Railway Mania! Building the Victorian Railways in Britain 

Anyone can claim anything without evidence

​@@outrageousgamer315thats a lot of generations back depending on how many kids he had he could have loads

OG steam punk Thomas

Oh Mr Porter. ( as in going to Birmingham being some kind of euphemism.

Love the reference. As a kid the railways were the best. I'm gonna be that guy and say I think it's actually the light blue and orange properties with 4 houses on them. Forget the hotels and hog all the houses so nobody else can use them. Capitalists - what Bastards!

yup, that would be 2ft x 2 ft

the british are also confused about how much tea they need to send to the USA

@@RichardMigneron Yeah, okay. So I'm not suddenly going crazy 😂

I think Factboi got confused that one hamburger per bald eagle actually equals two feet. The conversion table does not specify whether these are left or right feet, or one of each, which only adds to the confusion.

This guys reads off the teleprompter and the scripts are banged out under a strict deadline. You remember how people used to say "oh you're studying history are you gonna get a job in the history factory hahahahaha"? Simon Whistler channels are the history factory xD

Thanks for the tip, googled that engine and it's beautiful. Like functional art

Black Fives definitely matter !

Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but its actually an LMS Jubilee. Very similar, only a bigger boiler, extra cylinder, and a name!

Never, EVER apologise for having an interest in trains.

I live next to the Strathspey steam railway and often see a Black 5 steaming past my house :-)

Also, 0.6 x 0.6 meters is said to be 1 x 1 FT.. oops

And a reference to "cubic square meters". Vast as the quantities of rock moved were, I think we can express them without needing to resort to six-dimensional spaces.

There is one already and it is very interesting

bro. he did that 2 weeks ago

Already did that one :)

@@megaprojects9649 yeah I didn't remember. Sorry.

@@megaprojects9649 thanks

Poke smot and me berry?

Am i right Peter?!?!?!??

Allegedly

Yes

Legendary

Back when biographics first started with the blue, yellow or red pictures.

@adolf hitler I've learnt alot of interesting and useful stuff on their to be fair. I'd say Facebook.

Ah, so you want a video on Brexit? Just wait another year. . . . 😎

@@abbofun9022 have you seen the wage growth, unemployment figures, etc compared to the EU? We're outperforming them in practically every statistic, especially those that matter. We had *worse* unemployment numbers than Germany etc before brexit and have better numbers than them now. And that's the power of Brexit. And just cause I seen a lot of idiots spreading this story recently, both the EU (selected countries of the EU as reported in this story) and the UK have lower trade figures. It's being spun that the EU is booming, despite those trade figures being lower than they were, but the UK "isn't doing as well outside the EU". Well the fact it's the only number remoaners got to go on, which they've got to both cherry pick (using a selection of EU countries), and lie about (cause they said trade was booming even though it's down) should tell you everything you need to know about the media and remoaners approach to economics.

@@nicosmind3 , you get your numbers from the daily fail I assume? You’re talking complete nonsense and are just selectively shopping in numbers.

@@nicosmind3 yeah I seen them, low unemployment because we don't have enough workers to keep buisness open never mind expand. Wages will drop as business decline due to lack of growth. Oh and have fun with the extra tax food, fuel, gas and electric prices this year.

Rail is the most efficient transport method on land.

The railway system wasn't made by dwarfs...

Yes, train is convenient in trip☺️ Hope the rail tickets bought in a cheap price can use🥺

Hey I live there too!

yeah, the Railway boom was the first boom/bust economic bubble. It was seen as so profitable that you could pretty much hand over a share certificate as a bond for a loan. And then overnight 90% of those companies went bust and their shares weren't worth the paper and ink.

actually it was the bicycle that had the fmost impact on rural life, the railways mostly just took people into cities where they stayed enslaved to their jobs in factories.

Most Americans still don’t move far from home

All 12 are good imho

this is the victorian era of Simon reading wikipedia articles and everyone freaking out

Quite a few of the film clips he used are in fact the Victorian Railways of Australia. The busy scenes with lots of dressed up passengers alighting from early four and six wheeled short carriages, Compare them to the trains arriving at the 1896 Melbourne Cup. Also on RU-vid and likely the oldest film taken in Australia.

Ok

The Waverley route has been reopened in recent years, and probably a little more to come.

And why not both? Hmm? Besides. I enjoy looking at Simon. I enjoy the sound of his voice and the pace of his delivery. I am content with his content. :D

It's very clear when he mispronounces things that he's really just a presenter reading someone else's script. And quite often it's obvious he doesn't have a clue about what he's reading. Still entertaining and informative, though!

Oh lol, so there was another mistake in the part I commented about. (0.6 m =/= 1 foot)