The Baguley-Drewry with the Heart of a Fire Engine - Lawrie Goes Loco Episode 13 

"I would have one of these" Morgan rolls his eyes, and thinks here we go again!

Love how informative you are with the details and history of these little gems. Thank you so much for these vids Lawrie. Would love to see you operate a North American switcher/shunter in the future...

I live in Gosport, and my Grampa’s best mate used to work at the mod yard where this worked. I showed him, and he remembered getting rides on the footplate

15:36 "I love that. This is the same sound my fire engine makes" It would. If it worked ;D

A grand little rare shunter. I bet the whole team groaned when you said "I would have one of these"

Lovely little shunter. Although I think Richard Hammond tested the ultimate shunting loco on his new BIG series on Discovery channel. He had a play with a large german shunter with remote control fitted.

My maiden name was Baguley. It's so nice to see my family name on such a pretty little shunter, if only because all the females in my family could be described as such. Sadly, like the shunter, we're all pensioners now. Thank you, so much, Lawrie.

Lawrie, your enthusiasm and pure joy is a wonderful thing to watch, and your band of mates all share it with you. It makes everything you put up even more fun! Thank you for showing us around in this shunter.

Lovely video of a lovely loco! And that guards can is beautiful.

Absolutely love every single one of your videos. Keep up the good work

Another great video Laurie , just proves that these little gems are great to keep Railways going & fun to drive it sounds very sweet

My Father and myself both did our apprenticeships at Baguley-Drewry in Burton on Trent. I started in 1979 so just missed this loco.

Thanks for the video. I bet it was fun to drive. Thanks James from Texas

I know what you mean about it being alien, I was saw the same engine that powers my morris 1000 in a narrow gauge loco and was super weirded out

Lovely to hear of Milford connection on this one - Mum worked on Gosport and then for Milford Port Authority, and I (briefly) lived in MOD houses above Blackbridge site. Another great vid, Thank You. All the best - Kes, from Talyllyn Railway.

This loco does sound lovely, but in my opinion the old thumper DEMUs (Class 205s and the like) sound just fantastic. I'd love to see you have a go in one of those.

Loved that Lawrie, D/H are a lot smoother over D/M's (not the boots hehe) I drove the Ruston 165 at Bressingham a few years ago very impressed, far better than my old railways class 03's (CVR). watched the loft invasion first look forward to what else you find!

A great video , thanks for posting this. Really like the sound this little diesel makes. I see that Charlie's Trains posted on here 7 hours ago. Hello form Charles Trains 99.

Delightful little engine, i'd love to have a go at modelling this one

Love this series

What a brilliant little shunter! I must admit that the Baguley-Drewry is a breed of locomotive that I've never been overly familiar with, so I found this fascinating to see, thank you. Loved that little dog as well. :)

Very enjoyable video. I treated myself to a "Driver for a Fiver" run at the open day in August 2018, and I do believe that was the loco- very smooth ride.. Not a long line, but it was a lovely day out there with such a welcoming team of members and a good display of vintage vehicles.

A possible reason for having such a light colour inside the engine bay is to allow better visibility. It shows up dirt easier, but any light is reflected better and makes it easier to see when repairing/carrying out any maintenance

That local came from down my road as I live 3-5 miles away from Gosport close to the base

There's a pair of Baguley-Drewry shunters (Nos. 3650 and 3652) preserved on the Goldfields Railway in Waihi, New Zealand. They look a little bit like the one in this video, albeit with disproportionately large cabs.

That one worked at RNAD Priddys Hard and then RNAD Frater. I remember seeing those running back and forth over the railway bridge not far from my house pulling Navy blue and sometimes military green box cars up to Fareham to become part of consists going further up the country, across to Plymouth and, often, across to the dockyard in Portsmouth, back when the military still used rail extensively for transport purposes and all the services had their vehicles and equipment painted differently to mark which service it belonged to... The reason for the speedo reading in forward and reverse is that, in busy times, such as in times of war, they didn't want to have to take the time to turn the engine around to move wagons around, so the engine may complete a run up to the main line rail at Fareham, drop the load and then return in reverse instead of having to go through the points to turn around, which also helped avoid disruption to passenger services running through. With the speedo running in both directions, the driver would be able to avoid breaking line speed limits on the return journey... The Perkins V8 power is no surprise, a lot of military vehicles and equipment ran those engines during its production, so having a lot of stuff running the same power units gives a big economy of scale in terms of buying maintenance parts. The MoD even had those engines in their first-gen Ford Cargo tractor units for a long time, which were very impressive as they would actually accelerate up the long hill out of Portsmouth on the M27 when just about all the other commercial traffic around at that time would only just about maintain speed, or often lose speed dramatically going up there...

