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Feòrag Forsyth
Registrace 9. 01. 2009
Monorails and other curious contraptions. Is it Steampunk if it’s real?
Stuttgart's Urban Rack Railway
As far as I know, there are only four urban rack railways in the world, and one of them is in Stuttgart.
My "cab view" video of the entire line going downhill is here: czcams.com/video/sElLex05f_A/video.html
My "cab view" video of the entire line going downhill is here: czcams.com/video/sElLex05f_A/video.html
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The Funicular to the Dead Centre of Town
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Stuttgart has a beautiful funicular railway that's part of the local public transport system. Let's go there...
A long way by tram
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The Coastal Tram (Kusttram) is the longest metre-guage tram line in the world, running almost the entire length of the Belgian coast. Let's take a ride!
A Steamy Weekend in Dordrecht
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Dordt in Stoom is a massive steam festival held in Dordrecht, near Rotterdam, every two years. Because the weather was horrible this year, this video mixes footage from 2022 and 2024. Highlights include the boat parade, steam trains, and lots of steam-powererd vehicles and machinery. dordtinstoom.nl/ 00:00 Introduction 01:12 Boat Parade 2022 11:34 Steam trains 17:12 Steamboat ride 18:43 Oldtime...
The "Funiculaire" de Spa
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An inclined lift takes visitors to and from the thermal baths at Spa, Belgium. Let's take a ride up, watch it for a wee while, then ride back down again. Turn captions on for the description. Available in English and German. Credits: Map of Belgium. Based on one by Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Belgium.svg Map of Spa. OpenStreetMap, www...
A free day out in Luxembourg
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I took advantage of Luxembourg's excellent, and free, public transport to explore a couple of the system's oddities - a funicular railway and a panoramic lift. Plus, because it took me forever to get round to editing this video, there's bonus footage from a second visit a year later, including another lift!
A Steamy Weekend in Lancashire
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A couple of weeks ago, I went into Bury to visit the market, take a wander around, and then go see my mum. I got distracted by a couple of steam locomotives as I wandered past what used to be Bury station when I was a kid. I didn't get to see my mum that day. The following Sunday, I planned to go back to Bury, visit the Bury Transport Museum, and then go see my mum. That morning, I checked the ...
The Urban Rack Railway - view from the front.
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A single shot, forward view, going downhill, of the Stuttgart Zacke - a rare urban rack railway.
What I did on my holidays - a ride at the Illinois Railway Museum.
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What I did on my holidays - a ride at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Whatever floats your boat - the place with two ship lifts and two giant locks.
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Whatever floats your boat - the place with two ship lifts and two giant locks.
Melaka - the real-life Springfield Monorail
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Melaka - the real-life Springfield Monorail
Düsseldorf Airport SkyTrain - third time lucky
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Düsseldorf Airport SkyTrain - third time lucky
Wuppertal Schwebebahn Twilight and Night
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Wuppertal Schwebebahn Twilight and Night
Charming
We could do with those bike racks in Edinburgh.
The previous trams on this route had a smaller version of the same, too.
What a sweet funicular. Thank you.
I loved all the wood, contrasting with the Art Deco buildings, and the peacefulness of it all.
hey, that 6102 ex-yellow tow tram is now in the breakdown at TTO Noordzee near the De Panne Esplanade tram stop
I saw that it had been moved there, but it didn't seem like there was enough time for them to do it in-between filming and reading.
Nice camera work! Lisa praised your steady hand and views that let the viewer "be there" rather than showing lots of artsy angles.
I like an occasional artsy angle, tbh, but used sparingly.
Thank you again for sharing this with us. Lisa will be traveling around Germany based out of Munich after Worldcon and is looking forward to doing a lot more videos when she gets home in October.
I look forward to seeing them.
Looks like great fun! Lisa and I have experienced something similar (without the boats) at The Great Oregon Steam-Up in Brooks, Oregon: lots of stream traction, a steam sawmill, a steam grain mill (used to mill grain grown in an adjacent field), but also a steam rail crane, and electric trolleys running around property, and a variety of small distillate engines. The location in Brooks (Powerland) contains lots of different museums, like a fire truck engine museum, a Whyte truck museum, a Harley-Davidson museum, and a Caterpillar museum, one of which is steam powered. Not that you're likely to be in Oregon in early August, but it is great fun. Lisa used to be a volunteer at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum that is one of the many museums on site at Powerland.
Clearly needs to go on the bucket list! I noticed yesterday that the Summerlee Industrial Museum near Glasgow is having a steam weekend the same weekend as the Worldcon, and am investigating public transport options to get there (and hoping my two "real steampunk" programme items don't clash).
