hello hi Maura Maya episode 3 where are
we now
third day on the Isle of Man yeah we
were originally on gonna do two videos
and then we got word we got wind that we
could do that lacks Leigh mine Brown
wait so we're doing that today
yeah along with the wheel yes and then
later on we're going on the wrath of
Glenn I keep forgetting how to pronounce
it it's the button not grew to its level
it's the bonus Isle of Man video to the
bonus to the bonus
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yes we didn't think we were going to get
a chance to go on
GLM our that's the great Lac sling run
route way and then Brian whom we'll meet
in a minute send us a message and win
come on down and it's the only tunnel
drow way on the Isle of Man it's just a
little five-minute ride go to Ward's the
wheel the key we'll be exploring the
goal later but here it comes now it's a
bit dark inside here it comes it's just
another five minute excursion there
hello we've met Brian thanks for
inviting us I need to know basics
tell us why does this little railway
exist
what's the gauge how many engines do you
have we have three engines the gay just
making the half-inch everything else is
18 inches this one's a Knightly and a
half it was mainly for the mine to bring
the ore out of mine down here to the
waterfall where they tipped it over the
edge sorted it and then took it down the
horse-and-cart down to our lucky night
not story down to the lack see Harbor
was then taken over to the UK I was
reading something somewhere is this
right that whilst it was predominantly
the men who be going into the mind women
would do lot of the washing that was
there ever any women drivers or
- going down not that I'm not that I'm
aware of no no so we're gonna be
traveling on this in just a moment and
I'm assuming we're gonna go underground
that's not actually gonna go underground
where you're going to go through the
only railway terminal on the whole of
the Isle of Man which is really the
shortest one or the longest one
depending on which way you want it look
at it but it's 277 footlong okay but
surely can hold both titles well the
candy yeah amazing the Train I think so
I'm gonna climb inside okay
it's caged off alright sweet is it just
us yes
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into the mine and lightly into the mind
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where the end of the line so Brian tell
us a little bit more about the history
of the mine itself so that so this
railway would have kept going like the
railway tell finish just on the corner
there okay well that hedges is the
entrance to the mine ah we exit under
the line up to here to make it easier
for people to get on and off and easier
for a walk up to the wheel itself the
mine closed in 1924 and the scrub the
two engines we then made two replicas in
2004 which were building built in
Darlington and the mine itself
what sort of all was it that was singing
and now you know it came out - help
Flint abundant mile-and-a-half annoying
and goes down about 2500 feet which is
what the same height as my fell is high
so you got a rough idea and then I want
to bust in how long have you been
working so I you volunteer you can
volunteer your volunteer every weekend
you're here
I am how long have you been doing it two
years now why do you love trains Brian I
just love the smell of them
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and we're back it makes sense to have
the caged area because little small
little fingers for children can't stick
their hands out the side and I knew
including us I've included myself in
that would touch the tunnel walls that's
cute right that's great a little bit
will Pete Rouse can we do it again we
got to do it again because you want to
get to the lack see wheel and the
fastest way to the likely will is is to
take in this badger
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the lack see wheel is the largest
working or two wheel in the world it was
built to help solve the problem of
flooding in the lead and zinc mines here
in Maxine while some engineers would
have used steam to power such a huge
machine because coal isn't naturally
found on the Isle of Man
they looked harnessed the power of water
instead when in motion the wheel turns a
series of levers and pumps to bring up
water from the lower part of the mine to
enable excavations to continue the wheel
is also known as lady Isabella named
after the wife of the Lieutenant General
of the Isle of Man
Charles hope lady Isabella wasn't the
only water wheel on the island it's
thought that over the years they've been
up to 20 water wheels spanning from the
slopes of snow fell all the way down to
the sea so that was the wheel we're just
about to catch the great lack see mine
railway again because we're gonna head
to the ground or Glen railway
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we're a crowd or Glen miniature steam
railway little three-stop railway I'm
really excited
it's got lots of fun ting and it's very
colourful and it's a mini steam train
okay
so to get down to the railway you have
to walk along this slightly rugged path
