Geoff Marshall Plays Victorian Railway Board Game at the National Railway Museum Feat. Irving Finkel

Let the battle for the pineapple commence! Curator Chris Valkoinen and special guest Geoff Marshall take on the world's first railway-themed board game. Move aside Ticket to Ride, it's time for Wallis's Locomotive Game of Railroad Adventures. Loose pigs, lost brides and Gamesmaster Irving Finkel all await our intrepid players in this 1840s adventure.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:17 Chris and Geoff
00:36 What is it?
01:54 The rules
05:20 Prizes?
06:50 The game begins
07:24 This man happens to be Irving Finkel
07:44 The game continues
15:47 Early history of Derby station
19:30 What is an atmospheric railway?
20:13 Play resumes
26:55 Winner!
28:10 Thanks for watching!

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[timothyp]

Brought a few smiles watching this — and glad that Irving Finkel was game to read the actions for each square 😊

[ShadowDragon]

Some context that wasn't gone over in the film: Pineapple, in Victorian days - especially _early_ ones - was an extremely difficult-to-get commodity; it had to come from the tropics on a ship that was powered by sail; steam-ships did not yet have the range and infrastructure to support cargo hauls like that.
Pineapples were thus luxury goods; displaying one (let alone waging one up as a prize in a board game) was demonstrating your _wealth._ Folk could actually _rent them_ to display _(uneaten!)_ at parties and the like.

This board game, though it clearly seems to be simply childish good fun to us today, was thus firmly intended to be played by, marketed to, at _least_ middle-class individuals.

[davidioanhedges]

Geoff and Irving! .... now that's a collaboration we never knew we needed !

[Biker_Gremling]

7:26 I just can imagine people of the museum raising the question: Ok, so whos the ideal person to read the rules? and slowly turning the heads to this man and starting to maliciously laugh 😂.

Amazing video, really had a laugh with it! And the museum should REALLY sell this on the gift shop!

[BRLocosStudios]

What a beautifully written and edited video. Honestly took me by suprise!

[mervynprice]

Irving Finkel, Sir, lots of us cannot eat grapefruit, but we can eat pineapple. And of course the Pineapple was a sign of great wealth in the Great Country Houses of that time. It looks to have been a game where most players retired due to lack of funds. So they needed a good sense of humour to have fun.

[conradharcourt]

A wonderful historical artefact, but I'll never complain about Monopoly again!

[debshipard]

What a great video. The NRM should market the game. I thought it was a Geoff Marshall vlog. 😂

[stevieinselby]

"I was hoping for a cuddly toy" ... you could always cuddle the pineapple! 🍍

[lieuwina]

I thoroughly enjoyed this and it was very well played by Geoff Marshall and Chris Valkoinen . The NRM should market the game. I thought one might be able to buy the game, would make a lovely, Christmas present and to play over Christmas day. Irving Finkel really got into the reading for the actions for each square. Loved this.

[davidkimmins]

Nice to see Irving Finkel again, my next door neighbour until I was 4 years old and fellow Old Minchendenian. Robur durabit!

[johntyjp]

A Victorian parlour game was by using a Bradshaw s guide, players would work out the quickest way from one place to another, e g from Penzance to Hull. The one with the shortest journey time was the winner.🧐

[DubGathoni]

9:21, I propose for a double X that you go back whatever number is drawn and skip the next turn

[ShadowDragon]

It occurs to me, this game is from _so long ago_ that it's surely lapsed into the public domain. I wonder how long until it appears for something like Tabletop Simulator or the like?

[Anonymoususer_]

This is such a good interview. Geoff Marshall is the best YouTuber ever and I never heard of Ivring Finkel.

[Andrewjg_]

Nice to see Geoff Marshall in this. Very good interview.

[vectorbrony]

I'm working on a layout of Gosport Railway station. It's a beautiful design with a limestone frontage and columns

[AndiDoubleV]

I liked for the prizes. I was not expecting it and couldn't stop laughing

[mattih.]

What an excellent episode! I really enjoyed it.
But the big picture of Geoff in the thumbnail is terrifying.

[MrLOFTYBOBBY]

great watch, loved every minute of it👍👍👍