The Flying Scotsman: History's Most Famous Train | Full Steam Ahead EP4 | Absolute History 

Night Mail spitting some fresh rhymes. 5:42

"Revenge is a dish best served coal" as the guy who laughed at him shovels badly too! 🖖😄👍

Damm is that mail system crazy good, goodness, how intelligent they are.

Finding a series that is both educating and very enjoyable to watch is so hard to find these days. These three having fun with each other throughout the whole series as well makes it even better! Cheers!

Train: ...🚂... Sudden potato: [thump] "Ay over there I've got an important telegram I need you to send!"

Imagine being a signal men and being trained to look out for potatoes with messages in them🤣🤣

Such level of efficiency, great quality materials, people and processes without any modern gadgets like computers, calculators or the internet. Hats off to this meritocracy.

Astounding series and this one has it all, dirt, criminality, brilliant engineering the guys joshing each other , the profound vulnerability of young women to unwanted pregnancy. And comments on time itself. Brilliant. Thanks to all involved

World's Most Non-Fiction Famous Locomotive: The Flying Scotsman World's Most Fiction Locomotive: Thomas The Tank Engine

I just love Ruth's laugh.

“Once you’ve got it, you forget how you’ve lived without it” That’s totally how those ppl felt! As everyone does. I do hope the internet and how people communicate less nowadays GOES away one day. There’s nothing like laughing , & having real conversations with your friends or family

"The story of how railways created modern Britain" - and the world! The Locomotion series (1980's ?) demonstrates that brilliantly. But this is brilliant because it goes into so much detail into the impacts on everyday life.

I find steam locomotives more interesting then diesel locomotives.

I love how the poem for Night Mail is read to imitate the clacking of the train. I also had a good laugh at the "I before E" comment.

I love this series. It doesn't matter what era is being studied, Peter looks Great in all of the garb, as if he had actually lived during those previous years. Side note: my mom worked for the Pullman Company in Texas and California and shortly afterwards during WW II.

I always imagine the steam train smoke will be grey even black, from victorian novels such as Sherlock Holmes. But in recent documentaries it always shown Brilliant white, soft elegant cloud came out from historical locomotive. The TPO segmen was Marvelous. Thank you for making this available in youtube, accessible from overseas viewer like me.

George Pullman was an ancestor of mine. Not sure if that's a boast or a confession - but it always gives a personal touch to seeing his style of train cars in use.

I did not expect the hip-hop style rhyme at 5:58.

That very small segment at the end of the newspaper peice, about essentially the infant black market was incredibly harrowing.

I LOVE hearing all the crazy train inventions back then, like being able to pick up mail and water without stopping. Not sure if this is in the series later, but there were also the slip coaches, which would drop off passengers without stopping the train by disconnecting the last coach and having a brakeman ease the coach to a stop.

Those are fire bars 5:42

Love all the series with these 3 hosts. Thanks for posting

I think Alex was partly that wobbly on purpose!! Lol

As an American who's only seen diesel locomotives this is a delight to see a actual TPO and steam locomotive.

Am I the only one who recognized the Loughborough station stairwell faster than they could tell it was on video because of watching too much Bernadette Banner and Cathy Hay Bustle Pad Adventures?

What a beautiful piece of engineering is the Flying Scotsman.

I just love these 3 😁! Thank uou for bringing them back ❤️ !

A wonderful and informative series. Great insight into this incredible transformation in every aspect of our society that is all too easily taken for granted.

The mail pick-up and delivery was impressive!

this series is absolutely amazing i love steampowered trains thank u very much

Climbing through the train looked like the most claustrophobic task.

Amazing.. History on full display for the future to learn from..

I love how detailed these documentaries are.

Beautiful series!

Magic! Thanks, Absolute History.

They speak of the impact of railways on communication - certainly moving news papers and mail, and the erection of telegraph lines had a massive impact - however, even today, many railways have provided right-of-way access for the installation of fiber optic cables, that carry internet traffic. It never ends.

Great documentary , thank you.

Again, absolutely fudging brilliant!❤❤❤

Absolutely fascinating!!!

Thank you for this series, I often wonder about services before the internet, how people shopped, how the auto shop found hard to find parts, etc.

Wonderfully done episode and series !

Did anyone else feel sick hearing about the murder of these innocent babies? My heart sunk and as a mother I was furious.

Thanks You. As always liked, and shared.

That tiny little firebox door on the Flying Scotsman always amuses me. I always think of the “Big Boy” locomotives that can burn 8.8 tonnes of coal per hour. They had a screw auger feeding coal into the 6 by 2.4 meter firebox. Steam jets were used to distribute the coal properly. They still run one, but they’ve switched to fuel oil. Coaling facilities that can dump 29 tonnes of coal into the tender are not convenient.

Every time these steam locomotive videos turn off on my auto play I wake up for some reason.most relaxing videos

It's fantastic too to see this pulling a train WITHOUT some damn diesel engine in the mix - in the US, they've brought one of the Big Boys back online, but all trains pulled with passengers seem to "need" a diesel engine to provide breaking and head power. Clearly, it can be done other ways.

What a great series. It's funny to think that something as simple as boiling water, a thousand years ago, could over time lead such major changes in the world---thank you science. Thanks for posting.....

