Steam, rain, and freight. Driving a Locomotive in the City it was Built! Matthew Murray LGL Ep. 26.

Hello all you fine and wonderful people, well, here we are. New year, new content.
What better way to kick of 2022 than with the welcome return of Lawrie Goes Loco?
In this Episode we got asked back to the fantastic Middleton Railway, this time to take out to take out one of the mainstays of their fleet, the Leeds built Matthew Murray.
--- Content of this video ---
00:00 Intro,
01:03 Introducing Matthew Murray,
09:14 Preparation work
20:38 Looking at the controls,
26:06 Getting onto the train
27:15 What's Matthew Murray like to Drive,
38:28 Outro,
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All movements in our railway videos are discussed with the operating staff prior to any such movement taking place.
A video featuring
Lawrie - Presenter, getting very wet.
Morgan - Cameraman, still not excited by a steam train.
A video edited by Lawrie
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[@SDE1994]

for anybody not familiar with Middleton, unlike other lines that might have to look out for sheep or cows on the line, here its chavs

[@lmm]

😂 😂 Best comment so far

[@SDE1994]

despite looking mice and green countryside, the line is surrounded by subburbs and what used to be some very rough estates, they have to regularly slow down for locals walking on the tracks

[@bentullett6068]

The journey on the Severn Valley Railway starts with chav's at Kidderminster then it gradually becomes more pleasing as you head to Bridgenorth

[@adamcrane3571]

Good Afternoon @@lmm

[@bigone9678]

"everything is plastic and boring. this is proper." well said

[@lmm]

Thank you!

[@zacm.2342]

Lovely little railway - been a few times, even have my name on the new shed as my gran bought me a brick in the campaign for it before she passed. I'll chuck a few quid at the new one when I can, glad you mentioned it.

[@lmm]

Oh what a super thing to have done! Lovely tie to the railway. Thanks for considering to help them out more too!

[@krakendwaggin]

Gorgeous loco, wonderfully filmed despite the weather doing it's best to derail proceedings, excellent work guys!

[@lmm]

Thank you, was one of the most challenging days we've had weather wise!

[@BHuang92]

Typical British weather......

[@BrooksMoses]

So what I have learned by about 7:30 into the video is the virtue of having a proper engine shed. Or even an improper engine shed.

[@lmm]

Storing engines under cover does them a lot of good. Prepping engines under cover keeps crew happy!

[@Living_Life_RN]

Lovely, I’ll have to try and pop down at some point this year!

[@lmm]

It's certainly worth a visit

[@crazyfvck]

0:23 Pastreon, where you can support your favorite KZbin channels by sending them pastries ;) lol. Anyway, I am ALWAYS happy to see a new episode of LGL! :)

[@lmm]

I do like pastries

[@crazyfvck]

@@lmm lol :)

[@Jiskpirate]

I love your format, Lawrie. Very enjoyable. Finally a presenter who knows his stuff and is on the footplate himself! Looking forward to whatever you do next in Lawrie Goes Loco!

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it, much more lined up!

[@bentullett6068]

I love seeing little industrial locomotives in action. I still want to visit the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire as they have some great little industrial locomotives.

[@lmm]

It's a great day out! Very much enjoy a day there.

[@warrior3456_]

thanks to your content im now attempting to build a model collection and draining my bank account lol

[@lmm]

I highly recommend it

[@stevewareing8525]

Thomas might be a famous tank engine but "Matthew Murray" has it on *CLASS* Thanks for an absolutely brilliant video Lawrie.

[@lmm]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@HM...333]

Amazing Lawrie, keep up the good work!

[@lmm]

Thank you very much!

[@phtby1635]

This is a fantastic way to start the new year

[@lmm]

I completely agree!

[@hst2153]

This was a fantastic video, it's really interesting to see all the stages from preparing the loco to how it is to drive. Thanks for the great video Lawrie!

