Driving Sirapite AND My Fire Engine at the Leiston Long Shop's 40th Anniversary

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Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels

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@chipking6036 5 ай бұрын

You should take your old fire engine back to its original fire station. Be good to see.

@hayleywilliams8750 4 ай бұрын

Probably get torn down. You know what the government is like with the fire brigade budgets

@SimJackson 5 ай бұрын

Hats off to whoever filmed that shot at 13:46, that was a beautiful bit of video!

@bwilesuk 5 ай бұрын

Thank you - I aim to be artsy where I can, and if the focus plays ball!

@gs425 4 ай бұрын

Yes you do a fine job all round sir !

@sawyerawr5783 5 ай бұрын

Once more there is proof for the phrase, "There's a prototype for everything." Including the two stretches of snap-together track we've all had at one point, running a lone engine back and forth.

@Arkay315 5 ай бұрын

Sirapite is certainly a beautiful little engine, at this rate you'll soon have driven all the preserved railway traction engines in the English isles. First sir Vincent, now Serapite, what next? Blue circle?

@SteamboatWilley 5 ай бұрын

This looks like a very interesting museum. I want to visit now.

@DaveP668 5 ай бұрын

I visited Long Shop about 15 years ago and its still one of the best museums I've ever been to. Not a place you generally pass through, but well worth the trip.

@casto- 5 ай бұрын

My dad, brother and I visited the long shop a few years back and it’s a cracking little place👌. Great video as well!

@danielmckinney5527 5 ай бұрын

Omg it's the real Jupiter - 999, now that's how a uk fire engine should look in the show. Also, I saw Fireman Sam plush figure in the windscreen. I'm a huge fan of Fireman Sam and Thomas the Tank Engine, What a terrific video.

@stevesalvage1089 5 ай бұрын

Great filming lawrie, always wanted to see the museum in action , perfect thanks

@SCronin944 5 ай бұрын

They need more track for that engine

@JackWithASnack 5 ай бұрын

oh hey my local museum! I have work experience there the upcoming week aswell!

@bwilesuk 5 ай бұрын

I think you'll have fun

@Madonsteamrailways 5 ай бұрын

And what a work of art that little locomotive looks!! Absolutely gorgeous!! The pity is that nothing like that has ever been done in 00 gauge!!

@blinard1 5 ай бұрын

Wow. If you enjoy going back and forth 30 feet in each direction, Leiston has you spoilt for choice! 😂

@HowardLeVert 5 ай бұрын

Seeing Sirapite reminded me that we have Blue Circle at the Nene Valley...

@spannerdog123 5 ай бұрын

Nice to see Guildford represented on site in Suffolk.

@bentullett6068 5 ай бұрын

Those loco's were so interesting being pretty much a traction engine. I would be good to see a coffee pot loco on the channel next and I believe Beamish have a narrow gauge one and a few others have them still in operational use.

@Madonsteamrailways 5 ай бұрын

Good to see another mechanical marvel, especially one powered by steam!! LOVELY!!!!

@captainchar 5 ай бұрын

ok I thought it was only Hyce who did the shovel meal in the fire box, glad to see its basically a world wide thing on steam engines

@boat_and_train_fan 5 ай бұрын

haha i've seen that video of hyce as well

@the_retag 5 ай бұрын

Can confirm that cooking on the shovel os also not unheard of in Germany

@eekee6034 5 ай бұрын

In China, maybe the last steam railway in China if I remember right, the engineers love their firebox-cooked chicken :)

@BrentSudric 4 ай бұрын

18:42 gotta be the most expressive steam engine I've seen yet

@kevinbelcher8490 5 ай бұрын

I would love to see you take the fire truck back to the fire station and show us what you keep in it

@MayYourGodGoWithYou 5 ай бұрын

How did I not know about these places when I was in Suffolk (late 1980s). I had to make do with the occasional steam fairs at the Stomarket Museum and they were mainly steam harvesters, bailers and tractors.

@adamcrane6306 5 ай бұрын

Hello Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels

@andyf7699 5 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this, visited the long shop over many years growing up when with family in Theberton , think its time to visit again! Great Video 🙂

@petergarrett9185 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic video, thanks Laurie

@weloveteddy 5 ай бұрын

5th I love your Ruston 48

@lachlansworden-m3n 5 ай бұрын

This is pretty much exactly the same as Aveling & Porter 'Sir Vincent' from the Fifield Private Railway. Hope to see some more of that in the future, and great video!

