@@lmm Is it wrong of me to think of Rheneas whenever I see Dolgoch? I know I'm gonna piss a lot of rail fans off. Also, I wish Skarloey-I mean- Talyllyn was there.
@@benwise6517 I'm sure and well Dolgoch gets a chance to boast about also to mean there is nothing wrong with that after Awdry actually has a museum in in the Talyllyn railway museum
@@benwise6517 not wrong at all. I mean, Reverend Awdry was invovled with the early Preservation efforts on the Tallylyn. Heck, I'm a yank and I basically learned about the railroad from his stories. he helped spread the name of the line.
@@benwise6517 a friend of mine drives on the Talyllyn, and to wind him up, I always refer to the locos as Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handle, Peter-Sam and duncan, mainly to annoy him!
@@lmm did you feel like you was Edwin Jones or Jones the steam the engine driver from the Ivor the engine tv series when you got the fire going in Dolgoch's fire box in the second part of this episode. i only asked you that because you pointed out how Dolgoch is cearly a Welsh narrow gauge tank engine.
@@alexphillips4325 Hello! My Name is Rusty Clarke! I was born in 1956 . So I missed the age Steam engines! But I Love the power and form . Love the unique features and beautiful designs of the English engines I hope one day we can ride one day! Love Rusty Clarke USA 🇺🇸
Dolgochs Thomas character is Rheneas. To be honest when I used to watch Thomas the Tank engine I always preferred the narrow gauge locomotives over the standard gauge locomotives.
@@alanwiad3978 Rev Awdrey who originally wrote the Thomas the tank engine stories based the narrow gauge locomotives on those based at the Talyllyn Railway and other welsh narrow gauge railways railways like the Ffestiniog railway.
Was told once that the brake valves they use for the air brake came from scrapped Melbourne suburban trains. Good to see that Victorian engineers had the sense to put access holes in the frame to make oiling easier.
The sound of that little whistle took me back to childhood, it sounds just like the whistle that the producers of Thomas The Tank Engine used for the narrow gauge engines in the series!
Getting to drive a piece of railroad history and the history of railroad preservation must be a true honor. Hats off to you from across the pond, and much respect to you too.
At long last!!! I have been searching for ages to see if somebody would look extensively at Dolgoch's intricate "Patent" valve gear, and you have! My sincerest gratitude to you sir for giving us a closer look at the Old Lady's marvelous mechanisms
What a beautiful place! Just watching this fires my passion for steam engines more and more! Thank you for the tour and experience of riding in the cab of Dolgoch.
Also, I’d like to hear about how Edward-Thomas and Sir-Haydn worked on the Corris (where they were called Hughes and Kerr back then after where they were each built at)
here in america we have a steam locomotive that has never been retired, that is Union Pasific's 844 or other wise know as the "Living Legend" a "FEF-3" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by ALCO
Much like Rheneas kept his railway running, Dolgoch kept hers running. Glad to see Rev. Awdry drew inspiration from real events or else I would never have found out about the Gallant Old Engine's basis.
Hi Lawrie, a very interesting and well narrated video! I hope your genuine and communicative enthusiasm will help them out during these tough times. Cheers
Mate you have made me survive in this pandemic. Your videos makes my love with trains expand into ludicrous amount. You deserve way more subs and love mate keep up the amazing work!
This is quit an amazing video of quit an amazing little locomotive, I like how pristine it is kept and the very respectful modifications, such as that the old oiler and spring gauges has not been taken off through made redundant by newer oilers and gauges! this is really what sets a preserved engine apart from one in regular service, it is telling a little story of its own. Kudos to the people at Talyllyn Railway for their amazing work!
She's such a beauty! I think I could honestly stare at Dolgoch for hours. I hadn't appreciated just how gorgeous a machine she is. almost seems a shame to even steam her...almost. XD It's really easy to tell how much care and respect you're taking with her too. I don't know if I'd ever touch her myself! Dolgoch really is a lady in every sense of the word. it's amazing to think she's 154!
