Lea Bailey Light Railway Running on Air Part 3
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2018
- The volunteers of the Lea Bailey Light Railway return with a further demonstration of 'air power'.
Follow them as a skip load of earth is dug out and transferred to the far end of the site where it is needed for the base of a new siding served by a recently acquired 2'6" gauge traverser.
As always they demonstrate that when it comes to doing things the hard way they have nothing to learn from the average sugar mill railway in Java.
I won't lie, I'm kind of upset that I never thought to go here when I was on a study abroad trip in Gloucestershire, especially since it was only 30 minutes away from where I was staying. This is a wonderful little working narrow gauge railway and it's so interesting to see this old mining equipment work.
Rob Dickinson Thank you for all the old video videos,in Java, cepiring, and others, everything has ever existed,
"believe it or not, i'm running on air!"
Klasse!
Euch wünsche ich weiterhin viel Erfolg! 😜
Make more of these videos surrounding this special educational heritage railway!
Eimco Shovels were not meant to be used such, they were not designed to dig out of the solid but only to fill loose spoil
What was the problem with getting the bigger rocker shovel over the traverser, not enough air pressure?
As I recall the trackwork had only just been laid and the rocker shovel was also recently put back into service. Consequently, everyone was being very careful. You can see that the traverser was not very firmly in place.
Why does that one ore cart constantly derail? Is it out of gauge, is it missing a chunk of flange?
I suspect that it's not unrelated to the fact that it's probably a 600mm gauge skip running on a 610mm gauge railway and maybe has narrower flanges than some of the other stock.
Now normally, that would not be an issue but...
The first section of track round the sharp curve from where the hillside is being dug out is quite new and hardly used except on open days for demonstrations. From what was said by the volunteers, it's known to be slightly too wide in parts. The Eimco shovel has wider flanges and so goes round more readily without derailing..
The second derailment occurred on a section that has recently been relaid and a new point put in down to the new traverser.
I'm not a volunteer but I know that this section was finished only just in time before the Open Day..
I'm sure they will sort these issues before the winter close down.
As far as this video maker is concerned (and probably the visitors were concerned), it's much more interesting when things go harmlessly wrong on a small scale.
As I implied in my introductory comments, this sort of thing happens all the time on 'real' lightweight narrow gauge industrial railways.
@@internationalsteam Thanks for the info! I have one piece of 600mm gauge rolling on my 2ft line and it rattles thru the switches(luckily it has yet to derail). I noticed that is a rather sharp curve. This line is one of my favorites in the UK as it focuses on the smaller mining style equipment, which is what I currently run here in Arkansas. Though I plan to add a passenger train of larger proportions someday.
It is really cool to see the equipment, is the white mucker and the black workman car new iditions. And when they finished and drove the cars into the hill is that an old mine that they use for storage or just a dead end tunnel?
The second EIMCO rocker shovel is a fairly recent acquisition, it's a bit too much of a monster for serious usage with the air compressors we use. The black car is not new as far as I know.
The tunnel is the old mine, as such it's a dead end. It's only safe for a quite short distance but it's enough for storage of wagons.
Well that's cool, It makes sense that you would have all the equipment in a the location of a abandoned mine.
I've enjoyed watching the air powered videos but for surface work they clearly aren't practical. Am I thinking there for working on the coal face where you wouldn't be able to use diesel, petrol or even electrical equipment and more for also in confined spaces.
Correct. Given the safety restrictions underground it would not be practical for a small group of volunteers to demonstrate these machines other than on the surface.
There is a mine at Lea Bailey but the public are not allowed access.
Need more weight on the excavator
Yall need a locomotive
I did not know that a engine can ran on air, in till part1,2,3 of this,what a little railway
mejor seria moner un conpresor de gasoil en cola
They need some serious track work?
Deve haver um geito mais facio de fazer este serviço. Muito ruim.