The pier on rails that ran through the sea - Volks Electric Railways

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  • Опубліковано 12 тра 2022
  • In this video, we take a look at a pier on rails on the beach in the sea.
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  • @SirKenchalot
    @SirKenchalot 2 роки тому +48

    How could the Ukrainian be the first to build an electric railway if his was built in 1888 and Volk's was in 1883?

  • @TrainFactGuy
    @TrainFactGuy  2 роки тому +165

    I wanted the background music to be Electric Avenue, but the tides of fate simply deemed it not so

  • @rogerbarton497
    @rogerbarton497 2 роки тому +67

    "Beyond our understanding and work of the Devil" That sums up electricity nicely!

    • @DerpyPenguin4747
      @DerpyPenguin4747 2 роки тому +10

      Reminds me of that famous christian "science" textbook that says "no one really knows what electricity is."

    • @SynchroScore
      @SynchroScore 2 роки тому +7

      @@DerpyPenguin4747 Reminds me of a boast that I made, talking about my training in electricity. "I have tamed the very bolts of Jupiter!"

    • @james.black981
      @james.black981 2 роки тому +1

      bloke I'm an Electrician, and that's exactly how I describe some of the faults I've had over 20 plus years. Black navicular and the work of the devil 😅😅

    • @420sakura1
      @420sakura1 Рік тому +1

      @@DerpyPenguin4747 Christian science? Can that be called an Oxymoron?

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 2 роки тому +70

    As I recalled, the railway is one of the oldest continously operating electric railway in the world!

    • @TimRuffle
      @TimRuffle 2 роки тому +1

      The oldest- though it has been so extensively rebuilt I wonder if anything of the original is left.

  • @WhiteJarrah
    @WhiteJarrah 2 роки тому +36

    1:20 I don't understand electricity, therefore the devil did it!

    • @problem3412
      @problem3412 2 роки тому +3

      sometimes the victorians just be like that

  • @garryferrington811
    @garryferrington811 2 роки тому +26

    That "moving pier" is amazing! Brighton really lost something when that closed.

  • @Ryder-a-Blaze
    @Ryder-a-Blaze 2 роки тому +16

    Neptune and Poseidon must have been cool with it

  • @garrymartin6474
    @garrymartin6474 2 роки тому +55

    If only he'd called his electric car the Volks-wagen🤣

  • @ShukakuTheCrazy1
    @ShukakuTheCrazy1 2 роки тому +4

    The dude had the coolest sounding name

  • @WillJamesRailways
    @WillJamesRailways 2 роки тому +8

    What a excellent bit of railway history!

  • @shioyoutube9041
    @shioyoutube9041 Рік тому +3

    I’ve actually ridden the Volk’s Electric Railway, it’s really cool but short, it’s been cut back a lot. It’s a nice tourist attraction but it’s a shame it couldn’t be longer or more useful, I’d enjoy a proper railway or tram that could go up and down the seafront for more than tourists. The ocean crossing pier line was a cool idea, but not exactly a functional one unfortunately, it could get stranded at high seas even due to the weak engines.
    A similar idea works in France, but it’s cable hauled rather than electric, and in a better position to make it work.

  • @Elliottblancher
    @Elliottblancher 2 роки тому +17

    I have a topic for you that hasn't been talked about alot. The st Lawrence Seaway Projects effect on the Railroads. CN had to relocate their entire mainline from Cornwall to Cardinal. No one from what I know has talked about this

  • @ReubenAshwell
    @ReubenAshwell 2 роки тому +5

    I was born in Brighton but never had a ride on Volks Electric railway.

  • @TheSeafordian
    @TheSeafordian 2 роки тому +4

    You can still see the old track sleepers at low tide East of the marina.

  • @hazarddragoon1617
    @hazarddragoon1617 2 роки тому +5

    2:28, nah, that aint no train, or carriage. That a whole building on legs

  • @eaglewolffox6275
    @eaglewolffox6275 2 роки тому +8

    Would have been cool if TUGS and Thomas had this.

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 2 роки тому +3

      There was a walking bridge that looked like the pier in bwba

    • @oncimio7085
      @oncimio7085 2 роки тому +3

      @@LMS5935 yeah, it was absolutely stupid and unrealistic for the show, bwba is really bad

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 2 роки тому

      @@oncimio7085 Then again someone in real life would make that.

