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  • Can't believe some jack ass stole the batteries. Makes you see why the concept of Merry Olde England is being ruined by modernity and decay.

  • The vandals were probably from Liverpool... :p

  • Poor bullet, it gave its all

  • Poor bullet, it's

  • Nice to see Oz pissed as usual.

  • Wow 9pm and it's still so bright!

  • I absolutely love this programme

  • @terminator363 ME TOO!

  • i nearly cried when James's face turned blue..

    but it's still really great! when people work together for pure and genuine thing like toys, it's really adorable moment

  • thats heart breaking

  • The Fat kid in the red shirt at about 4:22/8:23 Ate the train's moter and replaced it with a chicken bone

  • i love how James May brings a mature and even emotional feel to the show, but still remains playful.

    even so, i'd still like to see Clarkson and Hammond goofing off. trying to attach a V8 engine or jet turban to the little train to make it go faster. XD

  • they should have used a James train from Thomas the Tank Engine because they're both James! XD

  • Look at them all, they look like a bunch of greenies trying to save a beached whale! all sad and desperate.

  • I wonder if the batteries weren't stolen, if the train would have made it... because the train would have been going faster and made more distance... And I thought the train would just refuse to die, a lot like what happens to the used cars on top gear, especially like oliver, the opal, but I was wrong... :(

  • i used to be obsessed with trains and thomas the tank engine when i was young, most of the time people when they reach my age of 18 look back and bury their heads in their hands with embarressment when they think back to their childhood obsessions. Me? i smile twice as much, my model train set is now sadly boxed up, but will never be taken from me :) Train sets RULE!

  • should've asked me for my eurostar and my live steam mallard!!!

  • did they get the world record?

  • He should've used a HST... they last ages!

  • but hey that was 7 miles!!!

  • they should make a specially designed toy train just for this thing.

  • Very unfortunate about that :( but gee the bullet train flew when it took off! FAST! but yeah sorry James.

  • A lot of people say that trains are no good and that they harm the enviroment, and when they heard about this they said that anyone who would want to do that is a boring old s**t. But they arent just models, they are the best children's toys ever and i would do that every day because i think trains are the best

  • @steamfan1998 How the fuck do miniuture trains harm the enviroment?

  • very sad

  • Didn't he redo this episode the other night? If so has anyone got it xD I missed it :(

  • @DeathMagneticX3 Yeah he redid it, in a race with those Germans this time, have a look on the iplayer

  • @Mybaconsandwhich that was a joke...

  • @GeeksvilleStudios The pendo's not a bullet train either, and slower than a javelin on the straights (but yes, faster on the corners).

    Also, why a pendo? Why not an APT instead?

  • It's great to see a toy train make such an achievement. Damaged and lost power it still made the journey passed 70% of it. This is amazing, great team working on cleaning the train, making it work again, this all in just one day. You can't expect everything to go well in just one shot, but they made it quite far. It reminds me of Top Gear journeys somehow where they form a real team that actually cheer for each other. Good job May.

  • @GeeksvilleStudios Okay, we get your point. You've put it on the last two parts he's used the wrong name/what he should've used instead. I'm really into trains too and yes it is a bit annoying, but frankly I don't think the average viewer really cares that much.

  • I'm so glad to be british.

  • Awww, that was so sad. I really thought it would work...

  • @rnstyip Maybe that's a good reason why James should have used the G-45 Scale/Scale 1 instead.

  • @Giugiaro21 He didn't need to; he succeeded with 00 scale in his second attempt.

  • whats the song called that runs during the credits? Would be great if anyone could let me know :)

  • The only reason that it failed was because of the storm and idiots stealing the batteries :|

  • you win some then you loose some, while your train didn't go as far as you wanted it, it still went 7 miles and invovled a warhouse full of track

  • R u going to put on the new one

  • @Liverpoolfcfever the series has ended

  • May's awesome, someone i'd like to meet someday.

  • @Dakoder i wish the same thing here

  • Poor oz

  • man those retards that stole the battery's and ruined that track really diserve a boot in their face

  • They should of went for one of those mini ride-on trains (g scale?) and make it really long and try to carry as many people as possible, probably would need a few trains though.

    With 00 gauge they should of used live steam so their wouldnt be any power issues.

  • @MrFaulconbridge - sorry, OO live steam uses power through the rails (at about 20V) to work the heating element in the loco's boiler.

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  • that's no warship, it's diesel 10!

  • @speedracer456v diesel 10 is a warship

  • @matanuialive2010 that's the point i was trying to make

  • IMHO, I think they would have been better served by using track with an integrated roadbed (such as Kato Unitrack) to reduce the gunk that came up from laying on the path and got into the mechanism. As for the power, the resistance in model track is very high. Model railroaders use larger gauge wire to carry the power with short smaller gauge feeder wires to the track at points around the layout. I think that would work here as well reducing the number of batteries required.