[@lmm]

You're most welcome and glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnsovcom]

Absolutely fantastic video, well done,

[@lmm]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@itisyarb]

A wonderful video, wonderful loco, and very useful for cab reference images ;)

[@lmm]

Pleased to hear you enjoyed it

[@MapTheDragonRailways]

Great video, I went to Middleton in October, great bunch of people there on a lovely little railway. When I went I traveled behind the Y7. Thank you for sharing, have a great day Matthew

[@lmm]

Ah 1310, engine that I became a driver on.

[@jamescounts481]

Beautiful locomotive. Enjoy your videos you must have the best job around thanks again love the locomotive and train videos James from Texas

[@lmm]

Thank you very much! I must say I am rather enjoying it, and amazed that people all around the world are too!

[@andrewentwistle515]

Thank you Lawrie for another great railway engine video. It has been a while ago since I last visited the Middleton Railway & I did enjoy my visit. I do enjoy your Railway video's a lot, so here's to the next episode.🙂👍👍

[@lmm]

Thank you very much!

[@joelightrailway2362]

Fantastic review Lawrie 👍👍 This is one of my favourites at Middleton and I will personally like to visit the railway to see not just this loco, but other locos in action as well.

[@lmm]

They have a super collection of engines there.

[@colelepper9381]

absolutely brilliant

[@lmm]

Thank you!

[@lexdmitriew1452]

VERY INTERESTING, THANK YOU.THE VIDEO OF THE CHASSIS IS A DELIGHT.

[@lmm]

Pleased to hear you enjoyed it

[@SteamboatWilley]

It is mesmerising watching the pistons and valve gear working. A bit like a paddlesteamer.

[@SteamboatWilley]

A cute little loco. I can vaguely remember visiting the Middleton Railway once when I was small. I should make a return trip one of these days.

[@lmm]

It's well worth a visit!

[@robinforrest7680]

I guess the nice thing prepping a well loved preserved machine like this is that all the inside motion is nicely painted and relatively clean. I’d imagine in the day it was always black or various shades of brown which must have made all those little divots quite tough to find! Excellent film as always.

[@lmm]

Thank you. It depends on the company, some really looked after their engines, and some towards the end really didn't 😂

[@TheHatMusic]

Excellent

[@lmm]

I agree!

[@PHsRailwayVideos]

Great video! I love the Middleton, and hope to volunteer on it in the future. Shame that the engine's ticket ran out, I only rode on it once despite this being my local line. I was going to see it in October this year but it had injector problems so I didn't manage to see her.

[@lmm]

Yeah, she's a lovely thing. I'm sure it'll be back before too long.

[@matteomarmiroli1713]

Great video as always

[@lmm]

Thank you!

[@guidor.4161]

Beautiful!

[@lmm]

Thank you!

[@cowsgomoo4618]

I'm just gonna hit that sub button right there. Hello from upper midwest USA Lawrie!

[@lmm]

Well thank you very much!

[@MrDeeej86]

This has made me happy 😊

[@lmm]

Pleased to hear it

[@ajaxengineco]

Hudswell Clarke and Manning Wardle were headquartered next to each other in Leeds - they had very similar designs!

[@lmm]

Strange that 😂

[@ajaxengineco]

@@lmm It was rather cheeky of HC to turn up nextdoor (when MW & Hunslet were already there), poach half the customers - and make sure to have workshop tools that were just modern enough to outclass the others. Then, when MW shut it's doors - they took on half the staff!

[@highpath4776]

The amount of trouble the diesels throw up, knackered flywheel couplings, burst radiators, oil cooler unions , brocken rockers / push rods, compressor belts ( never the same profile), compressor valves, donkey engines and starter motors playing up, gearboxes and linkages failing, alernator flashover.

[@lmm]

Ah yes, but that's a fitters problem, not the drivers! Prep remains simpler and easier

[@1982jeepcj8]

Well Lawrie if you make it here to the United States, may I suggest a week in Pennsylvania, Steamtown, the Pennsylvania Railroad museum in Strasburg, then over to the East Broad Top railroad, then finish up in Corry, PA were the last class A climax locomotive is undergoing restoration, Then leave us for a trip up the Mountains of West Virginia at Cass behind one of their big Shay geared locomotives. If you wait a little while, the K4 and the NEW T1 maybe finished up.