  • @brenlc1412
    @brenlc1412 2 роки тому +3

    2:50 Oh no, who could've seen this coming?

  • @reubensandwich9249
    @reubensandwich9249 2 роки тому +6

    The work of the Devil? I always wondered why some guy in a Slayer shirt and I were the only ones in carriage 666.

  • @Snaily
    @Snaily 2 роки тому +5

    0:52 still the case in Wales

  • @andrew2353
    @andrew2353 2 роки тому +5

    You ought to make a video on the LNER Peppercorn Class A1 Tornado, built in 2008 and the first steam locomotive built in Britain since the Evening Star.

    • @TimRuffle
      @TimRuffle 2 роки тому +2

      To be fussy Tornado is the first main line steam loco' built to run in Britain since Evening Star. There have been narrow gauge steam loco's and some built for export.

  • @vaclav_fejt
    @vaclav_fejt 2 роки тому +3

    Having a déja vu...and then remembering that it was a Jago Hazzard video. Or Geoff Marshall. Or maybe both. I need a break...

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 2 роки тому +4

    Always remember: water and electricity never mix

  • @Straswa
    @Straswa Рік тому

    Great vid ToT!

  • @edwardvincentbriones5062
    @edwardvincentbriones5062 2 роки тому +3

    I recently found out some beautiful drawings of A.N. Wolstenholme. Probably my favorite has to be LNER 500 Edward Thompson semi-streamlined, one of the “A Question in Line” drawings of his. I love it but it looks familiar to the German DB Class 10

  • @CraigLYoung
    @CraigLYoung 2 роки тому

    Thanks for sharing 👍

  • @davidantoniocamposbarros7528
    @davidantoniocamposbarros7528 2 роки тому

    The pier that saw the world

  • @ace74909
    @ace74909 Рік тому

    2:41 that is called a life preserver

  • @TheElectra91002
    @TheElectra91002 2 роки тому +22

    wait, I have a question. Was the tramway constructed by Teodor Piotrowski in Vinnytsa by any chance ( Vinnytsa is a city in Ukraine famous for its tramway system )

    • @michaireneuszjakubowski5289
      @michaireneuszjakubowski5289 2 роки тому +1

      He's not talking about Teodor Piotrowski (who, as I recall, had nothing to do with trams or railways at all), but Fyodor Pirotsky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Pirotsky

    • @TheElectra91002
      @TheElectra91002 2 роки тому

      @@michaireneuszjakubowski5289 ok, thanks

  • @Brianrockrailfan
    @Brianrockrailfan 2 роки тому +1

    great video

  • @radbricks8298
    @radbricks8298 2 роки тому

    that thing is so good!! people used to have such crazy ideas

  • @HenryGreenEngine3
    @HenryGreenEngine3 2 роки тому +1

    Well. That explains that.... thing

  • @LuzNoceda511
    @LuzNoceda511 2 роки тому +1

    Toby and the walking bridge in a nutshell

  • @AdmiringSparks
    @AdmiringSparks 2 роки тому +1

    Bro I thought your where Australian at first because when you upload I get to see it in the first hour

  • @terrancestapleton3859
    @terrancestapleton3859 2 роки тому

    I was looking away from the phone at that moment... he walked right over the word groyne I course I heard groin.

  • @giddy1337
    @giddy1337 2 роки тому +2

    I’m pretty sure the “big, round floaty things” are called ‘lifesavers’. (Just saying.)

  • @CNCmachiningisfun
    @CNCmachiningisfun 2 роки тому

    The history of the first *Volk's Wagon* is railly interesting :) .

  • @cloud564
    @cloud564 2 роки тому +1

    Oh fuck it’s that walking bridge from BWBA

  • @LMS5935
    @LMS5935 2 роки тому +7

    Daddy long legs lol

  • @jet468
    @jet468 2 роки тому

    Banger

  • @Im_here170
    @Im_here170 2 роки тому +1

    wow

  • @mirzaahmed6589
    @mirzaahmed6589 Рік тому

    0:42 Frank Sprague did the same thing in America (Richmond, Virginia) in February 1888.

  • @Sckadoo
    @Sckadoo 2 роки тому

    Probably the only railway required to have lifeboats.

  • @temy4895
    @temy4895 2 роки тому +4

    Not sure that Volk's work and Southern going electric are all that related, unless there's a connection to the London Underground inbetween that you didn't mention?

