I have never understood the implication of Corris Railway no. 7 being a "replica". It's not a static display (although working Replicas like the one of Stephenson's Rocket are a thing) and it's not claiming the identity of no. 4, so really it's just a new-build that's built to the same design. It's taken on its own identity and it's a wonderful little locomotive.
I agree. But when I think "R eplica"steam locomotive, I half expect to hear him say that there is the frame of a VW beetle jammed under a fiberglass boiler.
I mean he’s not wrong. And if you paid close attention he actually did put the wood down in a specific way. He just did it quick enough to seem like it was hap hazard
peter sam is based on number 4 all the skarloey railway engines were based off of real narrow gauge locomotives duke was a ffestiniog tender engien mighty mac a ffestiniog double fairlie skarloey was based of a talyllyn and so on
I like the way you are working the throttle on that hill start, tells me you've been taught right Across the pond in the United States, I run a standard gauge 4-4-0, and you HAVE to pump the throttle to get a heavy train started
Thank you. Its lovely to see the Corris and No.7 again. If people are visiting the Talyllyn, it's not that far from it, and is really well worth seeing too. I wish the Corris every success and hope that one day, not too far in the future, they will be able to extend the line.
Great video, I think its amazing the work that these small groups of people involved in running Britain's preserved railways do. Building of No 7 is testament to the engineering skills that are still alive and well in the UK.
Fantastic stuff, some really wonderful angles & views. Loco 7 is an amazing achievement made by dedicated people. Look forward to seeing you back on the TR soon, Kes & Steve xx
@@lmm As a small boy the local council re-tarred the road in front of my house. I spent hours sitting out front watching the steam roller going up and down the street, eventually I was picked up and sat on top of the coal box to ride the monster, I got home wet, black with coal dust and soot and super excited! Mum was not happy but a hot bath and dinner I was in the clear! Was the late 60s, probably the last era of the steam rollers, something I will never forget!
I could see this loco being the subject of an RWS story where Peter Sam learns he has a "new" twin and he sees how much he's matured over the years when he observes the twin act like a child.
What a great narrow gauge railway that is and yes I found them to be a friendly bunch when we visited them 3 years ago, we will go again when we can loved it.
Lovely video. Nice to meet you the other week. I was the driver of this loco last Sunday and had a wonderful day. Next time please try the third notch a bit more as I find it goes ever so well at line speed in that! I'd like to turn the reverser handle round so the catch you push with the palm of your hand, less clunky also. 😁😉. Many thanks. Take care.
Looks a lovely locomotive and lovely narrow gauge railway. Credit to the person on the camera some of those shots of the train running through the valley were stunning.
Ya know, I never had much interest in British steam (Or British rail history in general) until I found this channel last year. Just wanted to let you know you changed my outlook on British rail.
I just had a friend telling me he had a lil chat with you at the mid suffolk today, goddamn i want to go see trains, so many beautiful places to visit. Here's to a life after covid!
Love your railway videos Lawrie, only just finished watching this having been distracted by other videos in my watch later list 🙄 Corris is a line that is high on my to-visit list & this video shows off both the beauty of No.7 & the scenery of the Corris 👍🏼 thank you once again
Very nice looking and running loco. I didn't hear any slipping on the wet rails (unless you edited it out!) so very nicely driven as well. It is not often pointed out on videos that steam (and other fluids) valves should not be left hard open, so that was an important reminder to everyone. I could see that you were (like me) enthusiastic about metric sized fasteners, so I was quite surprised to see the pressure gauges in pounds per square inch- How quaint!. Notwithstanding that minor point, the society should be proud of their achievements on the line, loco and rolling stock.
Lovely video Lawrie, another railway added to my bucket list when i come to the uk some day. Now slightly stressful because on sunday it wil be the first time that i fire Fred at the maldegem steam railway. But i am happy we can opperate again. So keep up the nice work man!
Another fantastic video and one of my favourite Welsh railways. It's great to see the Corris Railway making such wonderful progress. I must visit soon.
I visited the Corris railway, had a superb tour of the workshops and saw the new carriage being built. Corris No. 7 is an absolute delight, on the return leg was offered a footplate ride too. The Dulas valley is gorgeous. If you have any interest in railways, engineering or narrow gauge I would wholeheartedly recommend a visit as it is a total joy.
