A World War One Motor Rail Simplex (probably) - Lawrie Goes Loco Episode 12

[@CardboardSliver]

Most KZbinrs: I bought a 2020 Car! It's super expensive! Lawrie: I bought a diesel locomotive. I can haul a wagon filled with your car.

[@lmm]

I am probably the first KZbinr to buy a locomotive. Pretty proud of the fact.

[@PedalBox]

@@lmm Are you now also the first with a fleet of them? :D

[@lmm]

@@PedalBox think so

[@JoshuaMuse]

Yes, KZbin finally recommends a little gem of a channel.

[@lmm]

Woohoo! That's great news, thanks for letting us know - and glad to head you're enjoying what we do!

[@lillywho]

Ohey, it's the pleasant lad with the ponytail and an insane amount of machines in his shed!

[@lmm]

Just pleasant now? I'm falling from my lofty grace 😂 More things to turn up 😂

[@lillywho]

@@lmm I can't recall that I was gushing on about you any higher than that, before. Take it or leave it, Geary McFlywheel! x

[@lmm]

😂 😂 😂 I'll take it indeed, I've been called far worse

[@lillywho]

@@lmm That's best, unless you insist on provoking any more friendly sass! 😘

[@graemew7001]

I watched this imagining bombs, mortars and sniper fire going off all around the driver and the images were truly scary, made me realise even more of what a hell on earth First World War truly was.

[@sawyerawr5783]

I was thinking that too. and imagine if you had a wagon or two of ammunition for the artillery behind you. at "least" a steam locomotive like the Huntslet 4-6-0T and the Baldwin 2-6-2T/4-6-0T had a cab that would give you some level of splinter (shrapnel) protection. It wouldn't stop a rifle bullet but it would likely deflect it and slow it down.

[@graemew7001]

@@sawyerawr5783 I don't know much about loco's only what I've learned from Laurie but I've watched a fair number of documentaries about the First World War and been stunned at what they went through without a choice of whether they wanted to be there or not. But seeing someone that in a way I know re-enacting what some did on the front line really brought it home to me. My mind can't comprehend the fear they must have felt and rightly so, it would be disrespectful to the people who were there to say my mind could do so. I've never lived in a position of not knowing from one moment to the next whether it would be my last, war is dreadful but that one IMO was the worst for the soldiers.

[@allangibson8494]

@@sawyerawr5783 A steam locomotive would also have a column of smoke above it. Very convenient for the oppositions artillery to target. A sheet steel cab will do very little when a 6" high explosive shell arrives. Better not to announce your location at all.

[@sawyerawr5783]

@@allangibson8494 assuming a direct hit, yes. but even then a direct hit on a Simplex would do the same. there is a radius that the impact would be lethal, but even something as light as sheet steel can lower that: its the shockwave that kills more than shrapnel, mind. In the First World War the accuracy of artillery was measured as a circle a hundred yards wide or more, so one shell has a higher likelihood of it missing you than hitting you. and like I said direct hits are basically a write off anyway, so you protect against the shrapnel and the blast the round throws up. and like I said the cab of a steam engine is at least going to deflect and top some of that.

[@allangibson8494]

@@sawyerawr5783 Steam locomotives are very vunerable to shrapnel damage - one hole in the very large boiler and they are not moving again under their own power. If the shrapnel punctures a fire tube the crew is dead too. Petrol and later diesel locomotives were simply MUCH smaller targets with a lower profile (WW1 stealth if you will). Not being seen and shot at beats being seen as a target for heavy artillery (particularly for the neighbours with a couple of hundred metres). If you wait for the train to stop you improve your odds that it is parked near a target that even a miss is worthwhile.

[@Scioneer]

Love how that thing sounds, has a nice grunt to it.

[@lmm]

It's great! Properly makes you feel excited when you open it up!

[@tonydeleo3642]

Thank you for sharing this great piece of history and giving us a feel for what it must have been like at the front. You in GB are so fortunate to have so many groups working so hard to preserve and share the history of rais, something that got lost here in the USA.

[@lmm]

You're most welcome, it really must have been beyond our comprehension to have operated this at the front. We're very lucky, there are over a hundred different museums, and something like a thousand preserved locomotives.

