hello it is Saturday the 13th of July we
are still on the Isle of Man it's sunny
but windy yeah today I can just it just
out of shop just just over there
we about to board the Manx electric
railway to an unknown number of stops to
the Manx electric James
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we're leaving
Douglas Darby Darby Carson all right
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we're in the carriage where you could
Tripoli now totally now okay
where are we we're stopped number one -
okay yes I might need that as a cue
actually writing it down in your book
what to cook even Andrew just never met
he said there were 70 stops but we were
taught by American Alex have a 69
there's genuine confusion as to how many
stops / halts there are right now people
are watching this video they're arguing
in the comments now is 69 no in 70
there's somebody be like no no it's
you forgot about this one in 72 there'll
be arguments going on forever how many
stops are there I love it I think I
think you've already lied I think you've
already lost it was - we didn't stop her
yeah so it runs but by the road there
are some words which have got big name
which others have just got that all
green shells with the Chinese that work
laminated bit of paper yeah and others I
just
and some in a pinch
savages done their identities of unnamed
unofficial stocks that have no no names
but people just know that they're there
and it just runs alongside the road
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number one tram we've come to the Depot
here at the the Manx electric railway
and I'm thrilled to say that over here's
a nice man called Andrew hello there
good morning hello Andrew tell YouTube
what you do as a job what's your job a
role I have two jobs I work in the
engineering office at alman railways and
also I'm allowed to come out and drive
the trams when we need me to go out
driving something tram driver and driver
as well and you're gonna just give us a
quick tour around the depo being weird
Graham car number one and while it was
built one of three in 1893 she's in the
Guinness Book of Records they're going
oldest operating electric tram car
anywhere in the world still its original
line yeah all right a couple of dumb
questions what gauge are we running at
today three foot and he's powered right
overhead yep what kind of voltage you
would like DC just one here there's a
nearest substations all on the line
we're buying the power from the bank's
utilities authority AC okay and it's
converted and transformed and fed into
the overhead and how many units do you
have in total we've got fourteen the
operational the motor cars and about
fifteen sixteen seventeen trailers all
right we can have a quick look inside
edgy candy let's do it when the railway
opened it was at pioneering it was the
forefront of tramway technology was
action no electricity on the Isle of Man
sir had to build their own power station
down there as well is that partly what
the laxity wheel is about because
there's no coal on the island to
generate get some devious obsession so
you have to have operate the pump to
mind you there's no cult anywhere in the
automat him okay 32 is an open-sided
carved has quite a lot of the trams rope
inside it and and she's the baby of the
fleet over 32 or 33 they were built in
1906 so that made you one just compared
to number one
and they've all got the Triskelion on
the front okay most of the most and some
of us at missing yeah do you got a pen
we could yeah we could draw it on it was
that was a lame traditions into felt pen
the trams I think to be in trouble we're
renowned for carrying a pack a pack of
sharpies leave your trail everywhere to
show you number 54 here which was then
one of the original train was built for
the opening the line in 1893 and the
absolute last year she's actually turned
the wheel service for 50 years business
and so a joint voluntary of an Deco
engineering staff effort and we've spent
the last year store in every painting
and she's gonna be back in service next
week for the duel I am heritage
transport Festival I hear there's like a
five-day first is indeed yeah bringing
our old things and doing all sorts for
the to graphic opportunity are you
saying you've come the wrong weekend is
that what your home there's never a
wrong weekend there's never a wrong day
becomes never man
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remind you about another certain type of
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trainer bang bang Donna babe how many
you got we've done more than 30 we're
touching
taxi I think everybody will get up
including ourselves we're gonna run
Hubble put his name come out to Train
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set up on the mountain mail way Andrew
really quick is it the same type of car
that's used on the rest of the paper to
go away that's it says there are
differences man face up the same wider
gauge sweet mistakes were the center
only to use breaking of the way down
okay they very kindly and I do mean that
let us into that the front is it is
called a caterpillar trap so you've got
a cab to cab switch boxes and a sweet
spot
Andy is down here and where we've got
the view out the front of their of the
mountain that way amazing
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is it me or is the mountain all in Miss
Daisy mist isn't it
they're going to say
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after water maybe two o'clock now
yesterday products did clear all day
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we just made it to Bunga station which