  • i think they could of made it if they had maybe used portable petrol generaters in stead of 12 volt car battries

  • @steamfandan the reason they didn't make it apparently was because vandals placed coins on the tracks to short the circuits. they also stole parts from the tracks and batteries.

  • Thanks for the vid

  • They should've had a live steam train, then it would have been the first steam powered locomotive since the line closed!

  • @olliesewell And it wouldn't have run out of power. Maybe they could have done it in a larger scale... Perhaps G?

  • James should try again...Im waiting.

  • Man I thought for sure the bullet train would make it; it started out so fast! Maybe if they had used a larger scale set...

  • Aw man I really hopped it would make it

  • awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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  • Completely ruined by some bloody vandals....

  • @TheSI3DRemakist AW CRUD, I so wanted this to go right.

  • Man, with all these difficulties, you would of thought you were reading a Railroad DRAMA

  • Mallard would've made it

  • Its so sad, the trains made it so far. I was so full or hope that the bullet train would make it.

    Did you see james face he almost cryed. I hate those Shit who took the batteries!!

  • @Lukie123ful Yeah. They need to have another go at it with people stationed along the line to stop those idiot shits who think they're so cool.

  • i have a model of the Flying Scotsman, i doubt it would have done the 10 miles, but i bet it would have given a damn good show, thinking about it, if i gave it my nippy little Tank Engine (i have no idea what class it is all i know is that cracked up to full power, it goes like the Clappers) as a back engine, it would go even further

    thank you James May for reminding Britain of the greatness of Model Railway.

  • the bullet should have got to biddeford

  • @thelukeifan

    so do I

  • I am actually devastated. I would have loved to see at least one of the trains to succeed. What a pity!

  • They should give it another try.

  • That's really sad

  • Thomas the tank engine would have made it

  • Poor James, you can see he is nearly crying when it fails...

  • This is the saddest ending to the greatest record i have ever seen!!!!

  • I feel very sorry for James.

  • Awww I wish it had made it!

    If someone tried this again these I thing might help.

    Rubber wheels on all of the trains wheels except for two, which supply the power which drop down so even if they do wear they'd still touch the track,

    Maybe stations where the engines could get a new motor and cogs?

    The track would be covered until the train came so that dust and mud wouldn't clog up the wheels.

    Big batteries so the trains go even faster!

    Boards for the track to go on so it wasn't uneven!

    Maybe th

  • @kipandcop1

    Or just use Märklin's set. Märklin's trainsets had these small spokes sticking out in the middle giving power to the train and the train has this springy copperplate at the bottom of it.

    So the trains wouldn't have to stop for cleaning and likely wouldn't burn out as much, they were also really heavy for their size since they used to be completly made out of metal with no plastic bits.

    But then again the show is about toys in Britain and Märklin is German.

  • @Antif

    That means that if england finally put the war behind them and accepted germany as something other than an enemy, the journey could've been completed.

  • all the facts in this show are so wrong!

  • And, the only person disliking this must be the vandal that shortcut the batteries and ruined the whole thing!

  • @SspavvesS True that.

  • This made me wanna build my own model railway!

    James May Rocks!

  • i hate those bloody people who stole the batteries

  • D4MN VANDALS STEALING BATTERIES, DON'T THEY KNOW THEY RUINED A WORLD RECORD??? D:<

  • Why would someone steal or cut the battery's? That's so low. Especially cos there were lots of kids and stuff who stayed up beyond midnight in the cold just to see one of the trains get there

  • What a great event! Good show guys and gals! :o)

  • Use american steam engines next time they are more reliable

  • if any one ever tries this again, im building s suped up train that should make it, and someone should realy ry this again.

  • @minipancho94 a large scale line should built if this is attempted again.

  • Awe...

  • "so you see the steam engine is just something from the past."

    "ooooooooo"

    "well it is comon!"

    "hehehehe"

    "nevermind"

    LOL favorite part

  • "British building, German organization." LOLOL.

  • they made actual live steam model trains wich i think would have made it! although would need to be refilled with water quite alot of times but hey no electricity to worry about!

  • They should have tried g-scale trains that would have been epic

  • @TandemDawgBMG I thought that G scale trains would have been far more robust and suited to the challege.

  • It's so cute how the really small children got so into it and it's sad that vandals stole the batteries. Why would you do that, really?

  • at 0.15 there is a person sitting on nothing

  • @capstiggles222 maybe he's sitting on his briefcase.

  • thats pretty sad but awsome

  • james looks like hes gunna cry for a minit there

  • So it didn't reach to Bideford?

