Lawrie does trackwork! Behind the scenes relaying the track into Corris!
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Hello everyone,
Today we're doing something a little different as Lawrie and some of the extended team head off to Wales to assist the Corris Railway with relaying some of thier line. So join in and appreciate some of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes!
If you'd like to get involved with the Corris Railway, including the exciting extention project, contact details are available on the website here - www.corris.co.uk/
A video featuring,
Lawrie - presenter, actually doing some hard work,
Jaydee - cameraman, avoiding aforementioned hard work
Charles - hired help.
A video edited by Lawrie
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I like how you put the hostages on the front of the train to prove they laid the rails right...😉😉
Well, that's only right? 😂
@@lmm personal responsibility is good 👍 😉
When I see videos of heritage railways looking for volunteers, I always wonder what I’d actually be able to help with. After watching this video, I know I could at least do this!
Heritage places just need extra hands. You can learn new skills.
This is basically what I spent last Saturday doing, except I was replacing big old Dogspikes rather than e-clips. I do think that hydraulic Jim Crow is a bit posh by my standards, but I’m sure it made a hell of a difference on the job.
Also, I’d take Dark Chocolate digestives any day, in fact I took 3 today!
Good tatse on the biscuit fronteer!
Dogspikes are a pain.
Excellent to see how it is all done, terrific effort. Are you going to show it finished? I'll bet there were some sore muscles the next day! I did notice the lady unloading the sleeper single handedly while 2 guys struggled next to her 😄
She did a great job!
We'll revisit it when I next go for a turn!
@@lmm 😊
30 minutes of volunteers working hard and not a swearword within earshot! Cinema films do not appear able to go 5 minutes without the obligatory 'F' word. Having said that, I have done my share of tracklaying on the Corris - not always without the rain to cool us off! Nice to see the huge improvements that are taking place- more power to your elbows. 'Happy Horace'
Some selective editing was used!
But it was a great experience.
I have deep respect for you volunteer groups. Working to bring the past back for the next generation. Not asking more than a income for the railway to pay for more track and such through the heritage days. Every pence goes back into running the line, making it bigger and more true to life. Many don't ask for a dime, you love railways their history and like tiny Welsh engines and Bluebells you do it to keep it alive. I hate certain aspects of the US and preservation is one, we don't. Oh sure 4014 is alive again, but why can't America have more lines like Strasburg or Rail town.
There is a small tank engine 30 miles from me and a place to build Track bed where it once stood, if I ever find enough cash or likeminded people I will not just be a entrepreneur with a heart, but founder of a heritage railway. The Kaolin and Midwestern railway.
What a fantastic experience. I wish we had such things here in Australia. Something I'd always wanted to get involved in. ( We dont even have any operating rails lines where I live nowadays ) Closest is 200km away.
Oh that's quite a trek. Maybe have a hoilday there for a week to help out?
One of my favourite narrow gauge welsh railways! Great video as always stunning
Thank you very much!
@@lmm Please go back to Corris and film the new traverser.
PS found another use for my grandfathers iron bar watching this, track laying.
Love your video. Good luck with your RAilway. In America we now call fishplates rail joiners. I just have subscribed. I admire all your efforts. Keep up I the good work!
This was really cool, everything about this is awesome! This is the kinda work i'd love to do and take up as a career in my country! Track work, track laying....and all that good stuff. I find it all really fascinating and very fulfilling.
It was really satesfying to be part of!
Fantastic looking forward to seeing it all the way and running trains.
What a great video from Lawrie & the team at LMM. It was great to see Lawrie & Charles doing track work together & enjoying the experience. You don't get the opportunity to see this type of work when the railways are not open to the public. I look forward to seeing the next episode.
It was a very enjoyed experience
Great content as always Lawrie, always appreciate the effort and hard work you put into your videos. Keep up the great work lad 👍🏻
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Lawrie please do more of these type of videos
That we can do!
I really enjoyed this video, Lawrie. Thanks for sharing some details of rail infrastructure construction. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Glad to hear your enjoyed it!
Great looking traverser, the railway lettering and overall style of it is really authentic - I've built something like that on a micro layout. Those new type ties (sleepers) are also a clever bit of innovation, hope they last longer than the classic wooden type. Railbender demo was also great fun to watch!
