"Welcome back Ivy" Mandalong Valley Tramway, three locos in steam.

Return to steam of "Ivy" a 1922 Fowler, with Baldwin, "Fairymead" and Hudswell Clarke, "Wauchope". Narrow gauge steam on 1 in 16 grades. Mandalong Valley NSW, Australia.

[@geoffcrumblin9850]

Great layout, and a high class video.

[@BelbinVideo]

Many thanks.

[@dans_stuff]

What an awesome little collection in a brilliant tramway setting. Top marks to all with the preservation efforts being made at this operation👍👍👍

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou.

[@andrewr2825]

Great video Graeme, and obviously a lot of work has been done on the permanent way and clearing the bush land. It’s a real credit to those guys who have worked so hard restoring historical locos, and obviously take pride in what they’ve done. Have to say that Wauchope’s my favourite!

[@Phil_K3n_Sebben]

Looks fantastic, congratulations and full credit to those getting it up and running.

[@MGdriver]

Thats absolutely brillant! My heart beats heavily when I watch this video. Great work had been done in preservation this wonderful tram. Greetings from Austria (just the other side of the globe😊)

[@BelbinVideo]

Many thanks for your kind comments, MGdriver and greetings back from our side of the globe.

[@trainzville9237]

What a wonderful collection of Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives.

[@marto2200]

You blokes are living the dream 👍 well done 👏 ✔️

[@BelbinVideo]

I can't argue, marto2200 haha.

[@trainrover]

wow! priceless, storybook beauty -- I cannot remember any industrial railway this spellbinding 🍸💋

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou, trainrover, much appreciated.

[@samuelanketell8190]

Absolutely fantastic railway guys, i imagine the Wootton logging tramway or Canungra logging tramway would have looked and sounded like this back in the old day's

[@geoffgunn9673]

One trainset I'd love to have. Wauchope has a lot of sentimental meaning to me, my old man worked on the railways for 60 years

[@stanleydomalewski8497]

Magnificent Video, Magnificent Trains ! Thanks for Sharing !😊

[@ulrichschuz2715]

Sagenhaft, Loks, Betrieb, Atmosphäre. Da denkt man an die Waldbahnen in den Karpathen, Rumänien. Danke für das interessante Video.

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou for the kind comment.

[@johnnytoronto1066]

WUNNERFUL, SIMPLY WUNNERFUL. Thank yo!!!!

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou johnnytoronto, glad you like it.

[@andrewh.8403]

Wow. Well shot and edited. It was a bit of a time warp. Always loved the bush and as a kid would imagine tea kettles wiggling along the track I was walking. The smells of the engine and the surrounding flora. I still do if I'm honest. I have some work to do on my 45mm trackage in the back yard ! I was going to comment that DCC has come a long way...but I don't know if anyone will get that... I think a visit is going to be in order next trip from Brissy down the New England.

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou , Andrew. Me too, on all of the above haha.

[@Test-cx2vw]

loving this works guys, awesome works! :) - Ryan Jung from S.Korea

[@Axllovestrainz14]

James, Percy, and hero

[@aliciashepherd8912]

Exactly

[@JohnDymowski]

Lovely just lovely…

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou, we love it too.

[@Linda2]

Very enjoyable video thankyou

[@BelbinVideo]

Thanks, Linda.

[@princessofthecape2078]

Nifty little railroad. Kind of the Australian version of America's Cass Scenic.

[@behrouzmovahed7525]

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful video 💕

[@BelbinVideo]

My pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@ronnykretzschmar809]

Oh, wow!😮😮😮

[@ЛЬВИНИ]

Super video,🤩😁😄 like

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou.

[@SPack-o3s]

Made my day watching this, thanks!

[@allanliversidge9827]

This is a superb credit to the owners. Congrats Team

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou.

[@danmurphy4100]

Wow awesome, I think I seen some of your gear from the road the other week.. well my young bloke spotted it had no idea there was anything there let alone working steam locomotives.. well done.

[@dawie641]

Great show. Thank you. Looks like hard work. I think the gradients are a bit too steep though. Wishing you guys all the luck. Enjoy.

