 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at a railway station. This is Kaltra railway station in Northern Ireland That's the railway line to Bangor. That way is looking towards Bangor That way is looking towards Belfast. I've just come from Belfast I came over this platform because I wanted to show you the view of the railway station. Looks like it's now a house We're going out that way. The reason we've come here is because it's home of the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum We're just going to do the Transport Museum. So I would like to do the Folk Museum one day but the Transport Museum has probably the finest collection on the whole of the island of Ireland of Railways railways, tramways and cars. So it's great place lots of steam locos, diesels, electrics all sorts. It's a really Very brilliant museum. I suppose you could almost say it's like the National Railway Museum of Ireland. So that's where we're going to. So we're coming out to this end of the station, see the footbridge here They've just made an announcement saying there is another train coming. So we might See that by the time we get up on the bridge and actually hear what time There's no dot matrix indicators or anything like that to tell you when the train's coming, but I think it'll be fairly soon so we come up to here and As I say, that's where it is towards Bangor. I have to walk off down that footpath to the museum It's about where the bridge is. So Transport Museum is on that side and the Folk Museum is on that side There is also a section of line. Can't see up there's a junction coming off the main line into the museum But it's very rarely if ever used. So I'm going to try and have a look at that. I'll just show you That's quite a nice view of the railway station So I can't hear that train coming. So I'm going to continue walking down to the Railroad Museum I was walking down the path and I can hear the train coming So I'll show you a Northern Irish train for those of you who don't know what they like. Have a look It's just coming That was three zero one four now regarding Northern Irish trains. I have Pretty much seen all of them This morning I was down to needing to see just five of them I saw two of the 3000 series trains. So I'm down to needing to see just one more of them and two of the 4000 series. The 4000 series are very similar The 3000 series actually have a Yellow circle on the front whilst the 4000 series have a slightly different livery on the front. They're both built by CAF Built in Zaragoza in Spain. They've recently lengthened some of the 4000 series class. So you've got some that are three cars and some that are six cars and If you're traveling on the London Dairy Line, six cars are very useful. Now let's just get to here It's a bit like the Litchgate thing. So the museum continues I thought perhaps we'd be at the museum. We'll continue down this path. It's quite exciting. I have been to this museum before Trying to think how long ago now for about 2012 and It is a very good museum. Oh, yeah, so we get to the junction here. This is Folk Museum that way and Transport Museum entrance. There's the building. Now, let's have a look. Oh, yeah, then that way It says Koltra station. This is the way to the Folk Museum where we're not going to video for the future, perhaps I think it's more of a something. What I'm hoping to see from this bridge is the junction into the museum So that's looking back towards Koltra where we've just been. Oh, yeah, now If we look down there You can just see There is. I don't know how well it comes me out. There is a set of points Just one track going in. So everything could be brought in and out by rail. Anyway, I'm gonna go and find some We've seen some modern trains. Let's go and find some historic old trains I'm just paid to go in. I'm really quite excited. I have been here before. I said that Looking forward to rediscovering it again because that was a few years ago. So you come through this glass-like tunnel That's the building there On this side though, that's about that link from the National Rail network You just see it now there. It's a railway line. So the the banger line is just over there And the railway line goes into the building. I don't think it's used much, but it probably could be used So we're going to go into the railway gallery, which was opened by his Royal Highness, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1994 This is the very exciting railway gallery. So have a look at this coming to here And we're kind of up on this platform and you look down and just for every look there are steam locos Diesel locos, rail buses More diesel locos, more rail buses than other steam locos. It's really quite exciting. It's just like, which face will we go? This all looks so so exciting So I have to have a look around It's exciting to me because it's different You're not going to see a black five here or the typical locos you'd see at a British Rail Museum Although obviously we are in the UK You're going to see things like this locos Number 600. I think her name's Maeve She's, I think she probably is the biggest steam locos on the island of Ireland And then have a look down there