 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at the valley shopping village near Evesham today. The reason we've come here is not so much to have a look at the shops, although I might have looked afterwards. It's because there's a railway here. It's the home of the 15-inch gauge Evesham Vale Railway. It's been here since 2002. I've been here before this day. It's my first time on this railway. I've always wanted to come here, so I'm very excited to see this railway. I believe they're running steam today. So let's go and have a look. So the railway is just up here. So we're probably a couple of miles away from Evesham. I haven't come by train today. You could, but it'd be quite a long walk. So I came by car. So that's the station just there. There's also a rather large garden centre down there. So if you come here by car, you could have a pretty good day out at the garden centre shopping village. Most importantly, the railway. So let's have a look at what we've got here. We come to the very end of the line. We can see there's a turntable. So what we should do later on before we see the locomotive turning, let's go and have a look at the station and see what else we can see. We'll have a ride, do a bit of line siding. The park out there looks very nice, so we'll certainly explore all of that and we'll just have a general look around really and arrive. So here we are. This is Twyford station. So this is the ticket office. So we'll go in here after we run back and buy my ticket, but here's the little ticket office and here is the train. So it looks like to get on the train we're going to have to go around to the end of the turntable. Well that's cool. Look at that. There's like a bike, a rail bike, pedal power train. That's quite a fun thing to have a go on. Let's just go up here and have a look at the locomotive. So there's the train waiting there to depart. Oh now the locomotive we have today is called Dural. I've seen pictures of this locomotive. It comes from Longley or it was originally built for Longley by Seven Lamb in about 1970. So it works at Longley and it's worked at one or two other places and it's now here. So it's probably the oldest locomotive. They've got oldest steam locomotive they've got because I can see a list of diesel and a Ruston Hornby diesel. Now those will be X 2 foot gauge locos which have been regaged to 15 inch to work on that line. So what I'm going to do now, I need to go into ticket office, buy my ticket, we'll go for a ride and then as I said we'll do a bit of line siding. So let's go and ride. Well by the way one thing I was going to say this is Twyford station. Not to be confused at all with Twyford on the Great Western Mainline which is the junction for the Henley branch, completely different Twyford but it's another Twyford station. So there's two Twyford stations passed through Twyford on the Mainline with steam a few times but now we're going to do steam from this Twyford station. So I'm going to go and buy my ticket and off we go. We've just come out of here quite steadily. Okay. We're going to get a pleasure ride right Yes, I understand. So those greenhouses are they on the other side of the river? No worries. I must probably not pick it out but I can just see the Great Western Railways bridge over the river in the far distance. Here's the engine sheds here. So let's have a walk past the engine sheds in the yard. We can see what we see there. My plan is to walk into the country park, do some line siding and just show you a bit more of the railway from the line side. Look at this loco we have here. This loco is called Monty built by the Exmoor steam railway and I can just see the workers plate. It's number Exmoor number 300 built in July 1996. So younger than me. I went to the Exmoor steam railway when it was still open to the public in 1995. Look at the link on screen now you can see that video. So that was before this loco was built but you'll see some of her sisters. There's the list of the loco over there. We'll just go around here and we can see that other loco I said about. You can see right out over the Vale of Evesham. So we'll go and have a look at the views we're going to get on today's video. I think from the you know from the train you can see you've got some pretty nice views. We'll go and look at them on foot. Some more carriages. These are perhaps more the not so good weather carriages because they're all very enclosed and the ones we had were semi open carriages and here's their other diesel that's out today Cromwell. So that's a rust and horns piece that would have also been two foot gauge originally but it's been regaged to 15 inch. So that's the track work. You can see the engine sheds over there. Rail line goes off up there so I'm going to go for a walk now. We'll have a little look around the other end of the line do some line siding and see what see what else we can see. Well as I walk towards the other station I just come down for a bit of a woodland. Seem to be in an orchard now see it's surrounded by apple trees. What we're going to do I want to from the train I saw a very good viewpoint well see the train and look across the Vale of Evesham. So we get to here oh yeah look there's a foot crossing here. There's quite a few foot crossings on the railway as you would have seen when we travelled and the local whittles every time. He comes to one just to let people know yeah they are crossing a railway. So we cross the railway definitely safe no train coming yet and so you always don't know when a train is coming