Using a Drone to Drive a Train at the Bentley Miniature Railway Gala!

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Hello everyone,
Today we answer that age old question - whilst visiting a railway, can you control a train via a drone?
A massive thank you to the Bentley Miniature Railway for inviting me down to their gala.
If you want more information about the railway check out their website here: www.bentleyrailway.co.uk/
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If you like what you see and would like to take your own engine or get involved drop them an email here: enquiries@bentleyrailway.co.uk
The sound in this video is best listened to with headphones - we used a Binaural 3D microphone for most of the run pasts, which allows you to really hear where the trains are. Have a look at the range here - www.sr3d.co.uk/
A video shot, featuring and edited by Lawrie.
Additional shots by Alfie.
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@hughgarrard6560 10 месяцев назад

Hi Lawrie Thank you for coming along and it's great too see you had an amazing time. Also thankyou very much for giving me the opportunity to drive my Class 31 from the sky, that's a experience I'll never forget

@makinbac0n 10 месяцев назад

That is the most awesome train set I have ever seen. Tabletop scale models take a hike! This is a mini real deal. The real train sim.

@Danis8Pastry 10 месяцев назад

The “Bentley blond” caught me off guard. 😄

@MayaPosch 10 месяцев назад

This is both the most bonkers and most fun thing I have seen so far with regard to miniature trains. The mere fact that these are perfectly functioning machines just like their big brothers is wild, while the control scheme becomes somewhat convoluted because humans aren't scaled down with it. Looks like a complete blast, especially with the remote control idea :)

@littlewickhamtrolleys 10 месяцев назад

Loved the RC fun and games. 7.25 looks so good without the giants sitting on the roof. I put a camera linked to a VR headset in my 7.25 Radio controlled Wickham trolley it was really weird when I saw myself standing at the side of the line.

@DavidScholz-bu1ix 10 месяцев назад

I seriously had personally just suddenly feel quite excited on officially wanting with no complete doubt whatsoever to mention that I saw on another awesomely excellent RU-vid video several times already not too long ago featuring an official 7.25" minimum-gauge steam-driven railway garratt locomotive with more-or-less the official 4-8-2+2-8-4 wheel configuration!

@stamrly418 10 месяцев назад

Some times drones get a bad press for doing things…. This one shows you can have fun and can have a purpose and have a reason.. all with doing it safely. A massive thumbs up to the railway all round.

@haroldpearson6025 10 месяцев назад

Most of these engines were built by individuals in back garden workshops.

@MillBrookRailroad 10 месяцев назад

That is a beautiful railway. I very much enjoyed this video and it appears that you enjoyed making it even more. I have a couple radio control locos myself, and I have no idea what the range is on the radios. Using the drone was pure mad genius. I love it!

@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 10 месяцев назад

Well at least there was no derail in involed in making this video 😊👍

@emdB67 10 месяцев назад

@@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 lol! I can't wait to see Aaron try this on the Mill Brook RR. Although drones and trees tend to be a little risky. :) Might be safer to tape the drone to the roof and drive it that way.

@steamsearcher 10 месяцев назад

We were just so close to visiting this event but having spent 6 days at the RUGBY CLUB during the summer had almost run out of petrol money!!! Instead I pulled down the inside of a wall in our kitchen. Insulate and rebuild with bricks. HOWEVER we spent a wonderful day at Harrow and Wembley on Sunday riding behind a BLACK FIVE. And eventually extracted ourselves from a 5" 15F. Both quite beasts. David and Lily.

@thereal_havanthawk 10 месяцев назад

Finally another lawrie goes little loco!❤

@ElmgateModels 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for featuring our line! Now you need to come back and try a Petrol-Electric loco!

@Sohave 10 месяцев назад

Great place! Maybe we should fundraise Lawrie to get a CMD Scamp as a kit, seeing him put it together would also make for some content. Plus they have an option where it has a Ruston style bonnet, then he can say he got 3 Rustons.

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

I really want to build one - or an imp!

@Sohave 10 месяцев назад

@@lmm The Imp is electric so you can drive that around inside the shed without smoking up the place, put your tool boxes and work bench on little wagons and pool those up right next to your projects when needed... Given you still have enough space for that in the shed, I don't know about that.

@chazzyb8660 10 месяцев назад

That final bit was like one of those dreams when you realise you are driving your car, but you're sitting in the back seat and have no contol over what's going on. Sort of like your 'lemon challenges' but with even less co-ordination. Just me then, I'll pick up my hat as I'm leaving.

@fanofeverything30465 10 месяцев назад

What's the joke

@Edwardfan99-bg8ew 10 месяцев назад

For some reason I always wanted to do the LMM intro and I love little steam engines like these they look so fun to drive

@paulshirley6383 10 месяцев назад

Using a Drone to Drive a train at the Bentley Miniature Railway Gala! Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels love louis shirley

@trainswithnickyt 10 месяцев назад

31:05 the control, the precision, it's almost like you've landed the drone on a train before

@bentullett6068 10 месяцев назад

I was watching the author of Peter's Railway childrens books preping his beautiful miniature steam loco Bongo and thought wouldn't it be great if you did a video review of it. It's that detailed it even has miniature tin mugs and a tin flask above the boiler.