How extraordinary! It's quite mind boggling how well engineered the regulator is. I have two points; at least in Tom Rolt's day, Edward Thomas was sans running board as well (I do not know when she was given a running board by TR); second, perhaps it's an error on my part but I thought No. 7's unofficial name was "Tatoo." I know it's the class locomotive but I couldn't sworn that was the name (or at least nicknamed) bequeathed to No. 7
Actually, 2 Kerr Stuart Tatoo's (open cab variant) are preserved on a South American plantation railway. They are static exhibits though, and they need some TLC.
@@the4tierbridgeif someone ran them again it would most likely be someone who takes them to wales, and its not exactly known to be sunny and warm there most of the time, there's areason the cabless was basically the "export version"
@@the_retag The cabless version was the standard specification. The original Corris loco was a 'Tattoo Special' because it had inside frames and a full cab. 'Tattoo' was the name of the (standard) model class and the Corris loco had to have inside frames to make it narrow enough to fit the railways loading gauge. The loco is only just over five feet wide.
Honestly . I love the tattoo class of steam engine . Probably cuz from the tv show Peter sam was my favourite and ever since realrizing he exists in real life in wales . Heck 2 of him only half hour away from one another . Tho the worst thing is when I came to wales too see talylln and it’s railway . I missed no4 by a single day . And in her new grey too 😢 And corris 7 I couldn’t see other cuz I had to time left by the time the talylln event at awdery extravaganza 4 ended it was time to go . Tho I do own mini no4 as a resin kit from fourdees and painted that kit when she was in her green livery . And I do hope to get some other of the tattoo class of a corris version hopefully in red . And a second no4 in the new grey And a Bachman 009 PeterSam . Yes I may have N scale but I love him to much to not have a mini model of what I saw on screen . I may just get some slate wagons to go with him . And I mean I may have not seen my favourite engine EVER I did see corris 10 and talylln 3 so I didn’t get to see any of the tattoos tho I did see both falcons . And midlander also Yeah I love narrow gauge . Tho i did see her special funnel at warf … on display in the museum . And the revrends original PeterSam model … or Stuart for his mid sodor . And I mean yeah I never saw the real no4 on talylln nor did I see corris no7 . HOWEVER I did see her geezel funnel and the minature PeterSam/Stuart from the reverend himself . But oh well . Next year I may see her in person . And I may bring my 009 PeterSam to see his full sized overlord . And my kit no4 . Yeah Ok bye
I have learnt so much from this - really appreciate the fine detail of whats what as you did your start up, but I hope you put the 24mil spanner back in the right place in the toolbox before you moved off.
Notification popped up as I was driving to watch this . All I saw was the engine shape and was like I bet that's Corris glad I know my little engines 😊
Brilliant! Your best yet. If you keep going the way you are then you will certainly get a BBC 4 series sometime soon. Let’s all hope so 🤞I’m routing for you.....
watching him prep, cleaning out the firebox and smoke box after ive just done the same on a German ww1 Brigadelok, i appreciated the low down and easy to clean smokebox of the german machine XD
“peter sam said again and again his new funnel would put us to shame went into the tunnel and lost his old funnel now his famous new funnels and drain!”
wow, that bark on startup! finally, a UK NG locomotive with a good exhaust beat. (I'm keenly aware I'm going to get flak for saying that. I should explain that my baseline is rather skewed: my first steam experience was on the Cumbres and Toltec scenic railroad here in the US. you haven't heard steam at work until you've listened to two K-36s lifting 15 cars up out of the Narrows out of Chama on the 1 in 25. in comparison to that, sometimes there's engines that just sound like garden railway live steamers. at least to me).
I think is wonderful that groups are building new locomotives of a past era. Here in the states a group called the T1 trust is building a new Pennsylvania T1 duplex locomotive numbered 5550
I also like Corris No.5 behind No.7 in the beginning. I play train sim so I have "Driven" No.5 and 7. That would be so cool if you could also do a review on it sometime, for some reason a small engine with a clutch and a gear shift is just different and cool
An interesting fact is that during the great war when coal was very scarce the Corris navy found they could fire their destroyer with slate. Apparently it's all in the way you stack it allows combustion.If you wanthe to read about it call in the Corris Naval Institute for the full history .!
Me and Son turned up at Corris one weekday evening and missed the last train of the day, Drove to the Engine Works to look round, take some photos, ended up on a diesel hauled engineering train helping shift a delivery of rail stock that had been donated, stacking it from one side of the line (on borrowed farmers field) to the other. Couple of hours work then back riding in the engineers mess van back up the line. As we were on holiday returned next evening to assist with unloading of a Hunslet Mine Locomotive that had been part rebuilt and was coming on a REME truck ! Finally got a family ticket ride on the Saturday Morning as we returned to Yorkshire.
