Lady Patricia is an incredible engine, and I bet she's awesome to see in person, but I have to say it does feel a bit like looking at a zoo animal in a tiny enclosure. She needs space to run around and really show off what she can do!

When you tell your mum you want a garden railway, but you didn't say it would be a scale garden railway ;)

Flying Scotsman in the background. "Biggest steam loco in the UK" (casually adds a 2nd tender) "ah there we go".

American here. Ive alwyas admired the craftsmanship and details on british steam locos. Gorgeous looking engines

Looks like it was a fantastic day, I'm curious about how many private railways there actually are in the UK like this, running full size locos simply for the owner's pleasure.

It's absolutely surreal to see a Finnish locomotive in a British livery (and name) running over here, but amazing! Really gives you some idea of how huge _Lady Patricia_ is compared to most preserved steam locomotives you'll find in the UK.

Very nice - I was very lucky to be given a spirited cab ride of over 100 miles or so on the mainline aboard the sister locomotive 1009 in Finland back in 2016. I fully recommend at trip out there if you can. There are an amazing number of surving locos thanks to their strategic reserve policy and the Finns are wonderful people.

The owners are long time friends of my family and my husband and I had the most memorable experience of a private “steam-up day”. I have ridden those magnificent engines, and indeed stood at the end of the track and filmed a parallel run. We ate sausages cooked on the coals of St Vincent. Lady Patricia is unbelievably huge, a gorgeous towering beauty, and one of my favorite pictures is of myself standing next to the wheels which are a lot bigger than me. It was wonderful re-visiting those memories through watching this video; so thank you. Of course our visit occurred during the restoration period of Lady P, and the steam-up was the very first time. Such a pleasure to see her in all her fully restored glory.

I knew this video was coming, I saw someone else's video of this line and you were driving that magnificent little traction engine. I also like that large green locomotive, it reminds me of the large locomotives that run here in the U.S.

Now that’s what I call an engine

Had the pleasure of a private steam up day at this amazing place. The owner and his wife were very freindly and treated my two children to an ice cream. will always remember that day

I was overjoyed to learn 1016 had been restored to operation. I've always been fascinated with railways all over the world, their operations, history, rolling stock etc, so seeing something different to what we're used to in the UK is always a joy to see. Keep up the good, Lawrie and the team. :3

Absolutely love Edwardian and Victorian British steam trains. Absolutely beautiful pieces of machinery and art.

Despite being standard gauge, Swanscombe and Sir Vincent look so small that I'd have guessed they were narrow gauge locomotives.

As a one-time Scottish goods guard, I couldn't help noticing the brake van. I've never seen anything like it. It appeared to be a standard BR (or LNER) brake van body mounted on an ordinary short wheelbase wagon underframe. I've never seen an external lever hand brake on a brake van before. What's more the brake lever was where I'd expect to find the steps to climb into the van. I wouldn't like to try to get into it when it was moving (something that I used to do every day -- often several times a day). I'd have liked to have seen inside the vanto see if it actually has an internal wheel operated hand brake inside, or if the external lever is its only brake. On the subject of brakes, I saw you frantically spinning a wheel round on Sir Vincent, I suppose to make it stop. Does Sir Vincent not have a steam brake? Fascinating video! I suppose I'm noticing things that only a former working railwayman would spot. :) I fondly remember the former Lochty Private Railway in Fife, which also had a fairly large locomotive (60009 Union of South Africa) "trapped" on a very short railway.

This isnt a garden railway anymore this is a full blown heritage line. Its amazing that they have an actual (but slightly downscaled) steam engine worthy of something like the LNER or SR.

w0wza, that must've been a thing. The _Lady Patricia_ is one of those machines that's a scale all its own -- you look at it and think, oh gee that's not too big, what's the fuss about... and then someone goes and stands beside it and it looks like they're a figure out of a Corgi Toys box! You need to go do a spot on _Sir Vincent_ sometime, though. That contraption is all kinds of mental and I absolutely love it! I've never seen a locomotive like that with a flywheel at the side, least of all one big enough that you could call it a small Ferris Wheel if you strapped a few plastic lawn chairs to it...