and this ridiculously ridiculously
scenic
history
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yeah train whistle it is this tiny
little railway just just tucked away in
like the glades and the Glen and the
trees is suddenly you're walking through
like a lot of wood or forests and
suddenly boom well he appears like if
you didn't know is here that would be
unexpected full of streams and tiny
waterfalls is a railway and he's Alex
why is this railway
well nowadays it's run as a tourist
attraction it's very much a volunteer
run organization but the original
railway was built just as that a tourist
attraction goes from the middle of
nowhere to the energy of it and back
again really in the 1890s when the Bank
statute Railway was being built in 1893
gradall became its terminus for one year
and the local entrepreneur who owned all
this language multi Broadbent decided to
turn it into a pleasure ground so there
was a dance hall effectively you know a
Bandstand there were side stalls you
could have your fortune told
and Victorians like to go sort of
arm-in-arm and go wandering through all
these walkways through the Glen and many
a man has met his doom they used to say
in gravel Glen where they've you know
courting couples would meet and then out
on the clifftops
they dammed off an area where they put a
sea lion pool they had polar bears on a
cliff top zoo that was cleaned to the
clifftops and then in 1896 they built
this railway to basically join the two
and it became an attraction in itself
carrying hundreds of thousands of people
over here what's your least you station
we better check for a purchase order
don't make you syndicator
bin bag you have any bin bag swaying in
the breeze no no we all have nicely
built a wooden Victorian litter bins
rubbish yes rubbish
you getting on the footplate to the
footplate
this'll man Oh what Jane tell them that
you've been building things
well I've been perhaps I qualified for a
year
volunteers who sell 12
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it is just a halfway stage for usually
Christmastime singletrack your head it
is yeah we've got a staff there so we've
had lengths go into the headland and
then we'll get adilyn to see wide rocks
gotcha
successful exchange hellos yeah
sometimes you have those when you drop
it but I've never done that yet
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James thank you so much no problems
anytime in anything as we arrived at
Cielo and rocks see Latin rocks Vicki I
just realized something
we've just at the right with the rather
still I'm not to be completed all of
mine stations we've really lucked out
with the weather it's a gorgeous sunny
day we just had a cup of tea in the tea
room there's a delightful little tea
room there I'm just gonna walk down at
the coastal path and Alex is leading us
on to take us to the old the old zoo
that used to be here well well well
you're standing on that was the entrance
sort of walkway to the zoo and up until
mainly about a year ago the the remains
of the bridge that went across was still
there the pool below us is what used to
have see lines performing sea lines in
and you can still see the remnants of
the old walkways around the outside
where the Victorians used to flock
around and watch the sea lions being fed
and then they'd go across the bridge and
in the concrete enclosure on the other
side there would have been two polar
bears who would be sat there and being
fed and the Victorians be watching them
and then to my right you would find
brown bears chained up where you could
take them for a walk for a penny and
there was also at some point in history
an Avery as well
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it's so summit at the ground or ground
or Glen railway you definitely need to
come it's amazing you just say just
saying that because alex is over there
yep I'm just saying this it's been the
perk it's been the perfect way to end
our trip together man you're welcome
come together man ride the steam railway
yes the Manx electric railway
snow fell mentor Mel way the gradall
Glen railway and the lac c9 railway and
also the horse trim and also which was
out of action for those saying why
didn't you the horse tram they're sort
of rebuilding repaving relaying
utilities along the whole of the
promenade also you should go to Russian
Castle peal castle the lack see wheel
it's all good it's all wheels here it's
a lot of water I've seen at least four
water wheels yep there's no cold early
on and there's no foxes or badges or
squirrels squirrels what does it be lone
but there are Wallabies real ones and
which is great yeah come to the other
man it is incredible fly over get the
boat from either Liverpool or issue get
the one at a train to Hisham port yep
and get the steam-packet ferry over you
could meet in the Sophie King at Langham
it's organic thank everyone thank you
Kickstarter I think we just say rock
with it
roll ready Maxie wheel is the largest
working halter wheel in the world don't
get in my shot Geoffrey no you just want
a piece of Advocates law action
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