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Monorails and other curious contraptions. Is it Steampunk if it’s real?
Steamy and Hoorny
12:25
2 месяца назад
A Heritage Tram Ride Through Stuttgart
13:14
2 месяца назад
Stuttgart's Urban Rack Railway
9:36
2 месяца назад
The Funicular to the Dead Centre of Town
8:59
2 месяца назад
A long way by tram
9:51
3 месяца назад
A Steamy Weekend in Dordrecht
22:32
3 месяца назад
The "Funiculaire" de Spa
5:43
3 месяца назад
A free day out in Luxembourg
14:16
5 месяцев назад
A Steamy Weekend in Lancashire
17:59
5 месяцев назад
The Urban Rack Railway - view from the front.
10:42
10 месяцев назад
Locomotive cab ride
2:56
Год назад
From Powderhall to the New ALDI
9:28
2 года назад
St  Bernard's neighbour
4:33
2 года назад
A small museum for a big thing.
4:27
2 года назад
The Old Tram Depot
2:54
3 года назад
A world's first in 1850s Edinburgh.
8:50
4 года назад
Tibidabo and the Scary Monorail
7:46
4 года назад
A Steamy Day Out in Tottenham.
4:37
4 года назад
Sentosa Monorail
5:54
11 лет назад
KL Monorail
2:06
11 лет назад
Wuppertal Schnee-bebahn
6:36
11 лет назад
Dresden Schwebebahn
3:59
12 лет назад
Wuppertal Brauhaus Schwebebahn model
0:59
12 лет назад
The World's Largest IKEA
0:11
13 лет назад
Комментарии
@Graham_Rule
@Graham_Rule 14 часов назад
Just like Edinburgh's old cable hauled trams. Interesting that there;s what looks like a footpath alongside - for maintenance or for when it breaks down?
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 14 часов назад
I didn't get to see it myself, but funiculars usually have a staircase running besides them for maintenance and emergency access.
@streetrambler134
@streetrambler134 2 месяца назад
Great video, loved the idea of a stream tram. 👍
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
There were quite a lot of steam tramways. Round your way, Birmingham had several steam tram companies, and they were found in other towns round there. Wolverhampton went straight from horses to electricity, though. Wikipedia has a useful "List of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom".
@Graham_Rule
@Graham_Rule 2 месяца назад
That dredger was fascinating. I was wondering if that was its original speed or was it running more slowly because of its age?
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
I didn't see any information about that. I would imagine its speed would depend on what it's dredging.
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 2 месяца назад
Great work. Your footage of the steam dredge is some of your best work. And we're now certain you'd love the Great Oregon Steam-Up at Powerland north of Salem, Oregon.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
You'll need to let me know when that is, with plenty of warning. It sounds fabulous, but getting there from Scotland needs some planning.
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 2 месяца назад
Nice work again, and good job integrating the two sets of footage. Lisa is putting together plans for her two months in Europe based in Munich, and Stuttgart looks like a simple 2 hour trip each way -- nice use of her Eurail Pass!
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
Hope that DB don't do the usual, and that her travel around Germany is smooth. I should be back in Stuttgart in October, and plan to make use of a wee book I bought last time of transport history and industrial heritage walks.
@davebarnes4957
@davebarnes4957 2 месяца назад
Best vintage tram ride is the 28E in Lisboa.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
One day...
@edprior2821
@edprior2821 2 месяца назад
Canadian here. I did this trip from de Paane to Knokke pre-Covid, with a stop for several beer at Oostende. It's a great trip, amazing for a local tram. Thanks for the memories.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
There were some great beer places on the route, but most of them seemed to close on Tuesdays, which is when I chose to do it.
@lindavid1975
@lindavid1975 2 месяца назад
Fantastic - now I need to visit this too - when I visit das Wuppertaler Schwebebahn.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
Try and schedule your visit for when the tram museum is running heritage trams. You get a good long ride with great views. And there's a lovely woodland walk between the top of the funicular and the rack railway, if that's your thing.