Just subscribed, fantastic

That looks like a nice place to visit! Thank you! :-)

Ahhh i know this engine. It worked in Frater, which is a munitions base. And like lawrie said it moved stuff from the mainline into the base and it would take it into Priddy's hard also. Then it would run the munitions wagons to the quay side and the barges. From there the barge meets the warship in the middle of Portsmouth harbour for loading.

You could say the heritage railways are the place where shunters and small freight engines could live out their dreams of running on the mainline.

Good vid keep it up thanks!

Hello lawrie thank for making these videos

another great video. have you brought your self the Hornby version of your 48 yet . you must be so proud that they have made a OO model of it. great work Lawrie

Did my apprenticeship at HMS Sultan (Gosport). I walked the trackbed of the MoD branch once, the track was still there but you wouldn't want to run anything on it.

Ddefinite Triangles of Doom there squire LOL:)

I originally come from gosport, born in the 90's and I think I know the place your on about , i now live in midlands hahaha I'm just wandering if my dad would remember the loco as he joined the navy just before 1980 and his base was Portsmouth so theres a chance he may of seen it on a visit to installations in gosport. Keep it up looking forward to next video.

great vid Lawrie

Doug Demuro of Locomotives? :D Loving this!

Very nice little loco and very nice video! By the way Lawrie, Hornby recently released a OO gauge/1:76 scale model of a Ruston 48DS (identical apart from colour to your full size one), I thought you might be interested!

That lock thing you have never seen before are "Castell" locks. Designed as safety locks.

I drove that yesterday, a driving experience

While I can't say that I like the "Dr. Seuss" paint job, it certainly seems like a wonderful little locomotive :) Very smooth and controllable, and not stressful to drive. It has definitely inspired me (along with your video on the little Schoma :) ) to go diesel/hydraulic if I build my own narrow gauge loco.

Interesting on the toggle switches. Usually the off position is down and on is up.

i drove that thing last year and emedently wanted to by it

At 3:48 i see a Ruston 48 in the backround Right and news for all railway enthusiasts NSWGR c38 class 3801 is back up und running again that is one bit of good news from Australia.

What a strange little locomotive! I thought it was narrow gauge from the Instagram pics. Compared to the Ruston, this does seem pretty modern with that sliding door and clean lines. The color scheme fits the, er, 70s aesthetic, I'd say, though I agree that wasp stripes would make it look very nice. I guess it's kind of going for the very-small BR class 52 Western look? It is also incredibly cute, I may end up drawing this one too at some point-

Lawrie, have you seen the new Hornby Rushton 48DS? Surely you have to get that. You can set up a simple mini railway in your new shed lounge :) How cool would that be!

£6000 worth of diesel to fill the tank.....WOW! I've only ever seen HubNut get as excited by wipers before 🤣

Good to see you went up to whitwell! I’m there regularly. Have you been to the miniature railway up the top my loco will be debuting there on Sunday!

If you like the Perkins, you really need to drive a truck or something else with a Mercedes-Benz OM421. It has a really strong signature sound that's just plain awesome. It sounds just like it wants to pull - really one of the greatest and a nearly indestructible beast!

Rewatching this one, with 16 days to go until I drive it myself and begin my volunteer service with the railway at the same time

Lawrie I really want to make a Ruston 48 in miniature 10.25 inch gauge and you’ve inspired me to do it

The weird key is for a castell lock. common in flammable or explosive environments. stops opening without the right key

make a video about the android with you in the cabin. Amazing video, thank you!

Nice wee locomotive. I noticed a north British called river Tay ex RAF leuchars fife

Wouldn't you have thought that it would have had a notch on the f/rev stick, from new, instead of a piece of wood.!🤔🤣!.

This loco in 7 1/4 would be great.

Wow a loco that worked in my home town (Milford haven)

Another loco for consideration? Could always buy one of those railways that went up for sale 😉

Ever thought of having your own Doug...ehm Lawrie-Score for those locos?

most likely explanation for the dual direction speedo is its driven off the hydralic drive so a dual direction was easier

The speed per direction is probably due to the nature of the hydraulic transmission.

