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Somerset Narrow Gauge - 7 1/4
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Добавлен 25 окт 2021
Private 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge Live Steam Railway in rural Somerset, United Kingdom.
Fretwork Rail install a concrete set point in the tramway extension - Somerset Narrow Gauge - 7 1/4
We join our contractors Fretwork Rail installing the newly built point work into a concrete base, this forms part of the tramway extension of the line that will eventually split in to a line running into a workshop and the other direction continuing up a gravel road way. Site manager Oswald and health and safety inspector Izzy overseeing the works. 0-6-0 petrol locomotive 'Clunky' providing the motive power also featuring 'Big Bertha' a Nuffield 4/60 vintage tractor fitted with a Teagle cement mixer.
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Summer Steam Special - 7 1/4 Narrrow Gauge Live Steam Railway
Просмотров 11 тыс.4 месяца назад
We welcome you to a summer steam special, two visiting locomotives 'Edward Watkin' & 'Dolbadarn' from the guys at OCS Locomotives as well as our usual home fleet 'Talyllyn' and not forgetting 'Clunky'. Double header action, fire lighting lessons, footplate rides, new signals, there's a lot going on!
Clunky gets a spannering & Fretwork Rail out on track maintenance - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge Railway
Просмотров 5 тыс.5 месяцев назад
We start the video joining Fretwork Rail completing some summer track maintenance. The hot sun causes the track to expand and this movement in the rail can cause the sleepers in some locations to twist on the rail. We have fitted expansion joints around the line so hopefully this is a problem of the past. Clunky also has a dramatic failure which leads to a strip down in the workshop.
A New Guards Carriage - 7 1/4 Gauge Live Steam Railway
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.6 месяцев назад
It's been a while since our last upload, here we present our newly finish Guards compartment carriage. Built steadily off and on over the last two years and finally completed in spring. We also share some footage of some temporary track being built and laid for removal of some hardcore. This is to make way for a new concrete floor for a workshop, the track will eventually be repurposed for a tr...
Heavy Goods Trains - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
Просмотров 9 тыс.Год назад
Greetings and welcome to another Stogursey Light Railway youtube video. This time there's been a delivery of two heavy items that need moving around the railway. A steam lorry & another green saddle tank, we don't know where they keep coming from! Our friends return for an afternoon run of the express passenger trains with Edward Watkin and our home locomotive Talyllyn is up to her usual duties...
Winter Update: Pt 1, A New Carriage in the Works. 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.Год назад
Welcome and a happy new year! The winter season is well upon us, trains are running less frequently but the railway is busy behind the scenes so we thought we'd share a short video on projects that are in the pipeline. As you may have seen, we have some beautiful rolling stock here on the line. We have three scale Talyllyn carriages in operation and this video shows the progress on a fourth cur...
Fretwork Rail install a Head Shunt - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
Просмотров 10 тыс.2 года назад
Welcome! On this latest video we join our track maintenance team 'Fretwork Rail'. The guitar enthusiasts who like to keep our permanent way in tip top condition. Today we join them as they make the finishing touches to the new head shunt that has been built in the station "A headshunt is a short length of track provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take ...
The Return of the Romulus - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
Просмотров 7 тыс.2 года назад
In this latest video we see the return of a locomotive which previously features in one of our earliest videos, Engines in the Night. The 0-4-0 Romulus is on a some what long term loan whilst its own railway is under construction. Back from being in a workshop in Staffordshire for six to nine months, it's difficult to recognise the engine after having extensive work carried out. The side tanks ...
Edward Watkin pays a visit! - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
Просмотров 23 тыс.2 года назад
Stogursey Light Railway, a 7 1/4 narrow gauge live steam railway in rural Somerset. Today we have a special guest to the line, another Station Road Steam built locomotive, 0-6-0 Edward Watkin. Although a previous visitor to Stogursey Light Railway, long before we had our own youtube channel, since then many things have changed. It was lovely to have both home loco Talyllyn & Edward Watkin in st...
A Sunny Day in August - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.2 года назад
Stogursey Light Railway, a 7 1/4 narrow gauge live steam railway in rural Somerset. Featuring a fresh out of the coach works, first class compartment coach. Take a ride inside and experience first class! Have a drivers eye footplate ride around the line on home loco 0-4-0 Stafford, 'Talyllyn'. Listen to the birds in the peaceful countryside station. Watch the efforts of 'Fretwork Rail' the guit...
