Vicki Explores ... Whitehead Railway Museum

Whilst on our travels in Northern Ireland we discovered the delightful and brilliant Whitehead Railway Museum, and there was a short segment of it in our daily videos in Episode 16 on the 9th April.
Here's the longer bonus version video showing everything we got up to whilst there!
If you want to visit, their website is at: www.steamtrain...

[@steveamurray59]

Thank God for Volunteer Organisations preserving our past right around the world..

[@RailVideosNI]

Top class video guys It was a pleasure to have you at Whitehead and to show you around our museum. I have really enjoyed the All The Stations Ireland Series. To The Trains

[@Meengineer100]

I was at Whitehead with you the day this video was published! Enjoyed it very much and I wish you the best of luck with the museum and restorations. :)

[@RailVideosNI]

Thank you very much I'm glad you enjoyed your visit.

[@guywithahoodie7859]

Why do I see you on like literally every video that has something about Northern Ireland Trains lmao

[@kennethallen3843]

They should of given your channel a shout out

[@glenatkinson1230]

I love these videos. My grandpa was from Whitehead. I was at the museum about 10 years ago. Beautiful spot. Well done!

[@belfastbusfan]

Pleasure to show yous round the museum and hope to see yous soon.

[@tarabuses]

A great tour around the history of Irish railways which is being preserved so well by the RPSI.

[@MikeTotem]

The CRE GM locomotive is such a beautiful locomotive. It just has a class-look over it and it looks amazing!

[@RailVideosNI]

Hi there Mike Our GM locomotive seen in the video is a 141 Class loco new to C.I.E in 1962 At present we are overhauling the loco and are also in the process of repainting the loco and hopefully we will get her back to mainline service in the coming years.

[@trainsinireland5063]

Superb Video and Commentary Geoff and Vicki!😃.

[@kdean9537]

Wonderful video...lovely people; great topic; terrific presentation...what's not to love! Well done! 👍😊

[@asdfgmlkjhgf]

What fantastic staff. Friendly and informative.

[@fishbelfast]

Robin M. is clearly enjoying retirement and like myself is finding a new role as a tour guide! Yesterday I visited Greenore Co. Louth on the beautiful Carlingford peninsula where the railway was once the dominant factor along with the still functioning port. Great to see how the RPSI Museum at Whitehead has been developed. Another great video from your island of Ireland collection.

[@Jeagles]

Cool! I find the all the stations music strangely catchy

[@WMTrainspotting]

Same here - i'm often in school tapping my pen on the desk to the all the stations theme song!

[@JeMappelleFrikandel]

I get extremely annoyed when I hear that music and start to break things around me.

[@timmatthews773]

Me too - a real ear-worm! Except when people are speaking, then it's muchly annoying and distracting. But that's the modern way...

[@mikebechley]

Thank you Vicki - erudite and interesting AND interested, as usual!

[@SteamboatWilley]

Fascinating story about the track gauge. It would have made life easier all round if they had adopted standard gauge!

[@HSMiyamoto]

Gosh Vicki, pulling a signal lever looks hard but you did all right. I hope the guide you spoke to knew how much you know about trains.

[@andrewholloway231]

Incredible video too, thank you Vicki.

[@Listenerandlearner870]

Very lovely and well worth waiting for.

[@danielj3440]

I pass here 6 times a week and still havent seen the inside it. Thanks for showing me

[@HenrysAdventures]

Great video! I must go and visit Whitehead Railway Museum and I'd love to take a trip on one of their main line steam specials!

[@Mushroom3D]

This place is so cool!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I've been to some really cool railway museums that I recommend checking out if you're ever in the US. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Lancaster County is pretty cool with the oldest continuously operating railroad in the western hemisphere nearby with an awesome steam train experience. I also like the NY Transit Museum, the NYC equivalent of the London Transport Museum. They turned a decommissioned subway station into a museum. It's fascinating to learn more about the NYC Subway system, which is the subway system with the most stations. Over 400 stations, and it's possible to do that all in one day. Anyway, nice to see more of Northern Ireland

[@radiogoodguy6287]

I've been to both Strasburg and Steamtown. These are must see museums!

[@robsterbob580]

I've been to the NY Transit Museum and it's an amazing place. Lots of old subway trains. I think iy was called 'Court' station if I remember correctly. It's located in Brooklyn. Would love to go back again some day if I ever visit the USA again in future.

[@robertewalt7789]

Also there is a good train museum in Baltimore.

