The Train within a Train & the Railway Built for Beer - Guinness Brewery Railways

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  • In today's video, we take a look at the Guinness Brewery and the interesting engines that ran on its railways.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 136

  • @hawkerhellfire9152
    @hawkerhellfire9152 Місяць тому +107

    Your Pronouncation is spot on. One note though, there are a total of 6 preserved NG steam engines. No15 ran in preservation for 2 years in Stradbally.

  • @FalkB2010
    @FalkB2010 Місяць тому +208

    The locomotive powered locomotives? Yeah they tend to do that

  • @abyssminiaturestudios6103
    @abyssminiaturestudios6103 Місяць тому +118

    Lmfao in the words of Hyce and Brent Weibol with a heavy Irish accent, " it's an 0-4-0. With big shoes"

  • @tonytins
    @tonytins Місяць тому +75

    Honey, I need to borrow your locomotive to power my locomotive.

  • @yeoldeseawitch
    @yeoldeseawitch Місяць тому +97

    Ah yes
    L O C O M O T I V E P O W E R E D L O C O M O T I V E

    • @crestfallensunbro6001
      @crestfallensunbro6001 Місяць тому +8

      hmm yes, the locomotive here is powered powered by locomotive

    • @jpsholland
      @jpsholland Місяць тому +1

      Vegeta, how many locomotives power that locomotive?
      - Let's see what the scanner says.... HUH!?!....
      What is it Vegeta?
      - This can't be right,... it cant be!!!, the scanner must be broken!
      How much does the scanner say?
      - It is... it is... IT IS OVER 9000!!!

  • @napsbrickrailways2290
    @napsbrickrailways2290 Місяць тому +34

    There’s a famous quote that goes:
    “Oi mate, I need ta get pissed do ye mind makun me a railwae fir me pints”

  • @voltsiano116
    @voltsiano116 Місяць тому +22

    I never considered that a single business may grow so big as to require and entire multikilometer on-site railway just to function... That's so cool!

    • @SynchroScore
      @SynchroScore Місяць тому +7

      We've still got a number of such businesses. Look at any large steel mill. Some of my great uncles worked at Northwestern Steel & Wire, which was a small mill as things went, but they were known for taking in steam locomotives sold for scrap, and the owner having them fixed up and used in the mill. They used steam until the owner died...in _1980._

    • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
      @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Місяць тому +1

      ​@@SynchroScore
      Because of the owners actions I am aware that atleast 3 of the locomotives are around, one in a park in Sterling, another in Amboy, and one at the Illinois Railway Museum

    • @geoff1201
      @geoff1201 Місяць тому +2

      Ford at Dagenham had a substantial railway.

    • @SynchroScore
      @SynchroScore Місяць тому +1

      @@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory There is also one sitting in the woods in Galt, IL, just west of Sterling, one on display in Independence IA, one stored in Geneva NE, and one on display in St. Paul, MN. The one we have in Union is currently undergoing a cosmetic restoration.

    • @OscarOSullivan
      @OscarOSullivan 28 днів тому +1

      St Jame’s Gate was a massive site then and still is.

  • @sebforce1165
    @sebforce1165 Місяць тому +36

    I absolutely _love_ seeing narrow gauge tracks running in the middle of Standard or Broad gauge ones, it just feels so clever to me, and makes so much sense for space, but _yeesh,_ finding images online is oddly annoying to do. Never thought a Brewery would need little trains to move stuff around, but really should've figured :P

    • @SynchroScore
      @SynchroScore Місяць тому

      There are a few installations of three-rail trackage here and there. I know there's a fair bit in Switzerland where the standard gauge and metre gauge overlap. But four-rail is much more rare.

    • @Damien.D
      @Damien.D Місяць тому +2

      There is a 4 rail setup (so couplers are aligned for narrow gauges engines to haul normal gauge wagons) at the CFBS heritage railway in France. It is used nowadays for regular (every 4 years) massive gathering of preserved rolling stocks, both narrow (1m) and standard gauge, allowing display and running of everything on the network.