She's a work of art. There was a great deal of trepidation, I'm just really honoured that the railway was happy to let me have a go! It really did feel special.
thank you for this. this year has been horrendous for all of us, but you’ve taken us away from it all for 45 minutes and grateful for that. been going down for 19 months now and i wouldn’t have it any other way. had a charter, worked the whistles and the injectors on 2 this year, she really is my favourite. you’ve now covered the 2 locos i’ll be driving when i’m 18 on a driver experience. been looking forward to this all week and it was a refreshing conclusion to our mock week. if you ever get the chance i would love to see coverage of 1, 3 or 4 :)
You look thrilled. So glad you could return to the Talyllyn Railway. Funnily enough, I used to think buffers on narrow gauge locos was the norm thanks to Thomas and Friends. 😂
Can someone explain to me what the 2 tone whistles are for on Dolgoch? More or less the whistle codes (like the order the two are blown in) and how they work?
Wonderful video, :-) It really baffles me that so many railway societies trust you to drive their locomotives. I can't even get guys in my own local miniature train society to let me have a go at driving their locos. Even though I owned a 5inch gauge Steam locomotive for 10 years. (Sold recently due to injury issues.)
@@lmm Yes, and I know most of them: Skarloey Remembers - Talyllyn resting in the shed, Dolgoch's department to be overhauled, and even a lady named Mrs. Pugh who was commonly late like Mrs. Last. Sir-Handel - Sir-Haydn's derailing. Peter-Sam & The Refreshment Lady - Awdry causing the driver's mother-in-law to be left behind on the Talyllyn. Old Faithful - Most likely if Talyllyn ever had a damaged spring, too. Little Old Twins - The BBC TV visiting the Talyllyn. Special Funnel - Edward-Thomas's brief diesel ejector and having a broken funnel from the Corris, and a washout on the Corris. Steam-Roller - A steamroller crash in Ireland. Passengers & Polish - Douglas stalling on a viaduct. The Gallant Old Engine - How Dolgoch saved the line from closure. The 1st 3 "Very old engines" - Real events of the Talyllyn's early days. Grand-puff - Sir-Haydn and Edward-Thomas being sold from the Corris, and a similar stationary boiler to Stanley's fate. Bulldog - Linda's leap. Sleeping Beauty - An abandened engine being rediscovered in South America. I just wanna know if there were any real events that inspired: "Trucks", "Home at last", "Rock n roll", "Duck and dukes", and "You can't win".
To think it was Rheneas’s basis and not Skarloey’s to save the railway shes a beautiful looking steam engine really hoping I can visit the talyllyn railway someday to see the little engines and Rev w Awdry’s study
Lawrie, I recommend that you look at something called the T1 trust. A group of people are trying to build an extinct American steam engine from the ground up. I can link their website if you would like me to.
I’m genuinely convinced that Dolgoch is the most important engine in the world. The Talyllyn was the very first preservation railway(in the modern sense of the term)in the world,for the first two years Dolgoch was the only engine on the line that worked,and it worked every single job that it could on the railway,it worked like a geriatric dog essentially,and given that it was called the old lady even back then,you can imagine how hard it must have been on the engine,it had never been done,it hasn’t been done since,and it inspired others to attempt to do it again.
Lawrie, a really great video , excellent filming and presentation. I like the style of your videos , the extensive , up close explanations of all of the operations , it seems like we are right there with you . Your enthusiasm for your subject shows through very much . Well done.
Brilliant video, I drove her a couple of years back just from Tywyn to the shed and back on a "driver for a fiver" event, such an amazing engine and railway. Keep up the good work!
Don’t know if I’ll ever go up the ranks to steam driver when I start volunteering at the TR but I’ll always love the joys of driving a narrow gauge loco. Also thanks for saying Tywyn and not Towyn.
Your enthusiasm for these gorgeous old engines is so addictive. it's always a treat to see you on the footplate enjoying yourself and explaining the workings of these old beauties.
Nice to see you having so much fun, please do let us know at the Corris Railway next time that you're in the area, and we'll be glad to do something similar ;-)
Hello Richard, I did drop an email to you guys but never heard anything - I'd absolutely love to do Corris, you guys have made such amazing progress and have a couple of things I'd love to feature! Would you be able to drop me an email at Lawrie@lawriesmechanicalmarvels.com?
So much equipment sold off and relocated (often to scrapyards), most of it lucky to have survived at all. Yes, truly wonderful that this line has so much of its original equipment. Not an approximation of something that was, but still intact after 150 years.
Talyllyn has certainly had its moments when fortune has smiled upon it, and things could have gone a very different way. We've been very lucky in the UK with what's been saved.
