Is the smallest working railway in the world? - 5 inch gauge in the garden. LGLL Ep.2
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Hello good people of the internet,
Over the Summer, my good friend Zach asked if I wanted to go and spend a day driving on his garden railway.
But it is a very small garden - just what could we get up to?
If you want more on Zach and the progress of building his Minimum gauge railway, then have a look at this playlist on his channel: • Minimal Expectations
A video featuring, shot by, and edited by Lawrie.
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Thanks for stepping in as Madge's driver for the day Lawrie. It was interesting to watch her working from the line side for once! Thanks also to your viewers for their lovely comments. What a nice community!
Thanks for having us buddy! It was a fantastic day out!
Getting poor Lawrie to do ya garden work ;-D Nice little agricultural tramway operation you got there.
Lovely to see you in fine fettle Zach, hope you are keeping well. Sending our very best from Llechfan Garden, happy steamings, Kes & Steve xx
thanks for showing us your yard! cool little engine. cant help but think it looks like the ww2 2-6-2 tank engines but not quite. sure is neat.
“Do you need a PHD in combustion...” Never change Zack, never change.
Was a rather good line.
One might say, quite the burn.
I want one, though I doubt the misses will let me !
So do I!
You need to approach it with the HS2 slant, increase garden freight capacity on the network, particularly important during the autumn clearance months (well it is in my garden!)
@Plainly Difficult make a scale Model BWR and mount it to a Locomotive Chassis. Live Steam Garden Railroading meets the Radioactive Boyscout 🤣!
@@lmm If you're ever back in the States and want to visit Upstate NY, I've got an even bigger Engine you can run. Check it out on my channel 😁.
Nice railway innit?
This is by far one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen!!! Zach, you are now elevated to legend status!!!!
He's a super lad!
My great uncle had 2 1/2 miles of 12 inch Guage railway with a live steam and also electric ride on locomotives. It all lead into a barn with a giant motorized circular platform for storing the ride on rail cars and engines. There was also a wooden trussed bridge 30ft high over a large pond. It was epic, he was a rich tool and die shop owner and accomplished inventor.
Oh that's awesome! 12 inch is quite unusual in the UK, but seems quite common stateside
@@lmm I think its because you could find rulers and gauges for it, honestly.
Is there any photos of this 12 inch railway? At 2 1/2 miles it would be longer then the Ruislip lido railway!
@@matthewadam9577 I'll see what I can find, he passed away about 20 years ago and I think the home sold like 10 years ago. I remember my grandma saying they sold the rails and trains at some point.
I have always liked the idea of using a model train for practical purposes, such as gardening or carrying small loads. Great to see it in reality.
I'm really impressed with the setup
Its beats pushing a wheelbarrow around the garden
It is fantastic well done Lord Zach!
At the theme park I work at we have a 112 year old narrow Guage Steam loco and we use it regularly as a goods train in the park on off days
@@pageharris8630 oh where is that?
Very rarely do I discover someone who I truly envy, and Zach is now one of those people. I hope that I too can one day have a steam operated garden.
I am very jealous of it too!
This is so cool and entertaining, I can imagine Lawrie and Zach in a series about railways in a factual yet funny style similar to Clarkson's Farm. Great video :D
I'm sure Zach would be happy to return!
Brilliant tramway and Lawrie's giggling was a treat as it showed you can have a lot of fun with steam. No need to be so serious and reverential.
Thank you, and exactly!
I feel like it is worth congratulating you, on doing a video on this absolute masterpiece, before Tom Scott!
Thank you very much!
I just love the fact that someone had the initiative to build a small railway in his garden to help him with gardening duties. It's fantastic. 😁
It's great isn't it
Excellent glad to see 'the estate' being tended and that zach has employed some staff to help him manage it
It's a rather good setup isn't it!