[@JeMappelleFrikandel]

There is a nice "museum" in Ontario, Canada as well, called the Halton County Radial Railway Museum, they mostly focus on old street cars from cities across Ontario and they run them up and down a track on their grounds.

[@glenatkinson1230]

@@robsterbob580 yes it was Court Street. As well the London Transport Museums at Covent Garden and Acton Depot are also must sees.

[@daily8150]

will head for whithead nice one

[@VRDenshaOtaku]

Broad gauge is also used in Victoria and Metropolitan South Australia, and to this day we have a headache thats been going on for 150/140 years, (as NSW, QLD AND WA all have different rail gauges)

[@stephenbrasher]

Spotting of loco shed cat at 3:17 :)

[@johnsimmons3844]

Oh yes! Thank you

[@davekirwin]

Nice turntable action.

[@johnstilljohn3181]

Ooooh - and top pirouettage...!

[@LukeWilson2003]

Great video guys

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Want to visit!

[@allangibson8494]

You could buy rolling stock from Australia. The Victorian railways use Irish guage.... (Victoria hired an Irish engineer, NSW hired an English engineer....)

[@SurvivingTheApocalypse]

The Major who decided the gauge of the line was ‘Paisley’ not ‘Pasley’. Clearly just didn’t want to say it the correct way in case it offended anyone.

[@francinevanzanten8368]

All the train museums!

[@paulburton9386]

"Turntable!"

[@MrBook123456]

👍👍👍

[@coasterb1]

Nice turn of events there :)

[@minecraft_bi4301]

That place is amazing I whent there

[@HamishG199]

3:16 is 142 having a repaint there ?

[@SBCBears]

Vicki Explores... The Whitehead Railway Museum A bit short, but good.

[@donaloflynn]

That's no way to talk about Vicki! 😂

[@quintangwana7165]

I got this notification 1 min after uploaded

[@mechanicadam2011]

Thanks for sharing. P.s. my surname is whitehead. Didn’t know this existed.

[@Roblilley999]

In the last shot before the end credits their is a soulless and faceless Thomas :(

[@paulhilton6465]

What were you up to Vicki? It looks like the young lads in black are security guards following you around, clearly casing the joint to aquire historic timetables for Geoff.

[@FingersKungfu]

The Northern Irish accent sounds almost the same as Scouse accent in Liverpool.

[@ericdunn555]

Er, no. Ian Paisley sounds almost the same as John Bishop ..? I don't think so.

[@Joshthetrainspotter85]

Wheres Jeff

[@PeterVC]

So, now you need to go visit the Schoolmaster's Bedroom cave :)

[@w0033944]

Are you practicing to be a catwalk model with that spin at the end, Vicki?

[@johnsimmons3844]

No - clearly a dancer I would say. Give us an arabesque next time dahling

[@caw25sha]

Why do signal(wo)men always use a cloth to pull levers?

[@sunjamm222]

Short of it is that the signallers were very proud of their signal boxes and would keep them clean. The tops of the levers would be cleaned so no rust would appear. Plus when someone like me came to maintain the box the oiling would not get on the signaller's hands. So they used cloths to pull the levers with. So the one thing they donot want is finger prints on the levers to create an oilly depost and allow for dust to settle .

[@caw25sha]

@@sunjamm222 I see, thank you. I wonder if nowadays they put a cloth over their keyboard and mouse!

[@sunjamm222]

Not now, they have cleaners for the new panel areas. @@caw25sha

[@tonys1636]

@@sunjamm222 Also prevents callouses, they did not want to be seen as manual workers.

[@gilles111]

Turntable, turnPipe...

[@1toppotter987]

✔

[@JustSomeBloke1]

I've run it through twice and I'm sure that at 1'50"ish he says "you can bring carriages over and put new boobies on".

[@johnstilljohn3181]

Top signalling action...

[@peteregan3862]

The Explanation for the gauge of 5 ft 3 inch is rubbish. Railway gauge was an Empire wide issue. It was thought in the late 1840s that a larger gauge was necessary for a more powerful (larger) steam generator. 5 ft 3" was selected for Ireland and Australia (India too??). In Australia, Victoria was building a short railway from Melbourne Port into the city centre and ordered 5 ft 3in rolling stock. In Sydney, it took 5 years to build the initial 21 km from Sydney to Granville (opened 1855). Without telling the government the company (building the railway with a government guarantee) ordered standard gauge rolling stock as sentiment about its power capabilities had changed. Some months later, the company told the government who accepted the fiat accompli. See Along Parallel Line by John Gunn.

[@christopherlewis6938]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge_in_Ireland