There were quite a lot of steam tramways. Round your way, Birmingham had several steam tram companies, and they were found in other towns round there. Wolverhampton went straight from horses to electricity, though. Wikipedia has a useful "List of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom".
@Graham_Rule18 күн бұрын
That dredger was fascinating. I was wondering if that was its original speed or was it running more slowly because of its age?
@FeoragForsyth18 күн бұрын
I didn't see any information about that. I would imagine its speed would depend on what it's dredging.
@kastandlee18 күн бұрын
Great work. Your footage of the steam dredge is some of your best work. And we're now certain you'd love the Great Oregon Steam-Up at Powerland north of Salem, Oregon.
@FeoragForsyth18 күн бұрын
You'll need to let me know when that is, with plenty of warning. It sounds fabulous, but getting there from Scotland needs some planning.
@kastandlee29 күн бұрын
Nice work again, and good job integrating the two sets of footage. Lisa is putting together plans for her two months in Europe based in Munich, and Stuttgart looks like a simple 2 hour trip each way -- nice use of her Eurail Pass!
@FeoragForsyth29 күн бұрын
Hope that DB don't do the usual, and that her travel around Germany is smooth. I should be back in Stuttgart in October, and plan to make use of a wee book I bought last time of transport history and industrial heritage walks.
@davebarnes4957Ай бұрын
Best vintage tram ride is the 28E in Lisboa.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
One day...
@edprior2821Ай бұрын
Canadian here. I did this trip from de Paane to Knokke pre-Covid, with a stop for several beer at Oostende. It's a great trip, amazing for a local tram. Thanks for the memories.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
There were some great beer places on the route, but most of them seemed to close on Tuesdays, which is when I chose to do it.
@lindavid1975Ай бұрын
Fantastic - now I need to visit this too - when I visit das Wuppertaler Schwebebahn.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
Try and schedule your visit for when the tram museum is running heritage trams. You get a good long ride with great views. And there's a lovely woodland walk between the top of the funicular and the rack railway, if that's your thing.
@aidancampbell78Ай бұрын
I have used it to get from Marienplatz up to the TV tower
@MerelyGiftedАй бұрын
I was waving to the other train when our driver waved, too 😊
@kastandleeАй бұрын
Great video! Your eye for angles is good. Lisa says she would like to take a ride on this line herself during her trip to Germany after Worldcon this year.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
It's fairly easy to get to, and is part of the local public transport system, so a local day ticket or a Deutschlandticket is valid. The ongoing saga at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof is still ongoing, but causing less chaos than I feared. Stuttgart has a lot of interesting railed transport - there's still one more video in this series to come on the tram museum and heritage tram rides.
@BillRickerАй бұрын
Charming
@Graham_RuleАй бұрын
We could do with those bike racks in Edinburgh.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
The previous trams on this route had a smaller version of the same, too.
@BillRickerАй бұрын
What a sweet funicular. Thank you.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
I loved all the wood, contrasting with the Art Deco buildings, and the peacefulness of it all.
@wietzebraemАй бұрын
hey, that 6102 ex-yellow tow tram is now in the breakdown at TTO Noordzee near the De Panne Esplanade tram stop
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
I saw that it had been moved there, but it didn't seem like there was enough time for them to do it in-between filming and reading.
@kastandleeАй бұрын
Nice camera work! Lisa praised your steady hand and views that let the viewer "be there" rather than showing lots of artsy angles.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
I like an occasional artsy angle, tbh, but used sparingly.
@kastandleeАй бұрын
Thank you again for sharing this with us. Lisa will be traveling around Germany based out of Munich after Worldcon and is looking forward to doing a lot more videos when she gets home in October.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
I look forward to seeing them.
@kastandleeАй бұрын
Looks like great fun! Lisa and I have experienced something similar (without the boats) at The Great Oregon Steam-Up in Brooks, Oregon: lots of stream traction, a steam sawmill, a steam grain mill (used to mill grain grown in an adjacent field), but also a steam rail crane, and electric trolleys running around property, and a variety of small distillate engines. The location in Brooks (Powerland) contains lots of different museums, like a fire truck engine museum, a Whyte truck museum, a Harley-Davidson museum, and a Caterpillar museum, one of which is steam powered. Not that you're likely to be in Oregon in early August, but it is great fun. Lisa used to be a volunteer at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum that is one of the many museums on site at Powerland.
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
Clearly needs to go on the bucket list! I noticed yesterday that the Summerlee Industrial Museum near Glasgow is having a steam weekend the same weekend as the Worldcon, and am investigating public transport options to get there (and hoping my two "real steampunk" programme items don't clash).
@Graham_RuleАй бұрын
I'm sure if you'd not been holding the camera you'd have been doing the same dance at 16:34
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
Me? Dance? Before the pubs have opened?
