That little Westie riding on the milk wagon stole my heart.

In the year of a global pandemic and the media wreaking havoc through fear these type of shows are really relaxing. At least to me. Anyone else?

I love how the wool farmer brings out the Welsh in Ruth.

Did Anyone else Love this Episode in Particular? It’s truly incredible the amounts of track that were laid down for these trains to travel across. Cheers to the men and women that did it.

History, the most important teacher there is, and the one thing we "modern people" teach the least, at our peril.

As someone who recently tried to get a job on the railway (as platform staff, didn't get it due to the current situation), they still perform pretty much the same tests as they did back then, though along with colour blindness test there was a rapid memory test, route finding, mathematics and following instructions/written tests, heard from those going for drivers had many more than that! Loving this series and looking forward to seeing more episodes.

My great grandpa got his job with the railroad during the Great Depression because the guy who had the job before was killed by a falling decorative light.

Highly appreciated that also the guests wear original clothing.

Interesting my dad was always a railway-man. He used to say that he enamoured with apparent magical transformation of industrial revolution caused the railroads of Russia. He worked on the electrification of the trans-Siberian rail-line.

In America, our Pryce Jones was Sears Roebuck and Company. It was the Amazon of it's day.

Okay, who want to go to a whisky distillery in Scotland? Alex & Peter: Me! Me! Me!

Bless the people who made Scotch Whisky available to me. I just love the stuff, best tipple in the world, a real Scotch Single Malt. :D

The railways are getting more and more popular each year due to their relatively cheap operation, low amount of hassle with security, and ease of access to multiple areas. That’s something that not even the airplanes can manage. (And also, maybe a certain kids show managed to raise a generation or two on the idea of railway operations and funny antics. Rest In Peace, Reverend Awdrey.) I can see the railways lasting into the early 22nd Century due to how important they are for a nation’s infrastructure. I just hope that Amtrak here in the US either lowers their ticket prices, or more private companies start operating their own services again.

This channel is the highlight of my week. I would love to see our intrepid historians make their own Scotch whiskey in the old ways. Thank goodness for my father and my Robertson forbearers nurturing my appreciation for such a fine libation.

Alex always giving Peter the hard job to do.

Peter is always given the most grueling tasks while Alex gets the easy peasy ones.

I remember my grandfather used to say that, that coalshovel was also used as a toilet. What comes in must come out,eventually...

Got a British Rail Pass around 1974 ,. Loved the rail to get around , go to the station find a train with a few empty seats and just go . I didn't care where to , I just went , Wicks , Thruso as far north, east ,south and west as I could go . Head quartered in Inverness . Thank You Mrs.Gallanders . Loved the British Rail pass . Fast and cheap transportation. Memories

especially these historian act like as if they are living like a real victorian.reflecting the life of an ordinar victorian who s efforts are forgotten with time

Just gotta say I absolutely love Peter. 🥰🥰

I love this trio!!! I wish they'd make more shows

23:16. Not sure if that was intentional on Ruth’s part but I cracked up when she was telling the dog to move when she was hauling the milk jugs. “Moo, moo, moo, move”

thank you! will keep coming back

I worked with an electrician that was color blind. He could not tell orange from yellow. The standard for 480/277 is brown, orange, yellow. We had to label the wire reels and marking tape. He could not tell black from brown either.

An excellent episode, keep up the good work!

So, interestingly, bovine tuberculous is the reason why grandma never drank unboiled milk.

it's series like these, what cause joy to enter the hearts of people who yearn to understand our growth as a civilization. many thanks to all who worked on these programs.

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That little Terrier on the cart - riding up front. Looks like he was in his element. Adorable.

Ruth Goodman is a National Treasure.

The GWR had a massive number of horses, they also had feed stores and feed processing for them (the provender store at Didcot was still standing when I was a kid until some unmentionable decided to make it a carpark

like always the absolute history's videos are marvellous

Irish whiskey was the more popular in England than Scotch whisky before Irish independence. Note the e in the spelling of the Irish.

I love the way they say things. "Beautifully balanced gate that is, isn't it?" Here we would just say "That's a beautifully balanced gate." or "That's a beautifully balanced gate, isn't?"

A far more romantic time, times were surely harder; but the locomotives were beautiful works of art in iron, wood, and steel.❤❤❤

Another railway episode, yay.....thank you

My grandfather lived on Scotch

I enjoy learning about the past. Love watching this series. Ruth,Alex and Peter are great

This is the episode I wanted to rewatch to see how the old craft/art of the cooper is still alive in fine scotch wisky🥃. This series and all by this team is full of so much knowledge that will be useful again in the not so far off future. These old branch lines saved as heritage lines may become lifelines in the future. Just have empty petrol stations and no electricity for any length of time or so expensive your use of it is limited. Take anyones phone away under 35 and they can't function. I suggest watch and learn while it's still easy to learn things that may well, save your life.

Lol it’s insane what you’ll have to do, and the qualifications you’d need these days just to even be able to drive a train for the first time, but back then, it was as simple as “How many dots, and what colour do ya see??”, then you basically just learned how to drive from there haha 😂

Homestly, I love the content, but this is the first video I'm able to watch all the way through because there's no adds.

These are well done and fascinating.

Alex and Peter need their own Tv show, they are goated and make such a good pair

I have always enjoyed learning about the past. It's a shame there are so few true craftsmen today as there was in the past. It makes me proud to have learned the skills I have working with wood and steel..... A wonderful series of informative videos

These episodes always feel too short!