It's deceptive how large Lady Patricia is because everything is proportionally large with itself. Seeing it next to the Barclay did put it into perspective though.

14:15 Train *Whistle* Captions (Music) Thank You

I always knew that factually broad guage locomotives were bigger then standard (or Stephenson) guage ones, but I never saw footage of a Broadie running next to a standard engine. Yikes they are absolutely giant. Might even dwarf 4014 in some aspects. Thanks for the amazing content again lawrie! On another note, because of this video I decided to do some research into just how many broadies are currently in the UK, because I already knew Bressingham had a Finnish Tk3 2-8-0. What I found shocked me a little: There seem to have been roughly 15-20 Finnish broadies imported to the UK in the 90's, mostly via a now failed attraction in Acton, Suffolk. All engines seemed to be of classes Hr1 (4-6-2), Tr1 (exactly like Hr1 but 2-8-2), Tk3 (2-8-0) and Vr1 (0-6-0T). Well, like said earlier the attraction failed and the broadies were laid up en left to rust, although at some point a couple were taken over or brought somewhere else. It seems 4 went to the Ongar railway (Including 1016 of this video) and these seem to finally be put into better shape now after some time rusting away. One Vr1 has been placed infront of Blumsom lumber centre in London, although its in a quite bad shape, since it has no cover against the elements. But the rest are either gone, or going to be gone if they aren't preserved (again) soon. 3 were last seen at a place called Hope Farm near Sellinge in Kent, but that was 10 years ago and I can't locate the engines there on Google Maps so I fear the worst. 2 others are also considered lost (wether scrapped or not is unknown) and lastly there is 1 whose location I have been able to certify via maps. Tr1 1077 is still at Acton, located at the back of the industrial estate in a part of what seems to have belonged to a trucking company but nowadays given back to nature and photo's of the engine confirm that. It's in a very rusted condition almost completely overgrown by trees and shrubbery now. But it is still there, and so it can still be preserved. You told us in your video's about the little diesel you saved from scrap last month that you found it amazing that something considered part of the first era of preservation could still be done in 2023. But I think there are far more chances of saving an engine these days then might be at first thought, because not all preservation projects from bygone eras ended in success, and the engines that were a part of those efforts might still need saving now, like poor 1077. Sadly, I am but a poor history student in the Netherlands, so I can't save her myself (yet), but I do hope there is someone who might find her again and decide that she finally deserves a loving, caring home.

You can keep that pacific, give me that aveling any day. What a lovely thing

Sir Vincent is a chunky little locomotive with a decent overhang on each end :) It's like the steam-powered version of Alf from the Talyllyn Railway :) And Lady Patricia is a very pretty locomotive :) Most of our large steam locomotives across the pond are black, so it's nice seeing one that is a bright color. I'm so glad the owner let you drive it Lawrie! :)

That Sir Vincent is a whacky little machine! I know the flywheel is smooth, but the idea of running a hand rail so close to it is just madness by today's standards!

Ah that'll be David Buck's home in Berkshire. Glad he finally got it running (although cocks need a look at perhaps). Great stuff and that Aveling and Porter is always great to see running, quirk on wheels. If anyone wants to know how you afford something like this in your back garden go print 35mm for the film industry back in the 70s! 😉🤣

I did not expect feeding the big loco euro pallets to start it. A very nice throwback to lighting the boiler at home. We have big steam locomotives here in Bulgaria, but they only run like once a year. It's always nice to see kept or refurbished steamer locomotives. :)

Reminds me a lot of the German 'Baureihe 01'.

Whoa, it actually big! I saw a video on YT somewhere of this engine, and people were riding in the tender but I honestly didn't believe it was big at all, I thought it might have been a similar size to Flying Scotsman but oh my gosh it actually is a very big machine, I'm speechless!

I think for Lady Patricia 'Majestic' springs to mind and she looks amazing in LNER colours. The little Aveling and Porter had me chuckling hearing it reminded me of Ivor the Engine, and after several G&T's found myself making the noises....................... Oh dear.......

The timber feed for the locos ; very pallet-able 😊

It's a beautiful locomotive. It shows that it is well cared for.

Only came across this video by chance and enjoyed it. You have yourself a sub.