You were explaining that this Lovely Engine is Metric. I used to Operate a 1950's Margarine Packaging Machine a BDR (Broderick Dolman & Rogers) it was the last one in the UK sadly scrapped in 2019. It was Imperial, it had Whitworth and BA. An Engineer tried to Metricise it, Metric always seemed to come loose.
I have never understood the implication of Corris Railway no. 7 being a "replica". It's not a static display (although working Replicas like the one of Stephenson's Rocket are a thing) and it's not claiming the identity of no. 4, so really it's just a new-build that's built to the same design. It's taken on its own identity and it's a wonderful little locomotive.
I agree. But when I think "R eplica"steam locomotive, I half expect to hear him say that there is the frame of a VW beetle jammed under a fiberglass boiler.
I was trying to work out what the R may be. Rebuild, reinterpretation, restoration, retro.
@@benholroyd5221 it stands for me having a typo. I meant "replica"
@@joetcacciola I hadn't noticed. I was referring to Lawrie talking about the 'R word'.
i like to think of it as the second member of its class
When the sun comes out in Southeast Alaska we call it "cloud failure".
I love that
Yup
@@lmm 6,
@@lmmwhat is the r word I don't get it
@@Fanwithnblades replica
“The Delicate Art of Starting a Fire” is such a good goof.
You could also chug a ton of gasoline over coal infirebox, then set it alight. But the firebox wont like that
@@grandfur1192 and it would perhaps set fire to any steam oil in the inspection pit as well
As a fire safety engineer I approve this statement
@@grandfur1192 .a
I mean he’s not wrong. And if you paid close attention he actually did put the wood down in a specific way. He just did it quick enough to seem like it was hap hazard
47:46 this looks like an illustration pulled straight from an Awdry story. Corris really must be a magical place to visit.
I'm guessing the r word was rheneas
The Corris Railway was the basis for the Mid Sodor Railway, so that's probably why
In fact, I’d like to know the real-life events that inspired Awdry’s RWS stories on the Skarloey and Mid-Sodor
@@HeavyTanker-vx4oq Peter Sam's drain pipe might have been based on the similar event that happened on the Corris railway
That’s because the Welsh Countryside was the inspiration and basis for the scenery and industries of Sodor itself.
the reverb from the hills sent shivers down my spine woww
I know right?
It still doesn't have a decent bark though, compared with other locos like Edward Thomas
I would just call it and the upcoming “Falcon” Class 0-4-2ST locomotive what they really are. A pair of newbuilds.
At this rate Lawrie's gonna cover all the locomotives on the Tallylynn and Corris Railways
I hope so
I fail to see how this is a bad thing
Hey don't forget Fairebourne or does this not class as a proper railfordd
It would be great if he did a loco test on the Snowdon Mountain Railway as well.
It's gonna be a year or two before he can get Tallylynn her self. As she's in for a rebuild
I feel like I'm looking at Peter Sam and Skarloey. Love it! They are sharp looking locomotives.
peter sam is based on number 4 all the skarloey railway engines were based off of real narrow gauge locomotives duke was a ffestiniog tender engien mighty mac a ffestiniog double fairlie skarloey was based of a talyllyn and so on
He looks like Peter Sam. Peter Sam is an Edward Thomas engine.
@@christopherericjustinuy1552 No? Peter Sam is a Kerr Stuart Tattoo class, Edward Thomas is one of the few Surviving Kerr Stuart Tattoo Locomotives
The design of the smokebox door is very American, love it! Steam locomotives built in the 21st century are truly something to behold.
41:25 looks like something straight out of season 4 of Thomas and Friends. Gorgeous shots for a gorgeous engine on a gorgeous railway
It's such a lovely railway.
I like the way you are working the throttle on that hill start, tells me you've been taught right
Across the pond in the United States, I run a standard gauge 4-4-0, and you HAVE to pump the throttle to get a heavy train started
Thank you. Its lovely to see the Corris and No.7 again. If people are visiting the Talyllyn, it's not that far from it, and is really well worth seeing too. I wish the Corris every success and hope that one day, not too far in the future, they will be able to extend the line.
Corris is lovely little railway I like the story of £25 locos and anything else that was useful to Talyllyn
I'd say possibly the best video made yet.
