 station and today we're doing the fourth railway in our series of visiting every miniature railway in Britain so just left the railway station and we got a little walk now you can see it says model village fire footpath at top of path continue left and left again so that's where we're going we're going to beckonscott model village now this is a place that has featured quite a lot on Henry's adventures another sign there it's beckonscott model village it's featured quite a lot on Henry's adventures more so on the model village itself but today we're going there to do the miniature railway so we're just walking up from beckonsfield railway station in beckonsfield new town this is the Chilton mainline out of London Mariborne now this section of line is fairly recent in railway terms it only opened in 1906 it was known as the final link there was already a railway at High Wickham which came up from Maidenhead that section is still open as far as Bourne end with a branch to Marlow and then unfortunately they closed the section up to High Wickham so this section was opened about a mile south of the town or mile north actually of the town of Beckonsfield so this is what is now known as Beckonsfield new town so I've kind of gone the other way so I've walked towards the town centre I followed the path up to this residential area so before the railway all of this would have just been fields and they put the railway station on the road which runs from Beckonsfield to Penn and this area grew up around it there's another sign model village so beckonscott model village first opened in 1929 so it's now 90 years old it had been gradually developing in the 1920s when Ronan Cunningham had some land he had a swimming pool with a model railway around the swimming pool which had outgrown his house and then a few buildings started to appear around it and then a swimming pool became a lake and the model village opened to the public as Beckonscott model village and then in 2001 the Beckonscott light railway was added which has grown a couple of times had a few extensions since it opened so we'll go and have a look at all of that as well but we will take a trip on it I'll show you tell you a bit of the history as it's fairly recent history of the Beckonscott light railway so we've now come on to St Michael's Green because I've called out after St Michael's Church so that is like the Anglican parish church for Beckonsfield Newtown there is another Anglican church up at the old town so you've got this lovely green area model village just behind those houses over there so we're almost there so you can see just how easy it is to get to by train we're doing a whole walk from the railway station up to the model village churches open I have been in there before so I won't go there today but it's a pleasant church so if you wish to do go and have a look so we've almost arrived this is Warwick Road just coming up to the model village so the plan today really is to have a ride on it I'm going to tell you a bit of the history I'll show you how the railway has extended over the years we will feature the model village just a little bit but I have done all that before so perhaps after I've had a ride on the train I'll just walk into the village and show you what's there if you want to see where I explored the whole village then you need to see some of my earlier videos if you come by car you can see there's a sign and your park behind St Theresa's Church that's the Catholic Church of Beckonsfield which there's a model of inside the model village so we are very nearly there now so the town centre is that way as you see it says welcome to Beckonscot and here is his Beckonscot model village so let's go inside and we shall have a ride on the Beckonscot like railway so you approach the village by walking up this narrow path between the houses feels a bit when you get here you think well where is the village but you should soon see welcome to Beckonscot over Mark 1 carriage that's where you pay to get in so I'm gonna go pay to get in and I'll see you inside so I've just paid to come in I have bought my ticket to go on the Beckonscot like railway so this is the Mark 1 carriage and the railway station is just here so we've just got to wait for the train it shows a picture of their diesel it looks like the train isn't here so what we'll do we just have a little look around here so as I said this is the current railway station if you look around here the railway exits the station goes off up in that direction but this here this is a disused station this is the original railway station and the evidence of that is as you can see there is still a small section of turntable remaining it's now kind of become the yard you can see some of their spare carriages there's an electric locomotive just here called Bouncer I can hear the train so the train must be due back soon it's also quite cool it's all nicely fully signal so you've got some nice little semaphore signals and they've also got some ex color light signals I believe some of them came from the Brighton line and some came from Sonning Cutting so what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna queue up over there and I'm gonna wait for the train to arrive and we're gonna have our train right this is entrance to railway so just go up here you can also see they're rather unusual turntable which has points on the turntable and I think that might be the train yeah here it comes it's a tram like a train so once he's ready I'm gonna jump on and we shall have the ride so here we go a horrible trip on the Beckinscott light railway behind their tram now they've just had a quick look in the end shed because in the end shed are two