I can't remember the last time I was so thoroughly entertained by the immense suffering of another person. In all sincerity, I did appreciate all the effort you went through starting, lubricating and filming all of this! And that of the volunteers keeping this engine running in preservation!
We used to have one here at swanage, 6695. It lurched forward on every piston stroke, spilled tea in the first carriage. You could feel it waddling along with its two big cylinders. The hammer blow to the track was atrocious, and let's be honest it never really fitted in on an otherwise Southern line. That said....I grew to love it. It had great character!!
Just to note during the outro where he says "next year" he means this year, being 2025, for the centenary. I can also say the people at Telford are very gracious and kind.
I just hope that someone will Sponsor Lawrie to go to the US and have a look at some of their steam locos.. Now those are some seriously big locomotives. With that said,, huzzah for another video. I love LMM. :)
32 mins is peak railwaying! a champion showing how things were done! Well done Lawrie! i had a good chuckle. Sent £10 to the overhaul, I doubt ill see her running in person as I'm far too far south but every little matters.
Awsome, Camera Placement During Run. Takes a lot of time an Effort. Tks for adding to History for us all. I found Myself Duvking My Head With Camera shot under tracks, Lol,,,😂
I really like the Taffy tank 5600 class and they’re very unusual looking loco. But I really like them. I really was incredibly surprised the Telford Steam Railway doesn’t have an pit, I guess they watch your vid with you on Pendennis Castle and thought it be amusing that you do it again with the Taffy tank. Truly great entertainment.
Nice! I had a footplate ride on this loco back in 2019 when it was on loan to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway (my nearest & Wiltshire's only standard gauge heritage railway), brings back memories.
@himaro101 they do. It returned from the East Somerset Railway in 2020 just before the first lockdown, and that is 5637. Plus, it's owned by the 5637 steam locomotive group & is currently awaiting heavy general overhaul.
22:54 - All engines require a plank to clean out the smokebox, just the Taff Tank is the only engine that requires two.😉 Jesting aside, I think we also needed a [wooden] plank on the 16XX in 2008 at the North Norfolk when that visited for the summer alongside, oddly enough, 5619! 5619 becoming the first engine I fired (as a brand-new Cleaner) for a while round trip at the end of August. Lovely to see it here!😃
It's a pleasure to listen to your humoruos even sardonic commentation and all the details you give to the loco. Gives me a grin. Especially the part when you are about to crawl into the frame. 😂 And the Germans in previous years complained about the 4 cyllinder compound steam engines - why tho? Compared to that, they gave huge clearance...
Sorry Lawrie. As a GWR nut, I have to disagree: GWR locos always look best in GWR engine green. And the imperial units of tractive effort were pounds-force, in metric it is of course, Newtons. ( 1 pounds-force = 4.44822 Newtons )
Awesome video, Lawrie!!! And I thought the 1917 Baldwin 2-6-2 I helped do cosmetic work on was a nightmare to get under and move around in (for reference I’m 5’11”). The only thing I can somewhat relate to is being in the sandy dirt under the cylinders or under the #1 driving axle. For some forsaken reason, Baldwin decided to put her brake cylinders between the cylinder saddle and the #1 axle.
The Oiler Man in the 1920's when He First time crawled into the under, to oil, Said Profanity that echos even now into 2025, WOW, no Big Boy Oilers need apply ,. Great Job Lawrie!
I think possibly my favourite class of loco, Lawrie. They have a brutish beauty to them. A real no-nonsense locomotive -- sounds and looks fantastic. Thank you for a very informative and thorough video. I have two models of 56xx's. The first is a Bachmann OO which has been (professionally?) weathered, and which I got for an absolute bargain. Gorgeous. Runs beautifully too, and rest of club members are very jealous! The second model is O-gauge, made of wood (!) on a Lima battery chassis, and sadly not yet working. It is the reason why I am now also modelling in O-gauge! In theory, your video gives me no excuse for not adding a full cab interior. (But I need to get it working first.) It is going to be renumbered 6664, which was a celebrity loco rather surprisingly based at Slough shed for many years. I have a photo of it about to haul the local service from Slough to Windsor. A pair of autocoaches cannot have been much of a struggle for a 66xx!! That would have been a sight chuffing over the viaduct!