I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time, especially in the past almost two years after my then-boyfriend, now-fiancé moved into our own house. I’m really glad that there’s precedent for this, especially since we have five acres of (admittedly somewhat hilly) land; I’m sure we could do something interesting despite the grades.
The grades only make it more interesting.
Oh that sounds like a good size for a railway!
This would have to be one of the best 1/2 hour of youtube time i have ever spent. Absolutely brilliant. Informal presentation yet in keeping with the setting .
Thank you very much! High praise indeed!
Being familiar with and having spent my life running on 7.5" gauge, I'm glad to see something done in 5" that, while completely redundant and less efficient, still proves that even our smaller engines can be really useful for something other than pure entertrainment. :)
It was fun to actually do something with the smaller gauges!
Most interesting Lawrie, I saw a wonderful antique internal combustion lawnmower that you could have moved and called it heavy freight..... Thanks for the video, I have seen you trilled and honored in other videos, but here it looked like you were having great fun. Thanks for using correct directorial signalling protocol.
This was an exceptionally fun day!
I'm jealous of that mower. My father had one about 50 years ago.
Another name for the railway could be "the Washing line"!
That's a brilliant idea
I would swap round your description: very silly, but quite wonderful !! I love it.😁👌
It may not be the most efficient way of moving stuff around the garden but it would make you more likely to do the jobs in the first place. These bricks could have lain there for the next five years but, by using them as gainful employment for Madge, the job got done. Even weeding could be fun. Genius !!
It's a brilliant little set up!
That’s the brilliant.
The interchangeable bodies are a great idea
Zach has done a wonderful job with them, they are very impressive
Zach - an eccentric Gent if ever there was one 🙂
He's a super chap!
I relate to Zach.
I've watched the RHT grow for years. It's perfect.
Isn't it just. He's a clever chap.
This was very enjoyable Lawrie, I am truly inspired by that railway! Keep up the good work my friend
Glad you enjoyed it - it was great fun. Makes me want to make something similar
This is absolutely adorable. A fun way to indulge in a hobby and get the chores done.
It's great fun!
A lot of fun in a small place.
It made me remember another working railway, which is on the other side of the scale: "The World's Largest Backyard Railroad?" on Toy Man Television channel.
Oh that sounds fun
Watching you take in laundry in undoubtly THE BEST way has absolutely made my day - thank you chaps so much!!! 😂❤
You're most welcome!
Fantastic, and having far too much fun - which is always the case with Zach around! all our Tywyn sent best, Kes & Steve x
He's a good lad isn't he.
Look forward to heading your way again!
Great stuff. We used to deliver bags of coal to a small backyard foundry with a 4 3/4" gauge railway here in the states. That gauge hauls 5 gallon buckets of whatever like a champ. The 15 inch gauge does the 55 gallon drums...
Oh that's really cool
Lawrie, that looks ace! Nice to see a line "working" for a living. You must come and spend a day with us at the TBLR, build a railway and run it in a day!
That sounds like a good idea!
I love Lawrie's little squeal at 6:43 XD
I was having so much fun
I found myself wishing this had been filmed in v.r. just to get the total experience brilliant .people like zach make the world a much better place brilliant love it .
We'll do a 360 video next time!
Need one of these in my backyard, it will make my gardening much easier.
It certainly will
00:50 - Surely instead of "If there's a Will, there's a way" we can say "If there's a Zach, there's a knack", Lawrie? Very much a gentleman, we did meet a couple of times volunteering at the BVR about 7years ago.
It'd be great to catch up again. I think we met in the summer of 2013, if I recall we steamed no. 8 up to test some of the fittings for leaks and hoped all day that the other locos would fail so we could go and rescue them.
Oh that's a fantastic saying. I like that alot!
Truly the most efficient way of getting yard work done
I can't think of a better way
I don’t usually like long documentary stuff, but Lawrie is brilliant at this.
Thank you - we know our videos do tend to be a bit long, but glad you enjoyed it!