We'll go and have a look at all these locos closer And have a nice large tank engine Obviously a lot of these locos are not my usual, what I'm used to because they're all various different Irish Railway companies And I've, I know a bit about the Irish Railways but not as much as I'd perhaps do the British Railways So we've got to work our way down this long walkway Taking us down, but this to me as we walk down here All adds to the fun that as you walk down the museum kind of opens up and reveals itself You see different views of the locos We've got a great view, like I said I think her name's Maeve Apologies if it's not her name It's Gaelic Lane, or Gaelic Lane sorry Gaelic Scottish, Gaelic Scottish It'd be lovely to see her running again I don't know if we ever will, but never say never anyway Continue to go down here Also as I like Brutalist architecture I quite like this part of the architecture Look at that I like the architecture as much as I like the exhibits of this museum So as we almost make our way down to grounds Revealing more views, we've got a narrow gauge loco there Standard gauge, as I said this is all, when I say standard gauge For the rest of this video, if I say standard gauge and as I say otherwise I'm talking about Irish standard gauge, five foot three Not the British and most of the world standard gauge of four foot eight and a half inches This is of course one four foot eight and a half inch gauge railway on the island of Ireland The tram's in Dublin, four foot eight and a half inches But other than that, to my knowledge there are no other four foot eight and a half inches gauge railies on the island of Ireland any more They have been in the past Here we have, sure we've all had a pint of Guinness at some point This is one of the diesel loco's for the Guinness brewery I might do a diesel wash down to Dublin I'm staying in Belfast at the moment And I'm thinking of going to the Guinness brewery I probably won't make a video but I believe there are some similar loco's on display there Now what they used to do, they used to get a ride around the brewery by train Now I would have done that by now because I've been to Dublin a few times if you've still got a train ride but you don't But you do get to see the loco's And this is probably the most unusual loco we're going to see here This is a dual gauge shunting loco So the diesel loco you see there and the steam loco, these were part of the Guinness brewery And they're 18 inches There's a nice little model, this truck's a bit shorter but you can get a view of there's one there They're 18 inches and there's still a fair bit of 18 inch gauge track around Dublin brewery At the Guinness brewery, but what they used to do, they could actually lift this loco And put it into what was called a haulage truck That was five foot three inch gauge So effectively it was a dual gauge locomotive It's really, I should think, unique It's built in Dublin I'm not sure if that must be the worst number Oh it's built in 1905, that's it and it's 190, it's the worst number Sticking with narrow gauge, we have narrow gauge diesel Narrow gauge diesel Irish gauge diesel, that's Falcon I always think that looks like a giant miniature loco I think of the miniature loco as you get places like, where did I go? I saw one like Oldney, not Oldney, I haven't been to Oldney Guernsey on Channel Islands, I was thinking of railways on Islands, full sources Anyway, in Guernsey on Channel Island they've got a miniature railway And they've got a loco that looks a bit like that, you want to see, have a look on the screen now So I go from, I say, Irish gauge to narrow gauge This is one of those videos, I should have bought a tape measure with me And I could have found out exactly what gauge all these loco's are Anyway, maybe another time This one's there This is interesting, it's Bench It's from Great Victoria Street, I started my journey today at Belfast Great Victoria Street And as you know I've caught the train to Caltrata Belfast has had an interesting history of termini I'm not going to try and attempt to go through it, but this map Helps out a bit That is Belfast Great Victoria Street This is the River Luggan This is a station called Queen's Key And this station up there called York Roach Now we would have come around here And there was a station somewhere called Windsor Which no longer exists, about here somewhere Is what's now called Larni and Place Used to be known as Belfast Central I came over this bridge here over the Luggan And then I came up here up in Bangaline There's now the Cross Harbour Link Line Which kind of goes across there Was paid for in the 90s or late 80s, early 90s By the European Regional Development Fund It runs up here And that's the old York Road Terminus They built a new station next to it called York Gate So it effectively links the railways up to London Dairy With the railways down to Dublin So that gives you an idea of the railways around Belfast Perhaps one day, I don't think I'll do it today I could do a video on the railways at Belfast And how it all worked out Because it's fairly complex history So we come to here, it's interesting There was an atmospheric railway But like Brunel