is the only stop halfway up except
during TT week there's a road just here
what happens during TT week is that
bungalow stations on the north side of
the road and the road is blocked off the
TT so they put the temporary station
also called bungalow on the south side
of the road and then you have to get out
and walk between the two so for just the
one week two weeks with the TT is on
there's an extra bonus there's a second
bungalow station so again it just inches
bonus bungalow so it just adds to the
whole how many stop stations are there
on the other band it's very very
confusing
dramatic I'm
expecting Kate Bush
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we've made it to the top
now I was hoping to get out my drone
here and do a spectacular mountain view
but this this is the view it's a little
bit misty over here is Anglesey yes this
Scotland there yes you can see at the
Lake District yes behind you is Island
rustling you can you basically see 360
degrees is amazing we're 2036 VII which
just qualifies for mountain status there
how you have to be 2,000 feet to be a
mountain yeah we've had a cup of tea to
warm up viki's actually bought the
fleece it's really interesting quite
rightly that we it's not so good hello
again
that we walk up to the summit which is
what we're gonna do now
human we clean our interview with you
check that you think it's really windy
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stay bounty
they have to take down the Warriors
I don't think I could last
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we've got the bus from Baxley up to dune
Glen maxi like see what I say
max Lee after dune Glen check out dude
blue I thought I wanted to come and see
what a little halt
hey was like
mmm it's a tiny hurt Oh
Doon is now a request stop please signal
the tram driver to stop okay thus ends
the fellow thus ends the explore of the
shelter
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silicon in the Goonies like God is
incredible
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sadly we don't have time to walk all the
way to the end but you get to the beach
in Zen Beach but this is a few things
are lovely I can hear it but I can't say
I think is clearly a waterfall down
there there's a bigger one down there
there's a big waterfall down there and
there's a little one just there but it's
still it's still really pretty just ding
Glen from to get back get our tram
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you again onto the tram
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we found a brilliant thing to do with
that I think Vicki you stop counting
that up a halt March early in the day to
near right to use OpenStreetMap website
which on the App Store on an iPhone the
app is called map dot me the beautiful
and you are beautiful people that update
the open source map of the street map
marked on all the crossings down here
and there's there's a brilliant thing
tonight there's a crossing court court
hills crossing halt call killed was the
gentleman that was of the month
permanent way gang and just work the
line and that's near way he lived so he
was like can I get out of here and said
they named the crossing after him we're
just about to go through one called
Watson's crossing of course
to the general manager of the magnetic
railway house where he lived so they
just named the hall after him
this is what they've done they just
named Holtz out after people it's
completely brilliant
this is dreams carry Holtzman it's
literally like a little hook and there's
a chair right as if you'd sit on a
little green chair and wait three whose
carry and there's like a little
corrugated iron hat as well that's
dreams Gary just had to get on dirt we
hit the outskirts of Ramsey sort of like
a local commuter sort of suburban stop
to get Walpole halt Queens Drive for
ballast joyful and then grams itself and
then we give to Ramsey Vicki you've got
a you've got a job to do correct
I'm gonna put Vicki to work and about
time
Vicki we try that as well I think I'm
taking the rod off the line use your
body weight
you're back of you an Emmy are not we
tie it round there yes it's tight see
now what that means is the trailer comes
off the wire it's not gonna spin round
okay now we're on yep
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bring the belt why she might eat a globe
after hitting least twice
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but why do we have to change platforms
well let me just leave from that
platform it's addition ok because you're
playing explain what's happening so it's
coming on like in effect one platform to
put a platform 1 and then we've moved
that to do the points we've got to do
the pantograph and the rope and we've
come over to this track we've now got to
do it again and then when we get back
into the second platform we're gonna do
it again
see do it three times hey Andrew you do
it three times it's a three-legged
operation and that is how to do the Manx
electric railway and the snow fell
Mountain Railway and another video
tomorrow where we go to the likely mine
railway I do it an explorer and the
gravel Glen on the wheel and all that to
come up we have to thank Andrew our
absolute gin and a local man showing
very much hanging out with us today
training me and how to turn the train
Hey showing us the ropes I've been
saving that one up see you tomorrow
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look at my hand come to the top
could you humor me did you just say can
you just no you
you