MUY INTERESANTE su VIDEO !!.. Saludos, from : new York.

Wow, what a ride!

Wooo woo! Lovely episode!

Flying Scotsman :The Pride of Britain ❤️❤️

I can not imagen what an accomplishment it was to make and serve food on a train rattling down the track at more than 80 mph. Totally amazing.

But in Germany we also had 3-cylinder-steam engines even before WW I :)

We have Prince Albert to thank for introducing the steam train to Great Britain. He was a man of vision and embraced new ideas to improve their way of life. Queen Victoria was reluctant but he sold her on the future of trains to modernize Britain.

I really like these people!

Amazing way to learn abou8t history.

In the USA, railroads lost their mail contracts because the airlines wanted to carry mail but that created an unforseen problem: Your mail was now passing through more hands than ever before and theft became a big problem. At least theft and outright waste is a big problem today. I try not to send anything valuable through the US Post because it'll either get lost or stolen. Anyone else have this problem?

I enjoyed his so ,much I watched it twice !

5:40 He's going the distance He's going for speed She's all alone (all alone) All alone in her time of need Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse He's racing and pacing and plotting the course He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse He's going the distance He's going for speed He's going the distance Ah no, so sad, alright Oh no, oh no, no, no Cake The Distance Fashion Nugget(1996)

Those poor babies 😭

@40:41: Why did those Victorian engineers outfit the locomotives with a stoker system. The coal would be funneled down to a moving auger that pushes it along to another auger that brings it up into the firebox. Saves a lot of work for the fireman.

I always loved riding all old steam trains dotted through out the southwest, west coast and pacific north west. I still have pieces of coal given to me by the engineers.

25:08 to be fair, since they could not send the letter C, he didn't violate that spelling rule!

Is no one going to talk about the potato mail?

Thanks

I hope they do one on the Caledonian sleeper.

I can't believe my eyes when I see all of these steam heritage railways. I can't. Not even the US has so many volunteer workers on heritage railways with so many examples of restoring old historic customs. Unbelievable isn't even the most extreme word I would use. I think there's no place on earth that I would rather visit more than Britain's historic railways.

Mail still takes day's

What a time and era to be alive. Oh to be a victorian, I just know my body was built for it.

52:46 Hot potato: That's why there is a fork to use with the spoon to serve the dish. Silver service is what those in first class would expect, even on a train.

0:07 Spencer's whistle

To me it is all about being able to see all the mechanisms work

I personally just suddenly came up with the officially well-knowingly clever idea of completely fitting a stoker's screw in the base of the very 1st of the new generation of corridor tenders meaning that the famously well-knowingly sole-serving Doncaster built in the year of precisely 1923 respectfully L N E R class A3 Pacific type of steam-driven railway tender locomotive designed by Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley himself known as the Flying Scotsman that'll basically help the fireman stoke the fire by automatically feeding the coal underneath the footplate into the firebox meaning that the usage of a shovel certainly WON'T even be necessary! Although, cleaning out the firebox as well as the smoke box will basically still be very shockingly surprisingly much done manually!

Mail sorting in the Victorian era seems akin to the Tetris/Dr Mario of the 90s and the Candy Crush of today 😂

I love watching how things were done and the people lived in the olden years. And I love these guys. I just wish they showed more of one seen. Like, show more of them like 15 minutes per seen. The real bad and ugly parts of the farm life. Make more videos. Please.

Just skip the mail part and move on to the flying Scotsman part!

Man I would love to work on a traveling post office like that

The corridor width was apparently created by using dining chairs to see how tight a gap could be used

Would be so cool to be on this train.

This is quite interesting and efficient. Too bad the modern postal service doesn't work this way. They had a great system except for the last part where the mail could drop off the train prematurely.

The Flyinh Sctosman is the most famous LOCOMOTIVE, the most famous train and/or train line is either the Transiberian or the orient express

"The internet is the Victorian train station of the 21st century." There's a sentence/ point I'd never thought I'd hear 😅 I like it though.

It's wild how small british rolling stock is.

I've never seen people climb into a steam loco's firebox. That's crazy!

Oh Peter, you handsome, scruffy, grubby, adorable devil

5:30 the first rap in world history…

... Ruth Goodman... you have my attention dear Sir...

great

31:50 I've seen a lot of videos on the 'baby farmers' around. It's one of many sad and horrifying parts of history.

I think I have a little crush on Peter. What a cutie

#999 of the NY Central RR did over 100mph on the way to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago...

interesting!

One of my biggest dreams is two ride on the flying Scotsman

50:20 Ruth:”How long you are gonna stay white !!!””😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅

I'd want to see Gordon Ramsay cook on that train!

"The railways themselves took advantage of this new system, to ensure that a safe distance was maintain between trains." 22:23. They were already planning their physical distancing back then. How clever.

Great series! I do not understand why they do not have slide down from the coal wagon and into the fire?

Really reminds me that the US state I live in is literally comparable in size to the UK, with less than 1/10 the population.

For I have a O gage 1 of these that runs on Live Steam & I do have some pagners & fraight car's & all I have to do now is get some of the right kind of Steam Oil for it to run.

if your not having a cup of while watching these docs! your a baby farmer!