A FAB time driving Thunderbird 4! Lawrie Goes Loco Ep. 36

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Today Lawrie gets to drive one of his childhood dreams, the mighty, but tiny Thunderbird 4! Just why was he asked to go to the Apedale Light Railway?
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A video featuring:
Lawrie - Presenter, confused to not be near water,
Charles - Cameraman, suspecting Lawrie has the wrong end of the stick,
Loz - Cameraman, has worked out which way round the camera goes.
Additional footage by Sam Willett.
Edit by Lawrie
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@SuperTrainStationH Год назад

The less fabulous, the more I’m in love.

@angeloclarizio7813 Год назад

The one that absolutely looks like a train shack has to be my favorite one ever

@lord_scrubington Год назад

what I love so much about narrow gauge industrials is just how many aftermarket mods the operators do preserving a locomotive is great, but actively improving it with home-grown creature comforts and upgrades adds so much more interest to it

@YurtFerguson Год назад

The rail equivalent of a lawnmower. Just a goofy little tractor built to do one simple thing and be comfy enough to make you not totally hate using it.

@skystriker4459 Год назад

Because of this channel I started to volunteer at foxfield railway and can I just say there's no way the miniature railway will be open by the 20th the turntable well hasn't been fully dug out and we can't go on part of the loop because it's to overgrown and damaged but the bar will definitely be open don't worry

@bentullett6068 Год назад

If the bar is open that is all the good news we need

@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS Год назад

Did it come from a van pulled behind a standard gauge "Thunderbird 2"? A very fun little loco, the name really suits its looks!

@kymvalleygardensdesign5350 Год назад

Not really disappointed at all nice to see one of the last Motorail engines running. it is one of those locos that looks wrong on its own but is perfect with a rake of skips wagons behind it. Love it.

@thatguydillan6360 Год назад

Exactly

@colelepper9381 Год назад

Loved the ad spot, makes me wish I wasn't in America

@gflo2781 Год назад

love it! Was a massive Gerry Anderson fan growing up in the late 80s/90s, who cares if it doesn't submarine, or rescue, it's a moving yellow box on rails!

@thejdmguru621 2 месяца назад

I want one so bad, I love small locos like this. Where it’s just you, a cosy tight compartment, and the engine.

@Vectrum0013 Год назад

love the look of this little train

@peddersmeister Год назад

Ha! your clip of the miniature railway has me, the kids and their mom on it (we used to have quite close ties with them until we split up and we've kinda drifted away a bit :/ But it's me! :D

@HenFilmStudio Год назад

This is actually what I was expecting, but from hearing the backstory of this engine I would say it deserved that name. FAB! P.S. Maybe you could've done a Thunderbirds style launch sequence. Just Suggesting.

@tamarmolerick3814 Год назад

Excellent video. This was the first loco I ever drove back in 1993 at the Tiny Tramway Mineing Company (the e is correct!). The TTMC was a back yard railway owned and built by Tim Shelton. The railway basically comprised of a loop around the garden with sidings going off to various sheds. Play value was added by a working sand mine that Tim had dug to extract sand for his landscaping business. It was a totally bonkers place. When I knew the loco it was named "Pride of Corfe" and had a Petter PH2 engine.

@Truerealism747 6 месяцев назад

Was the railway taken up

@JASGaming1 Год назад

Keep up the lovely videos! Incredible how you do multiple videos a week! (unlike others) And its also crazy that you go place to place barely with breaks!!

@MikeTagg-kg1so Год назад

When my dad was in the navy and serving on HMS Apollo i believe it was they nicknamed Apollo thunderbird 7 as she got sent on any task imaginable this particular tour of duty haha think they had thunderbird 7 painted under the ships name plate for a short time haha

@Arkay315 Год назад

It isn't much to look at but it is a sturdy hardworking locomotive

@RHM6x4 Год назад

Great video and brilliant editing well done .... I always wanted a go in 'the MOLE' from thunderbirds - it looked a bit like a Vickers Vigor bulldozer but had a massive drill on it !

@rubenskiii 3 месяца назад

It's beautiful, a piece of art and your harsh words must hurt it's little yellow heart! Honestly, this feels like a model kit turned into a real locomotive as opposed of the other, usual way around. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.

@lmm 3 месяца назад

It's a great little workhorse!

@TheHoveHeretic 3 месяца назад

Could be worse. You can officially call a resident Ffesterbahn Hunslet "Harold" all day long, but if it comes with No.7195's back story, it's more alliterative familiar moniker rather lacks the prestige of "Thunderbird 4" Go on ... search 'Festipedia Locomotives nickname list' [gratuitous plug of the day].