[@pieman97405]

6:26 "I'm kind of doing the McAlpine fleet at the moment." One can only hope that you are allowed to complete the set and get to review Flying Scotsman and Pendennis Castle one day. Anywho, all the best from stateside.

[@lmm]

Oh wouldn't that be something. I can dream! Glad you're enjoying what we do!

[@johndeere7245]

@@lmm Maybe one of these years if you come stateside you could run one of the Nevada Northern locomotives. nnry.com/pages/engineer.php

[@lmm]

Oh yes, I'd love to get out there and do that. I'm heading out to the states again this year, but probably looking at the East Coast again, I'll have to try and get over there in the future.

[@carolinaeric8500]

Somehow this was in my recommenced, ended up watching it and found this very interesting and informative. Very cool how this thing survived all this time and one can only imagine what it was like driving this while shells and bullets could be coming at you any moment I’m guessing

[@lmm]

Thank you, glad that you enjoyed the video. It's one of the things I really enjoy about railway preservation, lots of unlikely survivor's! The railways didn't get too close to the front, so bullets not so much. Shells though. It must have been horrific.

[@Dingomush]

I stumbled across your channel and had to watch because I have seen one of those traction engines in use. When I was a steelworker at the now U.S.Steel Corp, Granite City Division. We had an engine close to that one with a flatbed car on both ends. It was the shortest railway I have ever come across. It ran from the end of a galvanize coating line in one building to the shipping floor in the building next door. The whole line was maybe 60 meters long! Great little engine, solved the problem of getting the coils of steel across a roadway without having to shut the whole road down. We had a lot of privately owned railway and several engines when I worked there, 28 miles, or so I was told. I spent a lot of time on the “track crew” swinging a spike maul. That’s the kind of work that you either love or hate, no middle ground. Guess I still love it!

[@lmm]

Oh that's quite cool - a good example of railways working in industry! Oh that's quite an impressive network of track then!

[@Dingomush]

Well , all the scrap metal for the oxygen furnace comes in by rail, the torpedo cars full of molten pig iron comes in by rail, the raw iron ore and coke also by rail, and the finished coils of steel go out by rail, and there is a spur that runs the five miles through Granite City to the Mississippi River docks. It really sucks during the winter on midnights, you spend the whole night thawing switches and resetting points in a busy yard trying to watch your back.

[@RiflemanMoore]

Great little machines, had immense fun pootling around on one of these at Apedale's 'Tracks to the Trenches' event in 2018.

[@lmm]

That was a very good event!

[@SteveDentonClassics]

I've been fascinated with the Simplex since I first saw one on Salvage Squad some 20 years ago. Great video as always mate, you really do know your stuff

[@SteveDentonClassics]

Oh awesome, may have to make a visit at some point in the future

[@lmm]

I highly recommend that you do! Hoping to do the salvage squad one in the future.

[@SteveDentonClassics]

Awesome mate, I look forward to watching that 👍

[@stevewareing8525]

Amazing video Lawrie, thanks for sharing your experience driving the Simplex, it's fantastic to see such an iconic little engine preserved in such superb condition still going strong over 100 years since it was originally built. truly incredible.

[@lmm]

They don't build them like they used to! It's a fantastic little machine, and very well looked after by the guys at Apedale. Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!

[@SeaKing61]

Nice of them to customise the loco and wagon with your initials, Lawrie. Great vid, always look forward to a Lawrie goes loco

[@lmm]

Thank you, I liked that too. Made me feel very important 😂 😂

[@beyergarret123]

My Granddad served in one of the many Royal Engineers Railway Companys during WW1, laying track on the western front and later in and around Salonica, very interesting to see the kind of stuff he had to deal with, excellent vid as always Lawrie!

[@lmm]

Jeeze, the stuff he must have seen... Thank you - glad that you enjoyed it!

[@knownbboy1129]

WOW A World War 1 Diesel, this engine is over 100 years old, same goes for the tracks, lucky thing its been preserved, i was hopping for another steam locomotive but this is really good too and im glad that you're doing all these locomotive videos, this is why i love this channel so much, keep up with the great work Lawrie

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! Quite bonkers really when you consider just how long it's been around for. There will be more steam appearing on the channel in the new year.

