The Start of a Revolution - The First UK Narrow Gauge Diesel! Hudswell Clarke D558

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The Start of a Revolution - The First UK Narrow Gauge Diesel! Hudswell Clarke D558 - LGL Episode 39

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Today we return to the Apedale Valley Light Railway to take a look at something truly special, possibly the most significant locomotive we're yet to feature on the channel!
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Lawrie - Presenter, excited to get to grips with this machine,
Charles - Cameraman, enjoying what was his first visit to Apedale.
An assembly edit by Charles,
Final edit by Lawrie
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@liams_trains_workshop Ай бұрын

Hay Lawrie thank you for putting out these great videos. I have just started my first day volunteering at the steam shed helping restore steam traction engines. ❤

@richardsweeney197 Ай бұрын

Lawrie, your exuberance is the most intoxicating part of watching your videos. Thanks again for having us along!

@trevorbax9379 Ай бұрын

The previous owner at Cadeby was the late great Rev Teddy Boston thank you sir for another entertaining video.

@Dhira108 Ай бұрын

Foxfield is a lovely little railway have visited several times Yep never heard of Hudswell narrow locomotive love the story why it has a steam chimney it just makes it look right As always great to see your enthusiasm

@chrisparsons949 Ай бұрын

Ah, some light entertainment for the evening. Thank you Lawrie and the team 😊

@gs425 Ай бұрын

Just to say your camera picks up a seized chain link. Suggest they split the chain, wash it out, wire brush the rust off and free it up....then bake in link life or similar before it gets badgered completely. Hope this helps the owners

@rorythomson8763 Ай бұрын

That engine is a work of art

@ashleywilson8033 Ай бұрын

19:50 lawrie is getting good at these hand starts lol. Imagine trying to hand start a deltic 😂

@davidty2006 Ай бұрын

Think the little dumper at the shed has gave him alot of practice.

@Equoris Ай бұрын

Great video, adorable and awesome little loco! I'll be honest, this is the first time I've heard "lump" being used to describe an engine (I don't live in a natively English speaking country), but apparently, that term is indeed "slang" for engine...I learned something new today! Thanks!

@andrewreynolds4949 Ай бұрын

Note to viewers, check your local heritage/museum/tourist railways as well, many have driving and footplate packages. Including many over here in America!

@NJPurling Ай бұрын

Making you crank the Hudswell into life... After seeing you on the verge of a heart attack trying to start 'Sweet Pea' at the Middleton Railway I was sure that it was not going to end well.

@DJ_K666 Ай бұрын

That gearbox is just like on a Lister if youve ever driven one of those, theyre great fun.

@bentullett6068 Ай бұрын

I love the look of these early narrow gauge diesel locomotives with the funnel/chimney style exhaust outlet. I saw some interesting narrow gauge loco's last Saturday, as I visited Dublin and the Guinness Brewery Tour. They have two of their narrow gauge locomotives that once ran on the extensive narrow gauge railway they had around the factory (the track is still in place in some parts). One was a Planet diesel locomotive and the other one was an interesting Avonside steam locomotive (Irish built one) with a very interesting designed motion and cylinder arrangement.

@davidty2006 Ай бұрын

Seeing all the smoke coming out of the funnel to me says why it needs to have a funnel like a steam engines.

@kavyman1066 Ай бұрын

That engine sounds absolutely glorious, great video as usual!

@HowardLeVert Ай бұрын

Cracking little loco - but I do wonder what the original engine would have been like?

@user-tf1qi8cf4r Ай бұрын

Great video! Hopefully the Apedale Light railway will offer one of their steam locos to be reviewed in the future as well. You're my engineering inspiration

@juliannaudimanche1094 Ай бұрын

Hello from Malta!