@paulashe61Ай бұрын
Issues with the Tay bridge. Wonderful understatement
@paulashe61Ай бұрын
Willie Tescos used do an amazing breakfast until they banned smoking and the customer base vanished. First step on a day of hangover meeting many friends from the night before from Broughton st
@paulashe61Ай бұрын
Subsistence on Scotland st
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
You just know that's how it would be described on Fix My Street. And the council would get the bleme.
@paulashe61Ай бұрын
I remember when the tunnel was open you would walk up to Waverley. But the piles of Waverley market pierced the railway tunnel
@FeoragForsythАй бұрын
The gate was left unlocked a few years back and a couple of friends went in and took lots of photos. Alas, the one with the camera is no longer with us, but I enjoyed his accounts of the adventure. I was out of town at the time, otherwise I'd have been there too.
@RailwayLMS2 ай бұрын
Greatly appreciate your technical correction of this being a cable-hauled incline, not a true funicular. We got to ride a similar conveyance, albeit a much more industrial one, in Japan at the Seikan Tunnel between Honshu and Hokkaido. We want to say that we thought that your camera work was spot on, and your editing was fantastic.
@FeoragForsyth2 ай бұрын
Thank you. That tunnel's somethng I want to do some time, though I hadn't realised there was other things to do there other than go through it at speed!
@kastandlee2 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this! And the spa sounds like it would be great as well.
@FeoragForsyth2 ай бұрын
The spa day in Spa was one of two bucket list items I did on this trip. It was wonderful. I think you'll like the other thing too.
@BillRicker2 ай бұрын
So each track has its own counterweight, which runs on an under track?
@FeoragForsyth2 ай бұрын
@@BillRicker Yes, that's right.
@kastandlee4 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this! Lisa now says she's got to see if she'll have a chance to visit on her post-Worldcon travel.
@FeoragForsyth4 ай бұрын
If she goes, there's a tram museum only open at weekends, maybe only Sunday, that's interesting. There's also a preserved railway, but I've not managed to be there at the right time for that. And the national museum is a good use of time too, though there's no transport stuff there. The building is impressive - they dug down a long way to make it.
@Graham_Rule4 ай бұрын
That funicular seems to be overkill for the traffic level, but great fun to play on. I can think of a number of Edinburgh hills where it would be good to have something similar.
@FeoragForsyth4 ай бұрын
I went at a non-busy time. At rush hour it's apparently stowed out.
@BillRicker4 ай бұрын
Whether intentional or not, some of the exposures made for a fetching water color effect! Vicariously vision all these nice trains and trams through your perambulations remains delightful. 😊
@Benzyl4 ай бұрын
Needs more station cats!
@FeoragForsyth4 ай бұрын
Had I spotted any, they'd have had a starring role.
@BillRicker4 ай бұрын
The white linen tea-service dining special looks especially charming
@FeoragForsyth4 ай бұрын
Seems to be a regular thing.
@Graham_Rule4 ай бұрын
Thanks for that. I loved the mix of the old and new. Lineside phones, defibrilators, electric wheelchairs, and 1950's technology. The loo you showed near the end brought back the smell of train soap. But the plush compartment you had seemed odd because I thought it should have had pictures of distant railway lines, and a metal handle to turn to switch the heating on and off.
@FeoragForsyth4 ай бұрын
I have a couple of photos from that day that, if I converted them to black and white, you'd never know they were recent. The plush compartment was definitely plusher than I remember, and it was interesting to compare it to the ÖBB 80s executive chic compartment I got to ride in recently. Both luxurious, but very different aesthetics.
@kastandlee4 ай бұрын
Beautiful video, and excellent editing! Thanks for sharing this with us. It would have been great to have traveled with you!
@FeoragForsyth4 ай бұрын
Thank you. It really was serendipitous - I had no idea any of this was going on until I got there.
@helpmehelp30097 ай бұрын
Ah, health and safety weren't for the common people, then just give them a pick and a penny a day and send them to their box!
@evamrazova89238 ай бұрын
😂💩🐎👍👍👍
@BillRicker8 ай бұрын
Called Road Apples for a reason! The electric tram was heralded as removing this pollution from our streets.
@BillRicker9 ай бұрын
Very nice, thank you.
@streetrambler1349 ай бұрын
Nice ride, thanks for sharing. 👍
@FeoragForsyth9 ай бұрын
Thank you, too. Stuttgart is a bit of a transport nerdvana, and I am not staring at the great pile of footage I took.
@streetrambler1349 ай бұрын
lol it looked like fun.@@FeoragForsyth
@kastandlee9 ай бұрын
Thank you! Lisa says she really appreciates the driver's-eye view of how the line looks.
@FeoragForsyth9 ай бұрын
It was great to be able to capture it, and on such a lovely day too.
