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Thanks Sonny. 😊

Thanks Bernard 😊

Glad you enjoyed it. Have you watched our other railway videos yet?

It does indeed!

I'll expand on my answer above. It was a whole lot easier and less deafening to use the cutting torch than to try and cut through nearly 3 dozen 2inch thick steel sections while inside a steel tube that you can't stand up in. The dangers involved with a using a hand held high speed rotating disc angle grinder that will snag and jam constantly when cutting deeply into steel was definitely not our preferred option. We have more large steel cutting jobs similar to this to do and will see if a borrowed plasma cutter will do the job. If not the torch will come out again not the grinder. Thanks for watching and commenting .

@@railwaymaniacs ohhhhhhh ok.. im a car mechanic myself so im more used to using one🤣🤣🤣🤣

The angle grinder is our weapon of choice for many jobs! Over the last few years we have amassed hundreds of hours using them with wire cup brushes attached to removed old paint and rust from 3 lots of frames of Bulleid Pacifics that are under restoration in Kent. We would certainly be lost without them.

Thanks for the comment . My loco knowledge is growing but it has only been about 3 years since I joined the Heritage Railway movement so I have a huge amount of knowledge to try and absorb into my brain that is not sponge like anymore. However, we will be carrying out a lot of work on "Norman" SLL's Austerity 0-6-0 in the coming months so will be filming much of that and posting it on this channel. I will be visiting the Bluebell soon so keep and eye out!

Hi Pete. It's because us Brits eat plenty of carrots and that help us see in the dark. Seriously though the reasoning behind this is that all of our railways are fully fenced so it is difficult for large mammals to wander onto the tracks and that the trains direction is already set and the train wouldn't be able to stop in that distance within the lighting anyway. Modern trains in Britain are now fitted with lights though.

Not to mention the perfectly timed whistle!

Hi Susan thanks for commenting. 34053 was named after and by the commander of 11 group himself Sir Keith Park. We decided to purchase and restore the loco after it had been a parts donor for another loco. Being named after such an important man in British history we just couldn't let this loco go to waste so restored it from a very sorry small pile of bits. You can see it in our video titled "BEFORE AND AFTER" It will return to honour his legacy next year. I believe there will be some sort of plaque placed on the locomotive to commemorate 303 Squadron after it will be renamed.

Sounds good to me.

Money is always hard to find, and progress can't be made without it. Sometimes a cosmetic makeover is done to prove that the project is ongoing and not abandoned. Luckily we completed Manston and it was one of the biggest stars at the recent "Strickly Bullied 2" event at Swanage that was featured in the railway press. Thanks for commenting.

Huge respect for the Poles. I'd join them for a drink but my tolerance for alcohol is not good so they would definitely win the drinking battle as well!

It certainly had a lot of pieces missing but we managed to restore it, and it ran for its full ticket and an extension. It has just returned after a major overhaul and looks fantastic!

It has a lovely 30 room hotel and a lovely beach with palm trees 🤣

We have restored this unrebuilt one named 257 Squadron that is currently at the Mid Hants Railway and also one named Manston that is at its home on the Swanage Railway. Rebuilts we have restored are Eddystone and Sir Keith Park/303 Squadron, plus 3 more under restoration! Check out our before and after video named Who Does This? To see what we do.

Regretfully the Polish national anthem was cut off due to copyright issues😢

You have just given me an idea...

@@railwaymaniacs You're going to build a completely new one from scratch like Tornado?

@@TheLoachman No, we like to preserve loco's to stop them being lost forever. It's also a lot less financial and manpower burden to work with what we have than to build new. Though building new does have its advantages. We have built tenders from new in the past and will be doing so again soon.

@@railwaymaniacs Roger. I am extremely curious about your idea . . .

@@TheLoachman I am going to mention it the directors first and see what they think.

Thanks Bernard. It was a great ceremony, enjoyed by our Polish friends and ourselves. Hopefully we will see them again next year if not sooner.

You are correct on all accounts.

Thanks for commenting Ian. The Goring nameplate is from a fictional class of Locomotives... "Battle of Britain runner-up Class"!!

@@railwaymaniacs runner up! 😄

@@IanHardmanPhotography we do like a bit of humour!

How is it looking?

It sounds like you love these machines as much as us! Why not become a shareholder in Southern Locomotives Ltd and maybe next time you visit a railway be a welcomed guest on the footplate for a ride down the line?

Cheers Ralph. We keep ourselves busy!

@@caiohenriquedeoliveirahach5928 Rebecca is based on this steam locomotive.