[@neilthomas4407]

Hi Lawrie,as a side note to the little loco appearing at War and Peace Folkestone. I collected a full artic load on a 45' flat trailer of original WW1 track that had come back from France after the war,and had been stored at the Royal Logistic Corps Depot at Deepcut,and took it to Westernhanger,which was Folkestone Racecourse where the show was held.Also whilst I was there got a chance to look round the RLCs historic fleet which was extremely interesting. I have as a momento,one of the original track pins,which has got pride of place in my book case.A real piece of history,I seem to remember Suggs and the Salvage Squad team restored one of the larger armoured versions,took it back and ran it in France.The track itself now resides at the previous owner of War and Peace shows home somewhere in deepest darkest Kent. Great vlog as usual,keep them coming.

[@lmm]

How interesting - a nice thing to be part of! A good day out then!

[@matthewverrelli4819]

An excellent presenter I learned a lot

[@lmm]

Thank you very much!

[@lostisleminstrel]

Loved this video about an esoteric subject and I learned a lot of things. That old transmission would need to be double clutched for smooth shifts up and down. Us older folks that grew up on non synchromesh truck transmissions could shift it without complaint but it is definitely becoming a lost art. Again great job on this video.

[@sampointau]

My grandfather who was in the Australian 18 pounder horse artillery told a story or two about the small railway delivering ammunition to their stores point. One was that many had another man, bundled up in winter, short sleeves I'm summer sitting on the front of the small loco beside the radiator who's job was to watch the rails in front for damage and incorrectly set points. Another was that those men sometimes also pushed a 20+ foot pole in front with a single axle fitted with two wheels to feel the track ahead when proceeding very slowly on very dark nights or snow, "feeling" for track damage or obstructions.

[@lmm]

The stuff he must have seen... The 'feeling' method makes perfect sense, you don't want to have lights giving away your position!

[@hopeter7648]

When I was a child growing up in Selsey in West Sussex they were building a sea wall around the village , all the concrete was knocked up on site by 2 men hand loading a huge concrete mixer all day long , the concrete was then transported from the mixer to where the crane was pouring by a very similar little engine pulling a single flat bed truck on which the concrete skip sat . This went on at least 2 years in all weather conditions..!..! Love yourvideos..!..!

[@lmm]

Oh really? Wow, likely a very similar locomotive. Would be grim working on that without a cab in the miserable winter seaside weather. Really glad to hear you're enjoying what we do!

[@JeffersonMartinSynfluent]

Those side-dump cars in the background were interesting as well. They had a really clever way of tipping the load off the side and re-righting themselves after dumping without the need to stop the trip. Mining was all about efficiency!

[@lmm]

Yeah they're pretty cool wagons. Great fun to use!

[@Cliffdog01]

It is really cool to see a piece of first World War logistics I don't know if this knowledge is commonly known but it was definitely the first time I'd heard about anything like it.

[@lmm]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. The logistics and size of the first world war trench network is just unreal.

[@CharlesTrains99]

Thanks for sharing the video. I have seen these on many railway videos before . This is the first hands on , explanation of the operation of one. I like the comment that it sounds like " a happy little engine. " Diesels do have a unique , un-hurried sound when running . This one sounds great . Keep on bringing us these great videos.

[@lmm]

Thank you, we're aware no one else seems to do videos like ours, and the bigger we get the more engines we can feature! I always love a diesel. One of my favourite things is my little one cylinder diesel dump truck. Such a super noise.

[@murdoch9106]

Awesome to see you going places... or well, in circles... still... amazing! Good job! :D And I totally agree, that little 2 cylinder diesel sounds amazing! :D

[@lmm]

I'm enjoying it certainly! I do love the sound that they make. It's quite super!

[@murdoch9106]

@@lmm Hope you have a merry christmas, maybe you can find good deals on locomotives during the holiday sales ;) rofl

[@millomweb]

@@lmm Can't say it sounds much different from any diesel twin with a large flywheel.

[@lmm]

Which is to say, awesome.

[@millomweb]

@@lmm But not as good as a single cylinder !

