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

[@SirKenchalot]

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]

1880* mistake on my part

[@Mars_plane_Channel]

@@TrainFactGuy which one?

[@jimbegin6554]

Lost your “Train of Thought”…..

[@LemonSpacebirb]

@@jimbegin6554 budum tssst

[@shioyoutube9041]

@@Mars_plane_Channel The Ukrainian I presume since he did it first.

[@TrainFactGuy]

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

[@musewolfman]

We can pretend it is, if that helps.

[@subnormality5854]

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

[@bleedus]

What about an 8-Bit version?

[@High_Green_Productions]

@@bleedus Yeah

[@traintimeboy]

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

[@rogerbarton497]

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

[@DerpyPenguin4747]

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

[@SynchroScore]

@@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]

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]

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

[@garryferrington811]

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

[@oogahpanda9275]

We gotta build another

[@BHuang92]

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

[@TimRuffle]

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

[@Ryder-a-Blaze]

Neptune and Poseidon must have been cool with it

[@WhiteJarrah]

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

[@problem3412]

sometimes the victorians just be like that

[@WillJamesRailways]

What a excellent bit of railway history!

[@shioyoutube9041]

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.

[@ShukakuTheCrazy1]

The dude had the coolest sounding name

[@TheSeafordian]

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

[@Elliottblancher]

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]

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

[@garrymartin6474]

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

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

BA DUN TISH! 🥁🥁

[@InventorZahran]

@@sebastianthomsen2225 Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

@@InventorZahran ;)

[@countluke2334]

I knew somebody would beat me to that joke.

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

@@countluke2334 sorry 😢

[@brenlc1412]

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

[@Snaily]

0:52 still the case in Wales

[@radbricks8298]

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

[@vaclav_fejt]

Having a déja vu...and then remembering that it was a Jago Hazzard video. Or Geoff Marshall. Or maybe both. I need a break...

[@eaglewolffox6275]

Would have been cool if TUGS and Thomas had this.

[@LMS5935]

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

[@oncimio7085]

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

[@LMS5935]

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

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

great video

[@andrew2353]

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]

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.

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@CNCmachiningisfun]

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

[@edwardvincentbriones5062]

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

[@Straswa]

Great vid ToT!

[@hazarddragoon1617]

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

[@countluke2334]

It clearly is a Volks-Wagon.

[@ace74909]

2:41 that is called a life preserver

[@TheElectra91002]

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]

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]

@@michaireneuszjakubowski5289 ok, thanks

[@HenryGreenEngine3]

Well. That explains that.... thing

[@AdmiringSparks]

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

[@reubensandwich9249]

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

[@davidantoniocamposbarros7528]

The pier that saw the world

[@harrisonallen651]

Always remember: water and electricity never mix

[@mirzaahmed6589]

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

[@LMS5935]

Daddy long legs lol

[@terrancestapleton3859]

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

[@LuzNoceda511]

Toby and the walking bridge in a nutshell

[@cloud564]

Oh fuck it’s that walking bridge from BWBA

[@temy4895]

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]

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

[@Im_here170]

wow

[@giddy1337]

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

[@jet468]

Banger

[@matthewkirby6080]

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?.

[@heinmadsen-leipoldt2341]

hey should build something like that through the Atlantic ocean

[@ieder1een175]

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

[@itaybron]

Demon power is so misunderstood

[@kaitlyn__L]

Too true

[@Sckadoo]

Probably the only railway required to have lifeboats.

[@dchawk81]

I pulled a groyne once. It hurt.

[@WhiteJarrah]

Uploaded 9min ago.

[@ivangenov6782]

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

[@WhiteJarrah]

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

[@SteveLego]

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

[@alexthomas637]

🚂🚂😎😎👍

[@olhemi1]

🙂👍☕

[@zs2838]

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

[@warrior3456_]

surprised it wasn't frying people and fish

[@ZalMoxis]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@comma_1]

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

[@brianesguerra3565]

oreo

[@masteryeet3600]

cheese

[@riverasumen7486]

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

[@Sequoia204]

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

[@molybdaen11]

This locomotive must have rusted like raw iron.

[@lightningmcqueen207]

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

[@Casterborous]

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

[@kevwebb2637]

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.

[@SignedGraph499]

Third

[@darthmaul216]

Daddy?

[@edward002gaming]

Demons pathetic

[@willowisblack56]

glory to ukraine

[@LMS5935]

🇺🇦

[@SpookyMcGhee]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