Trains, Traction Engines and Trucks - Statfold Barn's Road Rail and Ale!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 12 вер 2023
- Hello everyone,
This video is sponsored by my friends over at the Foxfield Railway - check out their website for special events here: foxfieldrailway.co.uk/events/
And be sure to visit on the 1st October for the Vintage Vehicle Rally!
Subscribe to the newsletter here: foxfieldrailway.us19.list-man...
Check out their UA-cam here: / @foxfieldrailwayofficial
Today Lawrie heads off to visit the Statfold Barn Railway to see the collection of visiting road vehicles, but he doesn't go the most direct route...
For more information on my friends at the Amerton Railway, check out their Website here: amertonrailway.co.uk/
A big thank you to them for letting me get involved.
For more information and events coming up at the Statfold Barn Railway, check their website here: www.statfold.com/railway
A video shot, edited, and featuring Lawrie.
Additional footage by David and @JintySteam1
Want more info on us and the stuff in The Shed, or want to get in contact? Check out our Website!
lawriesmechanicalmarvels.com/
Fancy supporting us on Patreon and receiving extra bits of LMM? Have a look at our Patreon here:
/ lawriesmechanicalmarvels
Get more of what we're up to with Instagram! - / lawries_mechanical_mar...
Want to some LMM Merch? Check out our teespring store!
teespring.com/en-GB/stores/la...
Chat with us and other like minded people on our discord - / discord
Follow us for video alerts and other updates on Facebook - / lawriesmechanicalmarvels - Авто та транспорт
The traction engines and the steam rollers look like beasts slowly coming alive as the herd starts to move.
this, is.... AMAZING!!!!!!
That hunslett roller was the weirdest steam traction engine I have ever seen with the boiler on an angle like that. Looked liked a great rally 👍 lovely English autumn rain
Does anyone know why it had an angled boiler?
Confusingly, it's not a Hunslet (owned by the now Hunslet company), it's a Wallis & Steevens Simplicity. The angled boiler is more effective for keeping water over the crown.
Trains, Traction Engines and Trucks - Statfold Barn's Road Rail and Ale! love louis shirley
Err, Lawrie. Road, Rail and ALE. What ales did they have?
Maybe some beer?
OK which one of you thought they'd be real smart and bring three helium balloons and a pennywhistle to the Whistle Off?! _Gods_ my ears.
Also that blue Leyland lorry is lovely... and while I very much adore Walker's rather than Lorna Doone when it comes to shortbread (TBH I can't _stand_ Lorna Doone, that stuff tastes weird as heck to me) -- the locomotive namesake on display there is absolutely _adorable_ in so many ways and makes me go "Squee!".
Trevor, George and Buster!
I visited a lovely steam centre, and I had the pleasure of being allowed to drive 2 different traction engines around a circle, a cute smaller one and a big 25t one that you had to climb up! Steering them was as easy as on the Triton work ute I drive, I must say the big one must be where the phrase 'land yacht' came from with a massive steering wheel that felt like it didn't do much but it was easy and amazing fun to be commanding(ok really just steering~) 25 tons!
Probably not the big one, but the smaller one I would love to have and just drive
What beautiful steam roller they take a lot to look after and I keep looking at the fire engines that I see in the corner and when will we will hear running around we you drive it again
All the whistles going off reminds me of the ending of the Titfield thunderbolt
Love it
If I’m correct, around 12:46 just before the transition / as the transition was in progress I heard 19B’s whistle respond to all these. I think that’s around the time we blew her whistle anyways 😅
I’ve noticed an uptick in kids going “toot toot” at steam events.
There should be signs saying “no toot-tooting”, like the “no stairway” sign in Wayne’s World guitar shop.
It's the law
Don't know if it's still there but 30+ years ago Stowmarket had an agricultural/rural life museum and they had a steam weekend once a year with working agricultural steam engines doing the harvesting as well as threshing and bailing. We had an annual membership and regularly visited - they had a working mill as well - and would visit the annual steam fair in Norfolk.
Always loved steam engines - grew up playing with dad's Mamod steam engine and my brother got a miniature working traction engine you could steer via a rod to the front wheels for Christmas one year - I was so jealous, I got a doll and there was simply no comparison in my mind - and I always loved playing with them. Dad's gone now but my inheritance - or some of it, - will be used to buy myself my very own Mamod model steam engine, the same one dad had if I can find it. Fascinating things and they have something that draws me to them. Funny but they're irresistible.
Sadly I couldn't make it as I was drafted in to help run a layout at the Swindon Model Railway event. We did however have a mini steam engine gathering with two traction engines, a steam road roller and a miniature steam traction engine at the event. Also during every hour they would sound the large steam whistle that would call all the workers to the GWR factory.
TY Lawrie 🙏🙏
George, The grumpy Steam roller('s)
I want a steam tractor! A bit pricy though.
And just to buy one! You’ve then got the maintenance and fuel costs
Can I hear a fairground organ at around 17:15? Those are cool :)
B e e g
Gorge has an army now the railways in danger o no
Amazing video❤ keep it up can you visit north Norfolk railway some time
Have you perhaps seen the videos of the 150 hp case that was completed durring covid? That would fit in at this event, if not a little large
9th.
You’ll have to do a 80k special I remember the 5k special with the aveling and porter roller
There is a 75k special I shot.. It might be repurposed
Have you ever thought of doing an investigation into alternative fuels for steam?
I hadn't, but sounds a good idea
I've always thought, especially when some heritage railways are rightfully woesome about the price of coal, if an electric conversion kit could be put into a steam engine to "convert" it, so to speak! I don't know enough about steamers at the moment to really figure much out, but in my opinion it has the potential to be the best of both worlds... 😊
@@caramelldansen2204 during the Second World War , the Swiss railways did it. They had hydroelectric power that was used to run steam engines.
@@Pocketfarmer1 Fascinating! It's a wonder no-one's making plug-in modifications, or retrofitting engines with them!
i'll take first view comment second like :)
Did you by any chance get any footage of the Foden steam Lorrie in the background
STEAM MACHINES
No need to shout.
That blue engine on the saw near the start i think it name is Elsa
I always find it strange that steam trains hold no real interest for me and yet put me in a field full of traction engines, stationary engines and the like and I go all gooey and school boy again. I love these things, yet put them on rails and I lose that feeling......I'm just weird lol.
Everybody has something that turns their crank. As I told my niece and nephews, if we were all the same life, would be awfully boring 😴
For me is the exact opposite: steam trains gives me such an hype and vibes that's difficult to explain, while steam tractors looks so odd yet intriguing to watch, because they're basically trackless steam locomotives for me
Somehow i like both. mainly because of how simple yet complicated the mechanical systems are.
@@davidty2006 I totally understand what you mean, it's all nuts, bolts and metalwork, no irritating electrical gremlins to deal with. I love that they're so logical to understand how they work. Electrical stuff just blows my head apart 😂
@@lowrangemaniac5326 It seems that @matthewholzinger1042 has it right, it's folk like you and II that make the world go round. We're complete opposites and yet both here watching the same video.