[@christianthorley6381]

Got to have a play with that lovely peace of history jurying leafers at the pit classic landrover show 👍

[@lmm]

Oh awesome! It's great fun isn't it.

[@christianthorley6381]

Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels yes it’s fantastic 👍

[@Dedfaction]

Just discovered your channel, thanks to the fabled KZbin algorithm. Really interesting stuff, channels like this are why I pretty much don't watch television. Keep it up!

[@lmm]

Welcome aboard! Good old KZbin Algorithm doing its thing. Glad your enjoying the content so far!

[@kymvalleygardensdesign5350]

I have a 16mm scale sm32 white metal kit to make for my garden railway, now I know what these sound like, an awesome video thank you.

[@lmm]

You're most welcome. Good luck with your kit

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

That loco's been all kinds of interesting places! I've always wondered exactly how to drive these locos, it's such an odd design overall. "Flight deck" sounds appropriate for that space at the rear of the locomotive. If that is the rear. Kind of questionable on something like that. Oh, and I haven't forgotten about that art piece, it's coming along now that I have time for it!

[@lmm]

They're pretty simple and nice to drive - hope you enjoyed the experience. Flight deck is good terminology. I'm taking it to be at the back 😂 I'm excited to see it!

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

@@lmm Probably my favorite aspect of the design is how the operator's spine becomes part of the suspension, like any good narrow gauge design. The completed artwork, hope you enjoy! instagram.com/p/B6bsCP1BVBw/?igshid=nisp5xn9afd6 www.deviantart.com/rockyrailroad578/art/Ruston-824480618

[@beakiethegoon4439]

It probably needed a few grunts to make it work *Ba dum tiss*

[@gflo2781]

Fascinating little engine, and to think steam continued for so many decades after that little diesel was invented. I'm sure it was an inspirational little machine for setting the stage for diesel in the future. Great video, as always. Loved seeing that track move - dodgy, but I'm sure very typical of the original great war setting.

[@lmm]

It's a really super little thing. Scaling it up didn't happen for a while. Track moving was so weird, but it's how it would have been!

[@bigunone]

As always Professor Lawrie provides with another look back into British railroad history

[@lmm]

I like being Professor Lawrie 😂

[@JoshRidestheRails]

Amazing engine. Especially being a piece of history that ties back to your own engine.

[@lmm]

I quite liked that bit.

[@richardsellers-smith9496]

Thanks Lawrie you've done a great job on this video. The Apedale Valley Light Railway is in the Chesterton area of Stoke on Trent (Newcastle under Lyme) and well worth a visit. Having driven this loco I sympathize with the seating discomfort and like us I'm sure they would have piled some empty sandbags onto it. The trench was constructed to the Royal Engineers Spec for WW1 and well worth a visit. It is now older than the length of WW1!!!! It does demonstrate very well the conditions which those poor soldiers had to endure. Without the rail link it would just not have been possible.

[@lmm]

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the video! It really is worth a visit, super place. It's fine to drive for a day or so, you just wouldn't want to do more than that 😂 That's a mad thought how old that trench is now! It is really beyond our comprehension how bad the trenches might have been.

[@mikewiebers8814]

I’m blown away by the respect ✊ for the history of your country. As with other videos, I enjoy 😊 learning about the designs of loco 😜 motives and their engineering such as the coupling design. Of course I enjoy all your videos and look 👀 forward to new ones 😺. You

[@lmm]

We've alot of history, some we're more proud of than others. Glad to hear you're enjoying what we do and finding out about these engines!

[@ericwalton1492]

The railway trackwork is almost certainly the Decauville system. Light, portable, easily taken up and relaid when the situation demanded.

[@dkbmaestrorules]

Fantastic video! Do love me a nice Simplex

[@lmm]

Thank you. Its a super little thing.

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

I have been a student of the Great War since 1982, and have read of the trench railroads. Fascinating to see this in action! I suppose "Jerry" would have spotted the route through aerial photography and shelled the heck out of it! "They were men, in those days!" No computer in the engine? How does it access the Cloud? Best wishes from Missouri USA!

[@Benjamin0119]

Nice to see this recommended. Just got done watching some Big Boy videos. From huge to small lol! But green, my favorite color! That engine is the weirdest friggin thing. Very interesting though, and interesting history, which you did a great job of telling!