@aidancampbell78
@aidancampbell78 2 месяца назад
I have used it to get from Marienplatz up to the TV tower
@MerelyGifted
@MerelyGifted 2 месяца назад
I was waving to the other train when our driver waved, too 😊
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 2 месяца назад
Great video! Your eye for angles is good. Lisa says she would like to take a ride on this line herself during her trip to Germany after Worldcon this year.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
It's fairly easy to get to, and is part of the local public transport system, so a local day ticket or a Deutschlandticket is valid. The ongoing saga at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof is still ongoing, but causing less chaos than I feared. Stuttgart has a lot of interesting railed transport - there's still one more video in this series to come on the tram museum and heritage tram rides.
@BillRicker
@BillRicker 2 месяца назад
Charming
@Graham_Rule
@Graham_Rule 2 месяца назад
We could do with those bike racks in Edinburgh.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
The previous trams on this route had a smaller version of the same, too.
@BillRicker
@BillRicker 2 месяца назад
What a sweet funicular. Thank you.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
I loved all the wood, contrasting with the Art Deco buildings, and the peacefulness of it all.
@wietzebraem
@wietzebraem 2 месяца назад
hey, that 6102 ex-yellow tow tram is now in the breakdown at TTO Noordzee near the De Panne Esplanade tram stop
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
I saw that it had been moved there, but it didn't seem like there was enough time for them to do it in-between filming and reading.
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 2 месяца назад
Nice camera work! Lisa praised your steady hand and views that let the viewer "be there" rather than showing lots of artsy angles.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 2 месяца назад
I like an occasional artsy angle, tbh, but used sparingly.
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 3 месяца назад
Thank you again for sharing this with us. Lisa will be traveling around Germany based out of Munich after Worldcon and is looking forward to doing a lot more videos when she gets home in October.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
I look forward to seeing them.
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 3 месяца назад
Looks like great fun! Lisa and I have experienced something similar (without the boats) at The Great Oregon Steam-Up in Brooks, Oregon: lots of stream traction, a steam sawmill, a steam grain mill (used to mill grain grown in an adjacent field), but also a steam rail crane, and electric trolleys running around property, and a variety of small distillate engines. The location in Brooks (Powerland) contains lots of different museums, like a fire truck engine museum, a Whyte truck museum, a Harley-Davidson museum, and a Caterpillar museum, one of which is steam powered. Not that you're likely to be in Oregon in early August, but it is great fun. Lisa used to be a volunteer at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum that is one of the many museums on site at Powerland.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
Clearly needs to go on the bucket list! I noticed yesterday that the Summerlee Industrial Museum near Glasgow is having a steam weekend the same weekend as the Worldcon, and am investigating public transport options to get there (and hoping my two "real steampunk" programme items don't clash).
@Graham_Rule
@Graham_Rule 3 месяца назад
I'm sure if you'd not been holding the camera you'd have been doing the same dance at 16:34
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
Me? Dance? Before the pubs have opened?
@paulashe61
@paulashe61 3 месяца назад
Issues with the Tay bridge. Wonderful understatement
@paulashe61
@paulashe61 3 месяца назад
Willie Tescos used do an amazing breakfast until they banned smoking and the customer base vanished. First step on a day of hangover meeting many friends from the night before from Broughton st
@paulashe61
@paulashe61 3 месяца назад
Subsistence on Scotland st
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
You just know that's how it would be described on Fix My Street. And the council would get the bleme.
@paulashe61
@paulashe61 3 месяца назад
I remember when the tunnel was open you would walk up to Waverley. But the piles of Waverley market pierced the railway tunnel
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
The gate was left unlocked a few years back and a couple of friends went in and took lots of photos. Alas, the one with the camera is no longer with us, but I enjoyed his accounts of the adventure. I was out of town at the time, otherwise I'd have been there too.
@RailwayLMS
@RailwayLMS 3 месяца назад
Greatly appreciate your technical correction of this being a cable-hauled incline, not a true funicular. We got to ride a similar conveyance, albeit a much more industrial one, in Japan at the Seikan Tunnel between Honshu and Hokkaido. We want to say that we thought that your camera work was spot on, and your editing was fantastic.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
Thank you. That tunnel's somethng I want to do some time, though I hadn't realised there was other things to do there other than go through it at speed!