Let's hope you will return to drive no.10 in a few years!
Great video, I think its amazing the work that these small groups of people involved in running Britain's preserved railways do. Building of No 7 is testament to the engineering skills that are still alive and well in the UK.
It really is amazing work that keeps these places alive!
Fantastic stuff, some really wonderful angles & views. Loco 7 is an amazing achievement made by dedicated people. Look forward to seeing you back on the TR soon, Kes & Steve xx
Thanks guys, can't wait to return!
Cracking episode. I do really enjoy the enthusiasm that we can all see on your face when your having fun.
Another wonderful video! Some of the camera shots were gorgeous!
That's beautiful, a real work of art.
Isn't it just!
This is in all seriousness one of the most underrated channels on UA-cam.
Oh thank you very much!
From a boy who was fascinated by steam you are living my dream!
It's pretty incredible to be honest
@@lmm
As a small boy the local council re-tarred the road in front of my house. I spent hours sitting out front watching the steam roller going up and down the street, eventually I was picked up and sat on top of the coal box to ride the monster, I got home wet, black with coal dust and soot and super excited! Mum was not happy but a hot bath and dinner I was in the clear! Was the late 60s, probably the last era of the steam rollers, something I will never forget!
I could see this loco being the subject of an RWS story where Peter Sam learns he has a "new" twin and he sees how much he's matured over the years when he observes the twin act like a child.
Interesting take on it
Amazing watching the prepping and seeing the knowledge required to prep the loco, The reward is driving the loco and seeing it perform so well !
Thank you very much!
Thank you Lawrie for such a wonderful video on our little loco.
What a great narrow gauge railway that is and yes I found them to be a friendly bunch when we visited them 3 years ago, we will go again when we can loved it.
That echo of the whistle at 40:00 gives some chills
Lovely video. Nice to meet you the other week.
I was the driver of this loco last Sunday and had a wonderful day. Next time please try the third notch a bit more as I find it goes ever so well at line speed in that! I'd like to turn the reverser handle round so the catch you push with the palm of your hand, less clunky also.
😁😉. Many thanks. Take care.
Such an enthusiastic and entertaining guy; I do enjoy watching your videos.
It is neat to see you really enjoying operating an steam engine!
Fantastic episode - really loving the "train in the landscape" shots!
Looks a lovely locomotive and lovely narrow gauge railway. Credit to the person on the camera some of those shots of the train running through the valley were stunning.
Ya know, I never had much interest in British steam (Or British rail history in general) until I found this channel last year. Just wanted to let you know you changed my outlook on British rail.
I have always loved the shapes of UK Locomotives . Beautiful Christmas Colors mostly.
We have some beautiful engines
I just had a friend telling me he had a lil chat with you at the mid suffolk today, goddamn i want to go see trains, so many beautiful places to visit. Here's to a life after covid!
Love your railway videos Lawrie, only just finished watching this having been distracted by other videos in my watch later list 🙄 Corris is a line that is high on my to-visit list & this video shows off both the beauty of No.7 & the scenery of the Corris 👍🏼 thank you once again
Glad you enjoyed it!
Again, absolutely love, that high contrast oxide brownish paint!
She looks great!
Really good video once again Lawrie what a fantastic railway!
What a Beautiful piece of machinery !!
What a healthy and happily sounding young little steam lady!☺️
I love your videos. Hope you and the LMM Team are doing well. Stay safe and stay healthy. Not just physical, but also mental.
Very nice looking and running loco. I didn't hear any slipping on the wet rails (unless you edited it out!) so very nicely driven as well. It is not often pointed out on videos that steam (and other fluids) valves should not be left hard open, so that was an important reminder to everyone.
I could see that you were (like me) enthusiastic about metric sized fasteners, so I was quite surprised to see the pressure gauges in pounds per square inch- How quaint!. Notwithstanding that minor point, the society should be proud of their achievements on the line, loco and rolling stock.
Lovely video Lawrie, another railway added to my bucket list when i come to the uk some day. Now slightly stressful because on sunday it wil be the first time that i fire Fred at the maldegem steam railway. But i am happy we can opperate again. So keep up the nice work man!
Thanks for yet another great video of a beautiful narrow gauge railway. ❤️
Another fantastic video and one of my favourite Welsh railways. It's great to see the Corris Railway making such wonderful progress. I must visit soon.
Wonderful! Great camera work guys. 🎥
I was curious about the hole in the back of the cab. I'm glad you explained it.