ran down in Devon There was also one in Ireland I think at one point there was an interactive display You could turn the handle that's broken off And you could make that vehicle travel along Let's go up here now And we can have a look at... So as you go around the museum There's these little stations, platforms And you can have a closer look at Locos So here I said here's Falcon Locos here called Dunlose Castle I actually went to the real Dunlose Castle last year When I was up here And I went to the Giant Scoresway and Bush Mills Railway If you want to have a look at the video of the tram arriving there Click the link on the screen now I'm interested here Well, it's got London Middle and Scottish London Middle and Scottish LMS Did run some of the railways up here It's also got NCC I believe that's Northern Counties Committee This is an interesting... This is a tablet exchange So as the train was going along You could pick up a tablet for the signal And it's like you could also put a tablet there To hand it back The tablet is like... Holds a token So you can work, say, the points Or it gives you permission to be on the line So it's very different It's a whole other video as well, I should think But yeah, it was an automatic tablet pickup They have a nice... These are another diesel locomotor It's a really nice model down here Of Inchercore Works So if you've got... This is the Dublin to Cork main line Passing it I've passed on the train I've taken pictures of that tower Quite a few times It's always an exciting start to a train journey As you leave Dublin, Houston And you go past Inchercore Works And if we come around this side Look, down here It gives you an idea of what they've been like Inside, so many different steam engines Great to see All these green steam engines Loads of them And then That's the Locos on Shed So that's a really nice model Just let you see the front of the shed Now then Interestingly There's some British stuff Flying Scotsman And a Britannia locomotive A Polar Star So like one of Oliver Cromwell's Sisters Anyway, let's go now and find some more Locos that you're not going to see Anywhere else, but here Really, and that's what makes going to the Land of Ireland Exciting kids What I used to be in Britain Was certainly in Northern Ireland You'll see some really unique Locos Look at this That's a steam tram Belfast Northern Counties Railway I think that is There are boards everywhere Telling you about everything So I could have a look But I'm fairly sure that's what that is And then this Loco, Phoenix That's a diesel locomotive Used to be a steam locomotive And that's one of these chain driven Locos, if you look down there You can see a chain So it does happen There have been various Locos That were diesel Or were steam and got converted to diesel There's also a locomotive called Emmett Two foot gauge locomotive in the UK Which is steam It used to be a diesel It's basically a steam locomotive Built on the frames of an old diesel This is quite cool This is one of the Yeah, one of the County Donagall Railway Railcars That's like Railcars tiny It's not much bigger than a family car But if you travel on them County Donagall Railways You're more likely to travel on one of these railbuses It is articulated But I'd love to have had a ride on them I have seen one I have been to the museum up at London Dairy Where they have got some more of these That's the museum It's not always open But it's worth going to if you can get there Talking of railbuses There's a Although it looks smaller That's a five foot three inch gauge railbus It's done this castle again There I said is I keep falcon I'll say it's like a giant miniature locomotive There's a narrow gauge peck-it locomotive here I saw a locomotive a bit like this At the Down Patrick Not Down Patrick County Down Railway That's another video The Giant Schools and Bushman Railway in the shed They have a peck-it steam locomotive I believe it's the same as this one I managed to Talk more into the shed when I went there And then here we have a couple of Simflex diesels Which have been built in Bedford In England So they would have been quite common Working in version narrow gauge railways Now what we're going to do We're going to have a look at The bigger steam locomotives And then We'll have finished in this gallery But there's a few more galleries to have a look around So this is a huge tank engine Delfast and County Down Railway I believe And this is built by a peacock in Manchester And then There's a couple of narrow gauge loco's Big, big narrow gauge loco's I said that's Maeve So she was built in Chicago Works in Dublin This one This little saddle tank was built By Rob Stephen Hawthorne In England And I think this tank engine here Was built at Dundalk Which was You could arguably say It's the crew of Ireland Or the Swindon of Ireland Where there's a town on the Latin Down to Dublin Where there's big railway works So it's one of these loco's Or similar loco Outside the museum in London There is also the County Donagall Railway Museum Which I've not yet been to But I'd really like to go there And then this is another narrow gauge loco Which finds a little Oh, this is a cavern and leatrum