I believe that is the first time I have watched a "sponsored commercial" that I actually was interested in the product and enjoyed the "commercial". nice job.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Pleased to hear it!

@SuperTrainStationH

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmm The Rail Blue Leader is TOO delicious.

Over oiled? No...that's corrosion prevention! Also, you just gotta love the small side-rod diesels! So much character!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

That's the best terminology!

Another brilliant loco. You find such fun things to run. Such an interesting mix of old and new. That great Gardener engine sound. Modern controls and electrical with old school engine and basic construction. I like the big twin disc. All of the transmission components seem large for 165 HP but it is all torque. I'm glad the loco got out on good behavior and has been rehabilitated and is now a useful member of society.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's a cracking bit of kit!

I'm guessing that the reason for the double reading speedometer is that it's a mechanical Hall effect sensor which is cable driven from the final drive. The cable spins the other way when going in the other direction and therefore moves the needle the other way.

@AlexanderBurgers

2 жыл бұрын

it absolutely is, a steel bell with a very light clock spring over a rotating magnet driven by the cable. They could've added some kind of direction rectifying gear to make the magnet always rotate one way, but that's just one more thing to break or wear out, making the needle go both ways is much easier.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

I believe that's correct.

17:27 one argument I have for yellow lights on top of locos is: what if you're in an environment where you have equipment that is louder than a diesel engine? Such as a factory or dockyard or military railway. So, no. You can't always hear it coming.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

My argument to that is horn, but I do see why they're needed. Still not a fan

@isctony

Жыл бұрын

I agree with Lawrie - more likely to see the great big Loco before spotting the light on top! haha

@mark7321

3 ай бұрын

If I recall correctly Lawry mentioned some steelworks or steelmill service. Earprotection mandatory, so ... yellow light. Just like on the forklifts.

Further to Lawrie's criteria I would add "two shades of green".

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Very good addition

....yes lawrie all that...and it says Wetwang on the side . The funniest village name ever :-) That coupled to the name plate above the sand lever which says "sanding Leaver " hahaha. I suppose you pull it a few it leaves the sand...hahaha

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Excatly! I'm looking forward to the railway returning to Wetwang. Be a great announcement

@gs425

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmm hahaha great

I love it when vehicles have a permanent look of surprise 😁

@FM60260

2 жыл бұрын

Is the look if expression on a class 31 just incredibly grumpy?

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It has a bit of a face doesn't it!

To be fair to the whole yellow warning lights thing, I've had a 4-engine 108 DMU sneak up on me while I'm working in the yard. Just about any other machine noise will drown them out until they're very close.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Is that so? Sneaky things then DMU's

Your videos bring us like minded folks stuff we would never see elsewhere. Well done Mr mechanimarvel

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Pleased to hear you're enjoying what we do!

Your voice gives you away, you love this locomotive ❤❤❤

Very good history of a great little shunter. Thank You Lawrie, luv your channel immensely Mate, keep em rollin

@lmm

2 ай бұрын

I'm pleased you enjoyed it!

Very great video. A nice engine looks like it was fun to drive. Thanks again James

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome. It's a real nice thing!

"That is a long dipstick" Not heard that one before

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It was!

What a locomotive salesman you are, Lawrie! I'm so impressed that I want one, myself. Seriously, it does tick the boxes- Size, Power, Reliable engine and transmission manufacturers (Gardner and Twin Disc), Ease of preparation and driving, and Westinghouse brakes.- Just the job for a small or medium sized heritage railway. Should be capable of some quite heavy load hauling if needed.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's a really good little thing!

Excellent review of this nice little diesel loco Lawrie 👍👍

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Another great Diesel Engine Test Drive by Lawrie. I to didn't know that the Railway existed at all. Thank you for sharing this with us online.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome!

At 3:11 the buffers look a bit like googly eyes which i love

What a super advert for Yorkshire Wolds Railway!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's a really great little line!

For not being a Ruston product, it bears a striking resemblance to the Class 07, almost like a baby brother since it's 4-coupled and the 07 is 6-coupled.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I see where you're coming from

This loco looks like very practical and reasonable. Thank You for video.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome!