@@matteomarmiroli1713 indeed she was and that doesn't change the fact she was built for the line and has worked it all her life that in itself is remarkable
Well done Lawrie, that's a wonderful portrait of a narrow gauge loco. So if my JUNG engine is finished one day you should come for a visit and a ride at the footplate. Cheers Sven
It’s amazing to see how far Lawrie goes loco has come, from starting off with the MSLR’s 165DS to now being on the Talyllyns one and only Dolgoch. Favourite series on the channel, look forward to it every month. Question is what’s next?
It's a long,long time since I was at the Talyllyn Railway,I was a young child (I'm 49 now!) and I believe I did get haulage from Dolgoch. Must return soon. You clearly enjoyed yourself there,lucky man. Great video as usual,keep up the good work.
Dolgoch is such a wonderfully quirky design. I always wondered how the oiling up occurred underneath the front axle, where the eccentric cranks are. It's so incredible to think how this little Welsh loco managed to keep going in service for so long, while still being such a unique design. I've gotten around to seeing four of the five Fletcher Jennings locos on a previous trip, what a strange loco maker.
It must have been an honor to drive the “Gallant Old Engine.”
It really was
@@lmm Is it wrong of me to think of Rheneas whenever I see Dolgoch? I know I'm gonna piss a lot of rail fans off. Also, I wish Skarloey-I mean- Talyllyn was there.
@@benwise6517 I'm sure and well Dolgoch gets a chance to boast about also to mean there is nothing wrong with that after Awdry actually has a museum in in the Talyllyn railway museum
@@benwise6517 not wrong at all. I mean, Reverend Awdry was invovled with the early Preservation efforts on the Tallylyn. Heck, I'm a yank and I basically learned about the railroad from his stories. he helped spread the name of the line.
@@benwise6517 a friend of mine drives on the Talyllyn, and to wind him up, I always refer to the locos as Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handle, Peter-Sam and duncan, mainly to annoy him!
I love how respectful you are as you speak about her. She is a gorgeous locomotive.
She really is a legend, and we do need to be thankful - who knows what preservation would look like if she'd failed during those first seasons
@@lmm next time you come to the USA, you should visit #4014 on the Union Pacific railway
@@pacificcoastpiper3949 I strongly support this. Or the 844 Highball!
@@lmm did you feel like you was Edwin Jones or Jones the steam the engine driver from the Ivor the engine tv series when you got the fire going in Dolgoch's fire box in the second part of this episode. i only asked you that because you pointed out how Dolgoch is cearly a Welsh narrow gauge tank engine.
If he wasn’t Respectful he’d have been beaten to death rather swiftly
The whistle brings back a lot of memories of Thomas the tank engine that’s for sure, what a lovely little locomotive!
Yea
"There is nothing that gives me any concept that I am in 2020."
Besides driving Dolgoch, that in itself sounds _blissful_ . 😅
It really was.
As an American rail enthusiast, I've always dreamed about riding on the footplate of a famous steam locomotive. One day, I hope that comes true.
Gotta love an episode of LGL!
lol didn't expect to see you here.
@@falloutgod3725 I'm everywhere!
Lol
@@PlainlyDifficult so this is how you do your documentaries. Omnipresence. Neat.
@@alexphillips4325 Hello! My Name is Rusty Clarke! I was born in 1956 . So I missed the age Steam engines! But I Love the power and form . Love the unique features and beautiful designs of the English engines I hope one day we can ride one day! Love Rusty Clarke USA 🇺🇸
The variety on your channel is addictive. That's from a transport and history nerd to a fellow bunch of like minded nerds. Thank you.
Thank you very much! Pleased to hear you're enjoying it!
A great “Iittle Old Engine”
Good to see Rheaneas’s Twin
i know i culd have sworn that dolgoch must be the insprition for rheaneas
@@IndustrialParrot2816 is this the engine that rheaneas is.based of
Yes, it is
He is actually Rheneas. His brother is Skarloey
@@christopherericjustinuy1552 I don't know if it's what you meant but Dolgoch isn't Rheneas, I'm pretty sure they did actually meet in the books.
How clean is that loco? Well done to everyone looking after it.
The people at the Talyllyn are just top notch - they have a lot of pride in the fleet and it shows!
Imagine if someone starts talking about Thomas and friends.
Dolgochs Thomas character is Rheneas. To be honest when I used to watch Thomas the Tank engine I always preferred the narrow gauge locomotives over the standard gauge locomotives.
