"1 in 10 British trains still dump directly onto the tracks..... They say that by 2019 it will all be over." Yeah, anyone who's ever had a promise from a British rail company can guess how true that turned out to be.

Sandy is the most perfect replacement for Stephen, but at the same time, you can never really replace Stephen Fry.

The bit about the toilets being vented onto the tracks reminded me of a ditty my mother(b.1929) sang when I was a child; Passengers will please refrain From flushing toilets while the train Is standing in the station at a stop. While the train is in the station We encourage constipation After that we let the matter drop.

I tend to prefer compilations like this, where there are perhaps less segments but they run longer

My little hometown once had open sewers throughout. Tomatoes would grow in these shallow channels. This youngster once proudly brought an armful home to mom. She made me drop them outside and no doubt gave me a bath. Thanks for the memory.

3:31 - Saaaayyy, I recognize this particular panel. And I've always wondered if it's true what they say about the Acropolis where the Parthenon iiiiiiiisssssss....

When they converted the line between London and Bristol from broad gauge to standard gauge, the navvies did it in a weekend.

Who built our railways? Bill Bailey: large creatures. God bless you, Bill, you glorious bastard 😂

How did jimmy manage to make so many concerned yet confused expressions in such a short amount of time

Is there anything in this world more delightful than that whole part with the toy train?

railway companies in the Victorian period were the first to introduce smoking bans on trains, not because it was terrible but because they didn't want their upholstery to be nicotine stained. Parliament forced the companies to introduce smoking compartments on carriages and all the companies did was put stickers on the windows saying which compartments were smoking compartments. This led to many people peeling off the stickers and putting them in their hats so they could get onto any train in their favourite seats in non-smoking and they would then put the stickers in the windows so they could have a smoke and when they were done they would take the stickers off with them

I didn't think I could like Stephen Fry more but hearing his description of Navvies made me like him even more

Alan "You never know, sometimes, they go, yes, that is correct" Davis

Living inside Matt Lucas' head would be such a unique experience.

Were the sweets toffee? Would be apt, considering all the chew-chew-ing required to eat one.

God this channel is designed so well for binging

I don't think Bill's story abour Trans-Siberian is true: "There is an urban legend in Russia, that once upon a time the railway engineers asked the Tzar where to build the railway from St.Petersburg to Moscow. The Tzar reportedly took a ruler and draw a straight line between the two capital cities. However, as he was holding the ruler with his finger, the line had a small bend. The engineers did not dare to argue with the Tzar and built the railway according to his specs. Including the Verebye curve (which indeed is attributed to the wide and deep Verebye ravine that must have been bypassed). The recent advances in bridge construction technologies made it possible to build a bridge across the ravine and get rid of the "royal finger" bend."

Can confirm about the tomato plants growing in the middle of nowhere. I've seen it on building sites in the middle of the countryside, miles from anywhere, where a builder has obviously thrown away the tomato from his sandwich during his lunchbreak, and the seeds from them have germinated and grown into fruit-bearing plants. I've seen it many times.

No wi-fi on the Orient Express? I'm going to book right now! (Just as soon as I've sold a kidney for the fare.....)

The Railway Mouse has a LOT to answer for! >:/

Paul Deschanel must have been one of those manic pixie French presidents.

Heh..Hehehe.. Chubby Carr.. It always amuses me when I see his younger self. Amazing how different he looks after he gained some cheekbones.

Human waste was dumped much the same way this side of the pond. You had a seat on top of a large cylinder, with a nice breeze and a view of the ties and ballast whizzing by. The rest room was on one side of the car, and deposited your gift sometimes on a sidewalk, street, or who knows where. Regards and ttfn, T. L.

You didn't include the best train related clip, where Johnny Vegas makes a joke about trainspotters.

I'm related, to the famous Navvie, bought across to help build the Birmingham rail service. He married my great great great grandmother who was in service in the large homes in the Midlands

At last Stephen is wrong. There were 2nd class tickets in the UK. However, these were only found on the Southern Railway (and BR's Southern Region) on the boat trains that connected with services in France were there were 3 clases of ticket.

I work on the railways and I am unaware of any tomato plants, but every goods yard is awash with blackberry bushes for some reason.

0:52 When the comedians are unionising before your colleagues are

How "relaxed" the French were to elect a former President who had been institutionalised...

Imagine Stephen Fry as a guest on the panel

My question is where exactly did he pin those medals???🤔

To he honest, I’ve sat next to people on Ryanair flights dirty enough to be chimney sweeps...

One gets a very strange feeling on coming to QI after watching Doctor Who. It's as if The First QI Master was Stephen, and he regenerated a few years ago...

Speaking of trains, Matt Lucas looks like the fat controller.

“I didn’t even know that one existed” “Have you been on it?” Obviously not.

The railway mouse!