[@BelbinVideo]

Thanks. The grades are a necessity with the topography and actually make the driving much more entertaining. Most of the grades will, ultimately, be eased slightly to a maximum of about 1 in 25.

[@ggreg2258]

Great vid. I want one for my back yard ! ! !

[@ManiacRacing]

Man you guys got some really cool toys!

[@johntyjp]

That pond looks like a mozzie paradise, praps you don't have them Down Under?!😆

[@saunieralain31]

De France : absolument magnifique !

[@BelbinVideo]

Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

[@Thomas-m7n]

Great Video 💓💓💓 My Heart Beat for Steam engins

[@JoaquimAntunesdaRocha]

great video Joaquim Antunes São Paulo Brasil

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou, Antunes.

[@jean-louisamerio1165]

magnifique ! BRAVO !

[@kellogsdadfa3683]

bonza effort fe;;as ,,enjoyed that vid

[@tjsimongoldenfigureoftheki3477]

I hope you guys can get the fourth locomotive to work also and chugging along with the three engines that be cool.

[@BelbinVideo]

Should be up and running in a few months.

[@tjsimongoldenfigureoftheki3477]

Great locomotives and I am kinda hoping that one day you can try to design a turntable for your engines to turn in the direction you want to face.

[@BelbinVideo]

The railway will eventually end in a balloon loop so the locos will turn with each run but we are also planning to have a turntable just for fun.

[@rottenroads1982]

I like Wauchope. It’s the same class of Locomotive as Fiji (No.11 on the Statfold Barn Railway). Also, Wauchope looks almost exactly what my Thomas & Friends OC Blake would look like. Also, it’s funny how Fairymeade, a Clearly American Built Locomotive, has a more British style Whistle, while Wauchope, a Clearly British Built Locomotive, has a more American style Whistle. This type of comparison can only happen Down Under in Australia.

[@alistairwhite2906]

It's the 5 chime (guessing NSWGR) whistle on Wauchope that makes it sound American, but in NSW and Vic, that was the main whistle used on mainline steam locos.

[@Marc.Th.25]

Great vid !

[@BelbinVideo]

Thankyou, glad you liked it.

[@snabbism]

How cool is that. Did that maroon loco spend some time in the Megalong Valley near Blackheath in the Blue Mountains? I clambered all over one there as a kid that looks rather like it!

[@BelbinVideo]

Very similar loco snabbism, but that was a Perry, built in South Australia.

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Interesting.

[@Pak_Rail_Fans]

Awesome ❤

[@andystevens8693]

Excellent video, Did the Lake Macquarie light railway shut down permanently? The Baldwin was outstanding with the carriages it was pulling there.

[@thedoorider]

very kewl!

[@jumper123910]

Great Video. Is there any information about this tramway. The internet seems to have passed it by. I can't find a website or any reference to this railway more information would be greatly appreciated. Are they reconstructing it as it looks lie freshly laid track without ballast. Thanks.

[@BelbinVideo]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. No, there is no website. It is a newly constructed, strictly private railway for numerous legal reasons so no public access.

[@sureshkumar054]

Thomas and friends

[@xot80]

very nice replicas, and if they are originals, they were after very unprofessional renovation. The thing that immediately catches your eye is the welding of boilers. According to art they should be riveted, but I suspect that no one in Australia can make a riveted boiler with the necessary certificates. I recommend a company from Poland, Interlok from Piła. This is the last company in Europe that performs major renovations and new boilers using riveted technology with certificates. They renovate the best locomotives in Europe.

[@BelbinVideo]

You, clearly, have no idea what you are talking about. All locomotives are originals, as shown by reference to builders numbers and dates of construction, and all boilers are rivetted. The three locomotives have current certification. I'd love to know how the non existent welding (beneath the cladding), "immediately catches your eye". You may want to give your next comment a bit more thought.

[@MrFishingbros]

You can't see the boilers to know they are welded because they are wrapped in cladding so you won't be able to see the rivets but I'm sure they will be riveted

[@BelbinVideo]

@@MrFishingbros, thankyou. Yes they are rivetted. I appreciate your response.