Just a thought, they should stick some plastic mirrors (not on the hot bits) under there so you can see what you are oiling. Fantastic video and a joy to watch
Hooray! My favourite engine ever! A Collett Goods Tank engine! My ugly/beautiful thug of a loco! BR black with unicycling lion - I have 40 ex-GWR locos in OO with this lack of livery with extra stinkyness including a good number of these steam powered gorillas lol. Red route for the Welsh valleys of course. My neighbour when I was a sprog was a 56xx driver then changed to the tractor class 37 diesels. My channel name is in memory of Don. I love the videos of them dragging tons of coal down to Cardiff, Barry (where I live) and Newport. I probably played on this loco in Barry Scrapyard as my dad knew Dai Woodham and still I know his son...
Awesome video Lawrie! Glad you had a great time with 5619 at my local heritage line. Hopefully you'll come back one day... maybe to drive the steam tram?
One of the very first engines I ever worked on, had some lovely turns. I remember we had a plank to spread across the buffers for emptying the smokebox, if it was wanted
I knew of a driver (about 5' 6" tall) that had the best way to sit whilst driving GWR side tank locos chimney first. Sit astride the tank and reverser, with his right leg dangling outside the cab and his left inside. 6619 used to do fairly well on the NYMR with 7 on. I think it also had a chime whistle fitted for a while....
Yes, that and a Kylchap exhaust, with its multiple concentic petticoat-pipes to maximise the draughting. I remember as 6619 visited the North Norfolk in 2009 in that form in early BR black, the year after 5619 here did so in late BR green when I was a Loco Cleaner and had fired a few round trips on 5619 (didn't get chance to crew 6619 to compare with/without the mod's). I understand 6619 has been de-Doncastered since?
Well a first for me. An engine I've driven too, back in 2016 on the Churnet Valley Railway. Re wooden extra for standing. I remember a loco needing one too and I THINK it was the Super 'D' .
I love older machines and the engineering that goes with them. The fact that with some you can give them their head is awsome, shame you could'nt with that old girl. But time will tell.
23:15 The SR class Q1 also required a board across the buffers to access the smokebox, but I think it was just a board and didn’t have to be custom made 😎
Doing all that oiling up (at 6'4) with a pit at Tanfield was bad but that has to be the worst possible version of it. Props to the camera bod following along and finding angles. At least you got oiled as well in the process, for future generations!
Ah yes, the good old 56xx! I've driven this beast and 6695 many a time - oiling up is by far the worst thing about the locos, sometimes having the big-ends in the right position can make life easier for us "bigger" chaps!
Given the amount of bad things you said about the poor thing, I'm surprised 5619 didn't take it out on you: last time I did that to an engine it contrived to cover me in soot and boiler water for my sins! Remember kids: no what anyone says, the engines can absolutely hear you...and they remember, oh BOY do they remember...
I hope you visit the location of Barry Scrapyard ….. to see what is left of the scrap yard. With your fire engine. What was that steam locomotive frame that the engine was sitting next to when set off ( 39 minutes). Loved your name tag on the engine
I remember reading somewhere that the engine crews of these locomotives, actually preferred to run them bunker first, as opposed to smoke box first. This was because they apparently rode better in reverse.
...seeing you clamber around a maze of steam locomotive, _with fire lit,_ and getting all oily, really puts the UA-cam mechanics who won't work on anything without latex gloves on into perspective.
Very rarely would I say that BR black was the nicest livery a loco could have, but I might agree in the case of no. 5619. Given how odd the class looks, it makes it resemble many BR locos which underwent many design alterations by the end of their life.