  • @jameslawrie3807
    @jameslawrie3807 Місяць тому +16

    I really appreciate these industrial documentaries. Industrial engines and their infrastructure including towers, water systems etc are fascinating and don't receive enough attention

  • @lukechristmas3951
    @lukechristmas3951 Місяць тому +7

    Grain Belt Beer and trains in and out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin are what bring the haulage of beer by train close to home for me. Usually, one would think a private industry would have only one, two or three engines for its own. But I find it amazing that Guinness not only had a good sized roster of narrow and broad gauge engines over time but also built and patented their own unique engine design. That's a good company. And for those out there who also enjoy maritime vessels like myself, there have been special ships and barges that have solely been used for transporting beer and wine.

  • @randywise5241
    @randywise5241 Місяць тому +8

    It was a national necessity. Imagine Irish without their Guinness. It might cause a riot.

    • @OscarOSullivan
      @OscarOSullivan 28 днів тому

      Not everyone in Ireland drinks, not everyone who drinks drinks beer and not everyone who drinks stout drinks Guinness, people drink Murphys, Beamish, O’ Hara’s single stout, Porterhouse stouts, Dungarvan Blackrock Irish stout you get the picture.

  • @baltoflyer7503
    @baltoflyer7503 Місяць тому +18

    Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-do
    I've got a dozen barrels for you
    Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-day
    You have caused confusion and delay

  • @PuzzlingHousing56
    @PuzzlingHousing56 Місяць тому +30

    What's next a locomotive powered by beer?

    • @AshCatTrainz
      @AshCatTrainz Місяць тому +13

      Don’t tell him about the moonshine powered locomotive-

    • @captainryusugi1128
      @captainryusugi1128 Місяць тому +4

      My Bassett-Lowke Moguls at least run on alcohol. If you distilled beer enough to get to 95% (the highest chemically possible ABV), you could steam them on it.

  • @Tom-Lahaye
    @Tom-Lahaye Місяць тому +4

    Mr Geoghegan certainly was a smart guy in developing a locomotive which suited all his requirements. A brewery can be an environment with lots of dust from the barley and hops, especially in those days when most of the proces would be open and there was a lot of spillage. Now with pneumatic transport of the ingredients, covered tubs, pipelines for liquid transport and modern filling machines it is a lot cleaner

  • @OscarOSullivan
    @OscarOSullivan 28 днів тому +1

    When Guinness was first established in 1759 it was an ale brewery. Only started being a porter brewery in the 1790’s.
    The narrow gauge railway system lasted until the late 1970’s, but the broad gauge railway line to Heuston station was closed in 1965. A number of narrow gauge Guinness engines and a broad gauge engine no.3 are preserved.

  • @zacharyrollick6169
    @zacharyrollick6169 Місяць тому +4

    Thanks for the cool history. Gonna crack open a Guinness.

    • @rsc9520
      @rsc9520 4 дні тому +1

      Me too !!!

  • @misterflibble6601
    @misterflibble6601 Місяць тому +7

    This would make quite a project for a model railway

  • @damienboyington4057
    @damienboyington4057 Місяць тому +3

    One of the tank engines (the green on pictured near the end of the vid) is at the talyllyn railway museum.
    I helped restore that red corris coal truck in the background, some 25 years ago when i was a young volunteer on the railway.

  • @rottenroads1982
    @rottenroads1982 Місяць тому +3

    It’s nice to know that some of these unique locomotives are preserved.

  • @NewController01
    @NewController01 Місяць тому +9

    I think one of the gauge converter wagons can be found at the Amberley Chalk Pits museum.

  • @ratheonhudson3311
    @ratheonhudson3311 Місяць тому +1

    They really did make an adaptor for narrow Guage to broad Guage locomotives! Astounding history. Thank you

  • @MatthewsBranchLine
    @MatthewsBranchLine Місяць тому +2

    Y’hear that folks? Without trains, Ireland would’ve been a lot less drunk.
    Also Skarloey used a haulage wagon to take standard gauge wagons to the harbor at Kirk Ronan according to the Reverend W. Awdry.

  • @guidor.4161
    @guidor.4161 Місяць тому +10

    It seems even the spiral helix used by model railroaders (espcially in the US) to reach a higher second level of their layout, has a prototype!