Chair rail is a totally foreign concept to me, and the shots of Lawrie bashing out the clips just reminded me of that end scene of "The Train"
The traverser is great isn't it!
Really lovely to see you build a piece of rail line. Nice job everyone who contributed.
Thank you very much!
who knew that my rail bender for G-scale 45mm had a 1:1 scale counterpart? hah!
Also, in typical LMM Fashion, they say they're going to do something and make forward progress, then end up taking more things apart XD
Couldn't have been more like us!
Great video. Looks like you had a great day. Thanks again James.
It was really good!
Nice one Lawrie, a "Road" trip with a difference. 👍
I like what you did there
Hi Lawrie. A different aspect, that is what is called teamwork. Great job lads well done. Wonderful video, little different than normal.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Didn't know about 'traversers', makes sense though! Interesting to see how it was all done. Thanks Lawrie & team!
They're useful little things!
@@lmm often used in tram and trolley bus depots and wagon workshops
What an ingenious way of running the loco round. That's like Brunel used back in the old days at Paddington
It'd super isn't it!
I enjoyed this video.
Pleased to hear it!
Absolutely fascinating to see the work that goes into laying and maintaining these rail roads. I'd be most interested in a series covering the various construction methods for tracks.
Lovely to see that people who live nearby are also pitching in where they can. Was this a section of track that was removed at some point and is now being restored, or is it all new?
They're replacing a line which was closed way back in 1948. At one time, Wales was full of these small, narrow- gauge railways. They suited the difficult terrain, but during the 1930s and 40s, sadly they nearly all fell into bankruptcy, and closed. However, and starting as far back as 1951, there's been a huge revival of these immensely appealing lines for tourism. The Corris railway here is even building replicas of it's original engines and passenger carriages to make the experience as authentic as possible. "Small, but perfectly formed" applies here!
@@phaasch Thanks for that information! :)
It's rather amazing that they can seemingly put back these lines with nary a change in the surroundings. No wonder it's so attractive for tourism, whether for Wales or for these old engines and related.
Great to see at any rate :)
@@MayaPosch That's the advantage of the very rural location. It's not always so straightforward, though. There's one particular line I support, spectacularly beautiful, which has been closed since 1935. It's a painfully slow process of buying up the land with the trackbed, bit by bit as it comes onto the market in little parcels, often in isolated patches, so can't be joined up. It's like buying a jigsaw puzzle piece by piece, not in the order that you need, and hoping that no one else beats you to it. It will take many years, but it will really be worth it eventually.
@@phaasch Are the current owners often interested in selling those bits of land? You'd think that with how little ground it really concerns and the benefits it may bring to the community, they'd be happy to sell.
I am completely ignorant on this matter of course, so I could be utterly wrong here, of course :)
@@MayaPosch Some are amenable, but almost always the land sales are part of a larger agricultural holding, which then gets divided up, and the surplus land sold on, minus the trackbed. There are, unfortunately, a very small number of landholders for which it is a case of "over my dead body", and use their land as "ransom strips". These are the nightmare ones.
There are legal processes which can be used to tackle this problem, but it becomes very complicated and expensive, then. There's also then the matter of keeping the goodwill of the community onside, and not getting people's backs up unecessarily. Liaison and diplomacy skills are essential in this business. Softly, softly catchee monkey...
Great video Lawrie.
Thank you very much!
That honestly looks like great fun
It was certainly an experience!
Splendid. Probably my favourite aspect of railwaying. Surprised you weren't greasing fishplates and bolts as you installed them.
Just in to hold the he rail together for positioning
Most excellent video troops! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻
Good quality biscuits is a very important part of any healthy diet!
Thank you! Biscuits are very important!
great vid lawrie
Thank you!
Nice to see a different aspect of voluntary work at heritage line. Be good to see some other jobs that can be done
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lawrie does trackwork! Behind the scenes relaying the track into Corris!
Lawrie's Mechanic love louis shirley
Noice! Can't wait to see it completed
Me neither!
I'd love to do something like this,I've always wanted to work for a railroad
Loads of places are crying out for Volunteers!
That' takes a bit of planning and quite a few dollars / pounds to be taking a five hour each way trip to volunteer . Thank you for your commitment .
It's a fair trek to the other side of the county!
