Disaster with the Ruston at the Whitwell and Reepham Railway Diesel Gala Chasing Dinosaur Ep. 33 

Great video, Lawrie. I was so honoured to be allowed to drive your Ruston 48 so much and get the opportunity to help you out. Cheers, mate! 👏👏👏 Here’s to the next time…

I like the 12" to the foot Airfix tank wagon! Genius branding of the steam loco!

The old adage “the trains will run unless I have guests” apparently applies to 1:1 scale and not just models 😅 Great recovery by all involved. I love how the railway just rolled with it and made No. 3 a diesel for the day.

"Honk Honk I am a diesel" lmao!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Something poetic about the steamer saving the time table. Glad you were able to get the Ruston running again for the remainder of the gala. Same thing happens when I try to go to car shows, been daily driving something for weeks, go to get ready and now theres an issue. Never fails.

The curse has returned in spectacular style. Instead of one locomotive the Lawrie LMM curse has broke two of them

Brilliant video Lawrie, Talk about engineering Karma! The radiator from 303, which you saved from the scrap heap to restore and which sat for over 30 years comes to the rescue of the 48 without a single leak. Bookies wouldn't give you odds on that. Hope you manage to sort out the water pump when you get the 48 back home. 👍.

Those are some angry wagons😂 4:00

What have you broken this time?😂😂

Ah, a new episode of What's Broken Now. He's obviously been learning from Jupiter that it's a sure way to get attention 😂

I felt every minute of this video. I operate a Ford Model T railcar at my museum and I have experienced similar failures of critical components in revenue service (and the subsequent frenzied repair efforts, including pinching parts from adjacent equipment). In these cases it would be so easy to throw in the towel and just say, "Sorry!!!" But so much more exciting to mount a heroic repair effort, and have it come through. Cheers from Maine, USA.

Great to see the Ruston out working (we won’t mention the leakages😬) I also got a little excited seeing the unimog 416 u900 parked up with the road rail gear and massive hiab! She’s a rare old beast with that set up😁👌

Where there is a way, there is a will to save the day. The public was in for a treat, watching a Ruston being made complete. Martin. (Thailand)

Imposter Steam Engine! Very funny!

Trading parts with the little Ruston's is beginning to remind me of kitbashing models.

It was a great event! Shame about the north British as that was the main attraction for me as well as your Ruston. Glad you managed to get it running again for the Sunday!

Always enjoy your wonderfully edited and beautifully filmed (from so many different angles) uploads Lawrie.

Fortunate to have a spare radiator on hand, I'm guessing there's not that many around and difficult to get refurbished Glad it all went well in the end and a good weekend was had by all

I like how you guys improvised and got all wheels rolling at the end. Disaster avoided!!! That second Ruston is proving itself useful even if it is as spare parts for Sir William. I wonder can the radiator be rebuild or will a replacement have to be made?

Proper professioanl standard filming and audio. Thanks, all.

that is what makes life interesting ! imagine trying to fix a battery operated loco instead of a radiator on a diesel ;) well done and keep it up

It's lucky you bought an extra Ruston 48. and hey you did what you originally wanted to do and Nick some parts of it to fix your operational one. so in a way you Got a donor engine. at least until you get the second engine fully restored

I must say that shunter looks quite good, great video as always however the north britishes number is d2700 and agecroft was wearing the number D7681, 7681 is her works number with D slapped on the front because it’s definitely a diesel.

Man, some engines really do have stage fight. Yes, stage fight, as in once they're on the stage they will fight with you. Also I got some inspiration so I wrote this little poem: Gasoline will talk to you, if you learn its language Steam will sing a song, but you have to know the chorus Electric makes a tidy list and tells you all that’s wrong But Diesel’s apathetic, and likes to hear you curse Diesel’s not like other girls, she’s ugly and she’s mean She’ll gas the whole darn place, and make sure nothing’s ever clean She’ll bump you and she’ll tease you, but when all is said and done There’s still some silver linings to these angry old machines Gasoline will break and will throw a fit and moan Steam can blow up in your face and often makes you groan Electric likes to brush the issues deep beneath the rug But Diesel will keep going ‘til it rattles off its lugs Gas is needy and won’t start unless everything’s all right Steam will get dirt everywhere and needs attention all the time Electric can short and blow a fuse and leave you without light But Diesel won’t give up unless you do and will long keep up the fight So next time your diesel just won’t start or move an inch Remember this advice, ‘cause it will save you in a pinch Diesels will talk back to you, and they’ll find the lines to cross Instead take charge, she’ll start right up, if you show her who’s the boss. I got some inspiration from a clip from the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, but the idea came from this video here. Hope y'all enjoy!

So happy you got it mended. I had a nasty feeling I was on it's last trip of the weekend. Well done 🙂

This railway looks like a great prototype for a compact model railway layout (gears start turning in my head).

It was lovely to ride behind your Rustons first ever passenger service at another railway Lawrie!