Interesting indeed

never thought i'd learn so much about whiskey from railway documentary

what a fantastic tv show. amazing.

I think I would have enjoyed the night train work.

Those sheep are so cuuuuuuuuuute !

The older gentleman driving around milk with a horse drawn wagon and his little dog through the beautiful English countryside is probably the most idyllic thing I've ever seen.

Reminds me of The Titfield Thunderbolt -Great movie.

37:44 Proof the Scottish built the pyramids!

What a fascinating documentary!

It is actually unfair to blame Beeching for what happened to branch lines. The real villain of the piece was Marples, who commissioned the report and who would accept nothing less than wholesale branchline closure, to further his own financial interests in road construction companies. Beeching was put in an unenviable position, with a tight brief that allowed no other outcome, and Marples used him as a smokescreen.

''Absoulute History'' you inspired us to create our KZfaq Channel!🙏

Finally Peter gets a better gig than Alex. Alex has to serve dinner to first class passenger Peter, and Peter also gets to help “drive” the train. For all of the comments about the titles not reflecting the content, this is true on pretty much all of these historical videos I have seen. The title subject is shown somewhere in the video, but it is not the overall content. Maybe they just used the titles as a fast way of organizing the video segments since they couldn’t list everything covered in the video. Just a thought.

dark, cold, miserable for 8 months of the year: Scotland. needed whisky to stay sane.

I'm thinking of a reality as a warmer version of Frostpunk

Sadly that's not happening here. Passenger rail has been decimated. Bus systems have been cut drastically as well. People who depended on them are expected to buy a car. Some towns with no road access are being abandoned.

The only branch lines I grew up knowing about was from the Railway Series.

The age of steam shaped the way how humanity dies today !

Talking about branch lines reminds me of Wind in the Willows the Cosgrove Hall series not the book. Though that book I read over and over as a child. And living in Wisconsin I know about milk lol.

Where is this place, I definitely want to visit this place once this madness is over, how do i get here

My mother in law grew up in China. She wouldn't even drink water from the City Supply without boiling it. She did live to 90 so there's that.

The closing of the branch lines was commemorated by a song by Flanders and Swann "The Slow Train" Flanders and Swann - The Slow Train - KZfaq

That you recycled the intro about the British railways had me so confused, I thought I clicked the wrong video.

Omg Ruth has legs 😆 Lol

You need to do Absolut History, the Story of Vodka. :)

Any idea where one could find a tea kettle like they have in the cans of the steam locomotives?

A most interesting episode. But i think Kudos must also be given to the team or teams behind the scenes. After all we see a cut and we are from the North of Scotland in Wales. Something that does not work like that in real life. Wonder how long it took and how many people, to shoot an episode?

Also, more farm life shows. Please

The thing I am curious about is just how a farmer found a buyer for his market garden goods in the big city. Local brokers in their town? The church? The railway? It is the method of trade communication and money exchange that interest me.

Thanks Ruth now im hungry 49:46

WOW . That was great. its too bad we see so many other things go by us. not thinking about how we have gotten here??

55:00 That's no doctor!

Snowy the dog from Tin Tin

Safety, and yet for some reason using the automatic coupler such as the janey, never crossed their mind.

Anyone else catch dorothy and Toto on the wagon around 5:10

How about the transport revolution in the air? From death traps to package Tours!

The music... is if fixed or is my TV broken?

41:36 actually you could easily make the taste more “ok” to non Scots by simply adding a few drops of water into the whiskey. By doing so the water will break down some of the sugars and make the tastes come after eachother and be a little softer than normally. Normally all taste comes at once and overwhelms your tastebuds That’s atleast what my “brewmaster” step dad said

10:22 15:07 20:24 24:35 53:27

10:32 Does anyone know what locomotive that is?

I thought Scotch was a brand of tape for various uses but not for drinking. I was under the impression that it was Scott made whisky. I also like Irish whiskey (Jameson). Can anyone out there correct my thinking. Thanks.

Peter looks like a young Fred Dibnah.

More midroll ads than cable tv = youtube being less inviting to watch.

Ruth got a little excited milking the cow, eh?

Ruth's period clothes were lost on the railway.

As a child, the steam trains evoked memories, as did the milk run, with the big & small cans etc. My local town supplied the city which had cardboard capped bottles, we got straight from the farm milk & cream, out of cans, sat on a drey drawn by 2 Shire horses. I've not consumed milk like that in decades, nor ridden on steam trains in as long. Shame, it's not as good as it used to be.

48:57"...and we know they have killed children in the past aswell." * fart noise *

Coal ash is so nasty and toxic these old trains are history and should be maintained but our diesel ones are a million times better

Gőzmozdonynak lennie kell 300.000 év múlva is!

Yep... The fact that Beechum put an end to so many RR lines... Yet REFurbished so much is a lot like American train Mogul Rockefeller who cheated his Partner who provided coal and then became a God Amung RAILWAY!!.... said in an echoing voice for effect. Because Beechum then became the hero and not the bad guy.

Not to be rude and all but if you get hit by a train even dumber a steam train you deserve a Darwin award.

Ireland?

It came from scotland.

I think I'll buy a train.

I wish America could claim a heritage railway. Most of them are small lines not supported by the government. Some of them are in a position that the local government decides that they are in danger an shuts them down. Sad.

Didnt show all the oiling up of the engine