Lawrie with a steam locomotive
Lawrence Rose is the creator of Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels, a YouTube series focused on vehicular history, primarily British railroading. Launched in 2018, Lawrie's series focuses on the maintenance, operation and history of the various vehicles featured; and includes shots from inside the cabs of various vehicles.
Lawrie's YouTube channel can be found here
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Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels contains the following tropes:
- Author Tract: Lawrie is a firm proponent of volunteering for heritage railways, and has released several videos that ask his viewers to volunteer as well.
- Cool Car: Several in Lawrie's own collection, and others featured on the channel.
- Cool Train: Especially with Lawrie's own private locomotive, a Ruston 48DS diesel locomotive.
- Determinator: While discussing the importance of Dolgoch on the Talyllyn Railway to rail preservation, drawing from the narrative in Railway Adventure.
- Steam Never Dies: When Lawrie drives a brand new half-completed steam locomotive being built for the Corris Railway in 2022.
- The Alleged Car: Several of the "fixer-upper" cars featured on the channel, most notably with a clapped out RO8O.
- Thememobile: The Outspan Orange, a car shaped like the fruit.
