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

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  • čas přidán 12. 05. 2022
  • In this video, we take a look at a pier on rails on the beach in the sea.
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Komentáře • 111

  • @SirKenchalot
    @SirKenchalot Před 2 lety +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  Před 2 lety +165

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

  • @rogerbarton497
    @rogerbarton497 Před 2 lety +67

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

    • @DerpyPenguin4747
      @DerpyPenguin4747 Před 2 lety +10

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

    • @SynchroScore
      @SynchroScore Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +1

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

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 Před 2 lety +70

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

    • @TimRuffle
      @TimRuffle Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @garryferrington811
    @garryferrington811 Před 2 lety +26

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

  • @Ryder-a-Blaze
    @Ryder-a-Blaze Před 2 lety +16

    Neptune and Poseidon must have been cool with it

  • @WhiteJarrah
    @WhiteJarrah Před 2 lety +36

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

    • @problem3412
      @problem3412 Před 2 lety +3

      sometimes the victorians just be like that

  • @ShukakuTheCrazy1
    @ShukakuTheCrazy1 Před 2 lety +4

    The dude had the coolest sounding name

  • @garrymartin6474
    @garrymartin6474 Před 2 lety +55

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

  • @WillJamesRailways
    @WillJamesRailways Před 2 lety +8

    What a excellent bit of railway history!

  • @Elliottblancher
    @Elliottblancher Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @TheSeafordian
    @TheSeafordian Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @shioyoutube9041
    @shioyoutube9041 Před rokem +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.

  • @hazarddragoon1617
    @hazarddragoon1617 Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @brenlc1412
    @brenlc1412 Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @Snaily
    @Snaily Před 2 lety +5

    0:52 still the case in Wales

  • @andrew2353
    @andrew2353 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @eaglewolffox6275
    @eaglewolffox6275 Před 2 lety +8

    Would have been cool if TUGS and Thomas had this.

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @oncimio7085
      @oncimio7085 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 Před 2 lety

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

  • @vaclav_fejt
    @vaclav_fejt Před 2 lety +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...

  • @edwardvincentbriones5062
    @edwardvincentbriones5062 Před 2 lety +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

  • @reubensandwich9249
    @reubensandwich9249 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @CraigLYoung
    @CraigLYoung Před 2 lety

    Thanks for sharing 👍

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 Před 2 lety +4

    Always remember: water and electricity never mix

  • @TheElectra91002
    @TheElectra91002 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

      @@michaireneuszjakubowski5289 ok, thanks

  • @ace74909
    @ace74909 Před rokem

    2:41 that is called a life preserver

  • @Brianrockrailfan
    @Brianrockrailfan Před 2 lety +1

    great video

  • @davidantoniocamposbarros7528

    The pier that saw the world

  • @radbricks8298
    @radbricks8298 Před 2 lety

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

  • @HenryGreenEngine3
    @HenryGreenEngine3 Před 2 lety +1

    Well. That explains that.... thing

  • @terrancestapleton3859
    @terrancestapleton3859 Před 2 lety

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

  • @Straswa
    @Straswa Před rokem

    Great vid ToT!

  • @LuzNoceda511
    @LuzNoceda511 Před 2 lety +1

    Toby and the walking bridge in a nutshell

  • @CNCmachiningisfun
    @CNCmachiningisfun Před 2 lety

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

  • @giddy1337
    @giddy1337 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @AdmiringSparks
    @AdmiringSparks Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @cloud564
    @cloud564 Před 2 lety +1

    Oh fuck it’s that walking bridge from BWBA

  • @jet468
    @jet468 Před 2 lety

    Banger

  • @Im_here170
    @Im_here170 Před 2 lety +1

    wow

  • @mirzaahmed6589
    @mirzaahmed6589 Před rokem

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

  • @temy4895
    @temy4895 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

      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 Před 2 lety

    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?.

  • @Sckadoo
    @Sckadoo Před 2 lety

    Probably the only railway required to have lifeboats.

  • @LMS5935
    @LMS5935 Před 2 lety +7

    Daddy long legs lol

  • @ieder1een175
    @ieder1een175 Před 2 lety

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

  • @heinmadsen-leipoldt2341

    hey should build something like that through the Atlantic ocean

  • @dchawk81
    @dchawk81 Před 2 lety

    I pulled a groyne once. It hurt.

  • @alexthomas637
    @alexthomas637 Před 2 lety

    🚂🚂😎😎👍

  • @olhemi1
    @olhemi1 Před 2 lety

    🙂👍☕

  • @itaybron
    @itaybron Před 2 lety +1

    Demon power is so misunderstood

  • @SteveLego
    @SteveLego Před 2 lety

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

  • @comma_1
    @comma_1 Před 2 lety

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

  • @zs2838
    @zs2838 Před 2 lety

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

  • @warrior3456_
    @warrior3456_ Před 2 lety

    surprised it wasn't frying people and fish

  • @WhiteJarrah
    @WhiteJarrah Před 2 lety +1

    Uploaded 9min ago.

    • @ivangenov6782
      @ivangenov6782 Před 2 lety

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

    • @WhiteJarrah
      @WhiteJarrah Před 2 lety

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

  • @brianesguerra3565
    @brianesguerra3565 Před 2 lety +2

    oreo

  • @riverasumen7486
    @riverasumen7486 Před 2 lety

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

  • @molybdaen11
    @molybdaen11 Před 2 lety

    This locomotive must have rusted like raw iron.

  • @masteryeet3600
    @masteryeet3600 Před 2 lety +1

    cheese

  • @Sequoia204
    @Sequoia204 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @ZalMoxis
    @ZalMoxis Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

      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 Před 2 lety

      @@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.

  • @SignedGraph499
    @SignedGraph499 Před 2 lety

    Third

  • @lightningmcqueen207
    @lightningmcqueen207 Před 2 lety

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

  • @Casterborous
    @Casterborous Před 2 lety

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

  • @kevwebb2637
    @kevwebb2637 Před 2 lety

    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 Před rokem

    Daddy?

  • @edward002gaming
    @edward002gaming Před 2 lety

    Demons pathetic

  • @willowisblack56
    @willowisblack56 Před 2 lety +3

    glory to ukraine