The first time I've heard anyone else call that a sunroof 😂😂😂. It's always amused me. Great minds think alike Lawrie (he said modestly). There are of course two ways of doing things - the Great Western way... and the wrong way 😊 BTW, how long did it actually take you to get the baffle plate back in ? I'm having withdrawal symptoms Lawrie 😢. It's 16 years since I had the joy of lighting up and prepping an engine. Must have been either an NA 2-6-2T or the G42 Garratt on the Puffing Billy Railway. Appreciate your suffering, but admit it, you loved every minute. On the CFV, no one wanted to clean out a smokebox and steam clean the tubes... except me 😂. There I was covered in soot from head to foot and happy as a sandboy. It reminds me of the kids who love horses, they're quite happy shovelling horseshit out of stables for hours just because they are close to the animals they love. We are the same with our iron horses. (I don't mind shovelling horseshit either 😂). At least on a Vivarais Mallet, most of the oiling points have stoppers attached with a small chain, so you can't drop them 😊 Has to be said, but the WR enginemen who prepped these in the day must've been overjoyed when they started getting Class 25's 😂 Time for you to drive an 8F or a 2800 2-8-0 if you want POWER 😂 Brilliant !!!
"Ugly Duckling"???? No way. lovely class of loco that was equally at home on the coal trains or taking me and other passengers from Cardiff to Barry Island, and based on a proven wheel arrangement used by the Taff Vale Railway, Rhymney Railway and others.
there was a lot of friends in high places and back room deals which resulted in the GWR getting favouritism at the grouping which i assume then led 5:44 onto the favouritism of not having to change their numbers
From memory, the 56xx had problems running forward. Crews preferred running them in reverse, especially on Western Region tight curves as the trailing wheels helped lead the engine into the curves.
Still easier to grease than a DHC-8 landing gear. Its much like this but with more climbing and laying on top of the thing with grease zerks digging into your rib cage ,with exhaust flue in similar position to the boiler overhead. I think over all each landing leg is like 50 grease points.
These are strange looking GWR loco's. I have a Bachmann model in the BR lined green and that colour suits it. I have been to the Telford railway. It's a great little railway, and I can't wait to see it venture to Ironbridge. I am noticing from google earth that the majority of the trackbed looks cleared out.
Choo choo you would love the KVR (Kettle Valley Railway) in summerland BC Canada it is really old over 100 and a has a big steam locomotive that is 125 or 115 years old and it’s still chugging along great
A couple of things: strictly speaking, the LMS had 40000 added to its numbers - but also, how on Earth do you clean the smokebox out? I remember seeing it at the NVR when it was there.
Even though I'm an American, I do know running gear inside the frame isn't uncommon on British (European, too?) steamers. I've wondered what daily maintenance was like for that situation: now I know. Thank you.
It's not just aesthetics choice to run head first up a gradient, because the water in the boiler flows to the lower parts and it's safer because the firebox would be always under water up the gradient and there would be less risk for it being dry. 8:46
This locomotive's design, at least in terms of the layout of all the lubrication points, makes me think that the designers forgot that they were needed and then had to fit them to the design as an afterthought. It is the perfect example of an designer going "F*ck it! I don't have to work on it so it can go there!"
Who thinks 5619 need's a name? I'm thinking... Lawrie the Great 😉 Serious question though. How come there is a cleaner on the footplate in preservation? I thought the cleaners job was before the engine goes off shed 🤔
The origin of these locos really goes back to the Taff U1's. The GWR needed to replace these with a powerful, small-wheeled, short-wheelbase loco - so the 5600's were really Swindon's take on the Taff Class U/U1.
Thanks for visiting our railway and driving our flagship engine. We really enjoyed having you, hopefully next time you visit it’ll be a cleaner job !
Yes please XD t'was a good day though.
great! Now you're making him be the cleaner too!?
@@leightonmoreland but of course! lol
I can't remember the last time I was so thoroughly entertained by the immense suffering of another person.
In all sincerity, I did appreciate all the effort you went through starting, lubricating and filming all of this! And that of the volunteers keeping this engine running in preservation!