I remember a grand Winter 'Steam' Gala at the North Norfolk, January 2006 (?), somehow consisted on-the-day purely of N7/4 69621, and the Class 31 dragging J15 65462 around in light-steam, as 65462's rear tube-plate was leaking "like a waterfall" and so frankly ought have been outright condemned!😬 Sooo, on the bright side, Lawrie: 2.5 diesels and a steam loco' at a Diesel Gala is a better showing for the W&RRly team than that 2006 NNRly event sadly was.😅 Good work keeping the show on the road.👍😊

I admire your hard work and enthusiasm. Great video!😊

I love that headboard 😂

A thoroughly enjoyable outing. Thanks for doing what you do Lawrie and Co!

17:43 the manic (triumphant) laughter from Lawrie lol

Well Done Sir :) It was great to meet you on the Saturday. Just a shame that I live too far away to get involved :(

Loed this. Reminds me of the museum line which I drive trains on in New Zealand. We run push and pull trains in Whangarei at Kiwi North.

Looks like what Blodge refer to as 'Jolly Good Fun' .... all round! Was that 'spare' radiator from the machine you recently dug out of a scrapyard? As only the 4th blue 'honorary diesel' I'm aware of which has been dipped in woad AND been given the double arrow treatment, I just HAD to check on Agecroft No.3's pedigree ... and was delighted to find siblings Agecroft Nos.1 and 2 are also still with us. No.1(in a charming green livery) apparently lives at MOSI, but has been seen at the NRM - in steam - and No.2 at the Ribble Steam Railway (seems to be out of ticket at present, but has run in preservation ... doing stints as "Percy").

You look very proud driving that goods train 😅❤

Hello Lawrie it was a great Gala it was amazing to see the Ruston!

Hey Lawrie, have you talked with Hyce about going over and visiting them at the Colorado State Railroad Museum in the US? They work with several narrow gauge steam locomotives and have mentioned in their own content that they would love to have you come out to try your hand at working with their locos. I know it's a hell of a long trip, but I'd love to see that collaboration. Maybe you could also join them visiting the Durango & Silverton Railroad or the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad. His channel is literally just called "Hyce" and the profile pic is a blue bird with a small hat.

Does this count as an episode of whats broken now?

The Fowler is quite adorable with that front deck. Love tiny British shunters. So different from the tiny American switchers I’m used to.

A saw you come into the carpark at some speed and though wonder where you have been in the middle of the day, did not know what an eventful day you had on Saturday.

Outstanding picture quality.

that is a cool looking guard van! shame aabout the ruston breaking down hope it got fixed.

Is the Ransomes of the shunter diesel, the same Ransomes, Simms and Jeffries, who made lawn mowers. In the mid 1950's, my parents had a Ransomes two stroke lawn mower. Our very elderly and not very fit gardener was an ex western front railwayman of WW1 who had been invalided out after his second gassing. He used occasionally to take me down to Keith Junction goods yard, where he had been a driver, until health retirement and blag me totally illegal footplate rides around the yard aged around 10. The Ransomes mower did not like slow running and poor old Euan the gardener could not walk behind it fast enough to stop the plug oiling up. I talked to my father and he agreed to replace the two stroke Ransomes with a four stroke Atco, that Euan could manage.

You can’t have a gala without a bit of drama

I see you put a new horn on the Ruston!

I must admit, I really do like your black/blue ''diesel'' puffing away in the background. It somehow looks like a proper engine, chimney stack and all. Great video as always, must see if there are any steam locomotives tootling around the Co Kildare/Co Laois area.

I think I spotted myself in there a few times, thanks for having a chat and sharing another video.

You managed to get some of the rust bucket loco back in service already.

'The day... everything went wrong'. Some days are like that in railroading Lawrie; I had one day where I ended up with 4 defective vehicles, not least of which was a shorted motor! O_O (yay electric traction) Thankyou for sharing this with us Lawrie, the ups and the downs

it just shows that you need 2 shredded wheat in the morning to make a time table.

I enjoyed this.

Huzzah for "Sir William", Ruston 303, and the people who came to his rescue!! It may be the biggest train you have ever hauled at 50 tons, but atleast you had plenty of water just in case...😂

Good luck with your next Rusting Gala. Remember to oil it next year...

I have to wonder if the freight cars might've had something to do with something. I don't know much about railway gear, but I don't think that rolling stock is supposed to sound like a burlap sack of cats! (Also, if Lawrie wasn't _personally_ responsible for the "Toot Toot I'm A Diesel" headboard, I will be quite disappointed.)

The Mid-Hants Railway had a North British shunter, but, because the Mirrlees engine had a cracked cylinder head, they scrapped it.

well done again Lawrie. Caroline

As much as I like little industrial diesels, it was nice to see in your video a familiar friend from days gone by (Agecroft Number 3) pretending to be "a dirty diesel", lol Your aRushton sou ds much different with a load on, and did you also rob a metrolink tram street running horn for it?

looks like it was a great little event, despite the problems that had arisen. Hats off to you and all those that made it possible. Also at 11:30 in the video, I spot a Mighty Car Mods " Chopped" jacket>?

The scourge of engines that only run occasionally. They leak everything. The most important thing happened. You got there. You got back.