I'm sure if you'd not been holding the camera you'd have been doing the same dance at 16:34
Me? Dance? Before the pubs have opened?
Issues with the Tay bridge. Wonderful understatement
Willie Tescos used do an amazing breakfast until they banned smoking and the customer base vanished. First step on a day of hangover meeting many friends from the night before from Broughton st
Subsistence on Scotland st
You just know that's how it would be described on Fix My Street. And the council would get the bleme.
I remember when the tunnel was open you would walk up to Waverley. But the piles of Waverley market pierced the railway tunnel
The gate was left unlocked a few years back and a couple of friends went in and took lots of photos. Alas, the one with the camera is no longer with us, but I enjoyed his accounts of the adventure. I was out of town at the time, otherwise I'd have been there too.
Greatly appreciate your technical correction of this being a cable-hauled incline, not a true funicular. We got to ride a similar conveyance, albeit a much more industrial one, in Japan at the Seikan Tunnel between Honshu and Hokkaido. We want to say that we thought that your camera work was spot on, and your editing was fantastic.
Thank you. That tunnel's somethng I want to do some time, though I hadn't realised there was other things to do there other than go through it at speed!
Thank you for sharing this! And the spa sounds like it would be great as well.
The spa day in Spa was one of two bucket list items I did on this trip. It was wonderful. I think you'll like the other thing too.
So each track has its own counterweight, which runs on an under track?
@@BillRicker Yes, that's right.
Thank you for sharing this! Lisa now says she's got to see if she'll have a chance to visit on her post-Worldcon travel.
If she goes, there's a tram museum only open at weekends, maybe only Sunday, that's interesting. There's also a preserved railway, but I've not managed to be there at the right time for that. And the national museum is a good use of time too, though there's no transport stuff there. The building is impressive - they dug down a long way to make it.
That funicular seems to be overkill for the traffic level, but great fun to play on. I can think of a number of Edinburgh hills where it would be good to have something similar.
I went at a non-busy time. At rush hour it's apparently stowed out.
Whether intentional or not, some of the exposures made for a fetching water color effect! Vicariously vision all these nice trains and trams through your perambulations remains delightful. 😊
Needs more station cats!
Had I spotted any, they'd have had a starring role.
The white linen tea-service dining special looks especially charming
Seems to be a regular thing.
Thanks for that. I loved the mix of the old and new. Lineside phones, defibrilators, electric wheelchairs, and 1950's technology. The loo you showed near the end brought back the smell of train soap. But the plush compartment you had seemed odd because I thought it should have had pictures of distant railway lines, and a metal handle to turn to switch the heating on and off.
I have a couple of photos from that day that, if I converted them to black and white, you'd never know they were recent. The plush compartment was definitely plusher than I remember, and it was interesting to compare it to the ÖBB 80s executive chic compartment I got to ride in recently. Both luxurious, but very different aesthetics.
Beautiful video, and excellent editing! Thanks for sharing this with us. It would have been great to have traveled with you!
Thank you. It really was serendipitous - I had no idea any of this was going on until I got there.
Ah, health and safety weren't for the common people, then just give them a pick and a penny a day and send them to their box!
😂💩🐎👍👍👍
Called Road Apples for a reason! The electric tram was heralded as removing this pollution from our streets.
Very nice, thank you.
Nice ride, thanks for sharing. 👍
Thank you, too. Stuttgart is a bit of a transport nerdvana, and I am not staring at the great pile of footage I took.
lol it looked like fun.@@FeoragForsyth
Thank you! Lisa says she really appreciates the driver's-eye view of how the line looks.
It was great to be able to capture it, and on such a lovely day too.
Very informative, well researched and entertaining. Thanks
Love this, another thing I did not know. Look at W&AK Johnston they have a great history in Edinburgh
Actual useful transit
I remember in the 1970s a gang of bank robbers executed their getaway through the tunnel, exiting at Scotland Street, where they had a car ready. This was well before the Princes Mall (Waverley Shopping Centre) existed. On that site was a Victorian fruit and vegetable market and even at the time of the robbery it was possible to go right along the tunnel’s length. During the Second World War the tunnel was earmarked as an air raid shelter, though I don’t know whether it was much used. Later part of it was used as a short-lived mushroom farm. I only know this because I worked at what is now The Balmoral Hotel and there are tunnels from that, or were, going hither and thither. Interesting upload though, thank you.