    • @pileofstuff
      @pileofstuff 29 днів тому +1

      There's several prototype helix examples, but most of them are in mountainous regions.
      The Tehachapi loop in California and the spiral tunnels in BC, Canada are some of the best known examples

    • @guidor.4161
      @guidor.4161 29 днів тому +1

      @@pileofstuff True, i forgot about those...

  • @peters1127
    @peters1127 Місяць тому +4

    You continue to give us more festinating stories, Thank you.

  • @C.A.A93
    @C.A.A93 Місяць тому +2

    Of all the jobs to have, driving a steam train around a brewery sound like a very fun one.

  • @RobertCraft-re5sf
    @RobertCraft-re5sf Місяць тому +4

    I love being Irish 😊 ☘️ but thankfully I am no longer an alcoholic 🙃

  • @Arkay315
    @Arkay315 Місяць тому +6

    Yay, my video suggestion finally got made into a video.

  • @TenShine1productions
    @TenShine1productions Місяць тому +2

    Id like to see something on the Leek and Manifold railway. The narrow gauge line that pulled standard gauge trucks

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 Місяць тому +1

    Here’s a pint of Guinness for this pub centric train 🚂 🍻

  • @tslon4185
    @tslon4185 Місяць тому

    I was all in for the idea of a steam locomotive powering an unpowered locomotive, but the worlds most annoying steam engine kept me hooked. Keep up the good work man.

  • @guidor.4161
    @guidor.4161 Місяць тому +4

    Most important railway ever....😁

  • @primrosevale1995
    @primrosevale1995 Місяць тому +5

    If that haulage wagon looks familiar it’s probably cause you’ve seen an edit with Talyllyn in it instead to represent the history of a certain island.

    • @bostongeis5123
      @bostongeis5123 Місяць тому

      Funnily enough, one of the little guys is at the Narrow Gauge museum in Tywyn

  • @magnificus8581
    @magnificus8581 Місяць тому

    It was great seeing these at the Guinness museum!

  • @Steam286
    @Steam286 Місяць тому +2

    One of the most interesting engines I can think of is a natural gas plant locomotive. The example in question is currently on display at Steamtown in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
    The example had no firebox to avoid an accidental explosion at the plant. Instead of this, pressurized steam was pumped into the locomotive periodically.

    • @CATASTEROID934
      @CATASTEROID934 Місяць тому

      Fireless locomotives came in a range of sizes and shapes, some used compressed air (where available) but steam was often readily available as plants usually had boilers anyway

  • @TheRailwayGuy175
    @TheRailwayGuy175 Місяць тому +8

    Can you please make a video of how St Pancras station became a hub for beer trains?

  • @peterbottenberg5713
    @peterbottenberg5713 29 днів тому

    These people were quite on the brink of progress. They were also one of the first to have a formal research and quality control lab. In which a guy named Gosset developed a statistical method. He was not allowed to publish it under his own name, nor refer to his employer, so he used the pseudonym 'Student'. The famous 'Student's t-test has got his name this way. Let all scientist raise the glass to his health :)

  • @markeast74
    @markeast74 Місяць тому +1

    genuinely, someone should make this, not in real life but in, say maybe Roblox or smt, or in a virtual experience, or even though I said not in real life, maybe someone could make a museum of this.great vid.

  • @ImmortalPhoenixxx
    @ImmortalPhoenixxx Місяць тому +1

    Geoghegan: "All of these engines are terrible to maintain and operate, every time we get a new one it's more trouble than the last!"
    Steam Engine Manufacturer: " Oh yeah? Why don't you go and make one yourself huh? If you think its so easy!"
    Geoghegan: "Hold my Guinness." *proceeds to make an objectively better steam engine *

  • @ROCKONNGUNDAMS
    @ROCKONNGUNDAMS Місяць тому

    I've been waiting for this to come up in one of your videos- I've always found the idea of Haulage wagons to be SO COOL.

  • @teeKeri
    @teeKeri Місяць тому +1

    This was fun, fascinating and educative to watch. Imagine building a model railway of the brewery trains. How cool would that be ♥

  • @joshmnky
    @joshmnky Місяць тому +1

    7:00 that is one of the homeliest looking trains I've ever seen.