The navvies also built most of GB's canal system.

1:07 that sounds like something Tom Baker would say as the narrator on little britain

What the hell is going on in the last segment? Fry's jacket, shirt and tie actually go together!

"Murder on the Orient Express" was the movie, the book was actually "Murder on the Calais Coach".

This was funny, but I legit wanted to hear how tomato plants stop trains.

Surprised Stephen didn't mention that the word "navvy" is a contraction of "Land Navigator".

The actual Orient-Express (yes, with a hyphen) no longer runs. It was a named train service, operated by modern trains, now withdrawn.

Thanks.

Alan asks if people are shitting on the platform. It's Norwich. It's England. They are.

With Stephen Fry talking about trains...I got little bit worried about what was in store

I can only assume that Sandi *does* travel with a pocket watch. (Stephen too.)

Leave it to humans, to get upset about accidently seeding the planet with edible resources haha

Matt is exactly right. - David Mitchell talks about how Shakespeare is basically shorthand for the guy whar wrote those plays, whoever may have actually been the author. In a similar way the Orient Express for a lot of people is simply shorthand for the train what had the murder on it in the book.

So we are just going to laugh alittle and continue after that like he said nothing 😂 9:47

Strange now seeing sandi as a guest. Not sure how old that is, but she looks better now than then! No-one should try to compare/contrast her and Stephen, both national treasures in their own right. (Yes I know she's originally Danish, but she's ours now!)

What about the Underground Fluffer??

Many years ago you could buy tomatoes from my local refuse site which had self seeded from the sewage treatment works next to it!

Peter Express!

The majority of navvies were Englishmen, with 30% of the group being Irish. While this ratio varied from navvy shanty town to shanty town, sleeping arrangements were segregated

Ich mag Züge

Train toilets were flushing directly on the tracks until 2019??

5:30 is that the "What do they say ?" highlight ?

"Except for his ceremonial decorations" sounds like a euphemism for genitals.

Three Gooners on the first panel 😁

6:37 - ''Thomas was going so fast. Then there was trouble. Thomas hit the buffers and the trucks were uncoupled. Then, they were coupled back onto Thomas and off he went again. BTW, the model locomotive is basically Thomas but repainted red and without a face.

One could say, it took them 5 years to "train"

Does anyone else watch to the very end of every video just to be told to hurry up and pick something else to watch?

Sheldon would be pleased 🚂 🚞 🚆

I swear that Matt Lucas is Rebel Wilson in drag

The person who didn't do the audio levels needs to apologise

HENNIG!

I've learnt more from Q1 than i have in 12 years of school

Which Orient Express did From Russia with Love take place on?

hehe...dagenham smile

I like trains.

Manic Pixie Dream President. 500 days of government Starring Paul Deschanel

Quite Investigative.

yay

I liek trainz

He was wrong, it was not the transiberian railway, it was the line between Moscow and St. Petersburgh and it was Stalin's thumb that made the 'bump' in the line - it has since been straightened. There is also a story that Stalin ensured that the Moscow subway had a circular line. Planners brought him a proposed plan of the system - he set his coffee mug down on it and it left a brown ring - they built the circular line as it then appeared on their plan. There is a building in Moscow that the right side does not match the left side - he apparently approved two submitted plans and the planners were afraid to question which he wanted so they split the building down the middle.

Why is the sound so much quieter than the rest of KZfaq?

That thing about the chimney sweeps, they pull shit like that now they just do it with things like leg room on an aeroplane to see what the human spirit will endure.

I really can't follow this train of thought in this video! Ba dum tssss!!!!

2:20 So somebody heard the name of the novel and thought, "wait, has that never actually happened in real life? Whelp, better go off a Romanian woman!"

I like Trains

Majority of navvies were english. Only about 30% were Irish.

what does Jason say at 7:20?

1 in 10 Trains in the UK flush directly onto the tracks - wtf! What kind of third world bollocks is that.

mY TRAINS-

11:22 He sounds identical to Dara O'Brien

The rail mouse 🐁

Navvys were mostly English, actually

Lex luthor gained some weight it seems

Wait I thought the railway ruler story was about Stalin not a Tsar...

Was the Romanian woman okay?!?

To be technical, a 'Train' is only a Train if it has coaches or a series a simiar interlocking carriages. Without them, it is a Locomotive. Just like a Truck is called a 'Truck' but when is has a trailer it's called a 'Semi'.

*sheldon cooper has entered the chat*

Choo Choo

If he was nude, where did he pin the decorations? 🧐

2:27 Romesh looks like he'd had a severe stroke.

Re-electing an institutionalized man to the senate makes sense to me. The sane ones are crooked. He might push through a bill entitling everyone to free carrots, but hey. Free carrots, right? Purchased by the government via collective bargaining? I'm down.

The way he talks about those men is like they are not human but tools/animals

1w

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