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it's Friday the 12th of July where are
we Jeff Douglas we're on the Isle of Man
Isle of Man railways here and going
exploring
I think might go explore burn we're very
excited that we have we have three days
of video it's like a three leg how many
legs are on the Isle of Man flag you did
this on purpose and it's like we planned
it let's go to the trains to the main
stations
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here can smell the smoke here I think at
the characters they do a dining car
special want during the summer on
Thursday evenings and Saturdays there's
a dining train but we're getting the
regular train which is over here
anywhere rates unreserved you want to
bag me a seat so I can go and get a shot
I'll get a picture the glorious team you
bag as a seat thank you we're in a small
compartment and there's six other people
around us you're not on camera you just
want to shout hey so that everyone knows
you're here
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we actually left three minutes late at
9:53 there was no dot dot matrix display
either there was no idea yeah and the
first stop is port soldering we're we're
not getting out well you've learned
things already I have they have these
wonderful little window gazes guide so
this station is where the station master
and his family would have normally have
lived but now it's primarily owned and
then just after the station you go to
Balak a stained bridge and that's the
highest point on the room which is 200
million feet for sixty three point seven
meters if you like metric
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coming into balance alle sliding down
window hand out of window for hand or
lover amazing maze by oh okay
we've got on the bus because last night
we came up this road off on the tax from
the airport whenever something called
the Ferry Bridge which I gather as a
local tradition to say hello to the
little and we're just going to go and
try and track down the Ferry Bridge I
didn't hear you say hello ferries see
say hello fairies okay thank you
so well it's just tradition it's always
thought to be unlucky not to greet the
little people as the people on the isle
of man call them not fairies fairies is
an English term and so it's just
tradition thought to be good luck to say
hello to little people as you cross very
bougie I feel like we should hello
little people would hello fairies I
think a little and it is a tiny bridge
we're gonna catch the train so we've
come up this road just down from the
Ferry Bridge you've just seen in the
distance because the train coming that
way is coming through this is the only
manual crossing gate on the steam
railway so we'll see the Train that's
heading back towards Douglas
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that's what I call perfect timing and
the man is here to do the game morning
sir
so we've come to what I believe is the
only manual crossing gate on the you're
the Ian
I mean warning you know you're not a
volunteer no get paid you get paid to do
this hey by whom who pays you well the
other man transport which it is a
state-owned government run there how do
you know when the trains do these it's
on a radio but they whistle from the
distance plane what your flag is for go
ahead but they've got a green one for go
cautiously and I would have thought
green would be go ahead in yellow would
be cautious why is yellow
go ahead cowardice isn't it it's a
window next one two three oh not for
about two hours so what do you do just
have a cup of tea break in between you
want to hang it can we hang out have a
cup of tea no I'm afraid not because I'm
go to capital would you like to see I
can get you a cup of tea from somewhere
we're back on the bass we're heading
back the way we came
Ian's come with us because he's got like
two hours between trains to go and get
his lunch and we're gonna go and find
Airport stops as in the train station
that stops the airport which is also a
request oh so me me a female the airport
building is in the distance back there
the airport has a railway station is
called Ronald's way halt well it is a
request stop it's not technically mean
and we're walking down that's a five
minute walk away it's a little bit I'm
thinking of them the keyword no no no
look the Teesside airport oh yes I
called yeah yeah where there's a station
that's sort of serves the airport
make your tank clear
Sarris
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made at the castle town which is the
point where the trains cross over so
could walk down here we should get to
the we should see the other train
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okay so this is where the fun really
begins because it's constant
there it is
my goodness it looks great a castle
Russian or Russian I'm gonna figure out
how exactly you say that in a minute but
the castle stands defending the silver
burn River as it's done
since the 12th century incredible just
walking through the main gate already
feels really imposing it's gonna be
great
it's got the proper of castles sort of
slightly domed smell to it
there's such a great smell the smell of
history so you may remember in one in my
intimate in the first episode of all the
stations in 2017 we're at Falmouth and I
talked about murder holes
so I'm now standing above when the
portcullis entrance is and where if I
would have been a soldier back in the
day I would have used those murder holes
to attack anyone below well that's the
first man using the Garda robe sorry
about that
Castle Rushen was built in the 12th
century by the Vikings who had been on
the Isle of Man since the ninth century
was actually here that the last North
King to rule the isle of man died in
1265 not long after in 1313 Robert the
Bruce besieged the castle taking it and
the Isle of Man for the Scots in and
around the 1400s the castle came under
the occupancy of the Stanley family an
English family who were given the castle
by Henry the fourth they took on the
title of the Lord of man and even though
the Isle of Man isn't part of the UK
it's a British Crown dependency the
Queen still holds the title of the lord
of man today
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there goes the bus because whilst vicki
was at the castle
i've come one stop up the line to Bala
BEC station so gonna wait for the train
to go from Aaron first ago go up that
way it's got to get to Castle didn't
meet the Train that's where they pass
and then the one coming this way Nikki
will be on more than head west to put
Aaron I'm back at Castle Town station
Geoff is a one stop out
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Oh God can't read all to myself I'm so
decadent
hey I managed to get a sister carriage
to ourselves this deserves a GoPro shot
ooh are you are you testing out the
elbow space means new I think we do
major come on join me here in the middle
I was surprised they were compartment
train why I thought there might be a
walkthrough train so many years
what
since Mary thank you
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it's quarter to five a little bit late
we're still at ports that Mary taught me
from a sweater on the Jersey mr. wetter
a little bit nippy as a train in the
distance last train of the days are
coming the steam trains Jurassic Park
and on this train there should be a man
called Chris Chris that's Patrick but
we're now gonna get on with Chris end of
the line and of the line we are at or
Erin and we're here with the lovely
Chris and okay you live on the owner of
moon tell us what's the best thing about
the railways on the Isle of Man what you
see here are all still the main lines
there and they were built for exactly
what they're doing now transporting
visitors and also residents to informing
there's resident stations to a store
integral part of transport on the island
a noise that you particularly like about
the railway I'll use them actually more
than the buses it's not every day that
you can still take a steam train on say
Douglas to port mm to do some business
here say down in Port Heron or even
maybe even do some shopping and then
catch the the train back this is the
first time that Jeff and I have been to
the
so we want to experience all there is to
experience so what apart from the
railways what other things do we have to
make sure that we see and do or
experience was for you
unfortunately you've you've missed our
tin wall day and that is where any
member of the Manx public can put a
petition to a member of government the
tin ball Parliament actually dates back
to Viking times the actual term warbound
itself is actually made of all the soils
of all the 17 parishes on the island
that's incredible
that's amazing you're gonna know very
kindly give us a lift in your car we're
gonna go and take in the car from people
castle and Geoff a broken have broken
the proquest I've broken the fourth wall
yeah yeah there's another car for up the
coast
yeah called pill castle got madrone as
the music rolls and before the credit
crashing his shots of all the things
that we did after we met Chris and you
were just gonna drive us all these
places
thanks Chris everyone say say bye even
though there's like 30 more seconds of
the video to go
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so cute like nibbling it's okay I've
never seen it I do like standing up and
doing this maybe out of man he'll do
that because it only needs to sometimes
bring eggs
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