Hi Laurie, really enjoyed this video, brought back memories of helping the Strathspey to relay the track at Broomhill, that was more years ago than I care to remember, will you be reviewing the little Ruston you were using at a later date?, anyway, stay safe, all the best from Scotland, Stephen.
The Ruston will appear on the channel - scenery looks amazing at Strathspey, great thing to have been part of!
The Corris is ace, I did some track laying there back in 1996!
Oh nice work!
A hydraulic jim-crow, fancy! The rest of us have to use a big bar to turn a screw. :)
It's much easier this way!
to my memory Its called fishplate after part of the support structure for a ships mast that was basically a giant peg (or series of) that wedged it between the keel and the deck supports
That's it!
Strange to see those rail screws/clips being used. I'm just used to seeing rail spikes and sledgehammers ;)
Otherwise, very awsome to work on the railway.
Dog spikes tend to work loose from vibration. These require less maintenance.
Hopefully
Love your videos have you ever been to Yorkshire wolds railway and they effort to rebuild part off the Malton to driffeld railway
Thank you very much, yes I have been!
not seen a spacing device before.
looks quite home made, but makes life easier for sleeper laying.
any ideas what standard gauge ones should be, so i can make one?
It's very useful - and not a clue I'm afraid
Pretty sure most of the UKs mainline network is where it is because of blokes in the late 1800s saying "that feels about right" so it is definitely a valid engineering process.
The dumper card would have been useful!!! Hauling stuff around!!!
Bit of a trek to drag it all the way up there!
You are supposed to grease the slides on the fishplates, as the rails slide with expansion and contraction of the track
This was just assembly for positioning.
So tempted to just build a lnr in my front yard
Good idea
That machine is called a side by side utv (utility terrain vehicle) cause people sit side by side.
Is that so?
I notice that you are using plastic sleepers like those on the Ffestiniog at Boston Lodge?
Liked the video, got a question which is you mentioned the sleepers outside the station were composite, what are they made from?
In the US recycled plastic. Look identical to the ones I’ve seen in the US other than the thickness. They stopped lifecycle testing at 50 years. Most of the hardwood here is only lasting 10 to 20 years.
Made in Leeds from any recycled plastic like bottles and food containers
There you go!
Good to see Mr.Jim Crow working hard.
It's hard working!
Interesting video. How did you drill the holes after shortening the rails with that saw?
Hi, Samuel here, the guy who bright the dark chocolate digestives.
We have a special rail mounted rotor broach that we use to drill them.
@@legoboysk Thanks. I would have loved to see that in action.
@@thomasamsterdam if you look in the background it is in action at several points!
As he said! You can see it working in the background
I like how you guys were wearing reflective vests, but not safety glasses or gloves ;) Anyway, it was nice to actually see some narrow-gauge track being laid down :) It's still my goal to run some 2 foot track on a rural chunk of land, but I haven't quite recovered from financial issues early on in the pandemic :P Just eyeballing it, I'm guessing those were 4 foot ties? (you call them sleepers.) And do you know what weight rail that is? Light rail is not as easy to come by here in the U.S., though someone did give me the name of a possible source for new stuff. I know you can get shipping containers full of it from China, but I would rather not support them if I can help it.
4ft sleepers, 50lb rail retrieved from a former MOD site.
@@benbrotherwood9128 Thank you :)
We weren't doing anything that glasses would have helped with.
Gloves don't help with much of we were doing, but can get snagged when lifting resulting in more potential risk.
@@lmm Hitting metal on metal (hammer against clips) can result in bits of metal flying off. Unlikely, but not worth the risk IMO.
16:34 Bring Humpty to help with the sleepers
Bit of a trek getting it to Wales
Fish plates are so called because the very first rails ever made had a fish belly, the plates for joining them just got called fish plates.
I've never heard that.
It's something to do with a part of a ship.
@@lmm No it is to do with the underside of the rail it was wider in the middle and curved like a fish belly, (have a google and check it out), Cast iron was pretty weak at first and they thought by making it thicker and stronger in the middle it would be less likely to break.
Would those happen to be the new-fangled recycled plastic sleepers I've been hearing many things about?
They are indeed!
Get the expansion gaps right, known as the clackity clack factor! 😆
Very important factor
Please visit the tanat valley railway
Will do
They needed Humpty to shift all those sleepers!
Came here say this! It's always cool seeing the old machines getting put to work.
Bit of a trek to drag it all the way there!
