Driving Sirapite AND My Fire Engine at the Leiston Long Shop's 40th Anniversary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- Hello everyone,
Over the weekend Lawrie was invited to take part in the Long Shop's 40th Anniversary event by crewing the resident Steam Locomotive Sirapite, and by bringing his Dennis RS130 to join the festivities - will the notoriously unreliable fire engine make it?
If you want to find out more about the Long Shop, have a look at their website here: www.longshopmuseum.co.uk/
A video featuring:
Lawrie - Presenter, excited to get back on Sirapite,
Tom - Fireman/Chauffeur, excited for a day on the shovel,
Ben - Cameraman/cleaner, excited for a day on the footplate,
A video edited by Lawrie
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![[SFS] This is a boxcar that ruined our week.](/img/n.gif)
You should take your old fire engine back to its original fire station. Be good to see.
Probably get torn down. You know what the government is like with the fire brigade budgets
Once more there is proof for the phrase, "There's a prototype for everything." Including the two stretches of snap-together track we've all had at one point, running a lone engine back and forth.
Sirapite is certainly a beautiful little engine, at this rate you'll soon have driven all the preserved railway traction engines in the English isles. First sir Vincent, now Serapite, what next? Blue circle?
This looks like a very interesting museum. I want to visit now.
Hats off to whoever filmed that shot at 13:46, that was a beautiful bit of video!
Thank you - I aim to be artsy where I can, and if the focus plays ball!
Yes you do a fine job all round sir !
Wow. If you enjoy going back and forth 30 feet in each direction, Leiston has you spoilt for choice! 😂
They need more track for that engine
My dad, brother and I visited the long shop a few years back and it’s a cracking little place👌. Great video as well!
oh hey my local museum! I have work experience there the upcoming week aswell!
I think you'll have fun
It amuses me that Garrett used a locomotive made by one of their main competitors.
How did I not know about these places when I was in Suffolk (late 1980s). I had to make do with the occasional steam fairs at the Stomarket Museum and they were mainly steam harvesters, bailers and tractors.
Great filming lawrie, always wanted to see the museum in action , perfect thanks
Omg it's the real Jupiter - 999, now that's how a uk fire engine should look in the show. Also, I saw Fireman Sam plush figure in the windscreen.
I'm a huge fan of Fireman Sam and Thomas the Tank Engine,
What a terrific video.
Seeing Sirapite reminded me that we have Blue Circle at the Nene Valley...
ok I thought it was only Hyce who did the shovel meal in the fire box, glad to see its basically a world wide thing on steam engines
haha i've seen that video of hyce as well
Can confirm that cooking on the shovel os also not unheard of in Germany
In China, maybe the last steam railway in China if I remember right, the engineers love their firebox-cooked chicken :)
Nice to see Guildford represented on site in Suffolk.
Really enjoyed this, visited the long shop over many years growing up when with family in Theberton , think its time to visit again! Great Video 🙂
And what a work of art that little locomotive looks!! Absolutely gorgeous!! The pity is that nothing like that has ever been done in 00 gauge!!
Those loco's were so interesting being pretty much a traction engine. I would be good to see a coffee pot loco on the channel next and I believe Beamish have a narrow gauge one and a few others have them still in operational use.
This is pretty much exactly the same as Aveling & Porter 'Sir Vincent' from the Fifield Private Railway. Hope to see some more of that in the future, and great video!
Fantastic video, thanks Laurie
Hello
Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels
I visited Long Shop about 15 years ago and its still one of the best museums I've ever been to. Not a place you generally pass through, but well worth the trip.
Good to see another mechanical marvel, especially one powered by steam!! LOVELY!!!!
Sirapite ould make an absolutely magic kit or model...So why isn't it being produced ? :)
I would love to see you take the fire truck back to the fire station and show us what you keep in it
good vid vid on the channel nice out about vid thanks lee
Serapite... what a bloody great clanking thing, and I _absolutely_ love it :D
Haven't we seen it on the channel before, though, in a way that wasn't mentioned in the video? I get the impression that Serapite travels, under certain circumstances... it accompanied that really, really big locomotive on its celebratory return to the UK, as I recall, the one where it was a private railway and you weren't allowed to tell us whose or where. I remember the other locomotive that day being just like Serapite, essentially a railway-going traction engine, and I remember commenting on that, after that video as well. I can't imagine there're terribly many put together like that...
I think that's Sir Vincent.
Love the Long Shop. Gutted that I never seem to be in the area when you are 😔
Great video Lawrie. Can you pls post about your new locomotive i am so intrestet where it is now
Definitely want to see more of the Dennis, no one else is doing videos of one, oh does it pump water?