Hi David. I do understand. Our next video explains the reason behind the renaming in some length and also explains that it is for one year only. Thus far this temporary name change to show our gratitude to our Polish and Czech friends whos countrymen helped enormously during the Battle of Britain has been very successful.

@@railwaymaniacs Thank you for your reply. I look forward to viewing your future videos.

Thanks for commenting David. We always welcome peoples views on what we do.

@@Shark30006 it might well be. One step at a time.

The film showed the lift from two different angles. One was shown followed by the other. Hope this helps.

Thanks Alex. We need all the luck we can get!

The tube plate was indeed condemned long before the hole was cut in it.

We have much work to do, hurdles to overcome and funds to raise along with restoring and overhauling other loco's so putting target dates on projects is difficult as priorities change from time to time.

Welcome to the channel buddy

@@railwaymaniacs I went to duxford airshow yesterday and you gave me a a part of sir Frederick pile for free so I would like to thank you.

Cheers, let me know what you think of channel. What is you favourite video so far?

It takes many thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of pounds to restore a loco to steam again. There are a (very) limited amount of resources available to owners/restorers/railways nowadays to carry out this type of work.

I have heard that a few times, usually when a number of us are lifting something heavy...the more weight you lift in your job the lighter your pay packet is.

You can help for free just by watching our videos, commenting on them, giving the thumbs up, talking to people about heritage railways, and if you can visit them and go for a ride.

No what is it?

@@railwaymaniacs In the UK it is used to free rusted joints (think disassembling exhaust systems) - over here on t'other side of T'Pond (USA) the nearest thing I found to PlusGas is Kroil (penetrating oil) good luck! Nice video, thanks for sharing, I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned PlusGas!

We have been using penetrating oil , usually WD40 that has been regularly applied for weeks (sometimes years) beforehand to help try to release parts. You have to remember that this locomotive was last used 60 years ago and has sat outside rusting away since then. I'm surprised that most of it can and will be used again.

Thanks so much. It's always nice to be appreciated.

All fixings on top were removed. The problem was the 4 fixings that were almost impossible to get to that are underneath the regulator were totally seized. These inside fixings attach the unit to the steam pipe inside the boiler had to be heated. We could have cut the regulator body to pieces to remove it but this would have destroyed the unit. Though the unit has a break in the casting this maybe repaired. The front tubeplate that we cut an access hole through had already been condemned. We will show more of this in a future video. Thanks for commenting.

Many thanks for commenting Peter. We would be interested in seeing and maybe even showing some of your photos in a future Railway Maniacs episode as I'm sure there are many viewers interested in seeing them. Myself and many other enthusiasts never visited Woodhams at Barry (some of my colleagues did thankfully) but have seen some sad images of once proud engineering marvels looking unwanted, unloved and waiting to be culled.

@@railwaymaniacs Hi thanks for your response and interest. Sadly most of my pictures are currently stored and not likely to see daylight for another year or two. That said I had a root around this evening and found 4 x 35mm slides all, I believe of 35009 Shaw Savill. They have an interest to me as family pictures but probably not of so much interest to you? There's very little loco to see in any of these … 3 slides are of two children sitting on a buffer beam with gaping door-less smoke-box above and one of them standing by a front driving wheel and cylinder...like I say not a lot of loco to see. There might be, I suppose, an interesting sociological point though as they show how in the 1980's it was still possible to just wander into and around un-fenced scrap yards? I can't imagine that would be possible anywhere in the UK today? Anyway clearly it seems I knew how to treat my kids a good wholesome day out!!!??? Best wishes.

It has indeed been a long time since the last video. Too long really. We have kept recording footage though so have more videos in the pipeline, it's just the long task of editing, scripting and presentation that takes a huge amount of time. It was a great ceremony yesterday headed by its organiser Peter Spowage who's skills, knowledge, and drive are an absolute asset to the railway preservation movement and Southern Locomotives Limited.

@@railwaymaniacs I saw you both there, at least I think it was you anyhow! I didn’t want to disturb either of you by saying hello as I know you had a lot of dignitaries etc to tend to! But Peter should be proud of what was achieved yesterday 🙂

@@AnthonyFurnival It was a very busy and incredible day. Such a pleasure to meet some of our Polish friends, all of whom love their country and ours. How Peter managed to put this day together so well and have it work so well is beyond me.

@@railwaymaniacs he’s done well! I met Peter at the MHR earlier this year, he comes across as an extremely dedicated chap!

As Roy Castle used to say "dedication is what you need"