Never before have I had such difficulty of pointing a camera in to a black void to try to film the oiling up! Oh the tales! Thanks for watching
Thanks for your efforts too! I was wondering who was helping Lawrie film too!
@@NextEevolution Joshua from the TSR, and myself :) very cooperative effort!
@@bwilesukgood work 👍
We used to have one here at swanage, 6695.
It lurched forward on every piston stroke, spilled tea in the first carriage. You could feel it waddling along with its two big cylinders. The hammer blow to the track was atrocious, and let's be honest it never really fitted in on an otherwise Southern line.
That said....I grew to love it. It had great character!!
Lawrie clearly needs to hire a small Victorian child to help oiling this thing up next time...
😂
Came to write this. These engines came out of the works with a skinny 8 year old tied to a brass oil can.😅
Just to note during the outro where he says "next year" he means this year, being 2025, for the centenary. I can also say the people at Telford are very gracious and kind.
I have a strange fondness for the 5600 class, something about how rugged they look. Happy Birthday 5619!
That shot of her coming out of the tunnel in a cloud of steam was absolutely gorgeous. I think that might be my favorite part
I just hope that someone will Sponsor Lawrie to go to the US and have a look at some of their steam locos.. Now those are some seriously big locomotives.
With that said,, huzzah for another video. I love LMM. :)
Lawrie, I love your videos, but every time I watch you prep a steam loco, I am grateful that I drive diesels 😂😂
32 mins is peak railwaying! a champion showing how things were done! Well done Lawrie! i had a good chuckle.
Sent £10 to the overhaul, I doubt ill see her running in person as I'm far too far south but every little matters.
How far south?
Awsome, Camera Placement During Run. Takes a lot of time an Effort. Tks for adding to History for us all.
I found Myself Duvking My Head With Camera shot under tracks, Lol,,,😂
Great video but the prep looks like a nightmare😂
I really like the Taffy tank 5600 class and they’re very unusual looking loco. But I really like them. I really was incredibly surprised the Telford Steam Railway doesn’t have an pit, I guess they watch your vid with you on Pendennis Castle and thought it be amusing that you do it again with the Taffy tank. Truly great entertainment.
They do have a inspection pit but inside their maintenance shed.
What a great video Lawrie and showing off that engine and railway well. Great watching you oiling underneath too 😜. All the best Anth Knill 👍
Nice loco that, had a great turn on it during its short stay at Llangollen
Super , what a party oiling that up , thanks lawrie interesting ,
I can laugh at it now that I'm not wedged in to the side of the thing covered in oil lol
Love the mini LMM headboard on the RH lamp post! 👍
Nice! I had a footplate ride on this loco back in 2019 when it was on loan to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway (my nearest & Wiltshire's only standard gauge heritage railway), brings back memories.
I thought they had a GWR Green example
@himaro101 they do. It returned from the East Somerset Railway in 2020 just before the first lockdown, and that is 5637. Plus, it's owned by the 5637 steam locomotive group & is currently awaiting heavy general overhaul.
45:55 Them new build houses will have such a great view of this beauty, jealous!
They'll probably moan about the noise and smoke...
22:54 - All engines require a plank to clean out the smokebox, just the Taff Tank is the only engine that requires two.😉 Jesting aside, I think we also needed a [wooden] plank on the 16XX in 2008 at the North Norfolk when that visited for the summer alongside, oddly enough, 5619! 5619 becoming the first engine I fired (as a brand-new Cleaner) for a while round trip at the end of August. Lovely to see it here!😃
Truly a very useful engine indeed!!
It's a pleasure to listen to your humoruos even sardonic commentation and all the details you give to the loco. Gives me a grin.
Especially the part when you are about to crawl into the frame. 😂
And the Germans in previous years complained about the 4 cyllinder compound steam engines - why tho? Compared to that, they gave huge clearance...
So we now need model figures of a lying down Lawrie to stick inside the motion gear of our model engines.
Amazing video! It's probably harder to organise compared to the smaller locos but would love more full size content like this ❤
32:45 lol just think back when this was built being 5'9" was huge. Being 5'5 was normal.
