Hi Lawrie Thank you for coming along and it's great too see you had an amazing time. Also thankyou very much for giving me the opportunity to drive my Class 31 from the sky, that's a experience I'll never forget

That is the most awesome train set I have ever seen. Tabletop scale models take a hike! This is a mini real deal. The real train sim.

The “Bentley blond” caught me off guard. 😄

This is both the most bonkers and most fun thing I have seen so far with regard to miniature trains. The mere fact that these are perfectly functioning machines just like their big brothers is wild, while the control scheme becomes somewhat convoluted because humans aren't scaled down with it. Looks like a complete blast, especially with the remote control idea :)

Loved the RC fun and games. 7.25 looks so good without the giants sitting on the roof. I put a camera linked to a VR headset in my 7.25 Radio controlled Wickham trolley it was really weird when I saw myself standing at the side of the line.

I seriously had personally just suddenly feel quite excited on officially wanting with no complete doubt whatsoever to mention that I saw on another awesomely excellent KZread video several times already not too long ago featuring an official 7.25" minimum-gauge steam-driven railway garratt locomotive with more-or-less the official 4-8-2+2-8-4 wheel configuration!

Some times drones get a bad press for doing things…. This one shows you can have fun and can have a purpose and have a reason.. all with doing it safely. A massive thumbs up to the railway all round.

Most of these engines were built by individuals in back garden workshops.

That is a beautiful railway. I very much enjoyed this video and it appears that you enjoyed making it even more. I have a couple radio control locos myself, and I have no idea what the range is on the radios. Using the drone was pure mad genius. I love it!

@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226

11 ай бұрын

Well at least there was no derail in involed in making this video 😊👍

@emdB67

11 ай бұрын

@@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 lol! I can't wait to see Aaron try this on the Mill Brook RR. Although drones and trees tend to be a little risky. :) Might be safer to tape the drone to the roof and drive it that way.

We were just so close to visiting this event but having spent 6 days at the RUGBY CLUB during the summer had almost run out of petrol money!!! Instead I pulled down the inside of a wall in our kitchen. Insulate and rebuild with bricks. HOWEVER we spent a wonderful day at Harrow and Wembley on Sunday riding behind a BLACK FIVE. And eventually extracted ourselves from a 5" 15F. Both quite beasts. David and Lily.

Finally another lawrie goes little loco!❤

For some reason I always wanted to do the LMM intro and I love little steam engines like these they look so fun to drive

Amazing video lawrie really enjoyed this! ❤️👍

Thanks for featuring our line! Now you need to come back and try a Petrol-Electric loco!

That final bit was like one of those dreams when you realise you are driving your car, but you're sitting in the back seat and have no contol over what's going on. Sort of like your 'lemon challenges' but with even less co-ordination. Just me then, I'll pick up my hat as I'm leaving.

@fanofeverything30465

11 ай бұрын

What's the joke

Great place! Maybe we should fundraise Lawrie to get a CMD Scamp as a kit, seeing him put it together would also make for some content. Plus they have an option where it has a Ruston style bonnet, then he can say he got 3 Rustons.

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

I really want to build one - or an imp!

@Sohave

11 ай бұрын

@@lmm The Imp is electric so you can drive that around inside the shed without smoking up the place, put your tool boxes and work bench on little wagons and pool those up right next to your projects when needed... Given you still have enough space for that in the shed, I don't know about that.

31:05 the control, the precision, it's almost like you've landed the drone on a train before

What an awesome day out in the sunny English countryside. Every body involved, all ages. Sitting so low changes speed perception. Very glad you had FUN!

To this day I still have a project in mind of making a freelance 71/4 inch Simplex or industrial loco, similar to the one you looked at over lockdown

It's amazing what a sense of speed you can get from these machines! Kinda want one now...

@Mr-pn2eh

11 ай бұрын

I want to see this with diesel engines.

@fanofeverything30465

11 ай бұрын

​@@Mr-pn2ehThere were a few diesels in this video

What a fantastic video from Lawrie. I have had a great time watching this video & found it very amusing and funny to watch & enjoy.

Using a Drone to Drive a train at the Bentley Miniature Railway Gala! Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels love louis shirley

This is super awesome. I hope someday in the future you would make it down to the Mill Creek Central railroad in Coshocton Ohio. We run on 7.5 gauge. You're welcome to come down to see the railroad

I was watching the author of Peter's Railway childrens books preping his beautiful miniature steam loco Bongo and thought wouldn't it be great if you did a video review of it. It's that detailed it even has miniature tin mugs and a tin flask above the boiler.

@ThatCoalSoul

11 ай бұрын

* Peter's * * It's *.

@bentullett6068

11 ай бұрын

@markdavidson-gbni4147 sorry quickly typed it.

today, Lawrie films at a train nursery! i see they are being trained early so they can grow up big and strong and be ready to haul their loads...

What beautiful engines, think of the total time and money spent to create them all, staggering., good vision 👍

Takes me back 40+ years to my days model engineering 😊

Great 'little' railway, very impressive! 🙏🙏

EXCELLENT VIDEO TAKIN' PLACE ON A MINIMUM-GAUGE RAILWAY!

@ThatCoalSoul

11 ай бұрын

There's no need to shout.

@DavidScholz-bu1ix

11 ай бұрын

@@ThatCoalSoul opps, sorry, excitement!

The miniature steamers are works of engineering art. It takes very special skills to build one, and I would love to have a go at driving one.

Good to the Stirling Double doing the rounds, first seen it at an auction back in 2007, Amazing video by the way so much to look at

What a wonderful day you must have had, playing trains at the gala event there. Just to let you know, Hoddesdon Model and Railway Club has its August Extravaganza tomorrow at our Mill Lane site in Broxbourne.