I've always had a fascination with Railroads. I grew up a short distance from a large hump yard. I got to go up into one of the control towers where they operated the switching and braking as a kid. There were still a few steam engines back then. The restored Union Pacific "Big Boy" comes to Omaha occasionally. There is a Big Boy on static display in Omaha also. I've gone with the grand kids to get a rally close look at how it's made. Thanks for the video.

I love the level crossing wigwags moonlighting as a buffer-stop light, and the "XC Car Stop" board on the headshunt 😂😂 Whoever owns this collection, I like the cut of their jib!

This is an incredible video! I can't begin to imagine the work or cost of having such fun!!

Oh wow, forget all the other stuff, like bigger gauge & massive size. The GREEN (Pacific style wheel 4-6-2 arrangement) loco - has a strobogrammatic number A Strobogrammatic number - is a number whose numeral is rotationally symmetric, so that it appears the same when rotated 180 degrees. ie: 181 ; 96 (& as well as the other use of 6 & 9) ; 102501 etc. The number 91016 is a brilliant one for such an impressive loco. Something to remember it by I suppose - it's "Strobogrammatic Loco Number" 🚂

I can't imagine cool it would be to have your own little railroad and especially that big engine, but I couldn't handle only being able to go back and forth for a few hundred feet. 😫 That's like only ever letting a horse run within a ring! 😂

Sir Vincent: full steam ahead! Lady Patricia: I can't even go that slowly!

Thanks Lawrie, Adrian and team. That was indeed a great day out. I'm not Scottish, but I winced when you described the Barclay as an "English industrial". Hopefully all our Scottish friends won't be too upset by that.

What a wonderful place, it’s a bit of a shame that Lady Patricia can’t really stretch her wheels on that short length of track, any possibilities of getting her length of track extended?

What a fantastic video lawrie! All the locos are beautiful and that Finnish loco she is huge makes flying scotsman and all of the other Operational steam locomotives in the uk look like models!

I absolutely love sir Vincent! Thanks for another amazing video!

I must confess, every time I see somebody running around oiling various locations, whether its here or on Tornado, my first thought is "ha ha, 611 go BRRRRRRRRR". That locomotive is almost entirely mechanically lubricated. Roller bearings all around. She's a bit shorter and narrower than Lady P, but still a veritable giant in her own right, especially compared to pretty much anything native to the British Isles. An absolutely majestic thoroughbred, very much a masterpiece on par with Duke of Gloucester.

I’m very envious! But you are doing an amazing thing here Lawrie. Great channel and videos. Bravo 👏

Thanks Lawrie, great to see & hear the different types! 🙏🙏

What a fantastic opportunity for you Lawrie, as always your joy and enthusiasm shine through.

What a beautiful locomotive!! And she’s a miniature railway machine!! Absolutely gorgeous!!

Happy to know that steam is still alive and at work keep them boys roll'in

That Finnish engine may look big comapred to British engines (I'd like to see this next to a 9F or Duchess Of Hamilton), but it's quite small compared to the American locomotives I'm used to like ATSF 3415, which is also a Pacific. VR 1016 reminds me of CB&Q 5639 at the Colorado railroad Museum, which towers over the narrow gauge trains. 35:26 what a lovely whistle Lady Patricia has!

You light the fires the same way we do at the nymr. We put a 4 inch cover of coal in first ,then Rags soaked in paint thinners . On top of that we use old wooden pallets. It takes about 5 or 6 minutes before the coal starts to burn. On our big engines that’s what we call a warming fire. We leave that fire in them over night to gently warm the engine through.

Wow, that looks like a delight! And that shot of you looking up at the top of the drivers really gets the scale of this beast across -- as do the photos of you in the cab, after seeing you in the other locomotives. It must have felt like being in a workshop! Sir Vincent is a delightful little contraption, too.

What a beauty that is. So impresive

What an amazing thing to be a part of, and what a gorgeous engine

Wow! Sir Vincent is an amazing little beast. love all the motion it produces. Slightly reminds me of a SHay or Climax with all the flailing about and uniqueness.

Excellent video; looks like you had a good time

Doesn't matter if it's a European or American steam locomotive. They are all beautiful alive living machines and beautiful to watch them move with such grace and beauty 😊😊

around the wheels, they look like dogs faces with droopy ears 🥰🥰🥰

Hopefully that big ol girl will get a bit more room to run someday.