5:28 "there are two ways of doing things, the great Western way and the wrong way"
the great western way might be the wrong way
22:55 The USATC S100 comes to mind. I think I‘ve heard of crews doing it on the 1500 panniers too, but don’t quote me on that.
Brilliant and entertaining video guys. A real joy to watch. Loved it ❤
Sorry Lawrie. As a GWR nut, I have to disagree: GWR locos always look best in GWR engine green. And the imperial units of tractive effort were pounds-force, in metric it is of course, Newtons. ( 1 pounds-force = 4.44822 Newtons )
Love seeing bigger steam locomotives on LMM
Awesome video, Lawrie!!! And I thought the 1917 Baldwin 2-6-2 I helped do cosmetic work on was a nightmare to get under and move around in (for reference I’m 5’11”). The only thing I can somewhat relate to is being in the sandy dirt under the cylinders or under the #1 driving axle. For some forsaken reason, Baldwin decided to put her brake cylinders between the cylinder saddle and the #1 axle.
The Oiler Man in the 1920's when He First time crawled into the under, to oil, Said Profanity that echos even now into 2025, WOW, no Big Boy Oilers need apply ,.
Great Job Lawrie!
Thank You Lawrie, great history well explained!
I think possibly my favourite class of loco, Lawrie. They have a brutish beauty to them. A real no-nonsense locomotive -- sounds and looks fantastic.
Thank you for a very informative and thorough video.
I have two models of 56xx's. The first is a Bachmann OO which has been (professionally?) weathered, and which I got for an absolute bargain. Gorgeous. Runs beautifully too, and rest of club members are very jealous!
The second model is O-gauge, made of wood (!) on a Lima battery chassis, and sadly not yet working. It is the reason why I am now also modelling in O-gauge! In theory, your video gives me no excuse for not adding a full cab interior. (But I need to get it working first.) It is going to be renumbered 6664, which was a celebrity loco rather surprisingly based at Slough shed for many years. I have a photo of it about to haul the local service from Slough to Windsor. A pair of autocoaches cannot have been much of a struggle for a 66xx!! That would have been a sight chuffing over the viaduct!
Love these types of locos, makes me miss seeing 6619 when it used to be based at North York Moors
I reckon two tone and multi-tone whistles sound fantastic!
Just a thought, they should stick some plastic mirrors (not on the hot bits) under there so you can see what you are oiling. Fantastic video and a joy to watch
This thing is a beast. Something I would want to drive and own.
Lovely episode!
As always a great video.
Really interesting, informative and entertaining video. One of your best.
I'd love to see you do a LGL on a Pannier Tank. Absolutely my favourite engines out there.
That would be lovely
Hey Lawrie !! Good timing !
Hooray! My favourite engine ever! A Collett Goods Tank engine! My ugly/beautiful thug of a loco! BR black with unicycling lion - I have 40 ex-GWR locos in OO with this lack of livery with extra stinkyness including a good number of these steam powered gorillas lol. Red route for the Welsh valleys of course. My neighbour when I was a sprog was a 56xx driver then changed to the tractor class 37 diesels. My channel name is in memory of Don. I love the videos of them dragging tons of coal down to Cardiff, Barry (where I live) and Newport. I probably played on this loco in Barry Scrapyard as my dad knew Dai Woodham and still I know his son...
Awesome video Lawrie! Glad you had a great time with 5619 at my local heritage line. Hopefully you'll come back one day... maybe to drive the steam tram?
One of the very first engines I ever worked on, had some lovely turns. I remember we had a plank to spread across the buffers for emptying the smokebox, if it was wanted
oh, we used one alright! Just odd to have to need one XD
I knew of a driver (about 5' 6" tall) that had the best way to sit whilst driving GWR side tank locos chimney first. Sit astride the tank and reverser, with his right leg dangling outside the cab and his left inside.
6619 used to do fairly well on the NYMR with 7 on. I think it also had a chime whistle fitted for a while....