[@lmm]

It's really good to hear its been recommended. Quite the jump from big boys down to Simplexes! Glad you enjoyed the video - thanks!

[@furiousdriving]

I want one! That’s an amazing machine

[@lmm]

Me too! Really good fun!

[@harryrobinson2901]

Absolutely fantastic Lawrie!

[@lmm]

Thank you very much!

[@andresbeatle6063]

Muchas de estas simplex fueron compradas por el Ferrocarril del Sud de Buenos Aires para las lineas rurales de la provincia de Buenos Aires, que hermoso ver uno funcionado!!!

[@Martindyna]

Awesome video. Being an efficiency nut I liked that the cooling fan didn't run all of the time (I hope it's not broken !!).

[@lmm]

It's not connected 😂 So doesn't run at all. It was a cold day, and we didn't do much to stress it

[@Martindyna]

@@lmm 😁 Shows the efficiency of Diesel, I doubt you'd get away with that for long with a petrol engine, especially a low compression one of the same era.

[@lmm]

@@Martindyna oh it certainly wouldn't work on a petrol 😂

[@sheep1ewe]

I realy love those historical wiews, Thank You for taking time uploading and sharing those interesting pices of information!

[@sheep1ewe]

By the way 2 fot narrow gauge railwas was pretty common in Scandinavia, At least in the north where i live i think it was even more common then the 3 fot system actualy.

[@lmm]

Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed it! Two foot became very common in the UK, but elsewhere lots of other narrow guage options were embraced. Ireland had a broad and narrow guage network.

[@sheep1ewe]

@@lmm I am not sure if the 2 fot gauge mainly was an old industrial standard that also was used here in rural areas, or if it realy was a universal standard in the late 1800. I know there was a pretty heawy crossower sometime with industrial chargo and light transports/passenger transport on some lines, so possibly it had something to do with that. Grandfather had an old catalogue from the 1930s with a sortiment of "(The) Edstrand Brothers light railroad material for industrial applications and other" (loosly translated with my crappy scool English... :D ) where anyone could orger a lot of light 2 gauge equipment, like miniature locomotors, chargo wagons, pre made bolted on iron railroad sections, etc. But it seems like they used much heavier steam locomotives, almost half the size of a "full size" loco, and not the light locomotors for the long distance, so possibly some of them doubled as passenger lines for the workers and others when they where not needed for industrial chargo my guess. Most likly those where fired by leftower wood products from the sawmills i think, i know grandfather tould me those where active until the very early 1950s here on some lines. (Later replaced by modern chargotrucks i think)

[@nemo-ev9ej]

all of them are narrower gauge... will you do standard gauge or have I not seen all of them yet? 🚂

[@lmm]

If you look at the playlist you'll see we've done a load of standard gauge

[@nemo-ev9ej]

@@lmm thanks!😊

[@SaraBarlow-co9up]

I spotted the rebuild plate says Elstow road Bedford. I live 2 mins from this road where this little engine was rebuilt 😮

[@matt59736]

I love you train videos you're very well spoken in a lot of knowledge thank you for bringing them.

[@lmm]

You're most welcome, glad you're enjoying what we do!

[@andyboothe4377]

Seem to remember a armoured simplex on salvage something on Discovery?

[@lmm]

Yeah, that's at this railway. We'll feature it in the future

[@KrisDouglas]

Salvage Squad.

[@lmm]

That's the one!

[@jontaylor6094]

Key to a smooth gear change on a Simplex: shut throttle, depress clutch halfway and gear lever into neutral, then clutch all the way down and select next gear.

[@lmm]

Thanks for that Jon - I'll try it out next time I'm on one.

[@TheEasterling]

I've had a ride on one! They're amazing! Great Video! - BLC

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! It is a superb little thing

[@ianpidgley9720]

I did the driving experience there 2 years ago on the simplex... it was the best one i've ever done... i hope to go back and play again (some time)

[@lmm]

Oh fantastic! The only thing better than doing an experience is volunteering and being let out on your own. Genuinely still one of the greatest feelings I've ever had.