@SteamboatWilley 5 ай бұрын

It amuses me that Garrett used a locomotive made by one of their main competitors.

@peterforden5917 5 ай бұрын

Sirapite ould make an absolutely magic kit or model...So why isn't it being produced ? :)

@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204 5 ай бұрын

good vid vid on the channel nice out about vid thanks lee

@johnthompson3605 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful fire engine, I would say that , I helped make all the fibreglass parts for the cab, the crew cab roof is a beast of a moulding, incidentally, Dennis at Blackpool , did make biscuits, liquorice alsorts and .... fire engines a bit random but there you go lol..

@sentinelboy8827 5 ай бұрын

The joker is a brilliant machine. Will the museum let you do a lmm drives on it? I know Clive says it is completely different driving to any other road steamer.

@laserhawk64 5 ай бұрын

Serapite... what a bloody great clanking thing, and I _absolutely_ love it :D Haven't we seen it on the channel before, though, in a way that wasn't mentioned in the video? I get the impression that Serapite travels, under certain circumstances... it accompanied that really, really big locomotive on its celebratory return to the UK, as I recall, the one where it was a private railway and you weren't allowed to tell us whose or where. I remember the other locomotive that day being just like Serapite, essentially a railway-going traction engine, and I remember commenting on that, after that video as well. I can't imagine there're terribly many put together like that...

@bwilesuk 5 ай бұрын

I think that's Sir Vincent.

@martymcwilliams900mcwillia4 4 ай бұрын

Definitely want to see more of the Dennis, no one else is doing videos of one, oh does it pump water?

@EMEME27655 5 ай бұрын

Great video Lawrie. Can you pls post about your new locomotive i am so intrestet where it is now

@VictoryWorks 4 ай бұрын

Love the Long Shop. Gutted that I never seem to be in the area when you are 😔

@jappedut9009 5 ай бұрын

Do you know that there is a real railway in a backyard in England and they have a Ruston ❗️The BBC has done a documentary about it ❤

@PeterJewell2 3 ай бұрын

The locomotive Sirapite was built in 1906 and worked at a gypsum mine at Mountefield in Sussex, a mile from the Tonbridge-Hastings line. The name 'Sirapite' was also a well-known brand of plaster (which is made from gypsum). Presumably the loco was named after the plaster, rather than the other way round! The same DIY forum that told me about the plaster also told me that Laurie pronounced the name correctly as "Si-ra-Fyte". Why they spelled it with a 'p' rather than a 'ph' is anybody's guess! (Now, if this was Wikipedia I would provide sources for the above information, but it isn't, so a quick search for 'sirapite' should get you most of the way!)

@lmm 3 ай бұрын

It's a weird little machine

@michaelbird3183 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes. The interesting challenges of a class 1 driver playing in a rigid vehicle. I know the steering differences very well 😅

@kylel4361 5 ай бұрын

Too bad it was such a short track. Would have been nice to see the locomotive get up some speed. Thanks for the great videos, please keep them coming.

@KrisDouglas 4 ай бұрын

Speed isn't really in the vocabulary of those engines!

@cbmsysmobile 5 ай бұрын

I'd love to take your Jupiter for a spin. I've driven many many Dennis' in my time, but they've all been buses.

@lmm 5 ай бұрын

It's a real nice truck

@cbmsysmobile 5 ай бұрын

@@lmm Don't temp me into buying one!

@IndianaNorthWestern 5 ай бұрын

Nothing broke this video? Huh, weird. The next one is gonna be a ICantSayThisWord Show.

@jacksnorth4074 5 ай бұрын

Ive not seen a steam car like that before, can i presume it were a later model?

@hayleywilliams8750 4 ай бұрын

Oh i wish i knew of this i would have gone there in a flash

@bwilesuk 5 ай бұрын

One question I didn’t get to ask… how come it’s pronounced “sira-fight” when there’s no “ph”?

@allanmason7544 5 ай бұрын

great vid lawrie

@TheMarkSiebert 5 ай бұрын

We saw you there

@trainswithnickyt 4 ай бұрын

The question is though, which is the better engine, the R&H or the C&S? Both built in Lincoln and I'd actually be happy to own either

@lmm 4 ай бұрын

I am a fan of Ruston

@kineticrail 5 ай бұрын

Is the eventual plan for the long shop to connect with the railway?