Cool story. I'm interested to hear more about the hotel tunnels because a late friend mentioned their existence (but also a lift, which couldn't have gone where he claimed unless it was a Great Glass Elevator). He did manage to get into the Scotland Street Tunnel though, and took photos of wartime stuff - not a shelter, but some kind of control centre apparently. Alas, by the time I was working on this video, the brain tumour was busy taking away his memories including his memory of having taken all the photos he'd showed me 😞
@@FeoragForsyth I worked there part time in the late 70s then again in the mid 80s. The hotel extends almost as far below Princes Street as it rises above it. Myriad rooms, corridors, tunnels. It was a rabbit warren. Whether it’s still like that I don’t know. It was built as a railway hotel and was still under BR’s ownership during the times I worked there. Many of the underground rooms I saw were filled with discarded hotel furniture and fixtures. There were two huge whisky blending vats, big boilers that fed steam out into the steam locomotives. Then there were doors that led through into tunnels and supporting arches beyond the hotel boundaries. Heaven knows why. The architect was W. Hamilton Beattie who died before the hotel was completed. He also designed the Royal British Hotel and the Jenners building.
@@FeoragForsyth on reading your reply again and engaging my brain I realise that the lift to which your friend referred was most likely the one in the Waverley station that took train passengers up to the hotel (and vice versa). When you exited the booking hall and turned right there were doors immediately to your right which took you into a small lobby. Inside was a lift which went up just one level. You came out, turned right and trundled over the railway lines, down a series of corridors then took another lift which came up in the hotel foyer. It’s long gone. I suppose not many hotel guests arrive by train and those that do are expected to give themselves a heart attack going up the Waverley steps. Someone told me there’s now an escalator. I don’t live in Edinburgh now, it’s too much of a all year round tourist town, with no real shops.
@@markshrimpton3138 - that'll be the one. There are now escalators, and plenty of lifts, though the escalators have a habit of not working.
As a Edinburgh postie I used to deliver mail to Scotland street along Royal Crescent,also as we for a time stayed in Cumberland Street when I was young we used to play in the park that was at the foot of Scotland Street,often saw the boarded up tunnel and wondered at the time where it led, found this out in later years. 🤔
Cool. I remember it being easier to get into when I first moved here, but I never got round to it.
Nice!
That is some master-level braking there. I wonder if the driver also does passenger trains? I think German shunters are commonly diesel-hydraulic rather than diesel-electric -- the engine sound is very different than US shunters.
I well remember these diesel "shunters" I used to see in my hometown of Mumbai, India, upto the 1990s, I believe ... loving to see their fans rotating on the topside of their hoods from a Foot Overbridge in the Mumbai Central - Dadar - Bandra area, whenever the opportunity presented itself. 🥰 But oh, no! I could never enter the cabin! 😪
It’s by Sainte-Catherine Metro station in Brussels
I haven't seen a carousel in many years! I wonder where this is.
R.I.P Prince Albert.
Robert Peel (1788-1850) was the Founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force at Scotland Yard in 1829.
Loved the art deco features, and the colour. 👍
The museum also has a later interurban, the Electroliner in a fantastic orange and green striped colour scheme. They’re restoring it to running condition, apparently. And there are some streamlined trains there too. Amazing place, really hard to get to :-(
There’s also the Fox River Trolley Museum in Elgin, but it’s much smaller.
We were limited in time, and had to get the rental car back by 5pm. Next time, maybe.
I've often wondered what that building was for and assumed it was something to do with the industrial heritage - mills and the like. Thanks for researching this. I'd still like to see inside. I wonder which Council dept has the keys.
What an excellent film! Should I ever find myself again in Frankfurt, I must go and see the museum. Also, I found it impossible not to sofa-dance along with the music <3
Yeah, I really like the music. Was gently bopping as I edited. There’s also a memorial in Zeppelinheim, which I didn’t realise until I looked at the map I used in the video.
A Zeppelin bicycle!??
Yes, not made by the Zeppelin company but I think they licensed the name. The museum had the entire bike, but I was too engrossed in the “hood ornament” to remember to get footage.
Great video, loved the sign saying how many steps up, medium challenge and hard challenge. I think you definitely deserved that lovely beer too.
looks interesting, looking forward the video 👍
It’s up now :-)
I worked in that building for >20yrs. It was fun knowing that it had been a cable depot. Shame Royal London have let the upkeep of the wheels go.
I shared a basement flat in Scotland Street with about ten others when I was a student. It was the only way we could afford it. Bodies everywhere. Never heard about the tunnel until years later, but this video has added much more information. Great video and the maps are excellent. Many thanks.
The inside of monorail now is pure shit full of leds, in 90's it was amazing with great animatronics, decorations and a magic atmosphere!
Building was used as a garage by Lothian police in 1970's
I remember that from growing up in the 1950s and early 60s. The traffic 'polis' used to whizz around in Jaguar Mark 2s in these days.