This is now one of my favourite videos
Thank you!
Nice one Zak , imagine that setup in a garden centre in the outdoor bit.....
Oooo yes, that would be great
That’s one way to over complicate getting the washing in! But if you are going to do it, do it properly, like Zach, with steam! Great video!
Seems the most straightforward way to me!
I just watched someone do chores and enjoyed it, humanity is clearly peaking when we are now using railways for laundry purposes
Brilliant little set up isn't it!
The most bonkers yet brilliant thing I have ever seen!! Love it
Musical AND a train enthusiast…….Sir you are doing life right!….also, I like the hat.
Looks like it was tons of fun.
This line is so extreme and big with tight turns, heavy inclimbs and heavy loads I'm surprised you were able to run it without a mallet loco.
😂 😂 😂
New series for you Lawrie! Lawrie goes a miniature loco! (LGML)
Yep, it's basically what Lawrie Goes a little Loco is going to feature
@@lmm yeah would be a bit too spread out I guess!
It's a garden railway in the most practical sense- It's not just a railway in the garden, it's a railway that's for gardening!
Also would die to see a collaboration between Lawrie and Keith Appleton with all his live steam traction engines and locomotives.
Oh that could be very good fun!
I've watched this about ten times and I still can't get enough
I don't think the eccentrics inside the frame are the only ones! That little steam engine in Madge sounds terrific! Much as I hate to introduce a note of practicality into such magnificent silliness, if you bring the washing in with a steam engine, isn't there a danger of soot on the clean clothes?
Quite the gamble!
I would enjoy doing yard work much more with a railway like this! Well done! 🚂
I agree, it would greatly improve things!
This is truly a "garden railway." Very entertaining, indeed! Oh, and your driving skills are clearly evident. All your experience with full size locos has paid off.
Isn't it just!
Thanks Lawrie & Jack, every garden should have one!
I completely agree!
This is fantastic! Makes me want to build one in my back garden. Somehow doubt my parents will let me
You can argue that's its a useful addition
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission
I started watching this video thinking "why, what a waste of time."
I finished the video immensely jealous!!
Love it!!
It's rather good fun!
Love it. I particularly like the first passenger wagons. My wife and I are currently building our own 5" gauge railway in Portugal. Loco is a battery powered diesel shunter.
Oh super - will you use it for gardening too?
some one once told me that an Eccentric was a rich man with crazy ideas and a mad man is a poor person with crazy ideas. As crazy as this little railway is I love it, I would say that this gentle man is defiantly an Eccentric. I think I should convert my OO gauge garden railway to 5inch. I wonder if he could add a small fish pond and a bridge?
I'm definitely a mad man then!
Great little setup though!
Hullo there, despite the accent and tweed I'm afraid you would have to class me as mad rather than eccentric. I've spent far less money on this railway than most do on 16 mm scale or g scale garden railways, even quite a few 00 gauge railways will weigh in more costly than the RHT. Pretty much everything was a second hand bargain or home built so I could afford it on a PhD students' stipend.
@@DebenValleyLightRail Zack, I love your railway. Shunting is always more enjoyable than going round in circles, in my opinion. Keep on having fun.
known zach for a few years now, clever chap, always has something interesting
Good lad isn't he!
This is my kinda of railway. Exactly the kind of railway that my Dad wont let me construct in his Garden. EVEN THOUGH it would help bring firewood from the front of the house round to the back of the house.
You can show him how useful it could be now!
Quite superb. Fascinating and Oh so British.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A beautiful modern day nod to the industrious Brit of yesteryear. Love it!
Thanks!
What a wonderful little railway!! It’s one of the things that the Hoddesdon Model and Railway Club do, the old 5” gauge!! We have steam and what looks like diesel locomotives on ours!!
Do they use the railway for gardening too?
that is a brilliant video , the humour and the hard work that went into it , well done and thanks
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
This teaches us again, that it‘s not the size that matter, but what you make with it.