[@ianpidgley9720]

@@lmm I agree, alas i'm too far away to travel there on a regular basis, so i'd never be able to achieve or maintain competency, i am however a volunteer for some more local railways (all be it not a driver) but for these far away ones i find the expeirience days at least give me a chance to try some equipment i wouldn't normally get anywhere near, (another one i'd recommend for diesel shunters is a day at Appleby Frodingham in Scunthorpe)

[@joefarrow8054]

Enjoyed this - fundamentally everything you need and nothing else in a loco. Flight deck though.... :)

[@lmm]

Yeap, bare minimum, but it works. And still works. Flight deck is my new term for cabs 😂

[@rogerphillips450]

I enjoyed that well done.

[@thatguynathan5816]

Love a good simplex. We have 8 (9 being built) on the railway I volunteer on.

[@lmm]

They're great aren't they!

[@ShaunMurray63]

Wow just wow , never new this , it must have been teryfying to have even driven one of these in ww1 , if only that seat could tell us a tale of the brave people that operated these machines , I bet it was scary as hell , bullets and bombs and because you moved these around you would have been a target , I can only imagine. Thanks for your knowledge and fantastic video.

[@lmm]

I think they conducted most of the movements near the front line under the cover of darkness, but with no lights it really must have been terrible. I don't think we can really envision just how grim it was. Glad you enjoyed the video though!

[@lloydvehicleconsulting]

An excellent choice to review, sir! Sounds like a really interesting place too...

[@lmm]

It's well worth a visit. There is so much there!

[@lloydvehicleconsulting]

@@lmm , it does look like it, sir!

[@Meengineer100]

Lawrie, you would love some of the diesels on the Ffestiniog Railway. One of the most popular diesels on the FR is Moelwyn, a Baldwin loco which was built for use in France during WW1, an absolute beast of an engine. The works shunters on the railway are all quite interesting, my favourite probably being Moel y Gest, an 4wDH built by Hunslet and has quite a raspy exhaust. I'm only a cleaner on the FR however I'm sure a slate shunt (with Moelwyn perhaps) could be arranged if you contacted the right person. I enjoy watching your videos, especially your loco ones, good work! :)

[@lmm]

I would absolutely love to if given the chance. Any idea who the correct person might be?

[@Meengineer100]

@@lmm I think it would be best to contact the railway via [e-mail] who could put you in contact with the right person. The slate shunts are like a driver experience so would come at a cost but I'm sure there would be opportunities at a gala or an event if you are helping out on the railway for a few days.

[@allanblackesq]

A really great video, and well presented. I cannot wait till your next video is released. :)

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! Glad that you enjoyed it, and hope you continue to enjoy the videos that we create.

[@mattsmocs3281]

Very nice video. 2 footers are great locos. Now if only they borrowed some mine motors. Those are fun

[@lmm]

Thank you very much. They've got a massive collection of things there, so I'm sure we'll do one eventually

[@phsyco123]

This is the evolution of the garden railway. The field railway.. where big boys get to play with even bigger toys XD

[@TheOdst219]

YES.

[@lmm]

You're not that far wrong either!

[@kernow..exp.]

Great video and marry Christmas from Cornwall

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you too!

[@stevengorick187]

actually saw this loco at the North Norfolk's Tracks & Trenches event back in 2017

[@lmm]

Oh really?

[@McCuneWindandSolar]

now I want on in my yard.

[@lmm]

Perfect little engine for one's own private railway.

[@johnmullen1955]

excellent professional production well filmed and well presented keep up the good work

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! We'll certainly do our best!

[@millomweb]

@@lmm Oh. Sound was too quiet and the quality lacked something - bass ? Getting the mic right seems to be a bit of a nightmare - some mics are really good and others relatively crap. I'll give you 'points' for focus - don't recall much out of focus - a common challenge in the amateur world but the brief 'static' insert glimpses were more annoying than either useful or nice; the freeze-frame getting a lot of use on those to take in the scene. I think it would have been better without those and instead done a 'walk around' talking about the various bits we can see.

[@tn65s]

You've got to double clutch when sifting low to high and high to low. When up shifting it's a gentle pause, when down shifting it's best to add some throttle . It takes a little practice.

[@lmm]

Shifting up I'm normally fine, trying to shift down, that's the challenge!