@PeterJewell2 Месяц назад

If you look at the Wikipedia article about the Cadeby Light Railway, there is a photo of this loco, in yellow livery, hauling the very last train when the line closed in May 2005. The CLR was created by Rev E (Teddy) Boston, immortalised as the "Fat Clergyman" in The Rev W Awdry's books The Railway Series, but Teddy Boston never knew this loco as he died 10 years prior to its arrival at Cadeby.

@skdzgameplays2078 11 месяцев назад

ive driven a simplex, crackin little engines. we also have a little yellow box ruston at "north ings" Dorrington, sleaford, ours goes by the name "goldfinch" we have 3 box locos, one that is sister to the LAT at museum of lincs life lincoln.

@rudolphbondefangerer5513 Год назад

The best loco so far. I could use this in my garden. If I could afford the rails.

@VK2FVAX Год назад

Not disapointed with this tribute to T-Bird 4. Given it's proven rescue abilities I feel it's justly deserved. I do though take great exception to you pushing your inadequacies relating to the degree to which you are vertically challenged (PC Term ..there could be children and ladies viewing), onto the locomotive in question. I feel this is grossly unfair and ask you to in future please, think of how the locomotive may feel.

@bentullett6068 Год назад

Another interesting industrial narrow gauge locomotive. Will have to visit the Apedale Railway again at some point it's a great little railway especially on the gala's.

@TieBreaks Год назад

Another fantastic video! keep it up lawrie!

@axelrajr Год назад

Question, that latch over our right shoulder. on the outside it seems that window behind you is a panel associated with it that might be removable. you would lose your headrest though if it is.

@robertalbertson889 Год назад

I Love this little gut but honestly to really make it a proper Thunderbird 4 you should put the pilots name under the Thunderbird 4 or on the cab somewhere? "GORDON TRACY" Now that would be a real tribute to Thunderbird 4 hahaha 😆 but also, I think it needs a proper power steam wash and a new paint job in Thunderbird 4 yellow? Just my opinion hahaha 😅

@scottfw7169 Год назад

Silly 🙄🤪 there after 21:45 to be talking about missing opening windows when right by your head is the latch for the cab panel behind your head which is hinged to open and swing forward.

@scottfw7169 Год назад

Hinges are visible at 7:35 and 16:24

@lmm Год назад

I thought that when I was editing it

@Decrepit_biker Год назад

Great little engine! The window behind your head looks to swing open though..... 😉

@gordanmilne7034 Год назад

I thought that but seeing the exhaust seems to come out that side it might be suicidal to have it open when running.

@FoxfieldRailwayOfficial Год назад

SO CLOSE TO US!

@ABrit-bt6ce Год назад

I'm liking that. Give it a bit of a plough.

@trainswithnickyt Год назад

What a delightful engine, I'm not disappointed at all that it didn't drop from the belly of TB2 as I think it looks marvellous. I may need help with my weird obsession for IC engined locos, but I really don't care.

@jhocktro Год назад

More industrial narrow gauge please! It is a shame these dont exist in industry in the UK anymore and have all but dissappeared from the continent too.

@patrickporter6536 5 месяцев назад

Hi! I'm becoming more and more of a fan! I've started looking up some of yor old posts too. I made some rather negative remarks about a post some years ago, you had the good grace to answer me. I apologise profusely,I am a rather grumpy old git! Keep up the good work, it's most enjoyable!

@lmm 5 месяцев назад

Oh I'm pleased you're starting to enjoy the content! Thanks for giving it another try

@MillBrookRailroad Год назад

I think I've seen a bigger 7-1/4" gauge loco.

@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 Год назад

I assume that this is the longest train that you have pulled 😉

@gs425 Год назад

Ok. So I know the name RUSTY from Thomas and friends is a portmanteau of Ruston and Hornsby, but tell me he doesn't look like this Simplex...

@MadMonk_ Год назад

You must admit, it does look a lot like Thunderbird 4 :)

@ReviewedbyRob Год назад

I go from watching these videos to looking at how much it would cost to lay track for my own railway. Then I remember that my garden isn't big enough for any of this

@jasonhaymanonthedrawingboard Год назад

FYI there might be a 3ft gauge train on fb market place. It a bit of a wreck? Glesmac locomotive chassis, cab and wheels but no engine 3" gauge estimated weight 4 to 5 tons. Okehampton. Looks like an ex mining engine? Or chemical works? Seeing the narrow gauge reminded me some? Good luck!

@mcgherkinstudios Год назад

Yeah, we’re gonna need a video on ol’ Big Chungus at 3:10.

@Here_is_Waldo Год назад

Neat little engine. Though I can't help worry what would happen if it got derailed and fell onto it's right side. The driver would be trapped inside the tiny cab.

@lmm Год назад

The back of the cab opens.

@Rymunin Год назад

Lawrie kept saying no openable windows, but i feel with the two hinges on the outside, and the spring pin on the inside means the window behind lawries head opens up...