[@the_retag]

He needs to do a lawrie goes loco with 4014

[@lmm]

That sounds like a wonderful trip!

[@stephencameron4032]

Magic Lawrie, pure magic!

[@lmm]

Thank you!

[@benjaminblumberg1645]

At last! A good video combined with a closed captioned audio track provide a complete experience for this deaf steam afficionado. Matthew Murray must have had an Italian ancestor - or at least his hands did!

[@lmm]

Glad the subtitles did the thing!

[@jollygreenjeff2640]

My favorite part of these is the firings

[@lmm]

I love firing

[@warrior3456_]

lovely railway very interesting loco

[@lmm]

It really is!

[@888johnmac]

once again Lawrie has a good day out .. Morgan ( probably lost rock paper scissors with Matt ) i'm guessing not so much .. and props for the end shot with the train coming out of the tunnel

[@lmm]

Morgan... Did not enjoy the experience 😂

[@FlyingScotsman-vv1jh]

Fantastic Video Lawrie! If I may enquire or ask. Would this year consist of maybe a visit to the Llangollen or North Yorkshire Moors railways? Keep up the excellent content

[@lmm]

I have very much enjoyed the Moors gala in the past, so maybe!

[@FlyingScotsman-vv1jh]

@@lmm hopefully see you there mate

[@michaelfeldman-budarick9295]

Your so lucky laurie, ive dreamed of nothing more than driving a steam engine, you get to go to any railway and be allowed to drive any loco you want, without supervision, i dont get the chance to mostly because i have to wait to have a steam ticket Sincerely Michael Feldman-budarick

[@the_retag]

Would be nice to see end of day stuff (empty ashpan and such) in a video as well, i think we didnt have it yet, not just prep. But great as always

[@lmm]

That's a good idea for a video!

[@rjstandland4459]

I love how you can hear the engine trying to move the reverser or jonsen bar for american people

[@kymvalleygardensdesign5350]

Love Manning wardle loco's some of their last larger designs were unbelievably awesome. The copper pipework on these engines remarkable. Think this one must have been a Hawthornes rebuild.

[@lmm]

They made lovely engines didn't they!

[@kymvalleygardensdesign5350]

@@lmm Yes one of my absolute favourite loco manufacturers

[@wilfbm9067]

Brilliant video, it'd be very interesting to see you review the USA tank on KESR, its absolutely horrible to fire and drive and about every crew member hates it but it oozes character. It would make a very good video.

[@lmm]

I would love to do the USA tank. And when it comes back, Norwegian. One of my favourites she is.

[@courtforder4046]

@@lmm word of warning, don't eat until you've come off the USA she's a bouncy ride. Norwegian is a fabulous locomotive, you'd have an amazing day with her. Norwegian is out of ticket awaiting overhaul atm.

[@wilfbm9067]

@@lmm you definitely learn what your skeleton is for on the yank. Norwegian is a wonderful engine but will be out of traffic for a good few years apparently.

[@kineticrail]

Great LGL episode, I do like the manning wardle look no matter the size you can always tell its a manning wardle loco. Am I right in thinking one of these wouldn't be out of place at the middy I recall seeing a picture of one when I visited brockford hauling construction trains

[@lmm]

I think you're right! I think sir Berkeley with its open cab would be wonderful at the MSLR!

[@paulshirley6383]

Steam, rain, and freight. Driving a Locomotive in the City it was Built! Matthew Lawrie's Mechanic love louis shirley

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Well lawrie that’s a interesting lantern that you are using 😁😉

[@888johnmac]

lol , i thought the same

[@lmm]

Works well. Don't knock it.