The Old Lime Tree - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.3 года назад
Removal of an old Lime tree that had been looking a little sorry for itself for the past few years. With the tree being lineside of SLR, this came under the department of ‘Fretwork Rail’ for removal. ‘Fretwork Rail’ - The guitar enthused track maintenance gang we have here keeping our trains running day in day out, uniform usually consisting of a heavy rock band as apposed to the standard orang...
Engines in the Night - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge Live Steam
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.3 года назад
The first official video from Stogursey Light Railway, a 7 1/4 narrow gauge live steam railway in Somerset, United Kingdom. Featuring home loco 0-4-0 Stafford ‘Talyllyn’ & guest loco 0-4-0 Romulus ‘Angkor Wat’.
you should buy one of those cheap tiny chinese excavators and turn it into a crane car or just make it run on the rail lol
Do any drawings exist for 7 1/4” gauge enclosed children’s carriages representing narrow gauge prototypes?
Hi, not as far as I know our carriages are built to a scale of 3 5/8 ths to the foot a true scale for representation of 2ft gauge using 7 /1/4 track The drawings we use are scaled up from some 7mm scale drawings of Tallylyn carriages If you wanted to build enclosed ones that children could sit in, you would probably have to think of doing something in minimal gauge style Hope this helps Michael Stogursey Light Railway
@@mickswill54 Your reply is much appreciated👍🙏🙂
I enjoy the imaginative narrative coupled with the instructional content of your video. You have a fantastic narrow gauge operation and I look forward to all of your videos. Take care and God speed.😎🚂🚃🚃🚃✝
Thank you for the kind words and glad you enjoyed the video, it might be a little while till the next video is up, we've got a few plans in place but as with everything, it all takes time.
Fantastic 🤓...what a lucky bunch of people you are...thanks for sharing this
Fantastic video really enjoyed watching 😊
Thank you for a very enjoyable weekend!
As always! See you both next time!
Remarkable operation. However, the driver should not have the pint nearby since it would violate NORAC rule G forbidding the possession or consumption of intoxicating beverages while on duty. You have a wonderful operation.😎🚂🚃🚃🚃✝
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Very nice carriage!
Thank you very much!
Great video. Like me.
So what was the fundamental problem with Clunky which caused the wheels to lock up?
When Clunky first joined the line it was noted the motion around the connecting rods wasn’t quite right, we fitted a new bearing that was actually missing, this did improve the running somewhat, however at a particular rotating point the wheels were tight after fitting the bearing. We hoped it would bed itself in. Unfortunately it didn’t really ‘bed in’ and this then led to the pressure being put on the wheels connecting to the axels, only being kept in position by grub screws, one had worked loose and eventually must have fell out and caught the connecting rod whilst in operation leading to all the wheels locking up and not rotating in turn. After a strip down on the work bench we found the horn guides supporting the centre wheel set weren’t quite in the right position. It’s an old, simple freelance loco, with some careful filing we managed to correct the horn guides and this allowed the correct spacing for the wheels and connecting rods to rotate freely, no more tight spots, fingers crossed this is an issue of the past. Thankfully it’s a very simple loco and nothing were too precious about when it comes to putting right. We like our engines and rolling stock to have the character of a used railway rather than museum piece, but of course prefer them to run correctly! Thanks for watching and commenting on the video, hope you enjoy our future uploads!
@@somersetnarrowgauge714 Fantastic bit of diagnostic/troubleshooting! Love Clunky. Hope to buy a similar 7 1/4" gauge electric 0-6-0 loco here in the States in a year to so. Build a lot of smaller scale locomotive chassis'... Side rod hole spacing to axle spacing has to be dead on or you'll have binding. Same with quartering. All the drivers have to be quartered nearly exactly or exactly the same. Nice little railway... Hoping to do something like this in the next few years. Cheers from the USA.
Awesome ... Time for me to up-scale from G gauge I think !!
Brilliant!!!
See you guys soon!
looking forward to it 🙂
Footplate video around whole track please! Your videos are so relaxing, love watching with my 1 yr old daughter! Hope to buy a kit version of the Station Road Steam Stafford one of these days. Greetings from Maine USA!
Thanks for your kind comments and glad you enjoy the videos great to hear from the USA
footplate ride around whole line please!
Wonderful video. Would also like a drivers eye view please :)
Fantastic working, a view from the flootplate for the whole line would be great!
Yes a drivers eye view of the full line, please 🙏
Fantastic! Would love a drivers eye view of the line!