@@bentullett6068 I thought of Lady
@@alanwiad3978 Rev Awdrey who originally wrote the Thomas the tank engine stories based the narrow gauge locomotives on those based at the Talyllyn Railway and other welsh narrow gauge railways railways like the Ffestiniog railway.
@@bentullett6068 Same
That shed at the beginning looks like the tunnel Lady was kept in from Thomas and the Magic Railroad and I love it.
It's a wonderful shed!
@@lmm a lot of history took place in 1951-2
It was so lovely to meet you and have you around, hope to see you again sometime soon, Kes & Steve.
Such a fantastic little engine. An old lady with spring in her step :)
I always wave when I see her. The line runs right behind my work place.
Oh what a treat that is
oh you lucky chap
Him*
@@grooviestglobe4907 no no, her is correct
@@grooviestglobe4907 all locomotives are female
I love this little steam Lady!
She's stunning
I used to hate being short but after seeing you struggle with cabs i think i'll appriciate it
Definitely! So many cabs favour a shorter crew!
Was told once that the brake valves they use for the air brake came from scrapped Melbourne suburban trains. Good to see that Victorian engineers had the sense to put access holes in the frame to make oiling easier.
Oh really? That's interesting.
Yeah, most engines are designed so you can actually work on them
@@lmm If what I was told is correct then it was the Victorian railways Tait cars that "donated" their brake valves.
At 500k, I reckon you’ll be driving Tornado. ;)
I have fired her, so you never know!
Or scotsman
@@lmm You've fired Tornado? Do tell us the story sometime!
What about Big Boy here in the States. :o
@@lmm That wasn't very nice, Tornado has done a good job.
Great to see the actual model locomotive that Rheaneas was built after
The sound of that little whistle took me back to childhood, it sounds just like the whistle that the producers of Thomas The Tank Engine used for the narrow gauge engines in the series!
Getting to drive a piece of railroad history and the history of railroad preservation must be a true honor. Hats off to you from across the pond, and much respect to you too.
It really was. Hope you enjoyed watching!
At long last!!! I have been searching for ages to see if somebody would look extensively at Dolgoch's intricate "Patent" valve gear, and you have! My sincerest gratitude to you sir for giving us a closer look at the Old Lady's marvelous mechanisms
Oh you're most welcome! Glad to have been of service
Loved all 270,780 seconds of this.
I hear that on 8/26/1949, Dogloch cracked her frame. Was that what inspired Rheneas’s jammed valve-gear?
At around 42:03, that whole quote...wow, I think you were getting a bit emotional there lawrie, AND SO WAS I!!!!!
What a beautiful place! Just watching this fires my passion for steam engines more and more! Thank you for the tour and experience of riding in the cab of Dolgoch.
It is a lovely line with lovely volunteers. Hopefully you might get an invite to drive a Corris loco and train...
It's absolutely super, and I'm really hoping to!
Also, I’d like to hear about how Edward-Thomas and Sir-Haydn worked on the Corris (where they were called Hughes and Kerr back then after where they were each built at)
It has got to the point now where I see lawrie as a TV presenter
one question how do you film the viaduct scene
Maybe one day, that would be pretty amazing.
We'll reveal that in a future video
ah ok
He-hey! It's Rheneas! Good to see you again, ol' boy. How's your brother, Skarloey, doing these days?
Dolgoch's sister Talyllyn is coming to the end of an overhaul at the moment
Everyone forgetting my boi Smudger
What a lovely little engine I remember seeing her on my trip to the talyllyn I would love for you to do Sir Haydn at some time.
So would I! Hopefully the railway will be happy enough for us to return!
I knew it was a matter of time until you drove one of Tallylyn's steam engines!
I'm very excited that it happened!
Oh cool! Lawrie got to drive Rheneas! I know Dolgoch inspired Rheneas, but still, I wanted to make a joke.
here in america we have a steam locomotive that has never been retired, that is Union Pasific's 844 or other wise know as the "Living Legend" a "FEF-3" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by ALCO
844 is pretty cool
Much like Rheneas kept his railway running, Dolgoch kept hers running. Glad to see Rev. Awdry drew inspiration from real events or else I would never have found out about the Gallant Old Engine's basis.