[@mrhearse777]

Excellent work . Very informative indeed.

[@lmm]

Thank you very much!

[@billybunter5575]

great videos keep the good work up.

[@HowardLeVert]

Some four years later: I'm thinking of the numerous "Potato Railways" of Lincolnshire, which seemed to be built from ex-WD kit.

[@DriverClarkson]

I love the Put Put noise these types of locos make. Like the listers. I'm more of a steam guy but I love simplicity

[@lmm]

They're great aren't they

[@57629589]

Great video! Looks like you're having a great time.

[@lmm]

Thank you very much, I very much did have a super time!

[@germantanker131johnny2]

You should do a video on the Chinese C2 Class, narrow gauge locomotive. There's one somewhere in Britain but I forget where it is.

[@lmm]

It's at the Welsh Highland railway being overhauled. We'd really like to do it. Silly dinner plate sized wheels.

[@worldtraveler930]

Can you just imagine taking one off these down into the mines with miners and out again with ore All day long?

[@lmm]

These wouldn't have gone into mines themselves, they'd have transported ore away from mines. Having this underground would kill everyone 😂

[@peterhamilton7723]

congratulations, you have made me want to run on Railroads Online again.

[@OfficialUSKRprogram]

The gods of youtube recommendations have shined upon you

[@lmm]

Brilliant! That's what we like to hear!

[@dannesthlm1983]

I would love to see you and James May go around Brittain and show us things.

[@lmm]

Oh my, I would be so up for that. I think we'd make a good team!

[@dannesthlm1983]

@@lmm reach out to him or perhaps Edd China?

[@jerrycampbell9376]

Word! And here I thought the local (American Pacific NW) logging railroads were "rough"! I wonder how one of those Simplex locos would've fared.....?

[@lmm]

They'd stay on the line, they just wouldn't pull anything 😂

[@kymvalleygardensdesign5350]

This is so good I watched it again 😀

[@lmm]

Excellent! Thank you

[@infl]

it’s also got probably more than double the torque of the old motor, but who knows old single cylinder gas motors has surprising torque sometimes

[@lmm]

That's quite possible yes.

[@peddersmeister]

Apedale! Cool, been there! 😁 not far away from me

[@lmm]

Lovely place, highly recommend going!

[@peddersmeister]

@@lmm have been once, my ex and eldest are going to a WW reenactment event this coming weekend 😁

[@NANONilsWORLD]

awesome...so many years !!!

[@lmm]

Amazing it's still running happily really

[@railtrolley]

14:30. Have to pull you up on your hand cranking technique. I noticed your thumb was around the crank handle. To safely hand crank an engine, in the event of a compression kick-back, the thumb should always be placed on the same side of the handle as the fingers. That way the handle just flies out of your hand, and you don't end up with a broken thumb. 4 wheel drivers use this same method to hold the steering wheel, while rock crawling, as the steering can kick in the same way if the front wheels strike a rock. The engine is good: starts easier than the vintage Wisconsin AENLD's that I work with.

[@lmm]

Yes, I know that's the correct way to do it, but it's rather difficult trying to hold the crank in at the same time! It's a very happy engine!

[@steffenrosmus1864]

Excellent British design putting the radiator sideways will improve cooling a lot 😁😉

[@lmm]

Good airflow at all times if there's no bodywork in the way 😂

[@steffenrosmus1864]

@@lmm the airflow would be even better if you turn the radiator by 90 degrees as it is international practise 😉😁😁😁

[@steffenrosmus1864]

@@lmm got you. good airflow could be provided by carrying the loco sideways to the tack 😉😁

[@spencerwilton5831]

Steffen Rosmus it's sideways for simplicity- the fan is belt driven via the transverse mounted engine. If it works, which it did, why add complexity and cost when the requirement was for low cost simplicity with reliability?

[@peter_kitsune]

@@steffenrosmus1864 (in response to "turn the radiator by 90 degrees") but then it has no airflow in reverse which they would be doing half the time

[@ono6658]

I really love Lawrie goes loco! (just give more steam engines)

[@lmm]

I'm really working my hardest to get more steam on the channel. It's looking promising though!

