Vicki exploring and whiskers on kittens Bright copper fittings and warm woolen mittens A steam locomotive and all that it brings These are a few of my favorite things

Vicki looked so happy driving the train, and even happier stroking the kitteh 🐈

I went to this place in the 80's, when it was called something like 'Kew Bridge Pumping Engine Museum'. It was a wonderful and atmospheric place then, but the redevelopments look great, and shows that letting people who love the things in the museum to run the museums is generally the best policy.

Best outtake/post ending ever! MEOW!

Brilliant. I've enjoyed watching the Vicki Explores clips. This is the best one yet. Keep up the good work.

And for that short time, London had TWO Victoria lines

Wonderful! Interesting and entertaining! It's not every day one can drive a steam engine! And Oliver is marvellous!

Reminds me of my dad. He used to take me there some Sundays as a kid in the 1970's. The last visit was a special day when they got one of the big beam engines going. Dad (who worked at the water board) did a little speach as they had donated one of the other engines. He passed away 30 years ago but he'd have loved to know how this place went on to become a successful museum.

Can you guys never stop making videos together....ever! I would watch you two going anywhere and doing anything!

I go to Kew Bridge often during the weekly commute and although I've seen the sign for this, I didn't realise it was like a proper museum like this! I'll have to pay a visit at some point... and I NEED to go up that tower :D

I don't remember watching this when I went through the channel while at uni. I started volunteering at the HKWR 2 months ago and went around the steam museum a few weeks ago, but have yet to go to Kew. We have a good relationship between the two museums/railways, I believe.

For anyone who hasn't visited, DO! It really is amazing seeing the story and the scale and power of the engines. Make sure to check on their website first to see when they are operating engines as the big engines are not operated very often. It is definitely worth getting the years ticket if you don't go on a day with everything then you can see everything multiple times. 30th of March to 2nd of April all engines will be running, a great time to visit.

Is that Wicksteed the cat at the end? Awwww! What a sweetie!!

I used to go to this museum almost once a week as a child - I went up the tower back in about 2004 but it would be great to go back there as I haven't been for about 10 years!

Geoff and Vicky will have a cat soon! ;-)

YAY VICKI EXPLORES!

The hair is amazing, Geoff!!

I can’t get enough of the soundtrack

Superb! Bring it On! Vicki is now 'Jones the Steam', with a cat! Can you throw in a castle to make the set? What a Star!

Another great informative programme. we'll done. More please Vicki

Many memories here, even driven my friends life size Dalek there as well too!

After watching this awesome video I visited this really cool museum the next time that was in London and I got a chance to ride on the footplate of that lovely little steam engine. Also saw those massive engines inside the museum. Excellent museum, well worth a visit!!

The miniature railway reminded me of the Thames Ditton/Malden Miniature Railway which can be seen (to the north) from grown-up trains as the Surbiton to Esher line branches off to Thames Ditton

What a fantastic video, really interesting place. Have seen that tower so many times, but never realised what is was before now. This place is certainly on my list of places to visit. And so great to see another Vicki Explores.

Vicki is a great presenter. Hope she does more.

A new niche for Vicki train driver well done sweetheart

i have GOT to go there! Cats and cool machines and a little steam railway.. that's just a perfect intersection of things I like

You really should visit Kempton. The steam engines there are HUGE. And are sometimes in steam for real.

My local museum! Full of pipes but room for another.

Don’t know how I missed this March 2018 piece....I have added this to my bucket list...

Cheers from California !

This museum is also a filming location for Dr Who. In Rememberance of the Daleks, the shoot out in a builders yard was filmed just to the right of the entrance. A few years ago, myself and some friends were invited to take our daleks to the museum to welcome their visitors. It was a great weekend.

That's one I'll add to my 'Must Do' list, thanks for letting us know about it.

I went there in August, and had a lovely time. Too bad it was rainy af that day.

Hello Vicky and Geoff , Thank you for sharing his interesting video, when I visit London in May, I will be sure to take a tour of the Water & Steam Museum. Keep posting your brilliant video, I watched them all! Cheers, Vincent

I nominate Vicki for best human of the last hundred years.

Thank you for the tour ....and the sights

Need to go. Haven't been since I was a kid and it's local.

A great museum. The Cafe does a lovely sausage Roll. The Crossness Pumping station is also really good place to visit

Love this place also your videos are very amazing

I'm jealous I always wanted to drive a steam train! Good on you VP!

3:30 - At this point, i was like "oh, don't you *dare...* " :D 7:40 - "Best ways to make your lady excited" by G. Marshall 8:16 - "Aw, shocks maan, these are toys, lemme show you our real puffer..."

Thank you for the video guys! Another interesting place to see in London.

1:54 - He's clearly never been to Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield. The River Don engine weighs 400 tonnes and produces 12,000hp. It is thought to be the largest surviving steam engine in the world.

Yey! I could see the end of the street where I live on one of the views from the tower...

Yay Vicki! You've done a proper job on the footplate! And you got to pet the puddy tat!

Love the Vicki explores series

This is the Kew Bridge pumping museum. I visited here many years ago for a birthday treat.

i drive past there many times a week.. nice to see what goin on in there

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Ruislip Lido Railway also within London, thus making this one of three steam railways in London?

"the German aubergine purple pipe is a tent that to South Western" 😂

Thank you for the video. I had to share that with several civil engineers that are interested in engineering history since they are planning on visiting the museum in October.

In 2010 i was able to drive the 90 inch engine, what an experience

I missed the music glad to hear it again

FINALLY A BRAND NEW VIDEO! Great video Guys! I will always stick with you

i want to visit that museum. some of those engines are enormous.