[@OdinHodges-in9dd]

odin og det har du noen av de som var litt for deg og ditt eget liv 🏠😃😃👍🐺du er en del av det du har en del ting jeg har en liten stund nå er vi har

[@NJPurling]

When people talk about the steam age as if it was something romantic and wonderful. They don't realise the reality would be getting up before dawn and rolling around in filth in a wind-swept, rain-lashed Broom Colliery yard doing all that prep work. If there was a lot of work then the outgoing men might have left you a loco still in steam, but which still needed to be checked over before you could take a train to service the coal drops at Hunslet Moor and the others north of the Corporation gasworks.

[@lmm]

Oh yes, looking after an engine was deeply unpleasant 😂

[@Plokman040]

Still, can't deny there is something about steam.

[@johnathanedwards9054]

If I can, I'd like to suggest that you make a trip to the USA to make a video on the Western Maryland Scenic Railway #1309 a 2-6-6-2 simple articulated steam engine that was recently brought back into operation. For reference the engine was built in the 1930s and is bar-none bigger than a 9f in all dimensions

[@lmm]

Yes I've seen videos of it, I'd absolutely love to do something like that!

[@DaimlerSleeveValve]

Having that motion tucked away inside the frames would be a plus point on a loco intended for construction projects. Less chance of fouling on stuff left carelessly by the trackside.

[@lmm]

I suppose, you've still got the coupling rods, so it's a marginal saving.

[@HorusGodEmperor]

I deliver to the yard next door, the packs by the fence are what I deliver, I've always wanted to visit the railway as I see it all the time I deliver, but I've never seen a loco running there

[@Taggart00]

Only runs on weekends and Wednesdays during school holidays, although if you deliver on a Wednesday I am surprised you haven't even seen locos on test or shunting

[@lmm]

That's bad timing. It's well worth a visit!

[@jaziferret1138]

8:50 HE SAID THE THING

[@lmm]

It is though.

[@nathanlucas6465]

i lived in leeds for over a decade and never knew about the middleton railway :(

[@lmm]

You should go have a look!

[@HeavyTanker-vx4oq]

This thing kinda reminds me of Flying Duchess. a 0-6-0T Robert Stephenson & Hawthorne Co. Locomotive from 1952. that got imported into the states in the 70s, along side a few Pullman coaches for a British themed Little railway, that failed. Considering its built off a Victorian Design, just like this. Makes the Similarities obvious.

[@Honeydwarf85]

Flying Duchess is preserved in the states.

[@HeavyTanker-vx4oq]

@@Honeydwarf85 Yeah but she will probably never run again.

[@alexhando8541]

Flying Duchess was not really built to a Victorian design. The engine itself was built in 1952, and the style of side tank engine only really started to appear at the beginning of the 20th century. Whilst it is functionally similar to a Manning Wardle L Class (a class of engine that was designed during the victorian era, but built after), working by exactly the same principles, it is slightly different in aesthetic design.

[@lmm]

Oh I think I've seen pictures of that. Sad really.

[@SteamboatWilley]

I think the Flying Duchess has appeared in a couple of Jaw Tooth's videos.

[@IsaacDaBoatSloth]

you say 2 left but there is one on stationary display at a museum somewhere i think its the black country museum

[@lmm]

It's a different class I'm told

[@JintySteam1]

Always thought that corks should be screwed on or off not pulled so you don't destroy the tread which makes the cook less likely to fly out.

[@lmm]

Some are threaded, some are not. These were not just push fit

[@courtforder4046]

Absolutely adore the Manning Wardles. What class is Charwelton? I know she's a Manning Waddle just not sure of her class.

[@SDE1994]

shes a "special" which means a one-off but is about the same as the Q class

[@courtforder4046]

@@SDE1994 thank you very much. Can't wait to have her back on the KESR she's one of my favourite engines there

[@lmm]

As above. Similar looking thing

[@jayvernon2575]

10:35 oh dear... many weepy tubes lol

[@lmm]

No that's shadow from the torch

[@thestandardfour0699]

That's all good, seems like a 21 pin dcc chip but has she got sprung buffers and a die cast running board?

[@lmm]

And illuminated fire box! Sprung buffers as standard, and metal running board

[@thestandardfour0699]

@@lmm now, that is quality!