That is such a smart idea. Around where I live there is a large need to fill those jobs, and our prisons are full, sadly the people in charge are not smart enough to connect the 2.

very well done on the sponcership

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

Great video Lawrie, Like the history on the shunter. love that Gardner engine. keep up the good work. Cheers from down under. Wally

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

At Telford steam railway we have an 08 (08757) which has a remote control system and that has emergency stop buttons

Locomotive exploded? AIR TOOLS!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Excatly!

A nice little locomotive with a great retro look. That would make a great model.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it would!

The shape puts me in mind of the shunter from Derail Valley! 15:52 interesting spelling of 'lever'!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It gets the job done 😂

@BrooksMoses

2 жыл бұрын

How else would you spell a device that leaves sand?

@henrybest4057

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrooksMoses Its the wrong kind of leaves. 🙂

Great video of an interesting loco! At 14:41 you seem pleasantly surprised that the door opens, I would have thought that was a pretty standard feature of a door.

@TheAverageDutchman

2 жыл бұрын

Standard doors yes. 60 year old (or older) heritage locomotives usually less so.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Having a door that opens to the cab, that can be left open and not encrouch into the cab is lovely. Means you get some airflow on hot days

Beautiful engine.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It is rather

Great video, nice channel, subbed!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Oh nice my local preserved railway

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's a a great place

Ooh that's a lovely old Gardner idle.....

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Great isn't it

Lovely video you should definitely do something like this at the helston railway

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Would love to

@83GrailwayProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmm yeah it’s a lovely little railway in Cornwall the Diesel is nice but the steam engine we have is amazing.

🙏Interesting lack of records for the ' some amount of time' periods!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, some things we just don't know

The more of these little locos I see the more I want one. I'd never have anywhere to put it though....

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Need a railway to go with it!

Lovely machine. Thank you Sir, stay on track. Pun intended 😁

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@agolftwittler1223

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmm I rarely ever miss out on one of your uploads. Thank you.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

@@agolftwittler1223 thanks for supporting us!

The master key switch, as well as the red and green push buttons look identical to 30mm diameter panel mount from Square-D ( now owned by Schneider Electric ). I recently ordered & replaced an identical key switch, on an industrial machine from the 80's. Key Switch specialy delivery from the US.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Oh really?

I've actually met a KR models distributor, he runs a small hobbyshop that recently opened.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

They're really nice guys

I love how it's got all those switches I want to flip them all

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

There was a great feeling to them

12:00 Racine, Wisconsin! Nice.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

American kit did get used over here!

Gardeners are silly smooth

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's a lovely lump

9:06 I used the diesel to restore the diesel

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's a clever system!

I looked up OO gauge and it's kinda weird. It's track scale is smaller than the scale of everything else

@bentullett6068

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct in what you are saying. The track 00 scale and H0 scale model trains run on is the same but locomotives and rolling stock and other accessories are slightly larger. 00 scale is bigger than H0 scale asFrank Hornby who created Hornby trains wanted a similar size model railway system as H0 but he struggled to get some of the details on his models in H0 scale so decided to slightly increase the size to allow those details to be shown. Since then most UK outline locomotives, carriages, wagons and line side items have stuck with 00 scale but some of the H0 scale buildings, vehicles and line side accessories can be used on 00 scale layouts and the H0 scale loco's and other carriages and wagons can also be used on a 00 scale layout.

@MervynPartin

2 жыл бұрын

It is weird, but unfortunately Britain does everything different to the rest of the world. I would prefer to standardise on H0 on my model railway, (and have used American H0 models for a one off video of the MBTA), but the only stock that can be used on my final Southern Railway model is 00 gauge.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Oo is just wrong HO. It started being oversized to take the standard motor that Hornby had been using in their O guage, and its just... Stayed

"Sanding Leaver" Hmmm. Nice though :)

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

😂 😂

god i misread the titel as "this locomotive sent me to prison!" and i thougth the locomotive in the thumbnail was the ruston 48 with a diffrent titel

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

😂 😂 Not quite. The 48 may send me to an asylum!

Yellow light are a great idea if you're deaf or have ear protectors on but we all have bugbears in life, I'm not listing my list here, you don't have that long to live haha!!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

*grumble* just don't like them on locos 😂

@graemew7001

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmm 😂 we all have our cross's that we carry, I hate LED headlights..... you should hear me on the subject!!!

