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

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  • Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025

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  • @SirKenchalot
    @SirKenchalot 2 года назад +49

    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 года назад +164

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

    • @musewolfman
      @musewolfman 2 года назад +9

      We can pretend it is, if that helps.

    • @subnormality5854
      @subnormality5854 2 года назад +18

      Should have built your video on stilts so it sits above the tides of fate

    • @bleedus
      @bleedus 2 года назад +7

      What about an 8-Bit version?

    • @High_Green_Productions
      @High_Green_Productions 2 года назад +1

      @@bleedus Yeah

    • @traintimeboy
      @traintimeboy 2 года назад +6

      We’re gonna rock right to, *electric Avenue*

  • @rogerbarton497
    @rogerbarton497 2 года назад +67

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

    • @DerpyPenguin4747
      @DerpyPenguin4747 2 года назад +10

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

    • @SynchroScore
      @SynchroScore 2 года назад +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 года назад +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 Год назад +1

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

  • @garryferrington811
    @garryferrington811 2 года назад +26

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

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 2 года назад +69

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

    • @TimRuffle
      @TimRuffle 2 года назад +1

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

  • @WillJamesRailways
    @WillJamesRailways 2 года назад +8

    What a excellent bit of railway history!

  • @Ryder-a-Blaze
    @Ryder-a-Blaze 2 года назад +16

    Neptune and Poseidon must have been cool with it

  • @WhiteJarrah
    @WhiteJarrah 2 года назад +35

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

    • @problem3412
      @problem3412 2 года назад +3

      sometimes the victorians just be like that

  • @shioyoutube9041
    @shioyoutube9041 Год назад +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 года назад +16

    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

  • @ShukakuTheCrazy1
    @ShukakuTheCrazy1 2 года назад +4

    The dude had the coolest sounding name

  • @TheSeafordian
    @TheSeafordian 2 года назад +4

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

  • @andrew2353
    @andrew2353 2 года назад +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 года назад +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.

  • @garrymartin6474
    @garrymartin6474 2 года назад +52

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

  • @TheElectra91002
    @TheElectra91002 2 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад

      @@michaireneuszjakubowski5289 ok, thanks

  • @radbricks8298
    @radbricks8298 2 года назад

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

  • @ReubenAshwell
    @ReubenAshwell 2 года назад +5

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

  • @CraigLYoung
    @CraigLYoung 2 года назад

    Thanks for sharing 👍

  • @Straswa
    @Straswa Год назад

    Great vid ToT!

  • @eaglewolffox6275
    @eaglewolffox6275 2 года назад +8

    Would have been cool if TUGS and Thomas had this.

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 2 года назад +3

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

    • @LucasTheSleepyFool
      @LucasTheSleepyFool 2 года назад +3

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

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 2 года назад

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

  • @brenlc1412
    @brenlc1412 2 года назад +3

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

  • @edwardvincentbriones5062
    @edwardvincentbriones5062 2 года назад +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

  • @Brian_rock_railfan
    @Brian_rock_railfan 2 года назад +1

    great video

  • @hazarddragoon1617
    @hazarddragoon1617 2 года назад +4

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

  • @temy4895
    @temy4895 2 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @Snaily
    @Snaily 2 года назад +5

    0:52 still the case in Wales

  • @ace74909
    @ace74909 Год назад

    2:41 that is called a life preserver

  • @vaclav_fejt
    @vaclav_fejt 2 года назад +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...

  • @AdmiringSparks
    @AdmiringSparks 2 года назад +1

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

  • @CNCmachiningisfun
    @CNCmachiningisfun 2 года назад

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

  • @reubensandwich9249
    @reubensandwich9249 2 года назад +5

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

  • @ieder1een175
    @ieder1een175 2 года назад

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

  • @davidantoniocamposbarros7528
    @davidantoniocamposbarros7528 2 года назад

    The pier that saw the world

  • @matthewkirby6080
    @matthewkirby6080 2 года назад

    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?.

  • @HenryGreenEngine3
    @HenryGreenEngine3 2 года назад +1

    Well. That explains that.... thing

  • @terrancestapleton3859
    @terrancestapleton3859 2 года назад

    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 года назад +2

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

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 2 года назад +4

    Always remember: water and electricity never mix

  • @MirzaAhmed89
    @MirzaAhmed89 2 года назад

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

  • @Noceda511
    @Noceda511 2 года назад +1

    Toby and the walking bridge in a nutshell

  • @jet468
    @jet468 2 года назад

    Banger

  • @cloud564
    @cloud564 2 года назад +1

    Oh fuck it’s that walking bridge from BWBA

  • @heinmadsen-leipoldt2341
    @heinmadsen-leipoldt2341 2 года назад

    hey should build something like that through the Atlantic ocean

  • @Im_here170
    @Im_here170 2 года назад +1

    wow

  • @SteveLego
    @SteveLego 2 года назад

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

  • @LMS5935
    @LMS5935 2 года назад +7

    Daddy long legs lol

  • @dchawk81
    @dchawk81 2 года назад

    I pulled a groyne once. It hurt.

  • @itaybron
    @itaybron 2 года назад +1

    Demon power is so misunderstood

  • @alexthomas637
    @alexthomas637 2 года назад

    🚂🚂😎😎👍

  • @Sckadoo
    @Sckadoo 2 года назад

    Probably the only railway required to have lifeboats.

  • @cds9000
    @cds9000 12 дней назад

    Underwater rails...power supply lines on poles...on the edge of the sea. Baffled as to why this didn't become a success. Truly baffled. (I don't think it was tea in his cup.)

  • @olhemi1
    @olhemi1 2 года назад

    🙂👍☕

  • @WhiteJarrah
    @WhiteJarrah 2 года назад +1

    Uploaded 9min ago.

    • @ivangenov6782
      @ivangenov6782 2 года назад

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

    • @WhiteJarrah
      @WhiteJarrah 2 года назад

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

  • @comma_1
    @comma_1 2 года назад

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

  • @WonderofUBs
    @WonderofUBs 2 года назад

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

  • @warrior3456_
    @warrior3456_ 2 года назад

    surprised it wasn't frying people and fish

  • @molybdaen11
    @molybdaen11 2 года назад

    This locomotive must have rusted like raw iron.

  • @brianesguerra3565
    @brianesguerra3565 2 года назад +2

    oreo

  • @lightningmcqueen207
    @lightningmcqueen207 2 года назад

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

  • @Sequoia204
    @Sequoia204 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @riverasumen7486
    @riverasumen7486 2 года назад

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

  • @Casterborous
    @Casterborous 2 года назад

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

  • @Mr.Nogman
    @Mr.Nogman 2 года назад

    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.

  • @masteryeet3600
    @masteryeet3600 2 года назад +1

    cheese

  • @ZalMoxis
    @ZalMoxis 2 года назад +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 года назад

      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 года назад

      @@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 2 года назад

    Third

  • @darthmaul216
    @darthmaul216 Год назад

    Daddy?

  • @edward002gaming
    @edward002gaming 2 года назад

    Demons pathetic

  • @willowisblack56
    @willowisblack56 2 года назад +3

    glory to ukraine

    • @LMS5935
      @LMS5935 2 года назад

      🇺🇦

    • @SpookyMcGhee
      @SpookyMcGhee 2 года назад

      Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