Excatly!
A beautiful garden and Madge is a glorious machine, well done sir. The nearest I've been to this is passing a spliff across the living room on a radio controlled car.
That's a slightly more scaled down operation!
This has inspired me to build a railway regardless of my tiny garden
I have the Land area ( 2,5 acres/1 hectare), only that very little is level...mostly 1 in 10 slope.
I suppose a ZigZag layout ( Chilean Andes style) in 7-1/4 ", NG ( 2"to 1ft, for 3'6" Gauge prototype ) ( easily rideable locos and carriages/ wagons.)
But I am now a not-too-well 72, and will have to dream about it...Shay Geared Locos would've been ideal, ....but too much for my limited building ( metal working) knowledge....
As the German folk song goes,
Gedanken sind Frei, Thoughts are Free.
Doc AV
I love the idea of a little Shay working it's way up a hard gradient!
That must be one of the most useful garden tools I have seen.
Isn't it just - every garden should have one!
I love your videos as they make me want to join a railway museum and maybe buy my own full size train.
Brilliant - I highly recommend both ideas!
When lighting matches strike the box and keep the match still and position your body to block the wind
This is giving me ideas. This is giving a lot of ideas......
Perfection!
I love this. And on the subject of useful gauges at the esr we sometimes use a 7.1/4 inch bogie nicked from the miniature railway guys to move bits of metal and its very useful so simply stick rails in the workshop and it'll be great for moving those annoyingly big heavy and sharp metal panels. But I guess I shouldn't say too much or the other members of lmm will be erecting a miniature railway in the shed knowing you.
If I could get the landlords permission, I would 😂
@@lmm : There's always Zach's "I should probably have asked the landlord, but it's all removable" approach!
There is that!
The entertainment here is great. The wild nature and narrow space then the shunt move for getting the laundry in and lawries comment I may be out of gauge just brilliant
Thank you very much!
As my garden is small, I opted for 16mm scale (SM32). The requirement for my railway was to bring beer to the BBQ and 16mm scale is just about the right size for carrying beer. Every railway needs to earn its keep!
Carrying freight is an important part of a railways existence!
Absolutely brilliant
Thanks for sharing
Thinking of getting something steamy…. for the Mrs …..
A veg tram might be it
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the use of the limited space. Often constraints push creativity.
Yes indeed!
If you haven’t been to the tallyln railway in Wales, they have a beautiful narrow gauge preserved railway, with a awesome museum too, definitely recommend going.
If you have a look through the Lawrie Goes Loco series, you'll see we've filmed a couple of videos there!
Delightfully silly and eccentric. Absolutely brilliant!
I completely agree!
This is actually the best thing I’ve ever seen! 😂😂😂 I so want one! Perhaps one day….
It's both functional and awesome! I'd recommend it.
WOW that guy is DETERMINED to have a live steam engine!! His yard is barely large enough for a chicken pen!! Here i opened this up thinking my place was waaaay too small. Im 340ft wide and the back fence is a quarter mile from my front gate, so maybe i have room after all. Id venture to say hes never spent much time camping or hunting in the woods and having to build a fire, nor heated a home using a fireplace, hes needing instructions on how to strike a match. Lets suggest that he hold the match firmly and close to the head for control and to keep the stick from breaking. You should pull the match toward you for better control and as soon as it ignites, rotate your fingers along the stick so you dont get burned. Your friend there can be of some assistance, or ask your grandmother how she started her fire in her stove in the morning, thats where l learned. Continue posting as you have time, this was a fun video for sure, and we can learn lots as we watch your progress,,,many thanks
It's amazing what you can achieve in a small space if you really want to.
I'm well aware how matches work, these were terrible though!
I presume, that's very most british thing I've seen so far on youtube... a combination of gardening and steel & steam in a ridiculous small garden... I love it! :D
Please go back to the garden railway again Lawrie! Its lovely!