Yeah, amazing the stories sound almost like fiction 😂
Hi Lawrie, a very interesting and well narrated video! I hope your genuine and communicative enthusiasm will help them out during these tough times. Cheers
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
Mate you have made me survive in this pandemic. Your videos makes my love with trains expand into ludicrous amount. You deserve way more subs and love mate keep up the amazing work!
Really pleased to hear our content has helped you - there's a link to the discord if you're not there already. Lots of people to talk to
This is quit an amazing video of quit an amazing little locomotive, I like how pristine it is kept and the very respectful modifications, such as that the old oiler and spring gauges has not been taken off through made redundant by newer oilers and gauges! this is really what sets a preserved engine apart from one in regular service, it is telling a little story of its own.
Kudos to the people at Talyllyn Railway for their amazing work!
She's legendary for sure one of y favourite engines of all time really happy you've made an episode on her as always fantastic!
Thank you very much! Wonderful experience
same I'm happy
This is like going to the Sistine Chapel and they invite you up onto the alter to handle the relics.
Pretty much, yes 😂
Watching it move, it appears so smooth and quiet. I really must visit Tal-y-llyn at some point.
It's well worth a visit!
Your a gallant old engine! When your rested, we’ll mend you so that you’ll be ready for tomorrow.
She's such a beauty! I think I could honestly stare at Dolgoch for hours. I hadn't appreciated just how gorgeous a machine she is. almost seems a shame to even steam her...almost. XD
It's really easy to tell how much care and respect you're taking with her too. I don't know if I'd ever touch her myself! Dolgoch really is a lady in every sense of the word. it's amazing to think she's 154!
She's a work of art.
There was a great deal of trepidation, I'm just really honoured that the railway was happy to let me have a go!
It really did feel special.
One of the six engines reminds me of Lady the Magical Engine
Yes, so dreamy
Wow! I've been eagerly awaiting the next Lawrie Goes Loco and it was well worth the wait!
Pleased to hear it!
thank you for this. this year has been horrendous for all of us, but you’ve taken us away from it all for 45 minutes and grateful for that. been going down for 19 months now and i wouldn’t have it any other way. had a charter, worked the whistles and the injectors on 2 this year, she really is my favourite. you’ve now covered the 2 locos i’ll be driving when i’m 18 on a driver experience. been looking forward to this all week and it was a refreshing conclusion to our mock week. if you ever get the chance i would love to see coverage of 1, 3 or 4 :)
You're most welcome - glad you enjoyed the video!
It's a super railway, really enjoyed my visit and look forward to returning!
What a quiet little engine too! So beautiful
She's brilliant!
Im so happy you got to drive Dolgoch!!!!! Love the engine
So am I!
What a nice little locomotive, I could see why they used a similar shape for Lady in Thomas the magic railway
It's also the engine Rheneas is based on
Love the intro, first time I have seen it!! It is great. And the loco, it is just stunning. You are one lucky man
That I am! Feel very privileged. Pleased to hear you're enjoying the intro!
Looks even more like Rheneas in red!
As Rheneas is based upon Dolgoch, that makes sense!
You look thrilled. So glad you could return to the Talyllyn Railway.
Funnily enough, I used to think buffers on narrow gauge locos was the norm thanks to Thomas and Friends. 😂
I really was!
It's funny isn't it!
Respect for those people involved to keep this great locomotive alive! 👏 🙌
Oh yes indeed, wonderful people!
Can someone explain to me what the 2 tone whistles are for on Dolgoch? More or less the whistle codes (like the order the two are blown in) and how they work?
Dolgoch - sounds like a character from Tolkien!
It does a little doesn't it!
Just by that cab size alone you can tell this locomotive is from another Era
It's very Victorian, but wonderful
i can probable fit in him sorry i count Locomotives as boys
Lawrie you should consider touring down the states, seeing you at the controls of UP 844 would be awesome! Or Northwestern 924 if we wanna talk small.
Watched this video 4 times. Will edit each time I come back
Glad you've enjoyed it!
Wonderful video, :-)
It really baffles me that so many railway societies trust you to drive their locomotives.
I can't even get guys in my own local miniature train society to let me have a go at driving their locos.
Even though I owned a 5inch gauge Steam locomotive for 10 years. (Sold recently due to injury issues.)
Just like Rheneas, a galant old engine!!!
Yes, Rheneas is based on Dolgoch
As well as smudger
beautiful little loco!
Isn't she just
Many happy returns
Man, just love that oxide brown paint color, polished black running gear and smoke box shroud, polished brass & metal work and white pin stripes!