    • @ErickC
      @ErickC Місяць тому

      Wait till you see what WM did to their GP7s and GP9s.

  • @lukechristmas3951
    @lukechristmas3951 Місяць тому +1

    7:00 I almost forgot to bring this up, but has anyone else noticed the chalk face on the Hudswell Clarke?

  • @garryferrington811
    @garryferrington811 Місяць тому +1

    This was quite interesting!

  • @Racer69
    @Racer69 Місяць тому +1

    I saw them in real life, real cuties.

  • @willknipe9491
    @willknipe9491 Місяць тому

    This is something that bender would be happy to work on

  • @gregg281261
    @gregg281261 15 днів тому

    Greetings Train of Thought guy. Have you considered making a video of the Wolgan Valley Railway? The WVR was a railway to transport shale oil from the middle of nowhere in New South Wales, Australia, to not far from the middle of nowhere, also in NSW. It operated from about 1907 to 1935 and used Shay locos due to the steep grades, impossible terrain and tight curves. It is now a spectacular walking track and includes a long tunnel known for its glow worms. Might be interesting for you.

  • @Roy_1
    @Roy_1 Місяць тому

    Really cool, I'm glad that there's so many pictures and that they're preserving a few of the engines!

  • @TheStickCollector
    @TheStickCollector Місяць тому +2

    These are so unique. I want to make one.

  • @justice5832
    @justice5832 Місяць тому +2

    I like this railway

  • @johnmay6090
    @johnmay6090 Місяць тому

    Interesting video! Cheers!

  • @pebblecups
    @pebblecups Місяць тому

    Nice. More interesting than Cosmeston's Quarry Railway, which is what I was thinking of watching this. Come to think of it there were a few interesting narrow gauge lines in South Wales. Cosmeston, and then there was the sand quarrying or whatever it was at Porthcawl and also the dual gauge tracks at some of the mines. There might have been a very short line on Barry Dock too but information is difficult to find so I cannot confirm it, just a picture I saw years ago of a short narrow gauge line.

  • @DennisLora2001
    @DennisLora2001 Місяць тому

    Excellent work Train of thought

  • @greycatturtle7132
    @greycatturtle7132 Місяць тому +1

    Awesome

  • @Hushey
    @Hushey 24 дні тому

    sounds like my kind of train!

  • @barrettoliver2009
    @barrettoliver2009 29 днів тому

    God I love trains

  • @tankenginethomas1
    @tankenginethomas1 20 днів тому +1

    I thought it said that ran on beer 😂😂😂

  • @EthanTheEngine7
    @EthanTheEngine7 Місяць тому +1

    drink! chug! arse! 😵‍💫
    also i've been to heuston station, as i live in ireland 👍

  • @officialmcdeath
    @officialmcdeath Місяць тому +1

    Elements of road-rail maintenance vehicles \m/

  • @alicehodges9964
    @alicehodges9964 Місяць тому

    I Like Steam Engines Thay Are Amazing i Like Railways

  • @Marcy53Volkswagen
    @Marcy53Volkswagen Місяць тому

    For Anyone wondering,
    Train Within a train: 5:32

  • @TheLostGamerMan
    @TheLostGamerMan Місяць тому

    The Irish are amazing people. Steam monorail, and now a beer railway.

  • @lordmuntague
    @lordmuntague Місяць тому

    I can't believe they didn't paint the funnels black with the top few inches light cream... 😁

  • @robertbalazslorincz8218
    @robertbalazslorincz8218 26 днів тому

    When bro orders exactly one more beer but instead of one more beer a small train with several barrels of the stuff shows up instead

  • @bluehighlander0256
    @bluehighlander0256 Місяць тому

    We've narrow gauge No. 22 preserved at the cavan and leitrim railway in Dromod, Co. Leitrim. Minus a boiler

  • @snewsom2997
    @snewsom2997 Місяць тому

    The AB Brewery in STL Mo also has an interesting rail history.