Ross Common Light Railway locomotive A cavern and leatrum railway There is a preserved section So one day I should go to the cavern and leatrum railway And have a ride behind what they've got Go in one of the Cavern and leatrum Ross Common Light Railway carriages Yeah Just have a look inside So it'd be nice to think that we're going somewhere But we're just having a look Oh, this is quite posh Funny there, you've got like Seats like that So you can sit four people on that side But you could sit quite a few On this side You go through here Okay I'm assuming That's got to be first class This is probably second class With darks, you can't see a lot It's got padded seats And then this is first class Wooden seats It's a clear story carriage You can see the windows up there So this is a narrow gauge Quite big narrow gauge I Well, I'm fairly sure It's a three foot narrow gauge Which, you know, is bigger Dial-a-man railways have three foot narrow gauge So it is what they call a Big narrow gauge I suppose the standard gauge railways are bigger So the narrow gauge railways are bigger There's loads and loads of different gauge Railways in Ireland So that's another one of those narrow gauge wagons There, we go through here We can have a look There's a really nice model here It's like a miniature size But it is only a model Of the first class dining twin The roof lifts up, you can see inside That's quite cool And then this I believe is The carriages will look like Let's go down, let's go up here There was a Dublin and Kingstown Railway Which was the first railway to be built In Ireland And that That ran from Dublin Down to what we now know As Dunleary And if you're wondering what those carriages were like Probably a bit like that That's the William Dalton saloon He was like the pioneer of Irish railways And here this is Like as I think her name's Maeve Number 800 Built in school works in 1939 And we're going to go on her foot plate You can see she will have to I'm not going to randomly Climb me up here It's massive It feels It's got that British feel It doesn't feel like being on a big German Cooker It feels like perhaps a bullet Pacific Or that kind of thing It reminds me a bit of a Great Western King class But it feels bigger I'll give you a few out there What we're going to do now I'm going to go to the next hall And we're going to go and have a look At some tram No, let's just do it Let's go in this locker first Then we'll go and look at the trams But it's so exciting All these different steam engines Which we're only ever going to see here You're not going to see anywhere So now we're on a British built steam locker Oh, this is good Look, we can see straight into the William Dalton saloon There is a dummy Of the man himself So As if I'm the driver I'm not going to take you by train But we're going to go and have a look now From the railway hall We're going to go down to the tramway Having enjoyed looking around The railway gallery I'll leave the Guinness behind I might have one in a pub later But that's it for Guinness in this video Let's have a look around Some more from the museum And I come here It's a bit dark in here But that's kind of part of the atmosphere This is a Titanic exhibition So it gives you various It shows you what would have been Something's properly and everything That would have been on the ship So it's quite interesting to see And if we're going to the middle There's quite an interesting Model stroke diagram You've got the ship sinking You can see it And it shows the Nightingale type of passenger Or staffs That's the crew So here they're saved The other ones who unfortunately Didn't work it And then we've got The first class The first class that was saved The first class that didn't survive Not that the first class didn't survive The second class Probably about half and half And then the first class Not many survived Unfortunately a lot of people drowned So it's quite sad going in here So what I'm going to do I'm not going to focus too much on it It's fascinating as the whole Titanic story is I don't really feel I'm the person To tell you that I'm going to take you Out of the sort of dark We're going to be back into more light Here we have some trams Which is quite exciting So we're looking down On different types of trams A couple of open top ones I'll talk more about what they are When we get down there There's another traditional double-decker tram Well this one We can have quite a good look at from here So you can see It says Sutton Hill of Hove That was the Hill of Hove tramway I've been to the Hill of Hove That's near Dublin It's a branch off the Dublin area Rapid transit or the Dart network It's a bit like Dublin's equivalent I suppose of London Overground And there was a tramway That went up over the Hill of Hove Which I've walked around the Hill of Hove The tramway unfortunately isn't there anymore But that's one that's surviving trams There's one There is a small transit museum at Hove There's one at Christ And I believe there's one in America There's one at Belfast Trolleybuses Belfast has quite an extensive Trolleybus network Now as we follow the path down A bit like how we did in the railway hall We see other