I have been curious about it since I saw Stuart and falcon had one
I visited the Corris railway, had a superb tour of the workshops and saw the new carriage being built. Corris No. 7 is an absolute delight, on the return leg was offered a footplate ride too. The Dulas valley is gorgeous. If you have any interest in railways, engineering or narrow gauge I would wholeheartedly recommend a visit as it is a total joy.
You were quite right. That was indeed a magical excursion.
Pleased to hear you enjoyed it!
That ĺoco has a lovely sound and I really enjoyed your enthusiasm for driving her
That little engine really got after it on that grade-what a gem. (And nice to see you didn’t do a huge burnout in the station leaving 😂)
How extraordinary! It's quite mind boggling how well engineered the regulator is. I have two points; at least in Tom Rolt's day, Edward Thomas was sans running board as well (I do not know when she was given a running board by TR); second, perhaps it's an error on my part but I thought No. 7's unofficial name was "Tatoo." I know it's the class locomotive but I couldn't sworn that was the name (or at least nicknamed) bequeathed to No. 7
When I saw this video just now I almost screeched
great video as always ! my first ride in a steam train was on The Vale of Rheidol Railway Wales , was a wonderful experience !
excellent stuff lawrie keep up the jolly good work
Spent a lot of childhood summer holidays in a friends cottage in Corris, fell in love with steam there. So close to the Talyllyn railway too!
Actually, 2 Kerr Stuart Tatoo's (open cab variant) are preserved on a South American plantation railway. They are static exhibits though, and they need some TLC.
Would be great if they could be steamed again. Although cabless in Wales...
@@the_retag what do you mean?
@@the4tierbridgeif someone ran them again it would most likely be someone who takes them to wales, and its not exactly known to be sunny and warm there most of the time, there's areason the cabless was basically the "export version"
@@the_retag The most likely isn't leaving anytime soon.
@@the_retag The cabless version was the standard specification. The original Corris loco was a 'Tattoo Special' because it had inside frames and a full cab. 'Tattoo' was the name of the (standard) model class and the Corris loco had to have inside frames to make it narrow enough to fit the railways loading gauge. The loco is only just over five feet wide.
the way you so nonchalantly jumped in the cab and took off at the end was just amazing 👍
Good Times!
Honestly . I love the tattoo class of steam engine . Probably cuz from the tv show Peter sam was my favourite and ever since realrizing he exists in real life in wales . Heck 2 of him only half hour away from one another .
Tho the worst thing is when I came to wales too see talylln and it’s railway . I missed no4 by a single day . And in her new grey too 😢
And corris 7 I couldn’t see other cuz I had to time left by the time the talylln event at awdery extravaganza 4 ended it was time to go .
Tho I do own mini no4 as a resin kit from fourdees and painted that kit when she was in her green livery . And I do hope to get some other of the tattoo class of a corris version hopefully in red . And a second no4 in the new grey
And a Bachman 009 PeterSam . Yes I may have N scale but I love him to much to not have a mini model of what I saw on screen . I may just get some slate wagons to go with him .
And I mean I may have not seen my favourite engine EVER I did see corris 10 and talylln 3 so I didn’t get to see any of the tattoos tho I did see both falcons . And midlander also
Yeah I love narrow gauge .
Tho i did see her special funnel at warf … on display in the museum . And the revrends original PeterSam model … or Stuart for his mid sodor . And I mean yeah I never saw the real no4 on talylln nor did I see corris no7 . HOWEVER I did see her geezel funnel and the minature PeterSam/Stuart from the reverend himself .
But oh well . Next year I may see her in person . And I may bring my 009 PeterSam to see his full sized overlord . And my kit no4 . Yeah
Ok bye
I have learnt so much from this - really appreciate the fine detail of whats what as you did your start up, but I hope you put the 24mil spanner back in the right place in the toolbox before you moved off.
Notification popped up as I was driving to watch this . All I saw was the engine shape and was like I bet that's Corris glad I know my little engines 😊
Brilliant! Your best yet. If you keep going the way you are then you will certainly get a BBC 4 series sometime soon. Let’s all hope so 🤞I’m routing for you.....
In my backyard again! Lovely 😍
Very impressive! Nice driving Lawrie!
watching him prep, cleaning out the firebox and smoke box after ive just done the same on a German ww1 Brigadelok, i appreciated the low down and easy to clean smokebox of the german machine XD
I love this lil number is train simulator!