She's an amazing bit of kit
Please list the real-life events of the RWS Skarloey and Mid-Sodor stories
Almost all the stories are based on real events.
@@lmm Yes, and I know most of them:
Skarloey Remembers - Talyllyn resting in the shed, Dolgoch's department to be overhauled, and even a lady named Mrs. Pugh who was commonly late like Mrs. Last.
Sir-Handel - Sir-Haydn's derailing.
Peter-Sam & The Refreshment Lady - Awdry causing the driver's mother-in-law to be left behind on the Talyllyn.
Old Faithful - Most likely if Talyllyn ever had a damaged spring, too.
Little Old Twins - The BBC TV visiting the Talyllyn.
Special Funnel - Edward-Thomas's brief diesel ejector and having a broken funnel from the Corris, and a washout on the Corris.
Steam-Roller - A steamroller crash in Ireland.
Passengers & Polish - Douglas stalling on a viaduct.
The Gallant Old Engine - How Dolgoch saved the line from closure.
The 1st 3 "Very old engines" - Real events of the Talyllyn's early days.
Grand-puff - Sir-Haydn and Edward-Thomas being sold from the Corris, and a similar stationary boiler to Stanley's fate.
Bulldog - Linda's leap.
Sleeping Beauty - An abandened engine being rediscovered in South America.
I just wanna know if there were any real events that inspired: "Trucks", "Home at last", "Rock n roll", "Duck and dukes", and "You can't win".
Just watched this all the way through again. That loco is just something else.
Thank you very much! She's magnificent isn't she.
Thank you so very much, the best and most importantly video you have ever made.
Best regards from Denmark.
Thank you very much - I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
To think it was Rheneas’s basis and not Skarloey’s to save the railway shes a beautiful looking steam engine really hoping I can visit the talyllyn railway someday to see the little engines and Rev w Awdry’s study
And also smudger because rheneas and smudger are the same class of engine
Yes, I AGREE - this is an incredibly beautiful locomotive !!! Love this engine! Greetings from Cape Town
What a fabulous vlog, done with such enthusiasm and clarity. Excellent work - it brings back so many great memories. SUPERB.
Thank you very much! Really pleased you enjoyed it!
Lawrie, I recommend that you look at something called the T1 trust. A group of people are trying to build an extinct American steam engine from the ground up. I can link their website if you would like me to.
I’m genuinely convinced that Dolgoch is the most important engine in the world.
The Talyllyn was the very first preservation railway(in the modern sense of the term)in the world,for the first two years Dolgoch was the only engine on the line that worked,and it worked every single job that it could on the railway,it worked like a geriatric dog essentially,and given that it was called the old lady even back then,you can imagine how hard it must have been on the engine,it had never been done,it hasn’t been done since,and it inspired others to attempt to do it again.
Dolgoch is an absolutely beautiful legend on the Talyllyn railway
Isn't it just
Lawrie, a really great video , excellent filming and presentation. I like the style of your videos , the extensive , up close explanations of all of the operations , it seems like we are right there with you . Your enthusiasm for your subject shows through very much . Well done.
Thank you very much, I'm really glad you're enjoying our videos!
Truly a splendid engine!! Many thanks.
You're welcome!
I really have to wonder how UA-cam has never recommended this channel to me before now. I absolutely love your work!
Thank you very much!
Brilliant video, I drove her a couple of years back just from Tywyn to the shed and back on a "driver for a fiver" event, such an amazing engine and railway. Keep up the good work!
Isn't it just! Quite the thing to have driven isn't she!
Don’t know if I’ll ever go up the ranks to steam driver when I start volunteering at the TR but I’ll always love the joys of driving a narrow gauge loco.
Also thanks for saying Tywyn and not Towyn.
It's a wonderful thing to be part of!
Hi Lawrie. Great to see you back in therapy! I really enjoyed this video.
It was an amazing experience! Really pleased to hear you enjoyed it!
Your enthusiasm for these gorgeous old engines is so addictive. it's always a treat to see you on the footplate enjoying yourself and explaining the workings of these old beauties.
Thank you very much - pleased to hear you're enjoying what we do!
Best nights are the nights with a new LMM video
I can't help but commend your superb choice of evening activities
28:46 What a gorgeous camera angle and shot! LOVE what you do and your channel, Lawrie! Lets get this man to 100k subs, pronto!