I'm sure Zach will have us to play again at some point
So cute, yet so functional. Awesome
It's great isn't it!
This is brilliant and very funny!
Thank you very much!
I hope there is a follow up where he builds an extension to take the bins out
Me too!
there is a railway near me, called the swanley new barn railway. it's a 7&1/4 inch gauge that has been plying it's trade for as long as I've been alive, carrying kids and families from the car park to the kids play area and lake. It's been a club and a commercial enterprise to varying degree's throught it's life. would that not count as "doing something useful"?
Oh certainly - but quite a bit bigger!
Very useful. Friendly and amazing to volunteer at.
Okay...if this is what somebody can do in 5in gauge, I have no excuses for not finishing my N scale layout now. :D
seriously though, well done. One of my dreams has always been to have a setup like this one day.
Also: Sir Arthur Heywood has nothing on you guys!
That's how I feel. I've got some modeling to do!
An almost matchless video from Lawrie.
I'm such a failure!
@@lmm You should be fired.
Thanks for the mention of the KLR lawrie!
Most welcome! Hoping to get to film with them next year.
Quite a great use of the space!
Isn't it just!
Absolutely charming 🇬🇧👍
Isn't it just!
Is it safe to say that this is the one and only train to transport underpants? Thank god he didn't have anything embarrassing on the washing line. Lol.
Who knows what else is out there!
Hey Lawrie! I may have mentioned this a quite a few times beforehand, but there’s one episode of LGLL that seems to have been forgotten, the one where you open up a box of stuff including some GWR rolling stock (namely a 14xx, a Collet Goods, an Autocoach, and a Toad brakevan). I think it was labeled episode 15 or 16, as it possibly came after the Lima Class 37 video and before the B1 repair video.
Fixed!
Like the upload.Thanks for sharing.
You're most welcome
@@lmm Great and thanks very much for replying to my comment. I have a new video out now on the update of my layout plus a special remembrance too.. Hope you like and share.
We need to see this speeded up and with the bennyhill theam over the top
Hahaha, that would be super
" We are going to cheat today..." BUT we are not gonna use a lighter, you stick with old matches :)
What could go wrong?
That is indeed the most delightfully silly thing I've seen in quite a while.
Isn't it just!
Compared to my backyard this is quite small. This now makes me wish my dad and I could one day build a small railway from the house to the tool shed that we can use when we need to carry something heavy like a car jack. Miniature railways can be of practical use on a farm, running things between the house and the various barns, sheds, and other outbuildings. You don't even need an engine, but I would like to have a handcar like one miniature railroad I visited called the C&H railroad had.
I wish I could build one too. They're a super amount of fun.
Using a steam engine to take in the laundry. Nothing wrong that. Nothing at all. Brilliant video.
It's clearly the most efficient way to do it!
I like how it is both layout for running the model but the tracks are set up as to also serve a purpose just pushing cars around holding laundry or other garden stuff. It could very well be the smallest working railway on earth since it has a working purpose.
Excatly! It's great isn't it!
@@lmm I had a plan when I was younger to build a working subway to bring the mail in. Then I grew up and realized putting holes in a foundation is a bad idea.
It's absolutely brilliant!
I wholeheartedly agree!
Those matches are a good justification for starting smoking. Then you’d have a lighter to hand 😂
Madge is perfect. Love a tank engine with outside valve gear. ❤️
It's lovely isn't it!
I did once during a BBQ have my 3*5" gauge large boilered Tich pull some beers & burgers around a temporary track made up of my Hornby Rocket plastic sleeper system, worrying the coals dropping through the fire grate might melt it!! Sadly no video😯😊
Oh that's a brilliant system! Steam delivery system
I once made a shot glass out of porcelain that mounts to an N scale open freight car. Not as useful as this but still great fun and games and it introduces a purpose out side of modeling.
Oh that's a pretty cool idea!