25:02 is a nice shot of locomotives in the foreground with an airliner in the distance. Old workhorses maintained for love, I doubt many airliners will generate such affection.

What a great video I thoroughly enjoyed it and that locomotive is a beast

That's really AWESOME, FANTASTIC 🙂👍 A wonderful video, I enjoyed it very, very much, thanks a lot for sharing 🙂

I absolutely love sir Vincent! Thanks for another amazing video!. I absolutely love sir Vincent! Thanks for another amazing video!.

I love the sound of Sir Vincent ,it's so relaxing.yes they are all brilliant but it's the sound they make

This is now what garden railway should be like, i.hope someone make standard gauge line inspired from railway layout

Amazing engine, let alone for a Garden railway...wow. Just a bit bigger than mine...!!!

I was thinking that's a very un-british tender on lady Patricia. Made sense when I saw the sub text!

I discovered this garden railway by accident, by flying over my own area with Google maps. It’s only a short bicycle ride away. They have a “funday” once a year, so was able to visit it. Pretty cool.

Perfect day and idyllic setting !. Locos and stock fabulous. Thanks mate. Dave. PS Big init !

what a relaxing video! great work!

Everything that you liked on the Pacific, from everything being on the outside to having running lights for the motion, is all pretty standard on US steam

Wow what a fantastic private railway. I absolutely love all 3 Locomotives. I have never seen such a Great Big Steam Engine like Lady Patricia which I would love a 'OO Gauge' model of for my own model railway. I look forward to seeing where Lawrie goes to next.😊😊

Oh wow, you were in our neighbourhood! Thanks for the video Lawrie!

Extraordinary!! Congratulations!!! Leo de Argentina

Amazing locomotive. The little locomotives were also great locomotives.

I managed to spot myself in the video! great to see you!

We had a lot of fun. thanks.

This is awesome lawrie❤❤❤

Beautiful loco those Pacific so great 👍👍

Fantasic garden railway. And a great idea for a small shelf railway. Its interesting on how big the 5 ft gauge loco is, and i realize its perspective, but my provinces steam loco CN 6060, a 4-8-4, "mountain type" running on 4'81/2" rails, is even larger.

Beautiful locos glad to see there is a proper circle of track for the narrows and hopefully they will be able to extend the standard gauge out a bit more to run that beautiful pacific more

Impressive flywheel on Sir Vincent !

Garden train in 1:1 scale... great

0:00 funny how your light coloured legs almost perfectly line up with the patch of sand in the background

Excellent 👍

Wow. What a train set. Love the livery. Those of us with OO gauge in the back bedroom are green with envy.

The Sir Vincent is a dear little loco - so cute with his flywheel and little red transit wheels

Pretty big garden railway great stuff

The engine didn't look all that large to me, until there were some people next to it!

what an absolutely stunning locomotive

This looks like a right whackin' good way to spend a day ! I'd love to learn how to fire and run these locomotives

Fantastic!

I think my wife’s former boss (now deceased) knew the owner. Tony also owned steam locos, mostly traction engines but also one rather well-known Gresley A3, usually depicted in the same apple green.

This is amazing I’m so jealous, I would love to visit.

Incredible Experience Beautiful Work Adorable Big Engines Such a Fun Nerdy Dream of an Experience

Iv enjoyed that video very much , I love steam, the engineering marvels that invented steam power. The first mechanical transport.

That cab on the pacific looks huge

Blimey that's one he'll of a garden railway , I thought the Norwich ME track at Eaton was a good size , but I think this tops it , lovely loco's Lawrie & the AP's got a chirpy whistle 😀

How was your morning?. Excellent , everything is on fire.

Amazing! I want one in my back yard to start up & play with. Maybe run a couple hundred feet of track? Yes please.

What a wonderful railway, a lot of private ones just go out and back, but this one at least has a continuous loop for the standard gauge. Very nice of the owner to invite the LMM team down so we could all have a peek at it. Lady P. is a big ol' girl to be sure, it's a wonder such a big engine is privately owned, an even bigger one to have a "broadie" in steam.

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