Thank you very much, really pleased to hear you enjoyed it!
Here's hoping!
Man this whole train is built wacky. It’s a wonder she still runs!
She's been well looked after
@@lmm indeed
Nice to see you having so much fun, please do let us know at the Corris Railway next time that you're in the area, and we'll be glad to do something similar ;-)
Hello Richard,
I did drop an email to you guys but never heard anything - I'd absolutely love to do Corris, you guys have made such amazing progress and have a couple of things I'd love to feature!
Would you be able to drop me an email at Lawrie@lawriesmechanicalmarvels.com?
@@lmm Thanks for getting back to me, email has been sent. Look forward to being able to have you over.
You posted an Laurie goes Loco video on my birthday! What a wonderful gift!
Oh a delayed happy birthday! Hope you enjoyed it
So much equipment sold off and relocated (often to scrapyards), most of it lucky to have survived at all. Yes, truly wonderful that this line has so much of its original equipment. Not an approximation of something that was, but still intact after 150 years.
But kudos and blessings to those who preserve what they can when they can, wherever they or that may be.
Talyllyn has certainly had its moments when fortune has smiled upon it, and things could have gone a very different way.
We've been very lucky in the UK with what's been saved.
Great episode. A real testament to you guys and the channel to be able to go to and review such an iconic locomotive.
Thank you very much! It's also a testament to you wonderful people for supporting us - without you guys we're nothing.
@@lmm You film it. I'll watch it
She's a beautiful little narrow gauge locomotive and looks well looked after
She's stunning! They're very proud of it at the Talyllyn, and it shows!
Magical. What a great little engine! 😎
She's absolutely super
Thanks very much for another great video. I was lucky enough to visit the TR in August 2020 and saw No.2 in steam then.
Amazing that old lady has never left her home and is in such beautiful condition again after struggling on for so many years .
Partly because she was completely rebuilt in the 60's
And the 85% of the loco is practically new
Indeed it is , but that doesn't change the facts
@@matteomarmiroli1713 indeed she was and that doesn't change the fact she was built for the line and has worked it all her life that in itself is remarkable
Yes and has had a very important history
Ya know, this certainly helps a little engine to feel that, at last, he has really now come back home.
She's never really left.
It’s just Rheneas’s quote from the gallant old engine story when he returns from his overhaul
Splendid. Nothing else in a word describes this.
Thank you! I'm so pleased you think so!
That's a lovely railway there mate fantastic video yet again and greetings from your Cornish fan
Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed it
I was luck enough to spend a day on the railway back in September between lockdowns. The team there are a lovely bunch of people.
They really are!
Well done Lawrie, that's a wonderful portrait of a narrow gauge loco. So if my JUNG engine is finished one day you should come for a visit and a ride at the footplate. Cheers Sven
I’d love to see a video on Tal-y-llyn when she returns from her overhaul
I'd love to do one
It’s amazing to see how far Lawrie goes loco has come, from starting off with the MSLR’s 165DS to now being on the Talyllyns one and only Dolgoch. Favourite series on the channel, look forward to it every month. Question is what’s next?
Thank you very much - it's mad isn't it! We've got some exciting stuff in the pipeline, and hopefully it's just going to keep getting better!
It's a long,long time since I was at the Talyllyn Railway,I was a young child (I'm 49 now!) and I believe I did get haulage from Dolgoch. Must return soon. You clearly enjoyed yourself there,lucky man. Great video as usual,keep up the good work.
Thank you very much glad to hear you enjoyed it - she's a very special engine to get to travel behind!
I love the old boy checking up on you and his beloved engine lol. Looks like you had a great day, thank you for taking us all with you!
ikr? I feel like the implication is, "hurt my old lady and thins will go poorly for you..."
It was superb. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
@@lmm loved it makes me smile as we can’t go out you are bringing it to us! Can’t wait to be able to get back out to play.
Dolgoch is such a wonderfully quirky design. I always wondered how the oiling up occurred underneath the front axle, where the eccentric cranks are. It's so incredible to think how this little Welsh loco managed to keep going in service for so long, while still being such a unique design.
I've gotten around to seeing four of the five Fletcher Jennings locos on a previous trip, what a strange loco maker.
It's a very weird little thing, but amazingly pleasant to work on
Wonderful. All of it. There is nothing else I can say. Cheers