Helping to lay a railway - working a Ballast Train on the Two foot!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Greetings good people of the internet,
Have you ever wondered about trackwork, how much work it is, and how they move things, like ballast around? Well, you're in luck. In today's video Lawrie drags a group of his supporters down to the Apedale Valley Light Railway to help with some trackwork.
If you want more information on the super people at the Apedale Valley Light Railway, avlr.org.uk/
If you'd like to get involved as a volunteer and take part in projects like this shown in the video, the group would love to hear from you, and you can make your first steps into getting involved here: avlr.org.uk/mo...
This video was shot way back in the summer of 2021.
A video featuring:
Lawrie - Presenter - unaware of the amount of work he'd have to do,
Loz - Cameraman - managing to avoid physical work as he 'has to film'.
Charles - Cameraman - given a shovel and told to get on with it.
Edit by Lawrie, Grade by Matt.
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Just the ballast going down made me think of all the miles of track that had to be done on, & all the people & engineering involved. Thanks Lawrie! 🙏🙏
Hello Lawrie. I must confess, I've never seen packing done by shovel. In my country, we are used to hammer balast under sleepers by pick-axe with one end pointy sharp and other with "hammer-like" flat end.
normally done on larger lines like that too
I don't think it matters for a narrow gauge railroad like this since the weight of the trains and cars don't really weigh as a much and tracks aren't used as often
How does something so small and cute look so mighty and powerful, great video!
You certainly looked liked you enjoyed yerself
It was great fun
That orange locomotive in the shed and the one with no proper cab were rescued from a peat bog some years ago. Apparently they run pretty smoothly. I need to return there.
It was great to see Lawrie doing some Loco Driving, Shunting and Ballasting work in this LMM episode. I look forward to seeing the next episode to see what Lawrie gets up to next!!!
Lawrie and his Mighty hammer 😁
I love doing track work, although we use pneumatic tools for packing now. So much quicker and easier, if you're doing a long stretch at once, 😊😁
9:33 Needs more ballast here!
Well done! and I indeed look forward to Part Two. But, please, for the love of earl and country ( :P ) put some grease on that poor Ruston and its rolling stock. They all sound the way my joints feel in a winter storm -- or like two people in wetsuits doing something that most certainly shouldn't be seen on camera.
Hope you're having a good day Lawrie! Cheers from a West Virginian railcar repairman
It was good, hard work!
funny your ballast looks like what i would call 2 inch minus screened and cleaned ...but i work in a different field so different terms for the same thing lol. thanks for the videos as always. track lifting...i presume you have seen automated track maintenance trains..... lift level and compact lay level and re ballast without stopping like a tbm carrying its supplies and dropping its waste by the side as it goes .
Those automatic things are amazing to watch.
@@cme2cau it is a sight to see in person video is not as good but still impressive
Great video! I can't wait to see more from here. I'd love to see you do one featuring that little red Ruston. These narrow gauge railways are simply awesome!
Nice !
Thank you
It seems you are becoming a expert in narrow gauge track laying now. First the Coris railway and now the Apedale Railway
We used to use Kango hammers at Bala. I little bit easier....Ifvyou can keep lifting the Kango up and down!!!
Awesome! :) I always enjoy your narrow-gauge content :) From your previous videos, I never realized that the entire railway there utilized that really lightweight rail. I thought it was just the WW1 trench area that had it. Do you know what weight it is? I'm curious if that is the same size rail used at the Great Bush railway, where you drove the Ruston 44/48 that I fell in love with :)
That's a pretty fancy footwarmer on that loco😊
Yes I thought that too. Presumably the box at the rear is maybe an exhaust scrubber or spark arrestor
Seriously though what's up with the exhaust routing? Is it being used to warm up the fuel, or just the cab, or what?
@@noahorr3480 I was wondering that as well. Possibly bunker fuel oil?
I have a Ruston Hornsby DL20 to
Oh super taste in locomotives!
Had to laugh at your not wanting to develop an "earth fault" as you passed over the points. Heard many different ways to describe it in my driving years but that's a new one.
Derailment?
@@SimJackson Well thats what I got out of it. Maybe Lawrie will explain in more detail.
Yes, it's used quite a bit in heritage circles, and is without doubt my favourite one for describing going off road, being all terrain, jumped, demounting, etc etc
"ascertain the completeness of the operation" - are you using the work method statement as the script for this ?
Correct terminology!
😎😎😎👍
Can you do bo,ness pls
Would love to
what does H&WBLR stand for
Ugh No Respect for train drivers these days! Making them do manual labor, well I never!
I know right!
first
Good work!
Lawire does ballast after Dallas ....