@ThatCoalSoul 10 месяцев назад

* Peter's * * It's *.

@bentullett6068 10 месяцев назад

@markdavidson-gbni4147 sorry quickly typed it.

@lt1fd3s 10 месяцев назад

today, Lawrie films at a train nursery! i see they are being trained early so they can grow up big and strong and be ready to haul their loads...

@andrewentwistle515 10 месяцев назад

What a fantastic video from Lawrie. I have had a great time watching this video & found it very amusing and funny to watch & enjoy.

@trainspotter66 10 месяцев назад

Amazing video lawrie really enjoyed this! ❤️👍

@brucehewson5773 10 месяцев назад

What an awesome day out in the sunny English countryside. Every body involved, all ages. Sitting so low changes speed perception. Very glad you had FUN!

@thatguynathan5816 10 месяцев назад

To this day I still have a project in mind of making a freelance 71/4 inch Simplex or industrial loco, similar to the one you looked at over lockdown

@GarrettTaylorLeedy 10 месяцев назад

This is super awesome. I hope someday in the future you would make it down to the Mill Creek Central railroad in Coshocton Ohio. We run on 7.5 gauge. You're welcome to come down to see the railroad

@citricamoeba 10 месяцев назад

It's amazing what a sense of speed you can get from these machines! Kinda want one now...

@Mr-pn2eh 10 месяцев назад

I want to see this with diesel engines.

@fanofeverything30465 10 месяцев назад

@@Mr-pn2ehThere were a few diesels in this video

@DavidScholz-bu1ix 10 месяцев назад

EXCELLENT VIDEO TAKIN' PLACE ON A MINIMUM-GAUGE RAILWAY!

@ThatCoalSoul 10 месяцев назад

There's no need to shout.

@DavidScholz-bu1ix 10 месяцев назад

@@ThatCoalSoul opps, sorry, excitement!

@PigParts 10 месяцев назад

Takes me back 40+ years to my days model engineering 😊

@eze8970 10 месяцев назад

Great 'little' railway, very impressive! 🙏🙏

@Dan-jf3pc 10 месяцев назад

Good to the Stirling Double doing the rounds, first seen it at an auction back in 2007, Amazing video by the way so much to look at

@althejazzman 10 месяцев назад

The miniature steamers are works of engineering art. It takes very special skills to build one, and I would love to have a go at driving one.

@Madonsteamrailways 10 месяцев назад

What a wonderful day you must have had, playing trains at the gala event there. Just to let you know, Hoddesdon Model and Railway Club has its August Extravaganza tomorrow at our Mill Lane site in Broxbourne.

@roberthocking9138 10 месяцев назад

What beautiful engines, think of the total time and money spent to create them all, staggering., good vision 👍

@Arkay315 10 месяцев назад

Lawrie goes micro, again.

@owainlloyddavies7107 10 месяцев назад

I'd love to see a steam turbine loco on one of these tracks. I know they were largely unsuccessful, but locos like the Pennsylvania S2 Turbomotive are just magical steam beasts to me.

@bentullett6068 10 месяцев назад

We had the LMS Turbomotive locomotive prototype in the UK but it didn't prove a successful concept and was scrapped.

@owainlloyddavies7107 10 месяцев назад

aww that's a shame, is there any documentation on it I could view? I'm currently working on refitting a Wilesco traction engine with a turbine. Don't worry, the engine was rescued from being scrapped, so I'm not butchering a perfectly decent engine @@bentullett6068

@m3hnl 10 месяцев назад

nice 1 lawrie realy enjoyed the drone footage happy days

@DOSn3rd 10 месяцев назад

The full on signaling system is amazing. It really brings the whole thing to a whole new level to see multiple trains in frame at the same time, going at a quite decent clip If time and funds allow i would love to watch a video on how the signalling is set up.

@SeaKing61 10 месяцев назад

This reminds me of train mountain miniature railroad in the US. You must have seen RU-vid videos of it. It is huge

@QuarrySteam 10 месяцев назад

Flying trains? Now there’s a title!!🤣🤣 Think that might be a typo 😁 Seriously though that is a fantastic railway, would love to go see it!

@TERRYBARTLETTRAILMAN28 10 месяцев назад

Nice one you had a Hymek a 31 and a Black 5

@WhistleStopWonders. 10 месяцев назад

Lovley video!

@ABrit-bt6ce 10 месяцев назад

I'm loving the look of those trains. Scale effect track may be a big ask but damn they look good.

@mechanicalmoron2251 10 месяцев назад

good use of the Bentley vidio

@stevecassy4868 10 месяцев назад

Such great FUN 😊

@user-gk8gg1zt7l 10 месяцев назад

Very nice, like ! ! ! !