@zacm.2342 Ай бұрын

Now you see, I did actually know of her! (Cause I'm that kinda nerd :P) And I sorta knew the early history with being built in '29, then a few years later sent out with different dated plates (though what I read on it was more definitive on it being a demonstrator - guess different sources have different takes which leads to the "we dunno" about it?) Grand video though. Wonder if there's anywhere it could be taken up to full chat!

@basscharenborg6441 Ай бұрын

I can't un-see the face the Clarke has: The front windows as the eyes, the grill as the nose/enormes mustash, and the slot to couple-up to wagons as the mouth

@ukaszwalczak1154 Ай бұрын

That would be p a i n f u l to say the least lol

@basscharenborg6441 Ай бұрын

@@ukaszwalczak1154 I know🤣

@protoharry552 Ай бұрын

Lovely video lawrie! I would like to point out a slight error however! D558 is not the first purpose built narrow gauge diesel for the market, rather it is Kerr Stuart 4415 of 1927, which was the prototype for their “60HP” model, all of which were built in the same decade.

@protoharry552 Ай бұрын

4415 is currently preserved at the Ffestiniog Railway, and being restored to how it looked when built.

@protoharry552 Ай бұрын

My bad, it was 1928 not 1927

@lmm Ай бұрын

You'll have to take that up with them! I'm just going off what I'm told

@steveC2 Ай бұрын

It's the first Hudswell diesel, not the first diesel

@dkbmaestrorules Ай бұрын

Arguably KS 4415 wasn't built for the UK market though. True, it was demonstrated on the FR/WHR, but it and its sisters were all sold for export.

@SDE1994 Ай бұрын

a few of these also went to New Zealand

@richardbrobeck2384 Ай бұрын

How Cool is that !

@lukemendel8197 Ай бұрын

THE THOMAS CONNECTION, Teddy Boston's Railway!

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Ай бұрын

Great video...👍

@DangerAngelous Ай бұрын

Go on, fang it for us bruv!

@VontraYT Ай бұрын

You did a thing in our school yesterday

@jappedut9009 Ай бұрын

It looks abit reconstructed to me especially the cabin 😊

@pipmalpass9884 Ай бұрын

Has anyone ever heard of Vlad at the corris railway powered by an air coold v8

@lmm Ай бұрын

Video of that to come at some point

@afberglund2764 Ай бұрын

Happy to see you pass 100k

@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204 Ай бұрын

Good video thanks lee

@sodor_dan-da-man Ай бұрын

Fantastic video as always. But 2 points..... Surprised you didn't "kill the cat" ( as in curiousity killing the cat) and went for 2nd gear lol.... And my 2nd point is about the wagons used..... Am I the only one who can see myself sitting in the wagons? But furthermore have them padded then find an embankment somewhere along the line and have a large wide well supported stainless steel sheet to slide down into a massive pool pit or foam pit. The same steel as kids playground slides. Imagine that as a unique tourist attraction for a railway.... Ride the rails as a commodity the railways used to move and then dumped out. Supervised and obviously well ruled. I mean if adults and kids can slide down a mountain on a rubber ring on a ski slope surface into a ball pool cage then a 10ft slide down into one should be ok. But I digress. Again thanks for the video and look forward to more

@Beans1905-rv2ev Ай бұрын

Great Video

@Cody-Steams Ай бұрын

Hello Lawrie!

@16jan1986 Ай бұрын

The remains of the earliest danish oil engine powered lokomotive (a narrovgauge loko)made in 1906 for the jerup-bratten soil improvement railway by engine factory alpha is also sort of forgotten what remains is the empty body but nobody wants to put a engine and reconstruct the frame on a big shame

@ukaszwalczak1154 Ай бұрын

Source for the loco? I genuinly want to see what it looks like.

@16jan1986 Ай бұрын

@@ukaszwalczak1154 apparently youtube removed link but go to Google and search Houmøller lokomotiv there will be a Danish language site called Bents baner.....here you will find pictures of the survivor and a lot of history around the alpha/Houmøller lokomotiver

@16jan1986 Ай бұрын

@@ukaszwalczak1154 Google Bents bane and Houmøller lokomotiv the are also called fmj lokomotiv

@ukaszwalczak1154 Ай бұрын

@@16jan1986 Alr.