After all that effort to level and tamp the track, there is still quite a bump where the headshunt joins the turnout. PS I also have a 7 1/4” Planet battery loco, in green, on my Springdale Miniature Railway near the town of Denmark in Western Australia.
So nice to hear from Australia Our Planet loco is the stalwart of our loco fleet being so easy to use and comes out for all sorts of duties on a regular basis with regard to the hump The start of the 1in30 incline is at the toe of the head shunt switch For obvious reasons the head shunt was laid to level this change is on a rail joint which makes it easy to achieve hence the hump hope this explains Many thanks for your comments Michael M-D of Fretwork Rail
The steam lorry looks interesting
Great set up.I live near Glastonbury.
Very nice job , God bless you all !!!
Is Talyllyn a Bagnall style?
It's a Stafford
love saddle tanks.. and love the commentary. you little joker .. hope to see you again.. many thanks .. tone
hi was just wondering what the tracks were made out of?
Hello there, ever thought about having a game of your railway? I can make one for you if you’d like I have some experience in game development
Would love to see the railway on MTS
How tall is a person in this scale? The engines and rolling stock are wonderful!
Interesting question! The answer is 21 inches if we’re going on average height.
@@somersetnarrowgauge714 I was curious, as I've never seen any people in these scale. I would have to have passengers in the coaches, or a brakeman
love these videos! well worth the wait. what do you use to build your rails? Since i am thinking of building a 7 1/4 gauge railway.
I only live 5 miles from this. Never knew it existed.
The narration sound s to be a cross between Trumpton, Camberwick Green and a bit of Ivor the engine thrown in for good measure . Two thumbs up for from me😀😀
Thanks Mike! Really appreciate your comments. The narration has brought a comical side to our little trains, all quite spontaneous and nothing too serious! We just need to come up with new stories for future videos!
What a lovely film beautifully enhanced with the Betjemanesque commentary. Is the line ever open to the public?
Thank you for your kind comments! We are a private railway, but we like to share our goings on via our RUclips channel.
Loving your commentary and loving your railway. All the best chaps
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
You are truly artisans. The narration reminds me of the Shining Time Station PBS shows. Interesting content and these videos are relaxing. Thank you for these wonderful presentations. I'm a retired railroad conductor and have always been interested in British railway operations, especially the heritage and the narrow gauge lines. My best to all and God bless.
to spojrzenie pieska super :)
This is a remarkable video of a wonderful little railway. I just had to subscribe. One does not see this much in the USA. Best of luck, God bless!
Thank you very much! We’ll hopefully have some more content up soon! All the best, SLR.
I am the builder of AW (blue engine) I would like to contact you but I cant find any contact details, email, phone or street address?
Hello again Harold, you can contact us at stogurseylightrailway@gmail.com
I am the builder of Ankor Wat which was built in Cambodia along with its sister engine Ankor Tom, owned and regularly run by a member of Newcastle SME. i feel a little sad that you felt you had to make so many changes. The original local had an interesting history and character. The owner of AT reports much interest in AT's name and background. Upon completion I disassociated them from Romulus which generally thought of as rather crude. Did you know, for example that the valve gear was designed by the late Don Ashton. I designed AW as a working engine with ease of maintenance in mind, look at the design of drain cocks for example. The stainless firegrate. Just about all the pipework can be removed without a major stripdown. You now have another green saddle tank!
Hello Harold and thank you for contacting us. We should start by explaining that we do not own the loco, it is a long term guest loco on our line whilst the owners are building their own railway. It’s very interesting to hear the history of this loco. Amazing that they were both built in Cambodia and assumably shipped over to the UK at some point? We shall certainly pass this information over to the owners. Thanks again, SLR.
How do I contact them, Email, address etc?
I love those carriages. Beautifully built with a lovely eye for detail
Thank you, we’re looking forward to having a new carriage on the line soon.
Hello Sirs I have thoroughly enjoyed the videos. I’m loving the build video. I live in America. These models are near non existent here. I have watched several videos multiple times trying to see how your axles and wheels are connected. Is there a possibility of sending some pictures or making a detailed video of how you make and attach these. Many thanks for the fascinating and enjoyable content. The time you spend is truly appreciated.
Hello! Thank you so much for the kind words, very much appreciated! If you wanted to contact us at stogurseylightrailway@gmail.com we can share some photos with you of the underside of the carriages 👍 all the best!
Superb, many thanks
Excellent work, thank you
Wonderful work! How many passengers will it take? Will it be the same colour as the other compartment coach?
Looks very nice :)
Super good video, thumbs up :)