The keys for the engine compartment are made by fortress interlocks in Wolverhampton they are designed so only certain keys will work and if I’m right you can’t remove the key when the door is open they are a safety feature more than anything

I suspect the reason the speedo changes direction with the loco is actually to make it cheaper, as the wheel turns one way, current flows one way through the speedo, driving the needle one way, then when you set off in the other direction, and the current is reversed, no extra wiring needed

Great vid as always,was the wing mounted hound original RN issue? Keep them coming.

Crikey didn't realise Redruth was a Perkins v8, if you don't restore her then stick the engine in a Fordson Major (easy swap) and have a fire spitting monster

I'd guess the dual direction Speedo comes from naval tradition...... shaft speed/counters were dual direction...

How long before we see a class 45 review? Keep them coming :0)

have to get you on D2700 or merlin next

It looks a little bit like your Ruston to me 😀

Man i would love to own my own locomotive of some kind.

You ought to come to the US and try to drive one of our Diesel's or steam

In Portugal we still have a Drewry shunter that was restored, but only for showing purposes. Check it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kl0o32Tx0Ac.html

It is a bit weird having a train go past with the noise of a fire engine o.o I grew up with the same model Dennis fire engines as Jupiter around, and it sounds just like them.

The strange key and lock are (still) made by Castell and are much more common in electrical plant, they are kind of cool. www.castell.com/ As for the bidirectional speedo, it is much easier/cheaper to make them that way, nothing to do with the user.

it must not have a spark arrestor. when you say hydraulic engine, do you mean hydraulic pump? i've never heard one called an engine before. but then, i've only ever rode trains here in the states at amusement parks, and once when i went to chicago for my army physical, i rode on an amtrack passenger train. i rode trains all over europe though when i was stationed in germany. i almost always had a 30 day eurail pass, and i got my money's worth. the dollar was strong in the 80's, and even on a private's pay i could have weekend adventures regularly. i kinda wish i lived there just so i could volunteer for these rail lines like you do. i love big machines, and wrenching on them would be a treat. the biggest thing i work on now is a ford 5610 tractor i use at the swap meet as a mower.

This kinda looks like a cuter version of his ruston

Did you check to see where they get the parts for it? They might know somewhere cheap.

As interesting as the Baguley-Drewry loco is I could not help noticing that there is a North-British loco there too... A BLOOMIN NORTH BRITISH!!! No less and As rare as the Baguley-Drewry is you should have been driving the NB as they really are like hens teeth personally I would have preferred you to do a "Laurie goes Loco" on that instead

Interesting little loco, with an interesting drive train set-up! Does the hydraulic engine limit torque output then, to create a smoother take off, and help combat stalling and wheelslip? Just curious of it's main advantages over direct drive in these small shunters. It seems like the in-between before diesel electric.

Woah, where's that Whitwell and reepham railway!!!????

We were suppose to put its all in proper lining for the M&Gn as well, but we never got round to doing it as its always running. We just didn't have the time.

Another windsceen wiper fetichist 😁. No risk of a triangle of doom here at least... Edit: I suspect if HubNut were watching from down under he might have been hoping for some "pantograph" action 😉

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I like the locos though..

You are lucky to drive locomotives.

I hope they checked the engine before you left to make sure you didn't liberate any parts for yours...

Does your Ruston 48 struggle with points when shes not coupled to a flat wagon? lol

Did you get any comparison on cooling systems, and if that engine set-up is less likely to pressurise the lot? Not mentioning anything by name... :)

merlin should be in traffic soon once its been painted and d2700 should be repainted and repaired soon to.

1:51 anyone notice the dog on the running board?

Who was the guy that appeared during the driving?

did the railway check this thing after Lawrie was done with it? I heard his fire engine still needed some air pipes and the ones in here look suspiciously like they'd fit it XD

The Hi-Vis is pretty useless when it camouflages with what you are driving. 1:53 There's a dog look.

I can’t unsee that his mic looks like a tiny egg lol

I bet they never loose the engine key...

Does this make you mr orange?

I know I have asked multiple videos and you have said your working on it but when are we going to get a rode and rail vehicle and can you lease please please give me a shout out and also if you could work with fireman to find a fire locomotive that puts out fires but now that I think about it it would be hard to work out please give shout out when the video comes and if you can respond

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Wich kind of licence does one need to drive all of these different locomotives. I mean, you can't just let anyone drive a steam locomotive