Hello, welcome along to the Fun Kids Science Weekly podcast. My name's Dan. I've got something a little bit different for you this week. We're going out and about. We're taking the Fun Kids Science Weekly to the Watercrest Line. It's a heritage railway in Hampshire, a county in the south of England. That means they run an old school steam train line, the type you would have seen 100 or so years ago.

They run it over a few stations across 10 miles.

Now they don't just run the line and the stations.

They also restore all the old trains that they use on it.

So when you arrive in the yard, you see these huge engines that are being worked on, refurnished.

The wheels are being fixed, are being bolted, areurnished, the wheels are being fixed, are

being bolted, are being cleaned, and we'll have around explore, we'll find out all about that.

We also head into the workshop to chat to some of the workers who restore the boilers

to make sure the trains actually get moving.

Now they're in the middle of restoring the Canadian Pacific, which is a massive, gigantic, old steam train. It was originally

built in 1914, was used during the Second World War, and it's one of the oldest and fastest

surviving trains from that era. So we'll learn loads about that and about the project. We also

head out to the signal box to have a look at how they actually control the different trains that move through the stations.

Now, I was given a tour of the whole place by Dr. Becky, who was working on the project at the time, and we started out in the yard, where she showed me to a gigantic jet black beast of a train.

This is 506 and she is 99 years old.

She'll be 100 next year.

She was built in 1920 in Eastley Works and she took 18 years to get back into service.

So she came out as service on June this year.

Are there any features of a locomotive that's 99 years old

that are perhaps light years ahead of something

that would be 130 years old?

What's remarkably more technologically advanced about this, where perhaps your older

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