Did fishplates come from the original fish-bellied rail segments
That's likely it
Oh I would absolutely love to help out and relay track but there's an entire ocean between me and the corris. One day, one day.
Not too hard with enough planning 😂
RAWRRR lawrie MegA Rail DiSmAntLer :P
I'm good at disassembly!
At 6 mins I feel you are channeling your inner Burt Lancaster from the end of The Train...
😂 😂 😂
10:50 that rail seems to bend way easier than I’d have expect it to, or did I miss something?
Rail flexes quite easily
@@lmm so it seems, surprisingly easily. Looking at the thickness and in particular, the width of the foot of the rail, it just doesn’t look like it should flex quite that easily in my head.
@@StupidBlokeStupidVideos It's like giant spaghetti! There's a reason why we have to pull rail on mainline to prevent it from buckling under temperature increases.
Looks like heavy rail for a narrow gage?
We've some heavy locos!
Welp, here we are. Now I want to do volunteer labour to lay railroad tracks. 😩
It's a really satesfying thing to help with!
Cool, whats the rail size? 600mm or 700mm?
2 foot 3inch!
@@lmm dude, im realy sry but idfk what a inch is :/
2 foot 3 inches is also 686 mm gauge
The look on Lawries face when they got the track in place and then decided it wasn't good enough and had to be removed was one of those what's broken now looks.
Question are they the recycled plastic sleepers they are using?
Yes they are recycled material.
@@tonyclough9844 thought they were
It's so disheartening!
Will there be any Reliant Rialto restoration videos?
Yep!
one letter short of the railway i work at LMMR
Oh that's a nice place!
I was wondering if we would have a railroad be part of what’s broken now 😉and lawrie a good track driver would be able to knock them out with one hit 😉
Oh I'm hoping to have a railway feature one day!
Are some of those sleepers plastic? Tell me about them.
They're made from recycled plastic, good for at least 50 years (cause that's when they stopped running tests) expected to last 100 years, lighter than wood. Pretty cool really
Fun fact: fishplates were origianlly made out of fish.
They did not last long.
I thought it was something to do with ships...
You haven't laid track until you drive the spikes into place to hold the rail. Pandrol clips are already on the ties, no fair.
Hi, Samuel from the video here (The one that brought the dark chocolate digestive biscuits)
Much of the Corris Railway is dogs spikes and elastic spikes. The latter are about the worst fixings I’ve ever seen or worked with so we were glad for a change in this project
Dog spikes tend to work loose from vibration, these should be better.
😎😎🚂🚂👍
👍
How far do you live from the workshop?
Which workshop?
@@lmm the shed
@@minisareus about 45 mins
Wouldn't it be better to live nearer the shed ?
Is that you getting into shape for some ladder drills?
Long way off that!
@@lmm hee hee🤣🚒🏴
Maybe next time you can bring Humpty to move sleepers.
Bit of a trek to take it!
i have this line on train simulator 2022
Soon to be a bit different!
nearly a bit of GWR broad guage there !
Well, GWR did own the line at one point, so that makes sense
@@lmm I was looking at the cess (and the laying out of the rails before adding to the correct spacing, just looked fun, and I knew of the GWR ownership connection .
I wonder if Lawrie has ever unintentionally put any rolling stock on the ground...
Not fully. Had a coach derail on points once.
I was unsure about whether we are still allowed to call that tool a 'Jim Crow',with its US connotations.
There's serveral things in the US which have no such connotations over here.
knock the tails off with the square part of the mallet not the spike lol
Hammers are hard.
28:32
Men at work!
ever held a hammer before good god 🤣
we call that a ATV or a Quad
them wooden things we call ties or crossties 😉
are they wood or what?
They're composite. Recycled plastic.
oh neat! thats awesome!
don't think those'd work on Mianlines
It’s so much easier with Peco Streamline 😂
Isn't it just!
I guess you can call the small machine an UTV or what the americans have resorted to say: side-by-side.
I call it useful!
@@lmmthat’s what I like to imagine the U in UTV stands for.
It says ATV on it, all terrain vehicle.
they let Lawrie near their infrastructure ???? have they seen whats broken now ???? .. lol
Apparently not!
First
Good show!
@@lmm wdym
@@lmm I don't really mind that I was first
Please visit the tanat valley railway
It's on my list to do that!