If you ever go to Bristol there is what was once known as @ Bristol and if I'm right they have a hamster wheel where you can pick up buckets of water into a big water feature thing. Also the people at the museum of steam and water seem really nice. I'd pop down if it weren't so far away 😂

Nicely done Vicki. I read about the London water districts in The Ghost Map and other medical non-fictions. I will have to pay a visit here next I am over.

It was Harvey's foundry at Hayle. Today the Harvey's site is in the area of the town known as Foundry but Copperhouse is c1 km along the main road.

Who else is struggling to get used to the words "South Western Railway" for the services for what was for over 20 years, South West Trains?

Did you go ever get to Kempton to ride the railway? I'm volunteer loco driver at the LMWS. I would like to drive at Kempton the only issue is getting their early enough. You will find out it is a bit of a pain to get to by public transport. the trains that go to Kempton Park station don't run early enough. when kempton are running their steam locomotive, they have to light up at around 7 am in order to start passenger services at 10:30. the earliest train to get to Kempton park is around 8:30. I think you need to do do a video at kempton, try and visit when the triple expansion engine is running.

Great video! I should go and visit the London Museum of Water & Steam again soon!

4:50 so many unsung WWII heroes. Imagine being up there with bombs falling and gunfire screaming around trying to spot the addresses of buildings on fire. Also I kind of love how the little industrial railway actually looks, well, industrial - just passing by sheds and barrels with no attempt to make it look scenic.

It's so weird to see the Desiro City units in operation. Right at the start of my degree one of our projects was a rail link upgrade and we chose to use the brand spanking new trains that hadn't even been built yet. And here they are four years later in operation. I think I need to go and sit down...

Vicki!

Now you have to come to Hampton and Kempton !!! No excuses

6:27 "Old Charlie stole the handle And the train-it won't stop going No way to slow down..." from Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull - That's what came into my mind when I saw the regulator! I must have listened to Jethro Tull's Aqualung too many times in my youth 😂😂😂

What a pity the Cornish engines weren't running - remember going there many times as a child back in the 1980's when it was the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, and nothing can quite describe the experience of seeing those big beam engines running.

Cool video! :)

Nice video, passed this place once or twice while getting a hotel in the area, there a travelodge just down the road, never knew what was in there till today :)

Great Video! Surprised you didn't mention the fad you got on a (kind of) new class 707! Anyway, I need to visit the museum.

Been to the music museum nearby , did not notice this one

I hear the museum is opening the tower for public visits this weekend (Aug 11th and 12th) - the weather looks good, so I'm going! I booked through the museum website lmws.digitickets.co.uk/events/16349?catID=12016&

Next project: All the transport museums.

I think Jeff and Vicky should do all the stations in the united states of America

11:03 is pretty funny. 11:27 that cat needs oiling.

Why did they have a steam train? They said they didn't have steam engines just for the sake of it. Did that little train used to do something (like fetch coal for the water pumping engines)?

If you like this fantastic looking museum then i bet you'd like the Lancashire Mining museum at the old Astley Green colliery "up north" near Manchester :) They have a huge steam winding engine that runs occasionaly and (perhaps more to your interest!) they have one of the largest collections of old Colliery locomotives and rolling stock, which they are building a railway for! Not to mention the last Pit head gear on the Lancashire Coalfield! Also Just down the bridgewater canal (or the road i guess :P) is Leigh Spinners mill, which also has a huge Steam engine thats in the midst of a restoration but does sometimes run, i volunteer there and i can say for sure that it is a very impressive thing :) I would love to go to this museum sometime! just ashame the trains north/south can be so so expensive! :/ Its on my list though now! :D

I think my cousin had his wedding reception there.

Great ending there.

Slightly* envious that you got to go up the tower, it wasn't open when I visited. * As in quite a lot.

I love near Kew Bridge, however my local station is Syon Lane

Could you do all the underground stations I know you have done it before but it would be cool.

Where about's in Old Ford was the other engine?

New video idea: "Vicki meets animals." (Especially cats please.) x

There is at least one other steam railway in London and that is run by the Harlington Locomotive Society (www.harlingtonlocomotivesociety.org.uk/). It is only open on select days of the year but has been running for the last 60 years apparently. The next open day is on 1st April. I pass it every day on the bus to work and keep thinking to visit. :)

If there was train and tube miles and you could use them as air miles the amount of travel done you could fly to Australia and back

Just about to write where are the cats, and lo and behold in the last ten seconds one of them appears.

Please go to Kempton Steam Museum G&V

I am not 100% sure but I believe this is Londons newest museum

I lived in Ealing, never saw this tower.

That was on my commute too - 65 bus, was it called something else in the past? Looks like it's worth a visit

Careful Geoff, there might be some Daleks hiding around there... ;)

Yes, I really enjoyed that one. And yes, I wouldn't have liked to be up that tower during the blitz, I can see why it was useful though - I'm surprised the Germans didn't make it a priority target for that reason. If I visit, do I need to bring my mountaineering equipment to descend/ascend to and from the train at Kew Bridge???

Did he board the Desiro train?

i'm now officially jealous of you vicky pipe! i've only driven up to 7 1/4 guage. for more big engines, have a look around kempton and crossness.

I’d like to visit the museum of steam museums musical museums and national archives...

5:53 and the Epping to ongar steam railway

Hello,I am asking who made the all the stations website as I have apparently heard it was by Muzekode websites,is this true?Thanks

Will you go back for the 'Silhouette in the Smoke' mystery ?