The Luck of the Lawrie persists, think you could make a T-shirt with that on :p

Very good effort

27:49 Does the Fowler really... quack? Like a duck?😂

Stop, Look, Listen? Can't help but listen with that screeching noise 🤣 28:30 whats that noise? Has it got an adorable horn :D

I like trains. Steam engines are so nice and have a somewhat magical charm and personality to them.

You know... If you had just tossed a diesel-soaked rag or chunk of wood in the firebox every now and then, you could technically call the steamer partially diesel-powered.

An excellent video with a most enjoyable narration.

17:42 reconize that delightful winging sound of a ruston plenty or so live on derwent valley lightrailway minus lawrie's brutal laugh

Excellent to see a steam loco replace a failed Diesel. Sorry it was yours though 😢 Love your little 48 ❤ What did you use to fix the rad? I used Alumaseal on the Saab when I started losing coolant 2 years ago. I’ve never had a problem with Sovvagn since. I was getting through a litre every 100km! You should post a link to the Jayemm on cars video when you went to buy it for more recent subscribers. JM’s face when he saw what you’d bought was just classic RU-vid 😂😂. Good on you Lawrie, love what you do mate. Might be able to see you in the UK this summer… PS That Esso tank wagon 3929 is just gorgeous.❤. 1:1 scale Airfix kit?😂

When are we getting an update on Ruston 165? you must have shifted it by now? 🙂

agecroft..fighting motive power discrimination one gala at a time XD

a classic example of Gunderson's corollary to murphy's law: if anything will go wrong, it will always do so at the worst possible moment!

Sure looks like fun!!

*_"Because yesterday, well, everything went wrong."_* Welcome to the 2020s.

Awsome loco the diesel steamy

6th I love the Ruston 48

I wonder if you’d be able to find anyone near by who could repair and restore your old radiator so you could have a good spare to use in the future.

Once you get your coolant system fixed you should get all the water out of the system and go back with Evans antifreeze so your system has no pressurization. It will help your old parts last a lot longer.

Came expecting "chasing dinosaurs" instead got "what's broken now"

excellent video! what is lptb? it's on the side of the ballast hopper.

22:40 looks like a scene in Train Sim World 4!

When returning the consist is pushed by the locomotive. Why don’t you have a brake man ride e leading car for safety. He/she could have a radio to communicate with the engine man. I think that would lead to a safer operation. Just wondering.

Yup knew the last video went too well, and I just HAD to say something too.

Isnt the Blue Sadle tank actually a Transengine, which Identifys as a diesel.

Two thoughts occur to me: one, is it possible to retro-fit the lights on the 48DS with red/white LED assemblies? You may not want to do this of course because of originality reasons, but I think it was done to the Swedish railcar on the Nene Valley Railway - and two, can your original radiator be repaired? Of all things, I remember the proper steel/copper radiator on my late father's Ford Zodiac being repaired, pressure tested and painted by a company in the mid-1980s.

I'm surprised this was the first public passenger train Sir Willima has pulled! Was the brown diesel at 18:06 not in operating condition at the time?

I hope that you managed to get the Ruston fixed.

Id be interested to know what the SMS says for allowing passenger trains to run unfitted. I didn't realise it was permitted. Not trolling, just wondering how the authorities have been satisfied to allow it to happen

Anyone else having the Mexican Super Mario Cat meme play in their head when the see the logo on the Tanker Car?

And another thing...! The NBL D2700 - is that a works number or a BR number?

Is the reason you use the Brake van to carry passengers because it is braked and therefore doesn’t matter that the locos aren’t fitted for brakes?

Oh oh....someone put flats on ol' Rusty then?

Worlds first diesel outline steam locomotive

How did Tippocherty get its name?

The steam train identifies as diesel

I'm wondering how the Ruston 48 got all those holes in the radiator. Was it a puncture from outside or internal corrosion/damage.debris? Will we ever know?

You could always throw a little deisil oil in the firebox

I have seen this RU-vidr at the Suffolk Railway

Bad Rehearsal = Great Premiere & vice versa.

least lawrie got to find out that 303s radiator worked and held water so when 303s eventually done it can thank its cheeky sibling if it was mine id probably have told it off and told it to behave maybe lawries working ruston got so excited to haul a people train it couldnt hold it in and peed its self (pun kind of intended with the peed its self bit ) maybe cos lawries ruston decided it wouldnt behave the north british decided it would follow suit and play up like how lawrie says ''locomotive ownership is wonderful'' with a not so impressed streight face almost as if he wanted to curse at his ruston for being a naughty loco hopefully when 303s restored it wont get influenced by lawries working ruston to be naughty maybe it was jupiter who influenced the ruston to be cheeky or maybe lawries presense caused it to break

May I ask, how are you operating trains in the modern era without airbrake? Forgive me if I'm wrong but your Ruston or that brake van as. Far as I can tell are not fitted with airbrake so how are you able to run public trains with them in that configuration? Im working Narrow gauge (LCLR) and even we are required to fit airbrake (all the locos have at minimum a dump valve but are required to run a train with an air brake fitted loco)