trams But it's not as if it creates a street scene Giving the feeling of being in a town centre And there's another tram You can see the trolley pole Which is drawn from the wires Now talking of trams And how they would have drawn their power Here we have this tram here Fintonia That tram doesn't have a trolley pole I'll look there It was horse-drawn now I find this quite a fascinating story The Fintonia tramway I hope that... I think that says that I'm not entirely sure Fintonia was a tram... Was a town And there was a railway line Which passed fairly near But not quite close enough To merit having a station So there was Fintonia Junction And from the junction station There was that horse-drawn tram And the horse was always called Dick Even if it was a mayor It was always called Dick So we'll go around there And see Dick The horse in a moment We're just going to make our way Out of here And we can have a look at the Trams So this is the street scene There's a Belfast tram there It's going to Green Castle And trolley bus So here we are I feel like we're on a road now Mind a bit Milestone's Museum in Hampshire In England Who interested Have a few people screen now So we've got a couple of electric trams We've got this Belfast Trams here I think that is... Yeah, it's horse-drawn See the horses We'll see them at the front So we've got a few horse A couple of horse-drawn trams And then we'll go around Both other models And We can see a fire engine So there we are That's Dick Usually, as I said, a female But that's Dick with a tram Here's a few Fire engines And there's a Model tram there Belfast City tramways So, as I mentioned earlier The only trams now On the island of Ireland Are in Dublin But Belfast did have There's a bit of a diagram there Giving you an idea Some Belfast trams They were talking about Building a tramway 10, 15 years ago In the end they built the Glider buses Which are quite interesting But not as exciting as a tramway This is an interesting one This is the Best Brooklyn Nury tramway company And it was an electric Tram has a bit of a locomotive So it's got kind of like Rather than have wheels Under the tram body It's sort of got a compartment For the electric motor So that's quite exciting Coming to here We've got various other Vehicles There's one I find quite fascinating Probably because it's a bit more modern Than it is in my ear As nice as all these are These aren't really vehicles I remember seeing Got an escort van An M-Redge escort It's electric They built 100 of them Does anyone know Are there any other survivors Or is this the only one? Is it for the Royal Mail? Yeah, for the Royal Mail And behind See another tramway Now that Is the As I did mention it earlier I mentioned a giant It's called a ambush mills Railway Which is now Has like a modern tram It was at one point A steam rail Well this is the original Tramway Now what was it It called you know It tells me Giant's causeway Port Rush Bush Valley Railway and tramway So this is the vehicle From Or one of the vehicles From that tramway And there's some Images of it I'm assuming that's From that tramway That's quite a nice Street scene I really like this one Of a tram Passing Don Luce Castle We saw the locomotive Don Luce Castle That's the picture there Of the building Don Luce Castle So it's got This is what they call A Toast Brass Band Because it's like Toaster slide in And this motor vehicle Is a bit more like Jewish The river Protected you from the elements Because I can tell you now It could be quite windy On the Not the Northern Irish coast There's a nice Coastline that is This is really cool This little Ulster bus Little bus See it's a model bus But if you look closely There is a steering wheel You can see that So you could actually Sit inside Or a child possibly Sit inside And Give their friends Some rides Now Walk down here That's, as I said That's the hill Of Hoth Tram The Neury Tram And the Phytonia Tram There's another That's a motor bus That one That one's a trolley bus We're now going to Go down another level As I said I do really like The building I think It's kind of Semi-brutalist I like how It sort of takes you down And down Sort of reveals Bits to the museum As you go So as I look down there I can I could just see Wheels of cars So it makes you feel Oh, what are we going to see next So we're now Kind of going right down And from here You get quite Nice view Like, look You're sort of looking up Trams are above you And You look ahead I can see another Car down there We'll have a look at that And then Eventually the museum Goes outside There's another gallery Right down the bottom I might not Do that in today's video Because that's kind of going beyond Well, once we've left them Once stuff comes off Isn't stuff that runs on rails My sort of expertise Isn't so great So It's kind of like I'm just going to show you Some of these cars I don't know Too much about them But we'll have a quick look For a long day I don't know what that is I think They're all really nice to see But as I said I'm More than I do Like classic cars My subject is And what we've got there Is that, yeah Ford Anglia And then one of them Van den Poil This is funny Now this car These are