[@BrooksMoses]

I don't remember you doing this sort of checking inside the firebox and smokebox and under the firebox on previous steam engine startups, just checking all the lubricants. Is that because this is the first one I'm remembering that is actually being started from cold, or is there some other reason that's part of the everyday startup process for this one?

[@lmm]

Nope, same procedure as any other one. Sometimes they've done the Smokebox for me, but all essential and normal prep.

[@robertschmidt7625]

That's why the U.S. does not have steam engines with cylinders inside the frame, because it was way too difficult to oil and not very convenient to maintain.

[@lmm]

Does result in better riding though.

[@jacksnorth4074]

She seems (to me, what do I know) to have quite a distinctive off beat bark, is there any mechanical reason for that? Reminds me of the offbeat burble of a cross plane V8 😊

[@Captain_Char]

The Fat Controller approves of you calling this engine really useful

[@lmm]

Pleased to have his approval

[@bbbbennieandthejets2127]

It would be cool to see lmm about a terrier.

[@lmm]

I'd love to do that

[@ank55o7]

Lawrie causally time travelling

[@lmm]

Do it quite a bit these days

[@weeabuuuu]

Return of the King

[@lmm]

Long awaited!

[@alexthomas637]

🚂🚂🚂🚂😎😎😎😎👍

[@lmm]

👍

[@eliotreader8220]

was that clinker at the front of the fire grate?

[@lmm]

I don't think so

[@haydengell7442]

Cool little loco. I know what you could do for three hours tho… polish it ;)

[@lmm]

That or shoot a review 😂

[@highpath4776]

Matthew Murray was blue , but got a quick repaint to pretend to be another class member for one of the historic commemerative galas.

[@lmm]

Yes, I remember it blue. In fact, when I arrived and it wasn't, I was quite surprised. I thought it wore blue very well

[@Jayhsia1215]

It’s billy and charlie

[@lmm]

Who? The engine is called Matthew Murray

[@Jayhsia1215]

@@lmm Thomas character

[@lmm]

Oh right.

[@highpath4776]

It being 2022 the bolier is at the end of its official 10 year life and the loco will go out of service. The prority is to get Slough Estates done within 18 months as that is also coming out of life. Middleton will depend on the Y7 and the Sentinal for main steam power which will be interesting for 2022 ! (oh is No 6 done too ..!).

[@lmm]

She's out now yes, Slough is out, 1310 has a few months, no.6 is in traffic, sentinel I think was still running in last I heard. I really like the Sentinel

[@Taggart00]

You forgot Brookes No.1

[@hhtrains8572]

Should look quite good trundling up and down at statfold barn railway. Is it just me or does she look quite similar to Hastings that's at the statfold barn railway

[@alexhando8541]

Hastings was built by the Hunslet Engine Company. Hunslet, Kitson, Manning Wardle and Hudswell Clarke were all based in Leeds and there was a lot of correspondence between the companies, which is why the designs of the locos are all so similar.

[@lmm]

As above. Both pretty little 0 6 0s

[@hhtrains8572]

@@alexhando8541 i know I've seen her

[@svenschlenkrich]

Dear Lawrie, that is a phantastic video portrait of that little engine. Paying attention to all those fancy details, prep work and driving along the line. Your true passion for the steam power makes this video make it so lovely. Well done, carry on! BTW I've been to the Middleton Railway a few years ago, great work is done there. I'm restoring a 600 mm 0-4-0 wt made by JUNG in 1938. Here is a video of test runs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYHUkmqwhdetl6c Cheers Sven

[@lmm]

That looks a wonderful locomotive! Where is that based? Really pleased to hear you enjoyed the video!

[@mod2966]

Wait isn’t there another Manning Wardle L class by the name of “Winston Churchill”?

[@lmm]

Oh yes! Up at the Black Country museum. Two which have run in preservation then

[@Taggart00]

@@lmm thats a special

[@lmm]

@@Taggart00 oh is it?

[@vladabocanek3703]

Hello Lawrie, I don't understand one thing: If you drive steam loco in Britain, you drive on left side. Signals are on left side. So, why is driver's post on right side?