[@MrFishingbros]

@@BelbinVideo no worries I only just realised that I just repeated what you said. I didn't see the rest of your comment. The worse bit for me is how he said that welded boilers would be an unprofessional restoration. He clearly has no idea what he is talking about.

[@adamhaneline7236]

Those trains look terrific, you guys! What are you going to do with these four rusty wagons I saw?

[@jamesm2101]

Hi Where is this located at

[@BelbinVideo]

South of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

[@deanhendrie5903]

Just west of the town of Morisset.

[@randywise5241]

This gave my steampunk brain a big high. Thanks. What is the gage of the rails?

[@BelbinVideo]

Excellent, glad to hear it, randywise. Same affect it has on mine haha. Its 2 foot (610mm) gauge.

[@randywise5241]

@@BelbinVideo Cool. I like these little train engines. Best I can do is a small N scale layout on a coffee table. But it makes steam. Thanks for the response.

[@BelbinVideo]

@@randywise5241, I have a small 009 layout, myself. This railway belongs to a mate although the little Baldwin is mine.

[@tedbiernacki376]

Is that coal in Ivy's tender? Doesn't look very coal-ish !😮😮

[@BelbinVideo]

Actually "Wauchope", the tender engine, and yes, it is coal although it's a bit hard to tell. Luckily it burns OK in the large firebox.

[@JohnDymowski]

Missing ballast keeps it noisy even though it may not be required it should…

[@BelbinVideo]

It is being fully ballasted gradually.

[@RobertJackson-vc9rk]

How many chimes is on the whistle of the black locomotive?

[@BelbinVideo]

Five chimes. NSW standard whistle.

[@EugenBadau]

ARATA MINUNAT DAR UNDE MERG SI CE FAC DE FAPT???

[@BelbinVideo]

It will eventually go around a balloon loop and back. Does nothing other than entertain us.

[@b43xoit]

The origin of the name Mandalong is said to be unknown, but surely it's a Native name or term for the area, right?

[@bruiser3601]

From the Lake Mac Libraries website: "Mandalong is an Aboriginal word meaning 'where the forest oaks grow'. (Source: "The Story of the Aboriginal People of the Central Coast of NSW" By F.C. Bennett)" .

[@bruiser3601]

From the Lake Mac Libraries website: "Mandalong is an Aboriginal word meaning 'where the forest oaks grow'. (Source: "The Story of the Aboriginal People of the Central Coast of NSW" By F.C. Bennett)" .

[@michaelmcdonald3275]

Are you guys open to public I live in Warnervale and would love to see your locos !

[@BelbinVideo]

Sorry, not able to open to the public.

[@janganasemmanatahan7438]

Ini di daerah bedug bojonegoro ya pak mo angkut kayu tebangan

[@CarsonNolt-wq7sx]

Is it expensive to maintain those steam locos?

[@BelbinVideo]

It's not cheap although the owners of the property are both very knowledgeable about steam and engineering.

[@radeksturm]

O.K.

[@b43xoit]

Types of valvegear?

[@BelbinVideo]

The Fowler has Joy, Hudswell Clarke has Walschaerts and the Baldwin, inside Stephenson.

[@b43xoit]

@@BelbinVideo Interesting; you have everything. I had not heard of Joy's mechanism before.

[@johnparker7874]

What is the gauge?

[@BelbinVideo]

Two foot (610mm) gauge, John.

[@alias9025]

What is the problem with the engineer's side cylinder cock on the Fairymead? Is i just stuck?

[@BelbinVideo]

Yes, just stuck with a bit of junk caught in it.

[@Johny570]

Деды в паровозики играют :)

[@SemyonLysjakov]

Дорогие и раритетные игрушки 😊

[@jean-louisamerio1165]

SNCF c'est pour ça qu'il y a un peu de retard

[@pisstinpete4700]

Looks like a tough job ,but someone has to do it

[@BelbinVideo]

It is great fun but can wear you out by the end of the day.

[@pisstinpete4700]

Yes ,I wouldnt doubt it👍

[@danielcreed2328]

If this is a tramway, where are their cowcatchers and side plates?

[@BelbinVideo]

An industrial Tramway is a lightly laid railway, sometimes temporary, often for the purpose of mining or logging. Google it.