 thank you for joining me, I've just arrived at the Hartfordshire village of Cuffley in my larder. What we're going to do, we're going to go to the railway station which is just down there, we're going to catch a train and we're going to travel north to find a minute to railway. I just bought my ticket to St Neil's, oh I've got a new mask by the way, it says Henry's Adventures, so when I have to wear a mask during Henry's Adventures I have a special mask for that purpose. So we're at Cuffley station, this is the little turning area, station carpark's up there, here's the ticket office, you go up to the platform, so this station opened in 1910 and when it was less than two months old they renamed it Cuffley and Golfs Oak and it stayed Cuffley and Golfs Oak until 1971. Now I've never been to this station before but it used to come to Cuffley quite a lot as a child because if you have a look at this here in the underpass, it talks about levers, cups, scouts, explorers network etc, there is a big scout camp here called Taunmas in Cuffley, so I used to come here when I was a scout to the Taunmas scout camp. So we're going to enter back entrance there, out into a housing estate. I'm going to go up here, I've never been up these steps in Vorsa, it'll be interesting to see what I'll, see I've been on the half of the loop before but I've just never caught a train from this station, so we're going to catch a train from here to Stephenidge, then from Stephenidge the plan is to catch a train to St. Neos and that's where the miniature railway is, which we are going to travel to, so here we are, I thought you have a look at the station, so that's the London bound platform, so I'm going to wait for my train to arrive before we travel on up to Stephenidge. So we are now on the approaches to Stephenidge, running beside the east coast main line which we just borrowed under. What I'm quite excited about here is there's a new platform at Stephenidge and it's almost like a separate station, so what we're going to do, I'm hoping we're going to go into that platform because although I'm not a super track basher who wants to do every bit of platform there is, because it's going to be arriving at Stephenidge, the final destination. I'm hoping because it's the final destination, we're going to go into that platform, so as I said I'm not too worried about doing, not too worried about doing every bit of track in every platform, but because this is a bit separate from the station, I'm quite excited about it. So let's see what happens, the reason I've done this is so they can trains like this, which have come from Moorgate terminate here, they can not occupy a free platform, all that in Suzuma, 800-012 and there's a template train never taking us, so those trains are very similar to what we're traveling on, they're 700, this is 717, these ones have a door on the front which I'll point out when we get off, for working through the tunnels to Moorgate, those ones don't, also they'll be too long for the platforms, so that's why these trains have to work through the tunnels because they've got a door on the front, it's a requirement of the trains on that line, so yeah we have come in to the new platform, so there we go, that is the new platform at Stephenidge, so we're going to get out, we're going to have a look, oh I see, so there's like a separate set of ticket barriers down there, so from what it looks like, it is like a separate station, you've got to go out that set of ticket barriers and into another set of ticket barriers to access the rest of the station, let's get out the train and we'll have a quick look around the platforms before So we've come out here, so the main Stephenidge station is just over there, Thameslink train that pulled in alongside us, it's sitting in that platform, so previously this train would have occupied that platform, and that's the door on the front I was telling about, where is the 717-025, that actually folds out, I've seen the video of it, so what we'll do now we'll just have a walk down the platform to the other end, and then I'll have to stop filming to get my ticket out to get out the station, so I've got to go out and in, so as I said that is the set of ticket barriers which effectively makes another station, so it's like Stephen has always got two stations, maybe you could call this one like something like Stephenidge West, but then that might just confuse people, so that's the end, let's hear another Azuma feeding through on the main line, it's not quite big waiting rooms for people who have to wait here, so I suppose if you're coming to Stephenidge you knew you were going to Moorgate, you know you've got to come onto this platform, rather than you know go onto the main part of the station, that's interesting, is that another way out, there's a ramp up there, I don't know if that's an official way out, well there's a gate but it's closed off, so probably isn't the official way out, so here we are down the end of the platform, so what I'm going to do now, I'm going to have to walk back, get out, get over to the main platforms, from there we're going to travel north to St. Neots to find this miniature railway, so here we are at St. Neots that way, it's looking towards London, and that way it's looking north, a couple of things I just wanted to show you here, that's the original ticket office, now see this end wall here, they demolished that when they put the ticket barriers in, when they first fitted the station with ticket barriers, you'd have come out there, you'd have been fenced in and there was a footbridge here to get you onto the platforms, so you can see both platforms and the other platforms, but then when they wanted to make the station accessibility for everyone, they put lifts in, what they did, they moved the ticket barriers upstairs where we're going to go in a minute, I've got my ticket ready so we can get out the station, and they put in a lift there and they also made another way out the station, instead of a modern housing estate over there, so you can use the footbridge here if you're just walking through the station, so if you're not actually wanting to catch a train you could just walk through the station, that's quite good actually because it means you could watch trains from on the footbridge but be outside the ticket barriers, so we got up here, it's a bit like Stevenage this design, but a more modern version of how Stevenage is, because Stevenage you can also walk through the station from one side to the other without going onto the platforms, here's the ticket barriers are open so I don't need to put my ticket