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 3 месяца назад
Thank you for sharing this! And the spa sounds like it would be great as well.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
The spa day in Spa was one of two bucket list items I did on this trip. It was wonderful. I think you'll like the other thing too.
@BillRicker
@BillRicker 3 месяца назад
So each track has its own counterweight, which runs on an under track?
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 3 месяца назад
@@BillRicker Yes, that's right.
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 5 месяцев назад
Thank you for sharing this! Lisa now says she's got to see if she'll have a chance to visit on her post-Worldcon travel.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 5 месяцев назад
If she goes, there's a tram museum only open at weekends, maybe only Sunday, that's interesting. There's also a preserved railway, but I've not managed to be there at the right time for that. And the national museum is a good use of time too, though there's no transport stuff there. The building is impressive - they dug down a long way to make it.
@Graham_Rule
@Graham_Rule 5 месяцев назад
That funicular seems to be overkill for the traffic level, but great fun to play on. I can think of a number of Edinburgh hills where it would be good to have something similar.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 5 месяцев назад
I went at a non-busy time. At rush hour it's apparently stowed out.
@BillRicker
@BillRicker 5 месяцев назад
Whether intentional or not, some of the exposures made for a fetching water color effect! Vicariously vision all these nice trains and trams through your perambulations remains delightful. 😊
@Benzyl
@Benzyl 6 месяцев назад
Needs more station cats!
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 6 месяцев назад
Had I spotted any, they'd have had a starring role.
@BillRicker
@BillRicker 6 месяцев назад
The white linen tea-service dining special looks especially charming
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 6 месяцев назад
Seems to be a regular thing.
@Graham_Rule
@Graham_Rule 6 месяцев назад
Thanks for that. I loved the mix of the old and new. Lineside phones, defibrilators, electric wheelchairs, and 1950's technology. The loo you showed near the end brought back the smell of train soap. But the plush compartment you had seemed odd because I thought it should have had pictures of distant railway lines, and a metal handle to turn to switch the heating on and off.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 6 месяцев назад
I have a couple of photos from that day that, if I converted them to black and white, you'd never know they were recent. The plush compartment was definitely plusher than I remember, and it was interesting to compare it to the ÖBB 80s executive chic compartment I got to ride in recently. Both luxurious, but very different aesthetics.
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 6 месяцев назад
Beautiful video, and excellent editing! Thanks for sharing this with us. It would have been great to have traveled with you!
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 6 месяцев назад
Thank you. It really was serendipitous - I had no idea any of this was going on until I got there.
@helpmehelp3009
@helpmehelp3009 8 месяцев назад
Ah, health and safety weren't for the common people, then just give them a pick and a penny a day and send them to their box!
@evamrazova8923
@evamrazova8923 10 месяцев назад
😂💩🐎👍👍👍
@BillRicker
@BillRicker 10 месяцев назад
Called Road Apples for a reason! The electric tram was heralded as removing this pollution from our streets.
@BillRicker
@BillRicker 10 месяцев назад
Very nice, thank you.
@streetrambler134
@streetrambler134 10 месяцев назад
Nice ride, thanks for sharing. 👍
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 10 месяцев назад
Thank you, too. Stuttgart is a bit of a transport nerdvana, and I am not staring at the great pile of footage I took.
@streetrambler134
@streetrambler134 10 месяцев назад
lol it looked like fun.@@FeoragForsyth
@kastandlee
@kastandlee 10 месяцев назад
Thank you! Lisa says she really appreciates the driver's-eye view of how the line looks.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth 10 месяцев назад
It was great to be able to capture it, and on such a lovely day too.