The joker is a brilliant machine. Will the museum let you do a lmm drives on it? I know Clive says it is completely different driving to any other road steamer.
5th
I love your Ruston 48
Too bad it was such a short track. Would have been nice to see the locomotive get up some speed. Thanks for the great videos, please keep them coming.
Do you know that there is a real railway in a backyard in England and they have a Ruston ❗️The BBC has done a documentary about it ❤
Beautiful fire engine, I would say that , I helped make all the fibreglass parts for the cab, the crew cab roof is a beast of a moulding, incidentally, Dennis at Blackpool , did make biscuits, liquorice alsorts and .... fire engines a bit random but there you go lol..
Ive not seen a steam car like that before, can i presume it were a later model?
Ah yes. The interesting challenges of a class 1 driver playing in a rigid vehicle. I know the steering differences very well 😅
great vid lawrie
Oh i wish i knew of this i would have gone there in a flash
I'd love to take your Jupiter for a spin. I've driven many many Dennis' in my time, but they've all been buses.
It's a real nice truck
@@lmm Don't temp me into buying one!
We saw you there
I would like to know why one of jupiter's emergency lights is off center. I saw a picture of the truck a while ago with both of them parallel to each other, what changed?
It's a Norfolk fire service thing. That's how they were
One question I didn’t get to ask… how come it’s pronounced “sira-fight” when there’s no “ph”?
Is the eventual plan for the long shop to connect with the railway?
Nothing broke this video? Huh, weird.
The next one is gonna be a ICantSayThisWord Show.
The question is though, which is the better engine, the R&H or the C&S?
Both built in Lincoln and I'd actually be happy to own either
I am a fan of Ruston
Do you have a list of events you'll be attending anywhere?
is that the same make and model fire truck that is on firemen sam.? not sure if the UK had that kid's cartoon.
It is not
Siropite burns wood?
They got given a load of wood. Cheaper than coal
@@lmmany free fuel is good fuel in a heritage steam loco. Means more money saved for the next overhaul
TT
And....Jupes didnt break down !!!
I'm amazed too
That Stanley Steamer actually uses something known as a steam generator, rather than a conventional boiler. It's essentially a coil of pipe with a liquid/gaseous fuel burner at the bottom, with the flame going right up the middle of the coil. Cold feedwater goes in at the bottom, steam comes out at the top. They're very efficient and compact for things like steam cars, but they don't scale particularly well, so they weren't really used in locomotives apart from the various oddities of the Bell Locomotive Works (Which are genuinely quite fascinating to research). And that thing on the front of the steamer that looks like a radiator? That's actually a condenser to recycle the steam back into water for the steam generator. They're really cool, especially Jay Leno's 1925 Doble E-20, which apparently did 132.5 miles an hour back in 1925 when it was new, which is frankly just absurd.
Sorry mate you're totally incorrect. It's a fire tube boiler, has 600ish 1/2 tubes and is wire wrapped for additional strength. How do I know? It's my car and I restored it! #stanley21088
@@stuartkimhart6480 Oh, my bad. Thanks for that, I really hate spreading misinformation. I guess I got my Dobles and Stanleys mixed up. Also, great job with that restoration, the old girl looks gorgeous, and I'd love to drive her someday, though that'll probably never happen! I'd also love to see some videos on her, but you obviously don't have to if you don't want to.
It's a shame that little engine only has that little stretch of track. She NEEDS more trackage.
Not least to reassure me I wasn't going to run out of track!
It’s Sirapite NOT Siraphite! Did you not consider wrapping some rag around the water gauges to keep them clean when you lit the boiler. What do you mean nothing else to do, you could always get some Brasso and a rag and have a polish up, does that explain why the visiting engines are all smart and shiny and the museum engines are filthy. Would have been nice to hear a few words about the Clayton, mighty fine engine that deserves a mention.
I'm sure they'd love for you to volunteer and help out
Well that a ridiculous thing to say! There is an awful lot of pride with engine owners and volunteers and we always do our best to make the engines shine as we are only custodians and the old girls deserve to be looked after. We don’t mind videos but do your homework as you can’t change history
Alexa, define "armchair enthusiast".
@@ajlawrence8983, christ, he just mispronounced something. Really not that big a deal.
First no 1
it's a shame that Fred bidnah no and more will do than us he would be proud of you by Google translator
whats that big daark puddle next to the smokebox on the fireman's side?
A tray that catches a leak from the exhaust steam pipe