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 роки тому

      Volk’s beachside railway is directly responsible for the first electrified Tube lines, as it demonstrated to the businessmen that it was viable.

  • @matthewkirby6080
    @matthewkirby6080 2 роки тому

    Can you do some episodes about the unusual Swindon GWR King and Castle class locomotives with the medieval suit of armour style speed panels and the “Franco Crosti” 9Fs as well?.

  • @ieder1een175
    @ieder1een175 2 роки тому

    Cool video! Not sure if the guy deserves the credits or did he discover an invention of the old world. Either way... Thanks

  • @alexthomas637
    @alexthomas637 2 роки тому

    🚂🚂😎😎👍

  • @heinmadsen-leipoldt2341
    @heinmadsen-leipoldt2341 2 роки тому

    hey should build something like that through the Atlantic ocean

  • @dchawk81
    @dchawk81 2 роки тому

    I pulled a groyne once. It hurt.

  • @olhemi1
    @olhemi1 2 роки тому

    🙂👍☕

  • @SteveLego
    @SteveLego 2 роки тому

    Wait, am I remembering thing or did you already told this story before on the channel?

  • @WhiteJarrah
    @WhiteJarrah 2 роки тому +1

    Uploaded 9min ago.

    • @ivangenov6782
      @ivangenov6782 2 роки тому

      Wait a second, by me ot says uploaded 6 minutes ago

    • @WhiteJarrah
      @WhiteJarrah 2 роки тому

      @@ivangenov6782 Must have kept the tab open longer than I.

  • @comma_1
    @comma_1 2 роки тому

    It's strange to see just how old electricity realy is

  • @warrior3456_
    @warrior3456_ 2 роки тому

    surprised it wasn't frying people and fish

  • @brianesguerra3565
    @brianesguerra3565 2 роки тому +2

    oreo

  • @itaybron
    @itaybron 2 роки тому +1

    Demon power is so misunderstood

  • @ZalMoxis
    @ZalMoxis 2 роки тому +5

    There's footage of electric cars from the late 18th century that had a range of 1170 miles between charges. They were built en mass along with their chargers. Then all of a sudden they vanished.... Hmm i wonder why.... $$$$

    • @TimRuffle
      @TimRuffle 2 роки тому

      Someone made electric cars around the time that the Voltaic pile was invented and Michael Faraday was born and someone else filmed them 100 years before the Lumiere brothers and some 40 years before anything even resembling photography had been invented? Was this in a parallel universe?

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 роки тому

      @@TimRuffle I assume they meant late 19th century. Lots of people get tripped up on not just taking the first two digits of the year. Though I’m dubious about 1170 miles, those early electric cars used lead batteries and not too many of them, IIRC they were more like 10-30.

  • @riverasumen7486
    @riverasumen7486 2 роки тому

    hmm, yes, this is an over complicated version of a boat

  • @SignedGraph499
    @SignedGraph499 2 роки тому

    Third

  • @masteryeet3600
    @masteryeet3600 2 роки тому +1

    cheese

  • @zs2838
    @zs2838 2 роки тому

    I thought this guy was trying to pull a joe mama joke when he said Joe Volk, turns out I was wrong.

  • @molybdaen11
    @molybdaen11 2 роки тому

    This locomotive must have rusted like raw iron.

  • @lightningmcqueen207
    @lightningmcqueen207 2 роки тому

    Did you know that if I drink too much fuel I'll turn into a dog?

  • @Sequoia204
    @Sequoia204 3 місяці тому

    As a railway worker in Canada, I'm increasingly starting to think railways are indeed the work of the devil

  • @Casterborous
    @Casterborous 2 роки тому

    Can you provide a source for the locals thinking the carriage operation was the work of the devil?

  • @kevwebb2637
    @kevwebb2637 2 роки тому

    I think you might like the idea of Hyperloop. It's basically an oversized Nomadic Tube that is Vacuumed. Started by Ellen Musk who is also currently owns Twitter and Sending Weapons to Ukraine.

  • @darthmaul216
    @darthmaul216 11 місяців тому

    Daddy?

  • @edward002gaming
    @edward002gaming 2 роки тому

    Demons pathetic

  • @willowisblack56
    @willowisblack56 2 роки тому +3

    glory to ukraine

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 2 роки тому

      🇺🇦

    • @SpookyMcGhee
      @SpookyMcGhee 2 роки тому

      Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