@WH32R 2 ай бұрын

What is on the right side of the roller behind the wheel? I see a gear to drive it but can't figure out what sort of attachment it is

@yeoldeseawitch 5 ай бұрын

I would like to know why one of jupiter's emergency lights is off center. I saw a picture of the truck a while ago with both of them parallel to each other, what changed?

@lmm 5 ай бұрын

It's a Norfolk fire service thing. That's how they were

@nostalgiccameralife 4 ай бұрын

I'm curious, that locomotive with its huge flywheel and reduction gearing - how much momentum does that thing carry? I would think that once in motion it probably wants to keep in motion with very little throttle needed. What's that like compared to a direct drive steam engine?

@PeterJewell2 3 ай бұрын

I can't answer that, but on a railway locomotive the wheels do the same job as a traction engine flywheel to maintain momentum. (I think!)

@keab42 5 ай бұрын

Do you have a list of events you'll be attending anywhere?

@ashleytaylor896 5 ай бұрын

is that the same make and model fire truck that is on firemen sam.? not sure if the UK had that kid's cartoon.

@lmm 5 ай бұрын

It is not

@MichealRandall-q2x 5 ай бұрын

Siropite burns wood?

@lmm 5 ай бұрын

They got given a load of wood. Cheaper than coal

@the_retag 5 ай бұрын

@@lmmany free fuel is good fuel in a heritage steam loco. Means more money saved for the next overhaul

@gs425 4 ай бұрын

And....Jupes didnt break down !!!

@lmm 4 ай бұрын

I'm amazed too

@northdetroit7994 5 ай бұрын

@sambrown6426 5 ай бұрын

That Stanley Steamer actually uses something known as a steam generator, rather than a conventional boiler. It's essentially a coil of pipe with a liquid/gaseous fuel burner at the bottom, with the flame going right up the middle of the coil. Cold feedwater goes in at the bottom, steam comes out at the top. They're very efficient and compact for things like steam cars, but they don't scale particularly well, so they weren't really used in locomotives apart from the various oddities of the Bell Locomotive Works (Which are genuinely quite fascinating to research). And that thing on the front of the steamer that looks like a radiator? That's actually a condenser to recycle the steam back into water for the steam generator. They're really cool, especially Jay Leno's 1925 Doble E-20, which apparently did 132.5 miles an hour back in 1925 when it was new, which is frankly just absurd.

@stuartkimhart6480 5 ай бұрын

Sorry mate you're totally incorrect. It's a fire tube boiler, has 600ish 1/2 tubes and is wire wrapped for additional strength. How do I know? It's my car and I restored it! #stanley21088

@sambrown6426 5 ай бұрын

@@stuartkimhart6480 Oh, my bad. Thanks for that, I really hate spreading misinformation. I guess I got my Dobles and Stanleys mixed up. Also, great job with that restoration, the old girl looks gorgeous, and I'd love to drive her someday, though that'll probably never happen! I'd also love to see some videos on her, but you obviously don't have to if you don't want to.

@nickm9123 5 ай бұрын

It's a shame that little engine only has that little stretch of track. She NEEDS more trackage.

@bwilesuk 5 ай бұрын

Not least to reassure me I wasn't going to run out of track!

@Thedclasstank 5 ай бұрын

First no 1

@eliotreader8220 4 ай бұрын

way was she burning fire wood

@lmm 4 ай бұрын

Cheaper than coal!

@ajlawrence8983 5 ай бұрын

It’s Sirapite NOT Siraphite! Did you not consider wrapping some rag around the water gauges to keep them clean when you lit the boiler. What do you mean nothing else to do, you could always get some Brasso and a rag and have a polish up, does that explain why the visiting engines are all smart and shiny and the museum engines are filthy. Would have been nice to hear a few words about the Clayton, mighty fine engine that deserves a mention.

@lmm 5 ай бұрын

I'm sure they'd love for you to volunteer and help out

@ajlawrence8983 4 ай бұрын

Well that a ridiculous thing to say! There is an awful lot of pride with engine owners and volunteers and we always do our best to make the engines shine as we are only custodians and the old girls deserve to be looked after. We don’t mind videos but do your homework as you can’t change history

@dkbmaestrorules 4 ай бұрын

Alexa, define "armchair enthusiast".

@WinXPsp.3 4 ай бұрын

@@ajlawrence8983, christ, he just mispronounced something. Really not that big a deal.

@PeterJewell2 3 ай бұрын

@@WinXPsp.3 - actually I don't think he did! Just did a search for Sirapite and several of the links were on a DIY forum, and in one of the threads someone noted it being pronounced "Sira-phyte".