@noelmaher2301 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting, I really enjoyed that.

@zippy5131 10 месяцев назад

I am always in the highest regard for those who build these fantastic pieces of engineering, as back tin the '80's when at college doing road transport engineering one of our lecturers was a licensed boiler maker and certifier, an amazing man. Beautiful examples of the engineers skill (That is not someone who went to Uni and got a piece of paper, BUT a person who spends there time in a shed with a lathe making things). I salute them, stunning.

@abbiearcher4716 10 месяцев назад

Love how the signalling system runs on Raspbian using Chromium.

@eprohoda 10 месяцев назад

Lawrie's-Yo! gorgeous drone!farewell-=))

@richardbrobeck2384 10 месяцев назад

What great Video growing up there was a park that had a small train .

@dragoburnhard 10 месяцев назад

RC class 31 was very cool if only the video was in 60fps and maybe some video effects for 1960's memes

@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226 10 месяцев назад

So lawrie did you feel like you were riding a Harley Davison without the handlebars 😊👍 and was that James May that I saw there 🤔

@blackbirdmark495 10 месяцев назад

Hi lawrie, i’m sure that Spectrum RC has a range of nearly a mile so controlling the Class 31 from a remote location should be no problem. How about mounting a forward facing camera on the front of the Class 31 next time ?

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

For live feedback? Cause most of my cameras don't have the range!

@trainspottingwilliam-1 10 месяцев назад

Video idea go to echils wood railway,Kingsbury,Tamworth had a brilliant time there there is so many locos to see and a very nice park to go on a walk too

@TechJoe1994 10 месяцев назад

Cor that electric diesel style was flying. No way I'd go that quick on something that small hahaha.

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

It was so fun!

@andrewframe8046 10 месяцев назад

Someday you need to make a video for us international viewers explaining the whole double horn thing on UK locomotives.

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

It was a way of communicating with the guard on the Gwr before the continuous brake. One is a warning Whistle for the crew, the other to say we need braking assistance

@danesmith3615 10 месяцев назад

Can not convince me that this is not @hyce's brother and they were parent trapped(seperated at birth)

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

Maybe he's my brother. Maybe a clone. Maybe we're the same. You've never seen us together

@jayzo 10 месяцев назад

I'm very interested to see if the signalling system software is something off-the-shelf or is completely bespoke for this miniature railway.

@dangerotterisrea 10 месяцев назад

is that running on coal?? amazing stuff!

@ABrit-bt6ce 10 месяцев назад

I saw someone handloading a chunk. That sounds legit.

@gherkinisgreat 8 месяцев назад

Most engines in 3 1/2" 5" and 7 1/4" gauge use coal, electric and petrol locomotives are less popular

@brianrigsby7900 10 месяцев назад

I’ve always wondered: how do classic tank engines move without cylinders and pistons?

@alanclarke4646 10 месяцев назад

The cylinders are inside the frame

@brianrigsby7900 10 месяцев назад

14:32 the feather?

@jonathanmann223 10 месяцев назад

They still have cylinders, they are on the inside of the frames.

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

They still have a cylinders and motion, they're just inside the frame. See the video on the Austerity on the channel!

@young_boy_with_an_old_midget 10 месяцев назад

I feel the remote control system on that 31 would work much better on a shunting locomotive or put a Fpv system in the cab of it

@hughgarrard6560 10 месяцев назад

I have thought about putting a FPV on my RC Class 31 which is the one in this video

@SimplyTHC 10 месяцев назад

Can we see the controls! I wanna see how they are being operated 😢

@allanmason7544 10 месяцев назад

that was a vid lawrie

@terrier_productions 10 месяцев назад

Yes it was

@raymondleggs5508 10 месяцев назад

Honey I shrunk the train!

@ThatCoalSoul 10 месяцев назад

Slightly false advertising ...but great video, 👒 🎩 's off.

@alanmaddern8171 10 месяцев назад

I wonder if a loco mounted live camera controlled by RC is possible?

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

Probably possible with professional gear. My equipment wouldn't have the range

@Ensign_Redshirt 10 месяцев назад

Does Lawrie now want a 7 1/4" Hymek or 14xx now?

@joshminshall2954 10 месяцев назад

Hey Lawrie, I was just wondering what drone you are using?

@thomasflanagan2928 10 месяцев назад

Where did they get these locomotives? Or do they make them by hand?

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

They're mostly built from scratch

@haroldpearson6025 10 месяцев назад

@@lmmin back garden workshops.

@Gameboy_1992 10 месяцев назад

How is the ruston coming along?

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

Slowly!

@Gameboy_1992 10 месяцев назад

@@lmm mmm... I see... Is it because of shortage on parts or something thats being restored on the diesel is taking longer then expected?

@lmm 10 месяцев назад

Having time to do anything

@MattWells0 10 месяцев назад

I noticed that the signal control system is running on a Raspberry Pi which makes me suspect that they made it themselves. Is there any chance you can go back and make a video about how they made it and how it works?