Railway Mania! Building the Victorian Railways in Britain

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[neildavies]

Simon, William Huskinsson was my great great great great grandfather!! I have commented on other videos to do something about the Rocket and my relative being a fatal claim to fame for me 😀 Great video!!

[vustvaleo]

the prequel to Thomas the Tank Engine was more hardcore.

[highpath]

Good shout out for the Middleton Railway. The patents and works of Matthew Murray (for the Steam Locomotive to Blenkinsop's Designs) deserve a video of their own. Murray mostly patented improve wool spinning equipment and other things, but was sufficiently advance for Boulton and Watt to both send spies to his Round Foundary works in Leeds, and buy up adjoining land thereto to prevent expansion. The successors to Fenton, Murray, and Wood over the years established a number of Leeds based Railway Locomotive and Equipment manufacturers, with Hudswell Clarke and Hunslet being among the last to still manfacture until fairly recent years.

[kcollier]

Everyone knows that the best Monopolies are the railroads

[goovy]

Isn't 0.6m about 2 feet, instead of 1 foot? 08:40
Good and interesting video otherwise!

[fraserwood]

Hey! First time I have heard Crewe mentioned on any YT channel. We are a south Cheshire town with a great railway heritage, far from the tourist trail. Most of the heritage has been demolished. That’s progress for you. The expression “all change at Crewe” is

[spankflaps]

Sorry to be a railway nerd, but the engine shown in the thumbnail is an ex-LMS “Black 5” mixed traffic loco from the 1950’s, not from the Victorian era.
I know that “Black Fives Matter”, but I would have chosen the ‘Stirling Single’ as the best representation of British Victorian steam motive power. 👍

[ignitionfrn]

2:20 - Chapter 1 - Pre locomotives
3:35 - Chapter 2 - An invention to change the world
6:00 - Chapter 3 - Earliest major lines
8:50 - Chapter 4 - Railway mania begins
12:20 - Chapter 5 - After the boom
13:00 - Chapter 6 - A changed country

[tobydawes]

could possibly do a video on the beeching cuts of the 1960s which sold of most off the railways

[DeannaAllison]

Very interesting ... I learned some new things from this excellent video, and I'm speaking as someone born not too far away from Stockton and Darlington, so I've always had some awareness of railway history. Thank you!

[ClutchMyPrimus]

9600 km does not equal 600 miles.
he reads these so fast, he's not even processing it. LOL

[mikeygallos]

Please do a video about the most useless megaprojects ever made.

[automechs]

Do one on the canal system Britain has. It's super interesting!

[surferdude]

I've been asking for this one for a while. Compared to the building of the railways in Great Brittain, the building of the railway across the praries was child's play. 47 bridges in a 32 km stretch!

[mtacoustic]

Including a bit about how a common gauge was chosen would have been interesting.

[kunalphadte]

This is the Blain Braze comment you're looking for

[EAcapuccino]

What a historic turning point!
1 of Britain's proudest moments!
George Stephenson. A name recognizable everywhere!

LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS West Yorkshire! MY HOME CITY! - Thanks for bringing up making a reference Simon whistler, Callum(?) /Broadcast team!!! 😍😍
Uk's industrial heartland during the 1800s! Boy am I Proud of that!

😁👍👏👏
Mallard still holds fastest steam train record. 🚂🚅🚝

[michaeltuite]

after watching many of your various videos on your different channels I would like to say: I love your delivery, you are a great host. Also, I am super jealous of your beard. Mine seems to be an untamable monster.

[bbbf]

Sometimes living round here feels very humdrum - but then when I stop and think I live just a few miles from were (essentially) the modern machine age world began (Rainhill) I think 'Oh, wow!'

[magnificus]

Simon and trains! Let me get coffee and comfy on the couch!