@ianmccluskie8453
@ianmccluskie8453 Год назад
Very informative, well researched and entertaining. Thanks
@andrewjameson5918
@andrewjameson5918 Год назад
Love this, another thing I did not know. Look at W&AK Johnston they have a great history in Edinburgh
@bluettr250
@bluettr250 Год назад
Actual useful transit
@markshrimpton3138
@markshrimpton3138 Год назад
I remember in the 1970s a gang of bank robbers executed their getaway through the tunnel, exiting at Scotland Street, where they had a car ready. This was well before the Princes Mall (Waverley Shopping Centre) existed. On that site was a Victorian fruit and vegetable market and even at the time of the robbery it was possible to go right along the tunnel’s length. During the Second World War the tunnel was earmarked as an air raid shelter, though I don’t know whether it was much used. Later part of it was used as a short-lived mushroom farm. I only know this because I worked at what is now The Balmoral Hotel and there are tunnels from that, or were, going hither and thither. Interesting upload though, thank you.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth Год назад
Cool story. I'm interested to hear more about the hotel tunnels because a late friend mentioned their existence (but also a lift, which couldn't have gone where he claimed unless it was a Great Glass Elevator). He did manage to get into the Scotland Street Tunnel though, and took photos of wartime stuff - not a shelter, but some kind of control centre apparently. Alas, by the time I was working on this video, the brain tumour was busy taking away his memories including his memory of having taken all the photos he'd showed me 😞
@markshrimpton3138
@markshrimpton3138 Год назад
@@FeoragForsyth I worked there part time in the late 70s then again in the mid 80s. The hotel extends almost as far below Princes Street as it rises above it. Myriad rooms, corridors, tunnels. It was a rabbit warren. Whether it’s still like that I don’t know. It was built as a railway hotel and was still under BR’s ownership during the times I worked there. Many of the underground rooms I saw were filled with discarded hotel furniture and fixtures. There were two huge whisky blending vats, big boilers that fed steam out into the steam locomotives. Then there were doors that led through into tunnels and supporting arches beyond the hotel boundaries. Heaven knows why. The architect was W. Hamilton Beattie who died before the hotel was completed. He also designed the Royal British Hotel and the Jenners building.
@markshrimpton3138
@markshrimpton3138 Год назад
@@FeoragForsyth on reading your reply again and engaging my brain I realise that the lift to which your friend referred was most likely the one in the Waverley station that took train passengers up to the hotel (and vice versa). When you exited the booking hall and turned right there were doors immediately to your right which took you into a small lobby. Inside was a lift which went up just one level. You came out, turned right and trundled over the railway lines, down a series of corridors then took another lift which came up in the hotel foyer. It’s long gone. I suppose not many hotel guests arrive by train and those that do are expected to give themselves a heart attack going up the Waverley steps. Someone told me there’s now an escalator. I don’t live in Edinburgh now, it’s too much of a all year round tourist town, with no real shops.
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth Год назад
@@markshrimpton3138 - that'll be the one. There are now escalators, and plenty of lifts, though the escalators have a habit of not working.
@Crosshatch1212
@Crosshatch1212 Месяц назад
@@markshrimpton3138same at royal terrace hotel you cld go from there underground to the old parliament building just up the road as you say there was also bricked up tunnel ways ,
@StooFras-TheFiresofHell.
@StooFras-TheFiresofHell. Год назад
As a Edinburgh postie I used to deliver mail to Scotland street along Royal Crescent,also as we for a time stayed in Cumberland Street when I was young we used to play in the park that was at the foot of Scotland Street,often saw the boarded up tunnel and wondered at the time where it led, found this out in later years. 🤔
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth Год назад
Cool. I remember it being easier to get into when I first moved here, but I never got round to it.
@BillRicker
@BillRicker Год назад
Nice!
@poofygoof
@poofygoof Год назад
That is some master-level braking there. I wonder if the driver also does passenger trains? I think German shunters are commonly diesel-hydraulic rather than diesel-electric -- the engine sound is very different than US shunters.
@shahrookhshroff3018
@shahrookhshroff3018 Год назад
I well remember these diesel "shunters" I used to see in my hometown of Mumbai, India, upto the 1990s, I believe ... loving to see their fans rotating on the topside of their hoods from a Foot Overbridge in the Mumbai Central - Dadar - Bandra area, whenever the opportunity presented itself. 🥰 But oh, no! I could never enter the cabin! 😪
@FeoragForsyth
@FeoragForsyth Год назад
It’s by Sainte-Catherine Metro station in Brussels
@moondancer4660
@moondancer4660 Год назад
I haven't seen a carousel in many years! I wonder where this is.
@robnewman6101
@robnewman6101 Год назад
R.I.P Prince Albert.