things there's the locomotive which isn't out today this diesel here that's the one which features on the sign I pointed out so this is used on their busy day so obviously which is really cool is this painting of a tunnel I particularly like the painting there's a reason why because it was actually painted by my sister believe it or not this is my sister's artwork so I'm sure you agree with me she's done a fantastic job and a lot of people when they see from over there genuinely do think it's a tunnel sometimes ask why they don't take people that way so yeah this is my sister's artwork at the Beckinscott so following our visit to the shed the other thing I wanted to talk to you about was you may have noticed as we went round there was a couple of two foot gauge wagons that's because there was originally a railway here when they constructed Beckinscott and they approximately ran up here it was two foot gauge and they think that the wagons would have been put just pushed by hand there was no locomotive and they would have run up and down to bring spoil in and out of the village now the other thing I've been given permission to do is to see a more recent disused railway now the minute roger's round up here there's these level crossing gates it says staff only they've given me permission to come through here and we're going to walk on possibly one of the shortest disused railways ever and that is just here see that path because when the railway first opened it came up here as it does now it went up there and it went around and it came across here where this path is took a bit of truck up there and went round again and they used to be a race course here the race course has now moved to the other side of Beckinscott model village and a boating lake has been created so what we're going to do now is we're just going to walk along this very short section of disused railway obviously a more modern bridge has been put in because that's quite steep gradient and there's the famous Beckinscott stroke Hollywood sign so this is the boating lake and then the railway would have when it got to the end of this path it would have rejoined the track beds there so all of what you see there is the new part of the railway so we have just walked on what must be the shortest disused railway footpath there is and we're now going to walk back and we'll go and have a quick look in the village so I have already been here before I did a series once before Beckinscott in about six parts where we explored the whole of the model village so I'm not going to do too much now but since we're here let's just go and see the gauge one railway quickly we'll finish up there because that's more what Beckinscott is famous for the miniature railways great but this is what most people when I think the Beckinscott think of the model village a lot of people actually come so I didn't know there was a miniature railway here so we're going to go up here and I think I have just noticed something a new building that wasn't here when I last visited so we might just have to go and feature that so get to here here is the gauge one model railway now you may recognize that station Green Haley that's because it is a model of Beckinsfield station where we started so we started at Beckinsfield station the full-size version and here we are at the miniature or the model version so let's just see nice see a nice good strain going round another building it wasn't here when we originally came was this building here this is the brush factory I believe it's modeled on a brush factory in Kings Langley so I think that's a really nice model they've got here with an industrial scene by the gauge one model railway what I'm gonna do I'm gonna walk around to the other side so we can see the other side of it this is Beckinscott town which features all of this features apart from the new buildings in the original Beckinscot here is the train coming in a minute so here is the other side of the brush factory it's a really nice model nice to see a big tall chimney and you've got the whole of Beckinscott behind so that is the brush factory now the one other thing I want to before we finish I'm gonna now go the wrong way around there was a building this is the zoo Chessnade zoo a mixture of Chessington Zoo and Wichnade Zoo incidentally Wichnade won't feature on the miniature of Britain series because it's a narrow gauge railway and nor Chessington because it no longer has a railway which is a real shame so we just go around here so we were up there I'm gonna go and look at the one last other new building and then I think it'll be time to go back to the railway station so just come up here this would have featured in the last video church army it looks like here we have an old remains of an old mine you can see is a little ruin small ruin there there's the remains of like a bit here and there's even an abandoned bit of railway line going into the mine itself so yeah that is before we finish this video there's the circus by the way let's just see one more train on the gauge one which we should see a train come around here after the windmill very soon because they run very regularly it's probably one of the busiest railways anywhere certainly one of the busiest model railways we'll see a train pass I think I can hear one and then the time to end our visit second spot incidentally why wait for the train you can just see the threshing machine on the farm and the windmill turning the pan the camera around this way you see the fairground and there is this GK Chesterton fresh from over so I'm gonna head back to railway station now the full-size railway station I hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching and goodbye