The History of Rail Travel in Under 6 Minutes

Hey hey, I've been working on this video for about 3 months now, so I hope you enjoy it!
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Music by:
Derek & Brandon Fiechter
Pavana El Todesco
George Frideric Handel
Ennio Mooricone
Scott Joplin
The Beatles
Kevin MacLeod
Video footage from:
British Pathe
swearingkevo
UK National Archives
traindriver35
DrJayMic
Kathir Vel
wdtvlive42 - Archive Footage
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The stuff I use to make my videos:
Camera: iPhone 5S
Outdoor microphone: RØDE smartLav+
Indoor microphone: Blue Snowball iCE
Video editing software: Sony Vegas Pro 13
Audio editing software: Audacity and Adobe Audition CC
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Massive thanks for watching :)

[@JohnHigh]

Hello! It's come to my attention that some of you are getting this video as school homework, and while I welcome those of you who have used the information in this video to your advantage, I'd appreciate it if viewers that enjoyed the video to a lesser extent would hold their tongue when commenting. It's not my fault your teacher gave you boring train homework 😂. That being said, it's only a 6 minute video, at least it's not an entire documentary, eh? Genuinely, though, if you're a teacher that has given this video as homework (looking at you, Ms Mubah) I hope you're all getting some value out of this video I made for a laugh three years ago!

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

Come back bro

[@AnhNguyen-lf6kf]

Hello John, I have a homework about train. Can i get your video to do it? i'll note cre in last my homework. Thank u so much

[@wanmuslim2964]

Hwrgxrrry

[@wanmuslim2964]

Hungry

[@KennysChocolateMilk]

Sir you forgot the FIRST STEAM ENGINE its sooo important how could you miss it the name is (Richard Trethivick)

[@MushOfficial]

I like it, I like it a lot. Your channel has some exceptional content man.

[@JohnHigh]

Thanks so much!!

[@sarashahzad9420]

k shut up

[@ElectricMotive]

I need more of this stuff, the quality is just amazing, keep up this extraordinary work!

[@glenwestwood3683]

Very good video I really like the fact that you included Matthew Murray and Salamanca as the first operationally successful steam locomotive as everybody alse forgets this or doesn't do enough research to find out that the Salamanca and the Middleton railway in south Leeds west Yorkshire was the first operational railway/wagonway in the UK opening in 1758 though an act of parliament.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

"i bloody hate trains" Great video.

[@mediatrainfan0282]

From the 1820s to the late 1950s, considered to be the golden age of American railroading.

[@deneshbhaskar8650]

Industrial revolution lead to industrial war. We live in an amazing modern age. However people in the year 2200 will think we lived like peasents lol

[@ShepotVechnyh]

Great video! Happy you did it and I found it. Wish there were more recent videos in your channel.

[@hueyj1975]

Imagine This: Rush Hour, 3 Hour trip, A Train pulls up no free seats can't wait for next one or you'll be late to a very important meeting at Generic Trains inc. 'We're slightly better than suthern' What do you do?

[@hammerontrains2645]

Northern=1Hour late Merseyrail=When it suits US. TPE=Time? Southern=Are we a train company?

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

"13 miles between Baltimore and Ohio" It's actually between Baltimore and Elicott City. Baltimore and Ohio was the company name.

[@JohnHigh]

This really feels like something I should've proofread more about! Thanks for the correction, I'm not sure how I managed to miss that detail 😳

[@arki3134]

Lmao this reminds me of the railway empire video game

[@matty_o]

I came to try comment section to figure this 13 mile thing because on maps Ohio and Baltimore are many many miles apart. So thanks.

[@routemaster3877]

please make more vidios because there briliant

[@JohnHigh]

Thanks so much! Finding it difficult to find time to make videos at the moment, but I'm trying my best to write more scripts!

[@pruenixon3655]

great background video as I will be teaching year 4 and the the railway as being a significant turning point in history.

[@darmerc2147]

Here for my engineering assignment haha thank you for the informative video buddy!

[@JohnHigh]

Very welcome!

[@SpicyHobbit03]

Ummm excuse me? I was supposed to get the history of rail travel in UNDER 6 minutes, but this is clearly 6 minutes and 2 seconds. Nope..not gonna work for me

[@JohnHigh]

Time to delete my whole channel, I've been exposed 😳

[@SpicyHobbit03]

@@JohnHigh 🤣🤣

[@sarashahzad9420]

lol

[@hesterclapp9717]

In 600 BC we had rutways, and in 2014 we had ................................. guided buses. We (Cambridge) have made zero progress at all!

[@12yards.]

appreciate this vid

[@thechroniclerstale6255]

This video is aging well, I'd say. Well made! ; )

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

I’m sure it’s the high edditing that means the video is delayed by 3 years

[@sanaali8614]

LOL

[@andy96dev]

Hey I actually think this video is pretty awesome

[@litomorrison-ramos2567]

Look, John High, is 😂 tears of joy?

[@chickenflavor9880]

1:30 isn't this the Barry Lyndon theme? 3:00 this is the theme of the Good the Bad and the Ugly!!!!

[@JohnHigh]

1:30 is Sarabande by George Frideric Handel 3:00 certainly is the Good the Bad and the Ugly theme!

[@chickenflavor9880]

@@JohnHigh oh ok. The first one was in the movie barry lyndon.

[@KennysChocolateMilk]

​@@JohnHigh Sir you forgot the FIRST STEAM ENGINE its sooo important how could you miss it the name is (Richard Trethivick)

[@KennysChocolateMilk]

Sir you forgot the FIRST STEAM ENGINE its sooo important how could you miss it the name is (Richard Trethivick)

[@jermainetrainallen6416]

We want more

[@luisalfonsoprudenciobarrie1741]

Who paid for the railway in USA?