@ianmccluskie845310 ай бұрын
Very informative, well researched and entertaining. Thanks
@andrewjameson591811 ай бұрын
Love this, another thing I did not know. Look at W&AK Johnston they have a great history in Edinburgh
@bluettr250 Жыл бұрын
Actual useful transit
@markshrimpton3138 Жыл бұрын
I remember in the 1970s a gang of bank robbers executed their getaway through the tunnel, exiting at Scotland Street, where they had a car ready. This was well before the Princes Mall (Waverley Shopping Centre) existed. On that site was a Victorian fruit and vegetable market and even at the time of the robbery it was possible to go right along the tunnel’s length. During the Second World War the tunnel was earmarked as an air raid shelter, though I don’t know whether it was much used. Later part of it was used as a short-lived mushroom farm. I only know this because I worked at what is now The Balmoral Hotel and there are tunnels from that, or were, going hither and thither. Interesting upload though, thank you.
@FeoragForsyth Жыл бұрын
Cool story. I'm interested to hear more about the hotel tunnels because a late friend mentioned their existence (but also a lift, which couldn't have gone where he claimed unless it was a Great Glass Elevator). He did manage to get into the Scotland Street Tunnel though, and took photos of wartime stuff - not a shelter, but some kind of control centre apparently. Alas, by the time I was working on this video, the brain tumour was busy taking away his memories including his memory of having taken all the photos he'd showed me 😞
@markshrimpton3138 Жыл бұрын
@@FeoragForsyth I worked there part time in the late 70s then again in the mid 80s. The hotel extends almost as far below Princes Street as it rises above it. Myriad rooms, corridors, tunnels. It was a rabbit warren. Whether it’s still like that I don’t know. It was built as a railway hotel and was still under BR’s ownership during the times I worked there. Many of the underground rooms I saw were filled with discarded hotel furniture and fixtures. There were two huge whisky blending vats, big boilers that fed steam out into the steam locomotives. Then there were doors that led through into tunnels and supporting arches beyond the hotel boundaries. Heaven knows why. The architect was W. Hamilton Beattie who died before the hotel was completed. He also designed the Royal British Hotel and the Jenners building.
@markshrimpton3138 Жыл бұрын
@@FeoragForsyth on reading your reply again and engaging my brain I realise that the lift to which your friend referred was most likely the one in the Waverley station that took train passengers up to the hotel (and vice versa). When you exited the booking hall and turned right there were doors immediately to your right which took you into a small lobby. Inside was a lift which went up just one level. You came out, turned right and trundled over the railway lines, down a series of corridors then took another lift which came up in the hotel foyer. It’s long gone. I suppose not many hotel guests arrive by train and those that do are expected to give themselves a heart attack going up the Waverley steps. Someone told me there’s now an escalator. I don’t live in Edinburgh now, it’s too much of a all year round tourist town, with no real shops.
@FeoragForsyth Жыл бұрын
@@markshrimpton3138 - that'll be the one. There are now escalators, and plenty of lifts, though the escalators have a habit of not working.
@Crosshatch1212Күн бұрын
@@markshrimpton3138same at royal terrace hotel you cld go from there underground to the old parliament building just up the road as you say there was also bricked up tunnel ways ,
@StooFras-TheFiresofHell. Жыл бұрын
As a Edinburgh postie I used to deliver mail to Scotland street along Royal Crescent,also as we for a time stayed in Cumberland Street when I was young we used to play in the park that was at the foot of Scotland Street,often saw the boarded up tunnel and wondered at the time where it led, found this out in later years. 🤔
@FeoragForsyth Жыл бұрын
Cool. I remember it being easier to get into when I first moved here, but I never got round to it.
@BillRicker Жыл бұрын
Nice!
@poofygoof Жыл бұрын
That is some master-level braking there. I wonder if the driver also does passenger trains? I think German shunters are commonly diesel-hydraulic rather than diesel-electric -- the engine sound is very different than US shunters.
@shahrookhshroff3018 Жыл бұрын
I well remember these diesel "shunters" I used to see in my hometown of Mumbai, India, upto the 1990s, I believe ... loving to see their fans rotating on the topside of their hoods from a Foot Overbridge in the Mumbai Central - Dadar - Bandra area, whenever the opportunity presented itself. 🥰 But oh, no! I could never enter the cabin! 😪
@FeoragForsyth Жыл бұрын
It’s by Sainte-Catherine Metro station in Brussels
@moondancer4660 Жыл бұрын
I haven't seen a carousel in many years! I wonder where this is.
@robnewman6101 Жыл бұрын
R.I.P Prince Albert.
@robnewman6101 Жыл бұрын
Robert Peel (1788-1850) was the Founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force at Scotland Yard in 1829.