Yes, that and a Kylchap exhaust, with its multiple concentic petticoat-pipes to maximise the draughting. I remember as 6619 visited the North Norfolk in 2009 in that form in early BR black, the year after 5619 here did so in late BR green when I was a Loco Cleaner and had fired a few round trips on 5619 (didn't get chance to crew 6619 to compare with/without the mod's). I understand 6619 has been de-Doncastered since?
I now know why a driver told me, at the time of the changeover from steam to diesel, that he much preferred driving a diesel!
Great done video :)
great video !
Well a first for me. An engine I've driven too, back in 2016 on the Churnet Valley Railway. Re wooden extra for standing. I remember a loco needing one too and I THINK it was the Super 'D' .
This is an exceptional Great Western locomotive where function trumps style! It’s is a power lifter for a 0-6-0 loco!
Inside running gear...
0-6-2, not 0-6-0
Simply glorious!
A can with an attached mirror might be handy for some of those underside oiling points.
I love older machines and the engineering that goes with them. The fact that with some you can give them their head is awsome, shame you could'nt with that old girl. But time will tell.
Great video❤
This is my favourite type of loco
23:15 The SR class Q1 also required a board across the buffers to access the smokebox, but I think it was just a board and didn’t have to be custom made 😎
That’s because they didn’t have even have running boards. interesting machines they are I still love them though
Build during the war to save materials
I was thinking exactly this! Good stuff
Lovely video
Doing all that oiling up (at 6'4) with a pit at Tanfield was bad but that has to be the worst possible version of it. Props to the camera bod following along and finding angles. At least you got oiled as well in the process, for future generations!
Ah yes, the good old 56xx! I've driven this beast and 6695 many a time - oiling up is by far the worst thing about the locos, sometimes having the big-ends in the right position can make life easier for us "bigger" chaps!
Wow! Collett must've bloody hated drivers! Goodness!
I'm sad that I missed you visiting my local railway
Great video Lawrie
Given the amount of bad things you said about the poor thing, I'm surprised 5619 didn't take it out on you: last time I did that to an engine it contrived to cover me in soot and boiler water for my sins!
Remember kids: no what anyone says, the engines can absolutely hear you...and they remember, oh BOY do they remember...
Some of those shots where lawrie was underneath this thing looked like a "found footage" horror project or something haha
It may be my South Walean bias showing but I do adore these locos 😊
Have you ever thought of buying one of those two foot long oil cans???
Considering that they built the railway around the locomotive, they might have built an inspection pit!!!😊
32:55 Imagine walking your dog and just seeing that 😂😂
I hope you visit the location of Barry Scrapyard ….. to see what is left of the scrap yard.
With your fire engine. What was that steam locomotive frame that the engine was sitting next to when set off ( 39 minutes). Loved your name tag on the engine
I remember reading somewhere that the engine crews of these locomotives, actually preferred to run them bunker first, as opposed to smoke box first. This was because they apparently rode better in reverse.
Quite common with 0-6-2 and 0-4-4 tanks I believe
...seeing you clamber around a maze of steam locomotive, _with fire lit,_ and getting all oily, really puts the UA-cam mechanics who won't work on anything without latex gloves on into perspective.
Your down the road from me in this one wow.
Very rarely would I say that BR black was the nicest livery a loco could have, but I might agree in the case of no. 5619. Given how odd the class looks, it makes it resemble many BR locos which underwent many design alterations by the end of their life.
Oh hey, my local
I’m sure they used a plank across the buffers on the Q1s too
The first time I've heard anyone else call that a sunroof 😂😂😂. It's always amused me. Great minds think alike Lawrie (he said modestly). There are of course two ways of doing things - the Great Western way... and the wrong way 😊
BTW, how long did it actually take you to get the baffle plate back in ?
I'm having withdrawal symptoms Lawrie 😢. It's 16 years since I had the joy of lighting up and prepping an engine. Must have been either an NA 2-6-2T or the G42 Garratt on the Puffing Billy Railway.