I thought this one looked a bit like an NBL shunter at first, like the one at the B&KR.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe a bit of similarities

Are you going to the fenland light railway tomorrow?

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Afraid not tomorrow - I'm at Didcot

I wonder if not telling the landlord about the name was an Ivo Hugh reference.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's just a nice surprise isn't it

Nice engine, what a shame it no rolling stock to pull

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

There will be soon - they're making good progress!

Lawrie have there ever been military trolleys/streetcars/trams

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Not to my knowledge

I very much like the googly eyes

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

😂 It needs a set

You don't imagine 160hp moving 28 tons, but there it is.

@trr94001

2 жыл бұрын

At shunting speeds it’s all about torque and 11 liters should give plenty of that.

@MervynPartin

2 жыл бұрын

Many years ago, within the shed at Didcot, one road was occupied by Pendennis Castle (before going to Australia), Blue Peter, a crane tank loco, the Huntley and Palmers fireless loco and a coach. I think that it was around 400 tons or so, but we managed to pull them all out together using the Ruston 88DS which of course, was only 88 hp.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how much torque there is though!

The front buffers look like eyes.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Does it look like that?

@REALFeltysCoinsAndTrains

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm Yes

What did salty do

long time watcher, flashing light has nothing to do with pedestrian warning it was used as a visual cue in industrial zones such as docks, iron works and any industry where overhead gantry cranes worked in unison also worked as an hazardous cargo beacon or visual aid at night or low light,,

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

At night the thing is fitted with lights though. I accept that flashing catches the eye more, but I still hate them 😂

@jasonhowe1697

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmm what would you prefer safety or being dead because the grantry can't see you same also applies to places where you have to make it to a siding so the trains can pass themselves without collision..

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonhowe1697 safety is important, but still looks rubbish 😂

Literally tiny Salty from Thomas and friends

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

I think that's based on a class 07

Where did you say it was built again? Couldn't tell cos it was a bit of a mumble.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It was built by GEC traction

The flashing lights are an unfortunate necessity. If it worked at a steelworks then that is going to be one hell of a noisy environment. Any noise of it's movement may be submerged in the background racket Having two yellow bulbs on the bonnet ends sounds sufficient after American railway practice except without the tolling bell! Trackwork in Industry was sometimes rather dodgy. Maybe steelworks were an exception if they are shifting really heavy lumps of steel and often white-hot liquid slag. This is my local railway. I will have to ask them what the patterns of bolt-holes in the buffers were for. I would guess they were a non-standard coupling for internal-use rolling stock at Shotton.

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

I understand some industry they're required, but still not a fan

One thing is for certain, and that is the thing is immaculate for something that was disassembled and reassembled countless times by countless inmates. Every qualified mechanic has his or her own way of doing things, but things can get messy when there's that many people performing the same procedures repeatedly. Too many cooks in the kitchen and all that jazz. To add convicts to that equation is just another kick in the pants. If the thing were here in the states, it would be a miracle if it became a stationary display after undergoing the same treatment!

@MervynPartin

2 жыл бұрын

Many years ago, at the Caerphilly Railway Society in South Wales, we had a guy placed with us on a Community Service Order. He was a really good hard worker and I sincerely hope that after being with us, he managed to put his life in order.

@PowerTrain611

2 жыл бұрын

@@MervynPartin Seems like to some extent the justice system works better across the pond!

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

I think for people wanting to turn their lives around and leave with a skill set, this represented a really good project.

3rd

@agolftwittler1223

2 жыл бұрын

As the old saying goes, "The third is the Turd". Just saying 😜

@ank55o7

2 жыл бұрын

@@agolftwittler1223 Damm guess I'm a turd

@agolftwittler1223

2 жыл бұрын

@@ank55o7 Just kidding Sir. I see no turds around here 🙂

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Good work!

@ank55o7

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmm thank you

Wetwang

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

That's where they want to return to

First

@agolftwittler1223

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, not even close. Better luck next time. For whatever weird reason.

@FM60260

2 жыл бұрын

Transdev

@lmm

2 жыл бұрын

Good job