  • @Yourlocalsudricboi1215
    @Yourlocalsudricboi1215 Місяць тому +5

    Skarloey Moment

    • @toyotaprius79
      @toyotaprius79 Місяць тому +1

      It definitely makes me think that Awdry took more inspiration from Irish railways, stories and landscapes in creating the island of Sodor (and its people).
      Especially mid-Ulster

  • @killerbees177
    @killerbees177 13 днів тому

    I didn't know Bill and Ben were Irish😂

  • @roelantverhoeven371
    @roelantverhoeven371 Місяць тому

    brewery "halve maan" in Bruges had a pipeline installed under the city in the 2000's.

  • @kellybrown8638
    @kellybrown8638 Місяць тому

    "Bee-awe"

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 Місяць тому +3

    How about the world's largest model train?

    • @ErickC
      @ErickC Місяць тому

      I think they called that "British Rail."

  • @The_NW_EngineYT
    @The_NW_EngineYT Місяць тому

    I'm curious if the same design for the "locomotive powered locomotive" was used for Skarloey in the RWS...

  • @jamiebray8532
    @jamiebray8532 Місяць тому

    Hey it lasted almost a hundred years. I'd say that's pretty good for the industrial revolution.

  • @tomppeli.
    @tomppeli. Місяць тому +1

    I'm wondering why not electric? _If_ the brewery was powered regardless, why not electrify the rail network to begin with?

  • @frankw8772
    @frankw8772 Місяць тому

    Have a look at the BASS / CORS railway for the bear industry and other industries around in Buringham.

  • @13garage._
    @13garage._ Місяць тому

    i been there. can still find rails at the site

  • @MrNoUsername
    @MrNoUsername Місяць тому

    If anyone’s wondering, the music is
    Bitters At The Saloon by Bird Creek
    ua-cam.com/video/38O427hUE9Q/v-deo.htmlsi=R7hOpIHdrG9volmG

  • @Q8Bart
    @Q8Bart Місяць тому

    Drunk engines 😉🚂

  • @IsaacDaBoatSloth
    @IsaacDaBoatSloth Місяць тому +2

    bEER

  • @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
    @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Місяць тому +1

    Millennials invented all this.

  • @petroltrankof2667
    @petroltrankof2667 Місяць тому

    What is the music called?

  • @kiefershanks4172
    @kiefershanks4172 Місяць тому +1

    Mmmmmm beer

  • @Austriantrainguy
    @Austriantrainguy Місяць тому +1

    Engerth Locomotive

  • @cleanerben9636
    @cleanerben9636 27 днів тому

    they could have distilled some alcohol and ran them by burning that. I wonder if it was attempted?

  • @sebastianthomsen2225
    @sebastianthomsen2225 Місяць тому

    🚂🍻😋👍

  • @Kira-vy7vc
    @Kira-vy7vc Місяць тому +2

    Who else read it as bear

  • @haydenthetoyologist4117
    @haydenthetoyologist4117 Місяць тому

    Why do UK diesels have two tone horns unlike those here in the US?

  • @templar_1138
    @templar_1138 Місяць тому

    Oh the stereotypes...

  • @edward002gaming
    @edward002gaming Місяць тому

    Ofcourse its ireland

  • @joshuaW5621
    @joshuaW5621 Місяць тому +1

    We Irish are too reliant on beer, hence why our country is a mess right now.

  • @toyotaprius79
    @toyotaprius79 Місяць тому +1

    FUN FACToid!
    Guinness brewery workers were not allowed to intermarry (Catholics and Protestants) until the 1980s, and the very Guinness associated with Irish heritage was actually not just a wealthy family empire but also a strategic tool to subjugate the Irish population from 1759 with alcoholism in parallel with the penal laws etc.

  • @AurelGaner
    @AurelGaner Місяць тому +1

    Hi

  • @AurelGaner
    @AurelGaner Місяць тому +1

    Let's leern abaut treins

  • @420sakura1
    @420sakura1 Місяць тому

    Unrelated. Why do Northern Irelandees hate Ireland so much?

  • @Jumansa19
    @Jumansa19 Місяць тому +1

    No price and work too much to get alcohol to get to the societies 😞
    So many families, relationships and social good behavior were and are still destroyed by alcoholism and people who can't handle the consume and behavior of them self if they get alkalized...
    "You" should not be proud about any drinking alcohol producers in any country...