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Full Preparation and Drive of a full sized ex GWR Steam Train 5619! Lawrie goes Loco Episode 43

Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels

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Hello Everyone,
Today Lawrie is heading off to the Telford Steam Railway to visit an engine that he crewed long before he started LMM!

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A huge thank you to the guys at the railway for inviting us to come and have a go with the Centurion Locomotive.

A video featuring:
Lawrie - Presenter, overjoyed to be back with an old friend,
Ben - Cameraman, shooting everything
Joshua - Cameraman, helping hands from the railway

Edit by Dave & Lawrie

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20 Comments

@telfordsteamrailway 1 year ago

Thanks for visiting our railway and driving our flagship engine. We really enjoyed having you, hopefully next time you visit it’ll be a cleaner job !

@bwilesuk 1 year ago

Just to note during the outro where he says "next year" he means this year, being 2025, for the centenary. I can also say the people at Telford are very gracious and kind.

@gs425 1 year ago

We used to have one here at swanage, 6695.
It lurched forward on every piston stroke, spilled tea in the first carriage. You could feel it waddling along with its two big cylinders. The hammer blow to the track was atrocious, and let's be honest it never really fitted in on an otherwise Southern line.
That said....I grew to love it. It had great character!!

@Hitperson 1 year ago

Lawrie clearly needs to hire a small Victorian child to help oiling this thing up next time...

@NextEevolution 1 year ago

I can't remember the last time I was so thoroughly entertained by the immense suffering of another person.
In all sincerity, I did appreciate all the effort you went through starting, lubricating and filming all of this! And that of the volunteers keeping this engine running in preservation!

@taloire43 1 year ago

I now know why a driver told me, at the time of the changeover from steam to diesel, that he much preferred driving a diesel!

@Arkay315 1 year ago

5:28 "there are two ways of doing things, the great Western way and the wrong way"

@sawyerawr5783 1 year ago (edited)

Given the amount of bad things you said about the poor thing, I'm surprised 5619 didn't take it out on you: last time I did that to an engine it contrived to cover me in soot and boiler water for my sins!

Remember kids: no what anyone says, the engines can absolutely hear you...and they remember, oh BOY do they remember...

@althejazzman 1 year ago

So we now need model figures of a lying down Lawrie to stick inside the motion gear of our model engines.

@Jordan4Ibanez 1 year ago

That's a HUGE tank engine! I love it :D

@Nova_Blaze 1 year ago

That shot of her coming out of the tunnel in a cloud of steam was absolutely gorgeous. I think that might be my favorite part

@ThePanzer6 1 year ago (edited)

Telford really needs a pit !

@citricamoeba 1 year ago

I have a strange fondness for the 5600 class, something about how rugged they look. Happy Birthday 5619!

@andrewrussack8647 1 year ago

Love the mini LMM headboard on the RH lamp post! 👍

@markpritchard 1 year ago

I was there doing a drivers day when you were filming. Spotted myself in the video as well. I'm the hairy one with the hat leaning out the fire mans side of the cab at 44:28. I also did some filming that day for a reversing lorrys video i'm making. Yes i reversed 5619 and carrages past my camera for my video and yes i know its not a lorry, I just thought it would be impressive if i could revers a train passed as well. I'm also building a stationary steam engine so i got some footage of myself on the foot plate driving a moving steam locomotive which is a tiny bit bigger then the thing i'm building. The reversing video is finished but not released yet and i've nearly finished the steam engine build. Just piping up and the engine works on compresed air so it should fingers crossed work. Nice video by the way I enjoyed learning about the engine i spent a morning driving, and thank you for oiling up for me, I oiled up the coupling rods on the other side. To be honest it took me two minutes and wasn't that bad ;-)

@anthonylulham3473 1 year ago (edited)

32 mins is peak railwaying! a champion showing how things were done! Well done Lawrie! i had a good chuckle.

Sent £10 to the overhaul, I doubt ill see her running in person as I'm far too far south but every little matters.