What I love about this kind of video, is that we are archiving the earliest things we can get our hands on for future generations' history.

I'm here for the history, I stay for the Peter Ginn

This channel is so underrated

The 3 Musketeers of History! Great and glad to see them together again!🤗

There documents are just absolutely wonderful Especially i admire Ruth in all of the farm documents, and also in these railway ones, she shows her wonderful spirit and sense of humour, with the tremendous amount of hands on knowledge she has gathered..

Ruth, Peter and Alex....the best!!!

At 20:03 the narrator means METHanol not Ethanol if someone was wondering.

I love this channel so much. Ever since you guys put up the series' with Ruth Peter and Alex, I can't watch any other history shows

As a super big railfan, I love this almost as much as the castle documentary. On our side of the pond, I've had several family who were railroad men. My great grandpa would fire the Union Pacific 844.

Colin is so awesome! I love him in all of these series. He’s an expert in everything.

Who'd have thought horsehair upholstery fabric could be so bloody beautiful! The dyed tails looked like they were taken from unicorns, lol.

I would love to watch a tv show like Downton Abbey that takes place in a late Victorian Railway Station. The lives (and drama) of the railway staff and their passengers.

I find it interesting that walk-through railcars didn't become common in the UK until the 1910s apparently. Even 1840s cars in America had a center isle walk through configuration, I suppose since especially in the west trips were much longer and stations weren't close enough to have bathroom and refreshment breaks every couple of hours.

how the hell can you provide high quality content for free on youtube like this. i mean.. i'm not complaining.

That train detonator was the coolest part of this video lol I didn't even think about what they did in emergencies when they were stopped to alert other trains !!

So happy to see that Collin made his way into this series with our favorite trio of historians. Collin had a part in every farm series. Ruth wore pieces of every period costume she wore from Tales of the Green Valley to War Farm. Henry even was feature too!

used to watch it on TVO station, no ads/commercials.....love this, Ruth, Alex and Peter are awesome historians.

Oh my giddy aunt! I haven't heard that for many years. Love Ruth and her huge store of knowledge, the boys are great fun too.

Better than some Netflix shows👍👍

We need a show like this in the us.

Jesus imagine your first time in the train and the handbook says "I hope you brought a weapon with you for the tunnels!"

"We are the navvies who work upon the railway, swingin' our hammers in the bright blazin' sun. Layin' down tracks and buildin' the bridges, bendin' our backs till the railroad is done." -Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy"

All that is missing is an elderly steeplejack to explain to us the glories of the Victorian era Craftsman. 😀👍

“What have you done with your hair, Peter?” “Nothing” 😂 I still love the smell of musk because my friend’s dad used this perfumed oil and he was the one who spoiled us as kids. smells are so powerful, I bet you could get an entire generation’s memories with one wiff of it. ❤️

I read a wonderful story about the first trains in Japan. A number of VIPs were given their first ride on a train. Being polite and Japanese they took their shoes off before getting on the train. The train pulled out and left the shoes on the platform.

41:00 these explosives are called "torpodoes" in the US.

Haven't watched but just wanna say I'm in love with Peter.

MAGNIFICO! Best show on early RR development ever - for information, clarity, and beauty. 1 million Railfans will bless u.

That water powered saw mill is simply brilliant.. But absolutely wonderful, the whole video. I really wish I could come and see all of this in person.

It's here!!! I was just thinking when ep.2 would be out... KZfaq listened to my wishes

If it weren't for sports, I'd drop cable entirely. So much wonderful content like this on KZfaq - for free!!!! What a great time we live in ...

"Do you think it's possible to get it up to... 90?" -Marty McFly

This my new favorite channel oh my god I love history and these three professionals are the best!

Such a wonderful series. And I love Ruth. Like a child on an adventure.

It took me awhile and some googling to figure out that in the UK a railway "sleeper" is the rail tie!

Back when I worked as a "railwayman" or as we were called by most, the then defunct name of Porter, we were still known as railway servants, loved it :D'

This is funny, this was uploaded while I rewatched episode 1.

Crazily enough, compartment stock like the ones shown here lasted on Southern Region suburban services up until 1995!

I've been in a water-powered sawmill (Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia) - that one is very similar to the one in the video, but it *does* have a water-powered winch to pull the logs out of the mill-pond for you, and it has a water-powered auto-reverser. That would most definitely be a labour-saver!

This gave me the feel of how life was back in the days. I love the saw mill. Zero emissions.

5:52 I love how the iron elephant is almost smokeless

Good to see the trio back at it...Ruth has eschewed the costuming for this one but was she ever spry on the carriage roof !...Kudos for posting this...

Brilliant, was wondering where episode 2 was and bingo !

AHHHHHH, traveling for these 3, seemed to have been, truly enjoyable! I wonder if we could've said the same thing for passengers of that period. Well done! Even Alex, seemed halfway realistic. At least in this video! 😀👍

What a thoroughly fascinating series. My favourite!!