Appreciate your suffering, but admit it, you loved every minute. On the CFV, no one wanted to clean out a smokebox and steam clean the tubes... except me 😂. There I was covered in soot from head to foot and happy as a sandboy. It reminds me of the kids who love horses, they're quite happy shovelling horseshit out of stables for hours just because they are close to the animals they love. We are the same with our iron horses. (I don't mind shovelling horseshit either 😂).
At least on a Vivarais Mallet, most of the oiling points have stoppers attached with a small chain, so you can't drop them 😊
Has to be said, but the WR enginemen who prepped these in the day must've been overjoyed when they started getting Class 25's 😂
Time for you to drive an 8F or a 2800 2-8-0 if you want POWER 😂
Brilliant !!!
Cool video
"Ugly Duckling"???? No way. lovely class of loco that was equally at home on the coal trains or taking me and other passengers from Cardiff to Barry Island, and based on a proven wheel arrangement used by the Taff Vale Railway, Rhymney Railway and others.
there was a lot of friends in high places and back room deals which resulted in the GWR getting favouritism at the grouping which i assume then led 5:44 onto the favouritism of not having to change their numbers
You will have to come back and have a go on the tram (when it’s finished)
From memory, the 56xx had problems running forward. Crews preferred running them in reverse, especially on Western Region tight curves as the trailing wheels helped lead the engine into the curves.
a usual problem for locos without a leading truck, as they tend to hunt due to that
Still easier to grease than a DHC-8 landing gear. Its much like this but with more climbing and laying on top of the thing with grease zerks digging into your rib cage ,with exhaust flue in similar position to the boiler overhead. I think over all each landing leg is like 50 grease points.
Q1 needs a plank for smoke box
You can tell Lawrie hates inside-cylinder locomotives
These are strange looking GWR loco's. I have a Bachmann model in the BR lined green and that colour suits it.
I have been to the Telford railway. It's a great little railway, and I can't wait to see it venture to Ironbridge. I am noticing from google earth that the majority of the trackbed looks cleared out.
Choo choo you would love the KVR (Kettle Valley Railway) in summerland BC Canada it is really old over 100 and a has a big steam locomotive that is 125 or 115 years old and it’s still chugging along great
A couple of things: strictly speaking, the LMS had 40000 added to its numbers - but also, how on Earth do you clean the smokebox out? I remember seeing it at the NVR when it was there.
Even though I'm an American, I do know running gear inside the frame isn't uncommon on British (European, too?) steamers. I've wondered what daily maintenance was like for that situation: now I know. Thank you.
Would it not be possible to put a longer handle on the brake? I know it would alter the leverage, but you would get used to it.
There's nothing ugly about it as far as I'm concerned. 😁
Lawrie goes playing with Colletts Taffy Tanks
being set forwards does that mean the lever for the cylinder drains is open and back is closed
It's not just aesthetics choice to run head first up a gradient, because the water in the boiler flows to the lower parts and it's safer because the firebox would be always under water up the gradient and there would be less risk for it being dry. 8:46
This locomotive's design, at least in terms of the layout of all the lubrication points, makes me think that the designers forgot that they were needed and then had to fit them to the design as an afterthought. It is the perfect example of an designer going "F*ck it! I don't have to work on it so it can go there!"
Were Corks, always used?❤Did the Under oiled box Corks ever come out during Runs ?
Greetings from 66yo Alabama USA.
what kind of oil do you use to fill the lubricators?
A company called Morris lubricants create a range of steam locomotive and engine oils. I think it's known as compound cylinder steam oil.
Who thinks 5619 need's a name? I'm thinking... Lawrie the Great 😉
Serious question though. How come there is a cleaner on the footplate in preservation? I thought the cleaners job was before the engine goes off shed 🤔
The origin of these locos really goes back to the Taff U1's. The GWR needed to replace these with a powerful, small-wheeled, short-wheelbase loco - so the 5600's were really Swindon's take on the Taff Class U/U1.