  • @MrArneef02 Unfortunately no, no train made it farther than to Instow - but I really have to say, those people who helped make this possible are really awesome... Actually I wonder if anything like that would actually be possible in Germany. We have the Wunderland here in Hamburg of course, but this isn't a public project like what they put up there... I am absolutely impressed!

  • BAH! That's only 609 scale miles! They should have used hornby livesteam Mallard....

  • for that bullet train to do seven miles endless with little maintenance is impressive. My class 220 bachmann wears out and becomes clogged after a week of little running. Very good hornby. Bloody good challenge as well

  • stupid loser who put thumbs down on this vid!

  • Good episode :) What is the song in the end, anyone know?

  • Thank you for posting this. Every single fellow railfan in the world wanted to see one of the trains make it to their final destination.

    This is another reminder why I use (and love) LGB trains exclusively.

  • anyone know what the closing song is?

  • Although i suppose this idea isnt true to the nature of this thing, wouldn't there have been more chance of WIN with unpowered tracks and a battery powered, waterproof self-contained train? instead of all the battery powered track pieces?

    Oh well. Maybe someone will complete something like this in the future. Successfully.

  • having sat on the edge of my seat for the anticipated end, I too am dissapointed. but, how impressive is it anyways!

  • 7 miles! wow

  • james...seconds from crying like a baby! c'mon james, you just learned how to do it!

  • james is actually really disapointment, i feel sorry for him

  • I have a PCM HO engine with well over 250 hours on it. Track main is 97 feet, around 5 times a hour = 121250 real feet or 23 miles. But then again, I don't run it out side.

  • i want one of those bullet trains, and a train set to begin with

  • Cheers for uploading this!

  • I have a garden railway in OO gauge and clean wheels is paramount although mine isn't of the length of Barnstaple to Bideford. I find that Hornby wheels seem to get far dirtier than Bachmann ones and the Bachmann Warship could have handled 12 coaches with ease as it weighs over half a kilo. A battery every 50m and more security would have been better.

  • James is still a hero... For this and many many other things. Cheers May!!!

  • the german guys are funny lool

  • Some supersized Relco type high-frequency rail cleaners may have helped a lot too. :)

  • Hornby I can't get to work but scalextrics I can

  • @ random0815: when I was a child playing with trains Hornby made a special OO truck that cleaned the track by being run along it (saved hours of scrubbing the with an eraser).

    Not sure why they didn't use something like that.

  • One or two Dutch Lima 1200's would have done it! Modern trains are more complicated. Those older trains are less complicated and never break down.

  • they should have had a mallard or big boy model, i think the main problem is dirt and material wear, big wheeled older models (like the scotsman) should do better than something like the bullet train (with the same power), better wheel material and self-cleaning mechanisms, they should have had broom crews cleaning up the track right infront or a wagonless lead-train with a brush attached

    the mobile battery was kinda cheating

  • any atlas brand loco would be beta

  • only because some chavs nicked half the batteries

  • Too bad they didn't made it.

  • I think the hitachi should have made it

  • If only they have a few spare motors, spare pickup brushs and wheelsets, it probably would have made it all the way.

  • so close but yet so far. they needed more trains

  • So close.

  • Thanks for posting. It was a little upset that the train cannot make it. I wonder if it will make a difference if the train is batteries operated rather than relying the power from the rails.

  • @trips4leo it would have died much much much sooner

  • @trips4leo Very likely. James briefly mentioned "voltage drop" in the first episode. This affects DC voltages (the kind that comes from batteries) quite severely the further the distance from the battery.

    So at the start it may read 12 v, but 50m away it may only read 5 v. The mobile battery idea at 2:42 will help against voltage drop, but ultimately the trains just weren't up to it sadly. It's a shame.

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  • I can't believe how upset I was when the last train gave out! I'm sure what trainlover657 said was probably true, but considering they only had one day to do this, it was all pretty remarkable anyway.

  • thanks for posting that i got upset to i fell like killing those vandals

  • Thank you for posting this.

    California Mark

  • to be honest, they would have made it if they let the engines rest at stops and if it wasnt for the bloody chavs taking half the batterys, they shoulde have had like 12 volts spread out throughout the whole railway, using like an extension cord from the station, i recon that would have done it, or at least a DCC controler

  • @Amberdennoa ....

  • Aww that sucks :(

  • fucking vandals who stole & short cut the batteries!!!

  • @gentarion thanks for ruining the ending for me

  • @gentarion True, but the trains would have died anyway. IMHO, I think they may have died sooner due to the higher speed. But it woud have been really cool if they made it.

  • I actually really wanted one of them to make it

  • @coldmateplus i think everyone did.

  • Thanks for posting that, it was really great and seeing as I had been anticipating the hornby show this was a really nice video because I could only catch the second half on telly.

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