When doing a distillation ethanol is what you are trying to get. The first liquid that comes out is Methanol as it evaporates at a slightly lower temperature than ethanol. Methanol is created during fermentation and depending on the yeast used up to 10% of all the alcohol produced can be methanol. This translates into about 1% of the wash. Any distiller worth his salt discards at least the first 2% of a distillation.

Great history!

9 pints of beer a day? Considering it was safer to drink beer at the time than water, that makes perfect sense, considering they had to have something to drink if water was not drinkable.

55:09, he leaves the book behind!! Shock! Horror! :D

Thank You. Liked, and Shared.

Wonderful! Thank you guys very much! I ever loved old trains.

This is wonderful - informative and entertaining. This should be part of every child's/person's education.

I truly enjoyed that. Thanks for all your hard work you put into producing this .

Steampunk before steampunk.

Ruth Goodman AND trains??? *automatic like*

Enjoyable I can't stop watching Ruth, Alex and Peter.

I live near a train line in Australia. When there are workmen on the line, but the line is still in operation, it is common to hear those triple detonators going off. In this case, I think it is to warn both the train driver that there are workmen ahead and to slow down, but also to warn the workmen that a train is coming.

As always guys wonderful video please continue the good work

Thank you for a wonderful video

"We are the Navvies who work upon the railway..." - The Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot.

Absolutely excellent historical narration !! Hear ! Hear !

Lovely. These people have such a fun job!

Fine enjoyable episode !

i absolutely positively love this.

Man, us Americans, we don't need no fancy threaded screws, just give us a nice railroad spike and pound it in. 😄

I love this series

They should make a handbook for bewildered airplane passengers. How to navigate an airport, etiquette while in the air, etc.

Thank you

My husband has had a hernia. They are blessed to not have had one. They are agonizing and they frequently need to be re-repaired. My husband is on the verge of needing his repaired again.

What a great watch, & all that, not a dead art.

I love watching this team!

Wonderfuly done , er enjoyed very much.

Also, those hats are so powerful. You just put them on and I instantly saw a Chaplin movie in my head. 😍

Brilliant!

A fascinating video. I’ve watched several in the series so far. On this one, I’m struck by the differences in passenger carriages from the US and the U.K. a quick look through the inter web shows that the US had open coaches - no compartments, just seats on either side of an aisle - as the norm by the mid nineteenth century. The vestibule was developed in the 1880s to provide an enclosed link between cars. In the U.K., at the same time rudimentary corridors were appearing between a few compartments on individual cars. They were for the WC. If it was a mixed first and second class car, there would be a corridor for the first class WC, and one for the second class one. It seems Britons took shorter rail journeys with perhaps longer stops, and more effort at social stratification? The video mentions that corridor cars and vestibules really only caught on in the 1920’s in the U.K. I suspect the greater size of the US, coupled with the extremes of our weather, played a big role in the differences.

In the U.S. the trains had a Conductor, I'm guessing that function was mostly taken by the Guard/Breakman.

Ruth Goodman is delightful...and adorable!

I love a lot of the actors on this channel but not everyone or about everything so please find a new series for Ruth, Alex, and Peter. Please

Love that saw mill

Bless her heart !

In Canada all our sleepers (Rail Ties) are made of wood still.

Australia has the same story, except at 40 degrees and 20 times longer.

"Cars in the 1880's had no corridors". I'm mindblown. There's so many western movies featuring trains with corridors. Maybe in America it was different?

Wow I watched the entire show and thought it was awesome!!

Carrot flavored moonshine. Ew and also now I'm gonna go get some everclear and try that lol

Did they not have Gandy Dancers in the UK?Great video.Love it..

The mill machine being so quite is evidence of actuative efficiency.

I'm so jealous of all of them

taptaptap… “Anything off the trolley dears?”. 🤭

I recommend the wonderful movie The Titfield Thunderbolt. All about an early British locomotive. In my area of New York's Finger Lakes, there was an 1835 railroad that was horse drawn and feature a steep incline with winches to pull cars up a half mile 1200 ft high hill. It was the same for the new locomotive when it arrived in 1840, and was named Old Puff. They pulled it and all passengers up the long hill south of Ithaca.

The MSRP on that horsehair fabric here in the USA is $525.00 /yard. By comparison, most upholstery fabrics average $30./yd and the high-end is $45./yd

Ruth is a rockstar!

Its like a romance..... watching a quality content after long time...

Very interesting program on this channel, who's tell us a story of British oldiest railway and locomotives, skills and other useful things.

9:50 OMG! I can't believe they cut down that beautiful old oak tree just to make a damn documentary!

"alright, let's get 'soaring'" ok, guess he's gonna 'soar' some logs then, lol.

So bowlers started out as hard hats? Who knew? 😊

Did British railways always use screws to fasten rails to ties (sleepers)? In North America we always used spikes. Nowadays we use a kind of heavy clip, but there are plenty of spikes left!

about the spoon in the refreshment room: was the victorian time after the times where one carried a wooden spoon on itself at all times abroad?

I've always admired the unsung Navvies who did the work. And wonder what happened to them after the work was done? Where they went, what they did, their children and grandchildren, on down to the present time.