into the barrier, so if we get to here, that's the new way out, you see what I mean, you get a really nice view of the railway line, the nice of a train we're coming on, preferably a class 91, but I don't know if we'll be that lucky, and then if we look south you can see the ticket office, so we're now going to go down the steps out to the front of the station, so we come down here and what I'm going to do, I've got to walk through the town centre to find this miniature railway, so here is the ticket office, it looks like it's still, it's the ticket office yeah, I think it still is the ticket office, so if you were to buy your ticket you go into the office there, do you go up over there, I'm now going to walk into the town, let's go and find this miniature railway, well here we are, this is the river Great Ooze in St Neostown centre, the town centre is behind us and the railway we're going to called the Riverside Miniature Railway, it's somewhere down here, so I'm going to find my way down, we're going to go and have a ride, it's one of the newest miniature railways in Britain, it's only been here a couple of years, so I'm quite excited to have a ride here, it's going to take us around the park from what I understand, so maybe once we get past this weeping willow, there's like another course of the river, this must be like an island effectively and so there we are, there's another course of the river, the railway is down there somewhere, not exactly sure where because they've been here before, but what I'm going to do, I'm going to keep walking, we go down there into that park and then we go and find the Riverside Miniature Railway, well here we are down in the park, I've walked here from the station, as you know it's been about a miles walk, so just so if you're offing and visiting by train you're aware of that, but that said it's been a very flat miles walk, so it's been quite easy, it's taken me about 20 minutes and here we are, here is the Riverside Miniature Railway, it's just through here, so I'm going to go through here and thank you and we're going to go and ride the train, so we come in through here as you can see, it says the railway is open today, the level crossing is closed, so it looks as though we've got to wait for a train to pass, all of them are opening it for me, so there is a train waiting but I've been allowed to pass, thank you, so here we are, we arrive at the railway station, so what we're going to do, we're going to go have a ride as we usually do and see where this railway takes us, so I've not been here before, quite excited about it, it's only been here for three years this railway, so it really is one of the newest Miniature Railways in Britain, but there we are, there's our train, this train is going, so we'll see the train go and then we'll have a ride when it comes back, nice sound of the diesel, so the train is going to go and see it kind of goes off on a big circuit around through the woods, so not exactly sure where it's going to take us, but I'm really excited to find out, so I'm now just going to wait here at the railway station for the train to arrive. I tripped on the Riverside Miniature Railway, now before we go I've been given permission to have a little walk around the turntable and show you a couple of other things, so here is their turntable, we've got a few smaller diesel locos, we've got one on the turntable, another one here, this one's called Spirit Off, and then down here we have the steaming base, there's no steam locos here today, but this is where, if you have a steam locomotive, this is where you would light your fire and build steam up before going out for a ride, but we have this local here called Bluebell, let's get the other and look at that, and what we're going to do, we're going to go and have a look, you may have noticed from the ride that there are plans for an extension here, so I've been given permission to walk up to where the extension is going to go and we'll show you, I'm not going to show you the whole extension, but I can show you some of it, so when you ride this railway, once you've had your train ride, you get off the train just over there and you'd exit by going off down that path and across the crossing where you came in on, but if we walk up this path we will come to the level crossing, and that's where we can see the extension where it's going to leave the existing tracks, it's going to be quite a complex line when it's finished, as I said it is a fairly new Minutes Railway, it's only opened in 2017 and it's developing, so when the extension is done it's going to be even more exciting than it is now, so we come to this crossing here and if you have a look you can see a bit of concrete carries on, that is the start of the extension, there'll also be another track there, so there'll be effectively two more loops, and if you look in this direction here you can see another extension going off, or sight of an extension, so effectively it'll be like a figure of eight and an outer loop, so it'll really be quite an exciting railway, and I really like this S-curve here, so what I'm going to do now, I'm just going to watch a few trains, get a few shots of the trains going round, and then after that it'll be time to head back to St. Neops railway station and get the train back, I've really had a great afternoon here at the Riverside Minutes Railway in St. Neops, the volunteers are all very friendly, I've really enjoyed chatting to them and seeing their locos having a ride, and as we saw with the extension that's under construction I'm really looking forward to you know coming back and having a ride on the extension around further around the woods that way, so I'm now going to walk back to St. Neops railway station, it's also really quite a nice park, so if you are coming here you can have a nice walk around the park as well as a ride on the train, as I said it is about a miles walk, but it's a very comfortable flat miles walk from the station, so and you can always stop and you know in the town on the way, so I'm just going to walk off over this bridge, this is like a little inlet off the river route and walk back through the town centre to the railway station, so I hope you've enjoyed this video, thank you very much for watching and like I said if you're out this way do come and visit the Riverside Minutes Railway, it's a lovely railway and it's going to be extended in the future, hope you enjoyed this video, thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment, tell your friends both about Henry's Adventures and Riverside Minutes Railway, thank you very much goodbye