upon the railway..." - The Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot.
Fine enjoyable episode !
What a great watch, & all that, not a dead art.
When doing a distillation ethanol is what you are trying to get. The first liquid that comes out is Methanol as it evaporates at a slightly lower temperature than ethanol. Methanol is created during fermentation and depending on the yeast used up to 10% of all the alcohol produced can be methanol. This translates into about 1% of the wash. Any distiller worth his salt discards at least the first 2% of a distillation.
Wonderfuly done , er enjoyed very much.
Also, those hats are so powerful. You just put them on and I instantly saw a Chaplin movie in my head. 😍
Yasss
A fascinating video. I’ve watched several in the series so far. On this one, I’m struck by the differences in passenger carriages from the US and the U.K. a quick look through the inter web shows that the US had open coaches - no compartments, just seats on either side of an aisle - as the norm by the mid nineteenth century. The vestibule was developed in the 1880s to provide an enclosed link between cars. In the U.K., at the same time rudimentary corridors were appearing between a few compartments on individual cars. They were for the WC. If it was a mixed first and second class car, there would be a corridor for the first class WC, and one for the second class one. It seems Britons took shorter rail journeys with perhaps longer stops, and more effort at social stratification? The video mentions that corridor cars and vestibules really only caught on in the 1920’s in the U.K. I suspect the greater size of the US, coupled with the extremes of our weather, played a big role in the differences.
Very nicely explained. Liked reading it.
The US's bigger bridges, tunnels, and wider platform clearances also helped substantially.
@@unconventionalideas5683 maybe there’s a correlation between loading gauge and rail distances. See Russia for example.
taptaptap… “Anything off the trolley dears?”. 🤭
They should make a handbook for bewildered airplane passengers. How to navigate an airport, etiquette while in the air, etc.
i absolutely positively love this.
I love watching this team!
Ruth Goodman is delightful...and adorable!
Carrot flavored moonshine. Ew and also now I'm gonna go get some everclear and try that lol
I love this series
My husband has had a hernia. They are blessed to not have had one. They are agonizing and they frequently need to be re-repaired. My husband is on the verge of needing his repaired again.
Thank you
Steampunk before steampunk.
Brilliant!
The MSRP on that horsehair fabric here in the USA is $525.00 /yard. By comparison, most upholstery fabrics average $30./yd and the high-end is $45./yd
I recommend the wonderful movie The Titfield Thunderbolt. All about an early British locomotive. In my area of New York's Finger Lakes, there was an 1835 railroad that was horse drawn and feature a steep incline with winches to pull cars up a half mile 1200 ft high hill. It was the same for the new locomotive when it arrived in 1840, and was named Old Puff. They pulled it and all passengers up the long hill south of Ithaca.
In Canada all our sleepers (Rail Ties) are made of wood still.
Love that saw mill
Very interesting program on this channel, who's tell us a story of British oldiest railway and locomotives, skills and other useful things.
Wow I watched the entire show and thought it was awesome!!
No programs anywhere near this quality today.
Man, us Americans, we don't need no fancy threaded screws, just give us a nice railroad spike and pound it in. 😄
Did they not have Gandy Dancers in the UK?Great video.Love it..
Bless her heart !
"alright, let's get 'soaring'" ok, guess he's gonna 'soar' some logs then, lol.
That pronunciation irked me too lol
about the spoon in the refreshment room: was the victorian time after the times where one carried a wooden spoon on itself at all times abroad?
Australia has the same story, except at 40 degrees and 20 times longer.
@@patrickglaser1560 I think he meant Forty Degrees Celseus.
Its like a romance..... watching a quality content after long time...
"Cars in the 1880's had no corridors". I'm mindblown. There's so many western movies featuring trains with corridors. Maybe in America it was different?
I love a lot of the actors on this channel but not everyone or about everything so please find a new series for Ruth, Alex, and Peter. Please
New series, why?
Ruth is a rockstar!
The mill machine being so quite is evidence of actuative efficiency.
I'm so jealous of all of them
I've always admired the unsung Navvies who did the work. And wonder what happened to them after the work was done? Where they went, what they did, their children and grandchildren, on down to the present time.
Did British railways always use screws to fasten rails to ties (sleepers)? In North America we always used spikes. Nowadays we use a kind of heavy clip, but there are plenty of spikes left!
I noticed that too and wondered if it was a regional thing or has always been used all over the UK?
were they using a turnip cap on the still?
same train they using for the limited east-west amtrak service . picks you up in Painesville Ohio at 2:30 am if your heading east. And the alternate day 4:00 am if your headed west .