@lmm Год назад

Yes, but not once you're inside!

@jamesmchenry4708 Год назад

...so this might be something to re-build a tiny "Gmiender" locomotive for my HO scale but Z-gauge track "Feldbahn" layout to resemble. It does resemble that little "battery electric" locomotive. some N-scale chain link might look just right.

@scottfw7169 Год назад

My brain won't do an aesthetic judgement of the end plates/buffer beams on account of expecting they are that tall in order to add mass which adds weight which adds tractive effort. (up to a certain point).

@trainspotter66 Год назад

Really nice loco

@robinforrest7680 Год назад

My Australian friends at Puffing Billy told me that like Dominion of Canada, A4 Commonwealth of Australia was also proposed to the Australian Government… who refused, so she was cut up 😢

@tonydeleo3642 Год назад

Hi Lawrie, I noticed a spring latch over your right shoulder, door or window??? I think I see hinges opposite the spring latch??

@VintageRenewed Год назад

I can’t wait to see you come try American stuff I’d definitely be happy to let you play with my fairmont speeder

@thomaswilson5966 Год назад

It's so ugly it's cute😇😍 thanks for sharing may the diesel fumes be with you 😝

@benneal3897 Год назад

dont be mean! its a cute little loco!!

@jround2863 Год назад

Loco looks good

@SeaKing61 Год назад

It really is the Humpty of the rails!

@Mekaniskidiot Год назад

oh would you look at that, a yellow box.

@TieBreaks Год назад

😆

@notsohairybiker Год назад

It's a machine. It's not ugly. It's functional.

@Echo-ts7ce Год назад

"its sounds delicious" 18:10

@PedalBox Год назад

You don't so much drive that, as wear it. It fits just 'right' like a nice suit

@bobbysenterprises3220 Год назад

Dude it's cute

@tn65s Год назад

What is the latch over your right shoulder? Is it for a panel removal for more ventilation?

@jancraft3539 Год назад

i think a pivot could be added to the lever to make things easier

@traumgeist Год назад

You wouldn’t want to tow sewage sludge around with a nicer locomotive.

@lordsjaak Год назад

i was more wondering that the title kinda a Thunderbirds are go theme tune

@ABrit-bt6ce Год назад

Imagine running that little yellow box with Thunderbird tunes in your head all day.

@2760ade Год назад

Fantastic, really enjoyed that! It was built to do a job, not to look pretty!

@LolLol-xy4rh Год назад

Why not at having a go on the RH&DR Locos

@eze8970 Год назад

TY Lawrie, which one of the Thunderbirds team do you most identify with?...

@georgejonesthestarseeds77 Год назад

I think despite its design and size, there must have been a reason it was built in the first place

@bentullett6068 Год назад

As Lawrie mentioned it was first used by a sewage treatment works. But similar other versions of these locomotives ended up in mining, quarry use or large construction use.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 10 месяцев назад

@lmm >>> Great video...👍

@michaelblum4968 Год назад

Does that latch just behind your right shoulder allow the side of the cab to open? Or ... ?

@Jackadoor Год назад

By the looks of it, that latch is for opening the left side window panel. The question is, does the hinge still function?

@Taggart00 Год назад

Talking about things you have driven, haven't you driven all surviving Y7s?

@lmm Год назад

I have indeed

@Northerner_Transport_Hub Год назад

There there Lawrie, at least they didnt troll you THAT badly. Honestly it seems the Apedale Railway seems to always troll you whenever you get invited to that railway, at least theyre not asking you to drive 'Merlin' again Edit: Thunderbird 4 seems to be in good condition for her young age of 47!

@InevitableMe Год назад

The V sets here in NSW are over 40 years old and still in mainline service, although their replacements are on the way.

@CrippleX89 Год назад

I’m usually a big fan of these tiny little industrial locomotives.. DIEMA, Schöma and Jung in particular but this type looks quite ugly compared to most I’ve seen, everything feels out of proportion. Still a cool engine tho!

@lmm Год назад

I like it, but it's not the prettiest thing I've ever driven

@jbhtrams 7 месяцев назад

Naaa! It's Cute!!!

@robinforrest7680 Год назад

How many horsepower? OMG it’s about the same as Rita the Renault 4TL 😂

@lmm Год назад

It's mighty

@Metal-Possum Год назад

But it has a personality. Those two eyes and a mouth on the front... how could you not see it?

@brigittethienan Год назад

Cool aber weil nur sie jetzt ihr drei hier null für drei personen 303 Welches Mal die Normale Schreibweise reden

@crazyfvck Год назад

That's a neat little locomotive :) It just needs to be a foot longer, so the cab can be bigger ;) On a different note, does anyone know what weight/size rail they use at that railroad?