This reminds me of train mountain miniature railroad in the US. You must have seen KZread videos of it. It is huge

The full on signaling system is amazing. It really brings the whole thing to a whole new level to see multiple trains in frame at the same time, going at a quite decent clip If time and funds allow i would love to watch a video on how the signalling is set up.

nice 1 lawrie realy enjoyed the drone footage happy days

I am always in the highest regard for those who build these fantastic pieces of engineering, as back tin the '80's when at college doing road transport engineering one of our lecturers was a licensed boiler maker and certifier, an amazing man. Beautiful examples of the engineers skill (That is not someone who went to Uni and got a piece of paper, BUT a person who spends there time in a shed with a lathe making things). I salute them, stunning.

I'm loving the look of those trains. Scale effect track may be a big ask but damn they look good.

Lawrie goes micro, again.

Such great FUN 😊

I'd love to see a steam turbine loco on one of these tracks. I know they were largely unsuccessful, but locos like the Pennsylvania S2 Turbomotive are just magical steam beasts to me.

@bentullett6068

11 ай бұрын

We had the LMS Turbomotive locomotive prototype in the UK but it didn't prove a successful concept and was scrapped.

@owainlloyddavies7107

11 ай бұрын

aww that's a shame, is there any documentation on it I could view? I'm currently working on refitting a Wilesco traction engine with a turbine. Don't worry, the engine was rescued from being scrapped, so I'm not butchering a perfectly decent engine @@bentullett6068

Nice one you had a Hymek a 31 and a Black 5

Very interesting, I really enjoyed that.

Flying trains? Now there’s a title!!🤣🤣 Think that might be a typo 😁 Seriously though that is a fantastic railway, would love to go see it!

What great Video growing up there was a park that had a small train .

Love how the signalling system runs on Raspbian using Chromium.

good use of the Bentley vidio

Very nice, like ! ! ! !

Video idea go to echils wood railway,Kingsbury,Tamworth had a brilliant time there there is so many locos to see and a very nice park to go on a walk too

RC class 31 was very cool if only the video was in 60fps and maybe some video effects for 1960's memes

Lovley video!

So lawrie did you feel like you were riding a Harley Davison without the handlebars 😊👍 and was that James May that I saw there 🤔

Cor that electric diesel style was flying. No way I'd go that quick on something that small hahaha.

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

It was so fun!

Lawrie's-Yo! gorgeous drone!farewell-=))

Hi lawrie, i’m sure that Spectrum RC has a range of nearly a mile so controlling the Class 31 from a remote location should be no problem. How about mounting a forward facing camera on the front of the Class 31 next time ?

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

For live feedback? Cause most of my cameras don't have the range!

Someday you need to make a video for us international viewers explaining the whole double horn thing on UK locomotives.

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

It was a way of communicating with the guard on the Gwr before the continuous brake. One is a warning Whistle for the crew, the other to say we need braking assistance

I'm very interested to see if the signalling system software is something off-the-shelf or is completely bespoke for this miniature railway.

I feel the remote control system on that 31 would work much better on a shunting locomotive or put a Fpv system in the cab of it

@hughgarrard6560

11 ай бұрын

I have thought about putting a FPV on my RC Class 31 which is the one in this video

is that running on coal?? amazing stuff!

@ABrit-bt6ce

11 ай бұрын

I saw someone handloading a chunk. That sounds legit.

@gherkinisgreat

9 ай бұрын

Most engines in 3 1/2" 5" and 7 1/4" gauge use coal, electric and petrol locomotives are less popular

Can not convince me that this is not @hyce's brother and they were parent trapped(seperated at birth)

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

Maybe he's my brother. Maybe a clone. Maybe we're the same. You've never seen us together

Can we see the controls! I wanna see how they are being operated 😢

I’ve always wondered: how do classic tank engines move without cylinders and pistons?

@alanclarke4646

11 ай бұрын

The cylinders are inside the frame

@brianrigsby7900

11 ай бұрын

14:32 the feather?

@jonathanmann223

11 ай бұрын

They still have cylinders, they are on the inside of the frames.

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

They still have a cylinders and motion, they're just inside the frame. See the video on the Austerity on the channel!

Slightly false advertising ...but great video, 👒 🎩 's off.

that was a vid lawrie

@terrier_productions

11 ай бұрын

Yes it was

Honey I shrunk the train!

I wonder if a loco mounted live camera controlled by RC is possible?

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

Probably possible with professional gear. My equipment wouldn't have the range

I noticed that the signal control system is running on a Raspberry Pi which makes me suspect that they made it themselves. Is there any chance you can go back and make a video about how they made it and how it works?

Where did they get these locomotives? Or do they make them by hand?

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

They're mostly built from scratch

@haroldpearson6025

11 ай бұрын

​@@lmmin back garden workshops.

Hi

Does Lawrie now want a 7 1/4" Hymek or 14xx now?

Hey Lawrie, I was just wondering what drone you are using?

Steam belongs in the scrape.

@terrier_productions

11 ай бұрын

If that is your opinion, why are you here? These are miniatures not the real thing

How is the ruston coming along?

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

Slowly!

@Gameboy_1992

11 ай бұрын

@@lmm mmm... I see... Is it because of shortage on parts or something thats being restored on the diesel is taking longer then expected?

@lmm

11 ай бұрын

Having time to do anything

I’m going to say it… It’s a 31, not a 33.

First no hate pls

@stevebarnes2

11 ай бұрын

If you don't want hate, don't post worthless nonsense like it means something.

@Mr.Neil1

11 ай бұрын

@@stevebarnes2 lol

@BearOfNorway

11 ай бұрын

@@stevebarnes2 He explicitly told you ¨no hate pls''. Yet, you're hating.

@Sohave

11 ай бұрын

Aw, I like hats!