@16jan1986 Ай бұрын

@@ukaszwalczak1154 alr???

@Locomotiveman1994 Ай бұрын

Did I hear that right? They went from McLaren engines to Dorman ones? What a downgrade XD

@ukdave57 Ай бұрын

As someone who used to overhaul Dorman 5LB engines used in 10ton rail cranes while working for BR and went on to work for a Dorman agent I beg to differ. Actually loved em both.

@alanclarke4646 Ай бұрын

Not the same McLaren as the F1 team.

@bobrobinson5667 Ай бұрын

In Buxton the "w" is silent in "BESWICKS"

@epichunts5692 Ай бұрын

you should come to the valley Railway adventure in evesham on the 13/14th July for there gala

@Charlie-k3w Ай бұрын

Lawrie should go to Baggeridge miniature railway

@Charlie-x4j Ай бұрын

I have changed accounts now but I think it would make a good episode of Lawrie goes a little loco

Ай бұрын

Will you make a dvd series of lawrie goes loco

@bwilesuk Ай бұрын

I think it’s ridiculously absurd to have so many locos that they could probably lay out all their locos end to end and fill the length of their track.

@jamesmchenry4708 Ай бұрын

...today I learned there was a McLaren before Bruce.

@nawbus Ай бұрын

Starting to be a regular visitor to North Staffordshire aren't you?😊

@bwilesuk Ай бұрын

It’s a fun place to be!

@jmayna Ай бұрын

Kerr, Stuart 4415 was built in 1928 and worked in the UK before export...?

@ukaszwalczak1154 Ай бұрын

Currently doesn't have an engine in it, it's restored but only externally, they're testing out an engine for it, if i remember correctly.

@anubratachakraborty1370 Ай бұрын

*I waited for you to drive it at full speed.*

@AndreiTupolev Ай бұрын

It used to have a McLaren engine? Presumably the one that Fernando Alonso always called an "F2 engine"

@fritz46 Ай бұрын

What would the third person have done during hand starting? Stand in the cab and carry the responsibility?

@KPen3750 Ай бұрын

Started much easier than Courage at least

@emilpersson8250 Ай бұрын

Hey Lawrie do you want to have a Swedish S1 class on Lawrie goes loco. Cause if so i think I can arrange that.

@lmm Ай бұрын

Would love to

@willcoleman9691 Ай бұрын

There’s only one of them in the UK in somebody’s garden 🤔

@emilpersson8250 Ай бұрын

@@willcoleman9691yeah. But the other 4 preserved are operational and I can probably arrange for him do drive one of them if he comes to Sweden.

@emilpersson8250 Ай бұрын

@@lmmI’ll see if it can be arranged.

@partyup210productions7 Ай бұрын

Where to next Lawrie?

@schwarzermoritz Ай бұрын

So diesels with chimneys = good, steam outline = bad 🤔

@ukaszwalczak1154 Ай бұрын

One has the steam-loco style funnel cuz it needed one, the other is a mere f a k e r .

@spaceengineer16 Ай бұрын

what happend to the eletric start did the key not work

@awesomecronk7183 Ай бұрын

The hand start was still installed, so he chose to use it instead of the electric start

@Mr-pn2eh Ай бұрын

What happened to matt?

@willywa1684 Ай бұрын

me... me want to drive steam engine!

@PeckhamHall Ай бұрын

That Hudswell diesel would look better in a maroon colour. It's not a Ferrari. lol

@nathansmith7153 Ай бұрын

Far superior to the Eastern European locos you see still being used.

@ukaszwalczak1154 Ай бұрын

As someone who's Polish, i joke about the PKP being ass-backwards, i do, but even then, atleast we use our locos for as long as they can work instead of scrapping them because 'we could afford to'.