I've not tried it in the sim yet
It keeps the technology alive and looks good.
Ah an end of term and a amazing vid to start the freedom. 😂😂
Great vid
Keep up amazing work you guys!
There's a Standard Gauge one at the Foxfield Railway which passed its boiler test the other week. Making fantastic progress with it!
Wonderful little engine
Another excellent film. Well done.
I see a Lawrie video and one must stop and watch 🙂😂
A new Steam Engine and Metric? I like it 👍🏼
And it got the perfect size too. I would like to see more Locomotives like this
Their next engine will be the same!
this is so enjoyable, lovely engine, lovely train, lovely valley!
Thank you!
“peter sam said again and again his new funnel would put us to shame went into the tunnel and lost his old funnel now his famous new funnels and drain!”
Fascinating video.
wow, that bark on startup! finally, a UK NG locomotive with a good exhaust beat.
(I'm keenly aware I'm going to get flak for saying that. I should explain that my baseline is rather skewed: my first steam experience was on the Cumbres and Toltec scenic railroad here in the US. you haven't heard steam at work until you've listened to two K-36s lifting 15 cars up out of the Narrows out of Chama on the 1 in 25.
in comparison to that, sometimes there's engines that just sound like garden railway live steamers. at least to me).
A quaint little engine. The footplate looks well-designed with all the controls in easy reach.
It's lovely!
Thank you for using a shot of Tornado on the NVR freight rake - makes all the effort on the wagons worth while :)
You're welcome. I enjoyed that day, having big engine in freight was great
This is a very impressive steam engine.
That HST in GWR livery is gorgeous
It would be interesting to see you do a side by side comparison of number 4 and 7 when they next meet. Especially to preparation
I think is wonderful that groups are building new locomotives of a past era. Here in the states a group called the T1 trust is building a new Pennsylvania T1 duplex locomotive numbered 5550
This is now my favourite LGL episode
Absolutely stunning
I also like Corris No.5 behind No.7 in the beginning. I play train sim so I have "Driven" No.5 and 7. That would be so cool if you could also do a review on it sometime, for some reason a small engine with a clutch and a gear shift is just different and cool
Excellent!! can not say more!!!
Fantastic video, statfold barn railway has 2 brand new quarry hunslets. jack lane, and statfold.
These were run at the historic hunslet site in Leeds for the hunslet 150 celebrations (demonstration track, no passengers)
An interesting fact is that during the great war when coal was very scarce the Corris navy found they could fire their destroyer with slate. Apparently it's all in the way you stack it allows combustion.If you wanthe to read about it call in the Corris Naval Institute for the full history .!
I cant find anything about this anywhere, would you mind sending a link to a source that mentioned this please?
Very nice 👌👍😊. I really MUST push the Corris Railway higher up the 'to do' list!
It's a really lovely place, with a really good group of people.
Phenomenal video!!!!
Thank you very much
I didn’t even know the Corris railway was ever reopened
great video buddy cant wait for your visit to Cornwall
I'm looking forward to it too
I have had to watch this 3 times now !
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
@@lmm One of your best, I love this railway.
It's a lovely place
@@lmm One of the very best
The polished buffer plates are pure class! And this coming from a railfan, from Minnesota……
It's a really nice thing
48 mins, ish.... gotta love a railway that diverts 20 feet coz there was a tree in the way.....
I'd love to see a video about the blue Ruston in the background @ 3:24
Me and Son turned up at Corris one weekday evening and missed the last train of the day, Drove to the Engine Works to look round, take some photos, ended up on a diesel hauled engineering train helping shift a delivery of rail stock that had been donated, stacking it from one side of the line (on borrowed farmers field) to the other. Couple of hours work then back riding in the engineers mess van back up the line. As we were on holiday returned next evening to assist with unloading of a Hunslet Mine Locomotive that had been part rebuilt and was coming on a REME truck ! Finally got a family ticket ride on the Saturday Morning as we returned to Yorkshire.
You were explaining that this Lovely Engine is Metric. I used to Operate a 1950's Margarine Packaging Machine a BDR (Broderick Dolman & Rogers) it was the last one in the UK sadly scrapped in 2019. It was Imperial, it had Whitworth and BA. An Engineer tried to Metricise it, Metric always seemed to come loose.
Sorry but an obligatory, “It’s Peter Sam!”
If it's a metric engine... does that mean it's built to 686mm gauge instead? 😇