the Invalid cars And I think there's a destruction order There's not many left But if you want to see one There's a really, really good channel Called Hubnut Have a look at Link on screen now He makes videos About cars He's got one So that Is an Invalid car There's a Triumph there And you've got the whole Sort of no So not the Triumph It's Cortina Get my cars mixed up That is a Ford Cortina And there's the sort of 60s living room So if you have that living room In the 60s You may well have driven A Ford Cortina There's a few more Sportier cars All here And what we've got Got an MG there Merck And a Triumph stand That's the Triumph And then we have The Rover Taking part for you to see How it was built That is a very old Peugeot Literally only in Alex I just read the sign And then there is A Hillman Inn Now what we're going to do We're going to go outside There's a couple of things I wanted to show you out here Unfortunately one of my favourite exhibits Isn't him Which is a bit of a shame We're going out past The Monde So we go out here Out Outside There for Cameras to pick it up I can hear a train Departing coal for our Narrowway station It's We're not that far from Belfast city centre It has that really nice feeling I've just been out And so far away from Get this view of the building I do really like the building I think it really is a building As I said I like the interior I like these sort of sloping bricks And the water can just run down And I think it's a building Actually it really has For a lot Of out Now When I came here last time As I said it must have been More than 10 years ago Down the bottom here There was a Minutes Railway Unfortunately There isn't a Minutes Railway here anymore Not the entire shorts going on But Basically before filming this To take the video I ran down here I came down here And had a look Around And The Minutes Railway is not there I wasn't expecting it To be running I was kind of hoping to see it But it appears to be Gone completely I was It was run by One of the Model Engineering clubs I believe of the area So It doesn't look like I'm coming back here To do a Minutes Railway Britain episode I'm not saying I won't ever come back here But there is something Even more intriguing than This Minutes Railway Which I said has now gone There's this lovely big oak tree It wasn't actually what I bought you down here at the city There's something Now I didn't see this On my last visit It must have been here For the summer When I last came So all of these bushes Would have been really overgrown But look That's this Only one I was walking along now I was like That's a couple of rails isn't it What we seem to have The remains of what Must be a two foot gauge And hour gauge railway Complete with Sleepers and everything Okay the track's a bit buckled Would not try and run A train over it There's literally Trees going through it But the track Continues We're going up here I'm really supposed to do this But I don't think I'm going to do it I can clearly see That's the remains Of a railway line And then There's a rail Down there And it goes off It's not that clear on camera But if I come down here You can clearly see There's a rail So what on earth is going on here It looks like I want to know about this railway So if you know Please do comment tell me What was this Did they do passenger rides here Was it a construction railway When they built the gallery Down the bottom So I'm not going to include The gallery down the bottom In the video It's interesting But it's not really My air of expertise It's I think it's land, sea and sky Got stuff to do with boats Aircraft and everything I'm going down this bush See if we can find any more If anyone's watching I'm going in here To have a wee But I'm not I promise I'm going through this Huge roaded entrance Oh yeah I'm going to see more Of the track They're going to Anyone has seen me This way They're going to Wonder what on earth I'm doing Yes, so look the railway line It does continue It's probably again Not clear on track On camera But I'm definitely Definitely standing On railway line If you look down here There's rails It's not that clear But there is There is railway There's a rail Here I'm uncovering it I think it's not Showing up on camera I promise you it's there We'll come out this way now So what's all this about Please do comment and tell me And I think that kind of Brings me to the end of this video A really fantastic transport museum But with a rather Odd mystery narrow gauge railway What was this for? Was it a contractors line For building the museum Did it once give rise Wherever it did Clearly was a railway And there were those simplex Diesel's in the top Would they ever run on here? Did they even run steamer here? Please someone tell me I will probably ask On my way out as well If anyone knows But what's going on here? Please tell me Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video Of the Ulster Fokern Transport Museum Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like Subscribe and comment And what seems as far away From transport as ever But under a lovely oak tree Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like Subscribe and comment Goodbye