[@ono6658]

:D

[@Leo1C2MEXAS]

It would be cool to see some of the bigger steam engines, like the Mallard

[@pricey130]

Leo 1C2 Mallard is static at the National Railway museum and will probably never run again

[@knownbboy1129]

@@pricey130 My cousin told me that the BRM is gonna start putting funds to overhaul and try to fire up the mallard by summer of 2020

[@skankingiant]

Always worth putting your thumb on the same side of the starting handle as your fingers when cranking, just incase it kicks back.

[@lmm]

Yes, I keep being told to, just hard to keep the thing meshed without a good grip.

[@donwright3427]

you had good fun on it. Slow is the new fast.

[@lmm]

It's all about the experience 😂

[@markfisher8206]

Great video we need Hornsby to produce one for WWI dioramas!

[@lmm]

I'm sure a 009 one would be popular.

[@zagreus101]

The footage from the camera on the bonnet has strong "Stalker" vibes

[@funeralcrow3943]

I think it's sad how many railways have naval wagons that are just left to rot, it seems to be the same here, one day there will be none left. Though it is nice to see a nantle quarry railway wagon being treated well.

[@lmm]

Problem is with wagons the cost of repairing and storing them, for very little return. They don't really generate any / much income for the railway. That said, Apedale are building a new shed, so hopefully they'll be able to get more undercover!

[@handyhippie6548]

so, that's basically the toyota hi-luxe truck of the railways. small, capable, and everywhere.

[@lmm]

That's a pretty good comparison yeah!

[@FordTractorRevivalist]

You never want to turn a engine over with full turns like you did because if the engine backfires, you will break your arms. Half turn and back with thumb on top is the way to turn over a engine with hand crank.

[@lmm]

It's got a cam on the starting spindle meaning the handle cannot turn backwards.

[@alanmuddypaws3865]

Brilliant video! The Simplex is one of my favourite narrow gauge locomotives. The timing is particularly fortuitous as I am attempting to make a model Simplex (sadly only battery powered though). I love your channel, your enthusiasm for your subject comes across as very genuine.

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! I've always enjoyed Simplex locos, they feel very much the defining narrow guage Loco. Which guage are you making it for? Glad you're enjoying what we do - I'm glad it comes across as genuine. We wouldn't be doing it if we didn't enjoy it!

[@IndianaDundee]

20hp to 30hp is considered only a 25% power increase. Lol

[@lmm]

It's mighty.

[@nordisk1874]

You forgot about Davenport they built a lot of the 2-6-2t for the trench railways.

[@lmm]

Oh yes indeed!

[@knownbboy1129]

If you could own any other class locomotive, what would it be and why? (ruston 48 doesn't count cuz u already own one

[@islamicthoughts2458]

GOOD JOB

[@daveharr7969]

Any movies made with these shown in action?

[@lmm]

There must be some period films, but nothing I'm aware of.

[@daveharr7969]

Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels Hopefully someone will come up with something. Thank

[@christopherbradley4829]

You should come to the US and drive a Fairmont a5 they are very speedy

[@lmm]

Oh they look awesome!

[@CaptainKrimson]

another great video!

[@lmm]

Thank you very much!

[@microbusss]

where did track come from? what do the crossbucks say on them?

[@railtrolley]

The crossbucks on the posts should say "railway crossing".

[@vegtamthewanderer1516]

I love Lawrie goes Loco. You should go across the pond to ol' Uncle Sam Land and look at the locos here!

[@lmm]

I am looking to return to the USA next year. I'd love to do some engines whilst there

[@AnthonyBarthelCurbside]

Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels if you’re in Northern California look up the Roots of Motive Power - all sorts of nifty early steam and internal combustion bits used in the logging industry. Fascinating stuff. You could sleep in a caboose at the Featherbed Railroad - a bed and breakfast made of vintage railroad cabooses.

[@lmm]

That sounds amazing!!

[@bwilesuk]

Crazy to think about the war planes soaring overhead and the risk of being blown up and derailed as part of your job

[@lmm]

Oh it would have been terrible

[@lorenzo42p]

I forgot what video I clicked on. saw you and was expecting big money salvia. good vid :-D

[@lmm]

Glad you enjoyed it!