[@lmm]

Industrials are often this way round, where they'd had work there likey wouldn't be any signals anyway.

[@paulspahn4529]

New measurement scale, this Loco is 1.5 Lawrie's tall.

[@lmm]

Soon to be globally accepted as a standard

[@primeprover]

Was this level of oiling a daily occurrence back in the day?

[@lmm]

Yes, or at least should have been! All the lubrication is total loss, so it'll loose over night if you don't pull the trimmings out too

[@the_retag]

It was actually common to re oil many parts during the day on some engines, for example while taking water or waiting in a siding letting another train pass

[@primeprover]

It surprises me that automatic oiling systems were not used to eliminate this issue. Reading I see that eventually this was done to some extent but get the impression it was never completed/fully adopted. I would have thought it quite a priority. Maybe I am using too modern logic but I know today we would have experimented with 101 different oils to make them last longer/run smoother.

[@Daniellllllllllllllllllll]

To this day I'd love to give editing the videos a go haha

[@lmm]

It's a lot of work 😂

[@irishsixtysixfanGbrf66739]

Lawries new way to get money join his pastryon not paytreon very funny lawrie quite a blooper to make

[@lmm]

Potato potarto 😂

[@johnsamson-snell9558]

I have a cunning plan. I want a steam locomotive you want a steam locomotive and I bet lots, hundreds of your followers also would like to own a steam locomotive. But that’s not going to happen 😞. Why? They cost a lot of money to buy ( if you can find one) and even more to restore and lots on slots to keep running. But what if a group of us come together under the LMM Locomotive Group? I bet you that idea would take off. I would be happy to contribute what I am/was planning to spend on a 5” gauge steam locomotive to own a little bit of a real one. I bet a lot of your followers feel the same way. Plus we could muster a whole lot of volunteers to do a lot of the graft. How’s about it then? John (ps: I do know what I’m talking about having worked on restorations, and as a fireman on a few preserved railways since back in the 1980’s).

[@lmm]

That is actually quite a good idea, and possibly well worth investigating

[@johnsamson-snell9558]

@@lmm Let me know if I can help in any way. 👍

[@sarahhall738]

Really is very like Wissington.

[@lmm]

Just bigger

[@warragulbogan]

When’s the next instalment of lgll

[@lmm]

A couple of months away but we'll be looking at models in live streams

[@warragulbogan]

Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels right

[@eliotreader8220]

the engine looks like Billy and Charlie from Thomas and friends

[@Taggart00]

They're based on the L class

[@lmm]

I don't know who they are

[@eliotreader8220]

@@lmm Billy and Charlie are two fictional tank engines from the Thomas and friends tv series who looked like the one you did the review on. its not known if they are brothers or not.

[@jround2863]

D

[@lmm]

👍

[@16jan1986]

it is only stereo thypical if you are english if you are in scandinavia it would have out side cylinders and not saddletanks

[@lmm]

Well yes, it's an English engine on an English line. I guess the 'typical' engine does vary heavily country to country!

[@NathanielKempson]

Sudden aspect ratio change XD

[@lmm]

Just to keep you on your toes

[@edscoble]

Can you make your content inclusive and accessible by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning? it is sadly very hard to watch relying only on the auto captioning (Im Profoundly Deaf)

[@riokent5374]

nice engine but is she bit out of time as she sounds a bit odd when setting off

[@lmm]

Tiny bit yes

[@dansterland1824]

She sounds good we regulator just a bit open what she like when she's in full valve bet she sounds brilliant 😁😁😁😁😁 don't make em like that any more

[@lmm]

They really don't

[@planitmc1204]

Hey I love this content but it’s double the amount of time can spend watching can ya keep it to 20 minutes

[@sentinelboy8827]

Longer to always better. If it to long for you, watch it in two parts simple. rather than make lawrie shortening his video.

[@planitmc1204]

@@sentinelboy8827 i see where you’re coming from but by the the time i have time to watch there’s already new content

[@lmm]

Our reviews do tend to be quite long I'm afraid