[@annawallace9058]

fascinating!

[@fokak0]

Egypt railways started at 1853 its the second railways after uk

[@malak_rami]

This is good

[@thomasciarlariello]

Dystopian

[@sirkastic]

Congratulations you've sold out. I hope one day you can go back to MLG Dubstep Peppa Pig vids

[@JohnHigh]

Maybe one day, I'll never forget my roots 😂

[@sohailiqbalsiddiqui1954]

I think trains really lost importance in USA but railway was still very popular for the rest of the world.

[@yeoldeseawitch]

Yeah but America never had a great railway system like the rest of the world, and air travel is far more profitable

[@kyankoh2991]

No Mallard :(

[@trailwayt9H337]

Good information 😍

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

Will you ever return?

[@JohnHigh]

Maybe one day. I have a full time job these days, and these videos took up a lot of my time before I was employed. I would like to come back and make more videos at some point though.

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

Ah cool

[@emporioalnino4670]

Please mind the gap between the timetable and reality.

[@mikeyhasfuntoo9164]

Hires wagons

[@woowaa8534]

Who here just clicked on a pars insight link?

[@JohnHigh]

Someone linked this video on PARS Insight? 😅

[@woowaa8534]

Yes just yes btw keep up the good work :)

[@gabril6044]

me

[@rose_cliffordxx8939]

Me

[@jessieburton4104]

@@JohnHigh yes for homeschooling due to corona 😂

[@jamessimpson950]

Hovercraft

[@sanaali8614]

MY GEOGRAPHY TEACHER GAVE ME THIS LINK TO WRITE A REFLECTION AND WHENEVER I TRIED TO WATCH IT , I WOULD CLICK SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE THIS IS THE MOST BORING THING IVE EVER SEEN ! OR RATHER NOT SEEN !

[@JohnHigh]

Not my fault your geography teacher gave you a history video to write about. Thanks for the negativity, though. Really brightened my day.

[@aleeza1952]

Same with me

[@sarashahzad9420]

k u srsly need to shut up

[@sarashahzad9420]

I totally agree

[@electroskates2434]

What the hell

[@eldstgilmorbarboydodellatb4413]

💚💚💚💚 Book mark / notes : built like a dull machete to the train / battering ram (#telescope making #glass and glass )that possibly bring supplies like a Superman punch or could even say when can just not go forward but can back like an island (flooded sleepy holloww [tree )🇺🇸 ) .....💚💚💚💚 book mark / notes : rolling print press paper money thoughts :extra money putting rails” to close mtn fill self / mudslide re do rails (warranty & civil war during time ) through mtn foggy hikers land mine stomp tunnel mtns , train mtn boss 🍆🧨💨💦 ect.... g-b , bot

[@CoffeeOnRails]

but... the crash at crush!

[@JohnHigh]

I tried to keep all the major points relevant to the progression of rail travel as a whole, rather than focusing on stuff like that!

[@aneckumar5701]

At 3:06 what's the background music Can anyone please tell me

[@JohnHigh]

It's the main theme from 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' by Ennio Morricone

[@aneckumar5701]

@@JohnHigh thank you so much

[@englishdogs]

2 minutes late? If only...

[@2490VIJAYA]

I am an Indian .I don't follow the speed of description in English language.please be slow

[@theaverageteleporter7435]

Did you quit KZbin

[@JohnHigh]

Wouldn't say I quit - just that I made these videos when I had a lot of free time. I work full time these days and have less time to make videos, or at least videos to the standard I'd like. They took me months to properly research, write and produce without me having a full time job.

[@theaverageteleporter7435]

That’s sad I used to enjoy this but good luck with your life

[@JohnHigh]

@@theaverageteleporter7435 In all honesty, I might come back when I get the chance. Definitely haven't quit permanently, I'd love to make more stuff like this in the future.

[@tccexposed274]

Why do u hardy uploaded

[@JohnHigh]

8hr/day job + Time to research, script and produce = Very rare video output

[@tccexposed274]

John High but u haven’t uploaded for 7months tho

[@tccexposed274]

??

[@JohnHigh]

The videos I've released already have taken anywhere up to 6 months to research, script, voice, edit and upload, and that was back when I wasn't working full time. Video output now is slow because my life completely changed after going into an 8 hour day job. I have a few ideas for videos in the pipeline though, so watch this space.

[@christhenri3906]

bus

[@scrapsurvivors6671]

lie this is not under 6 minutes it is 6 minutes and 2 seconds

[@JohnHigh]

Technically, the script of the video finishes at 5:41, it's only the credits which push it over 6 minutes :)

[@scrapsurvivors6671]

I get your point sorry

[@sanaali8614]

SOME OF IT IS PART OF THE INTRO

[@sarashahzad9420]

ya we know

[@eldstgilmorbarboydodellatb4413]

💚🤘🏿

[@lankalakshandesilva2097]

when u look at the stairs and edges any railing justclike itrgatiobs looks like one indian went to harward or oxwards to teach numbers and learn the Language ? where is this migrations and language so that one place all the power? but look like no efucation language just by feeling and learn through experince is guiding . but some chalange who carees i am nothing usless pece of shit 😀

[@reymarcreyes7249]

Hello bsitm 1-y1-1

[@tccexposed274]

Make another historically rubbish video

[@sarashahzad9420]

yeh I know

[@mmostafa]

Man for God sake.... Speak slowly

[@MasterBait1]

Did you set your playback speed at 2X