because you you hear a whistle for each crossing. So what the railway does is effectively just there there's the junction where it goes on the loop. The loop goes right around there over to where those trees are and the tunnel is just over there. So all my plan is we're going to go just past here to Evesham Vale station and from Evesham Vale station there is a foot crossing at the end of the platform and that's where we'll go to the point where we should get a really good view of the railway line. So if we go through here here is Evesham Vale station and as you can see Evesham Vale station looking over the Vale of Evesham picnic area country park walk. So a lot of families use the train to come to this play area have a picnic so it's quite nice in if you come on this train you can actually use it you know A to B rather than just the ride. So the train will come in here but the junction is just up there so the loop goes sort of right around there but I want to go down there to watch the train go past where I think we're going to get a pretty good view of the train and I'm going to hang around up this end of the line do a bit of line siding and then walk back so the end of the platform you can see that's the junction so the train will pass on that track go right around the loop and end up coming into here and there's also a siding so let's go down here oh yeah and this is perfect just what I was looking for a really nice viewpoint I think I just heard the whistle so that's pretty good train departing from the station so I've pretty got about five minutes now to wait for the train to come the camera is not picking it out you may have heard me say to the driver but just over there is Evesham and I can just make out the bridge where the railway line from Oxford up to Worcester crosses the River Avon so the River Avon I think I've worked out from looking at a map see all those greenhouses down there it must be just before them it's literally at the bottom of the hill but we can't see the River Avon at this point so oh so this path might be wrong but it looks like it's made out of ashes from the firebox of the steam locomotive so might be wrong there but that's what it looks like to me oh look there's a sound whistle see that sw that means sound whistle so yeah that's it because there is there's another foot crossing there so the thing to do now I'm going to stand here wait for the train to arrive and then we'll go and have a look so one thing we've got to do I think seeing we're down this end we'll walk over the top of the tunnel so we'll wait and see the train and then we'll wait for we'll go for another little walk well that's a good place see the train go fast and the passengers enjoying the fantastic views over the valley of Yves from actually see from the outside ahead you can just see the track so the train will once it's gone around the whole loop come back to here so if we walk along this path I'm thinking if we stay in between the two tracks we should head towards where the tunnel is because as we saw when we were on the train people were walking on top of the tunnel so that's definitely a path I can just see the train disappearing down there so effectively although it's although it's hard to see at this point the two tracks are either side except the other one is on the other side of the hedge so that's where the big loop is perhaps what we'll do we walk to here we should be able to see the train coming out of the tunnel if there's a gap in the hedge and then what I'll do like I said I'm going to do some line siding perhaps there we'll be able to see the train going into the tunnel so when we get to here although I can't see it I'm thinking the tunnel's got to be over there the track that way goes off there so the lowest point on the line is just down there oh there we are look here is the tunnel just there so what I'm going to do I'm going to wait here see the train I think the train some halfway around the loop so he's gone off around there let's wait and see the train pass through the tunnel that was good seeing the train come out the tunnel it's what we're going to do now been under the tunnel let's go over the tunnel so the loop now like I said separates out around us it's funny when you're down there because there was a hotel and services they were careful seeing the cost of what the people think when they're sitting there drinking their coffee did you see the little train you know on the ledge above you I know if I was here and I didn't know this railway was here I'd probably you know go mad with excitement and I'll be walking up this hill trying to find out where to get on it to have a ride so like I say it's it's actually quite nice in that if you were say driving from the midlands to the south west or you know towards Bristol area or from Wales across towards London you could break your journey here have a cup of tea and have a ride on the train because it's it's one of those places you know that could be in the middle of your journey if you're going where I said so there's another crossing just there I think this path here is going to be the hill under the lime tree so the railway line must be around there so we're heading up to the hill and that's the other end of the shopping village just over there so I might walk back that way give a cup of tea maybe and then I'm gonna have to so it's been pretty good though I've driven here all the way from near London today but you know like I said you could come by train although it would be a fairly long walk but you know if you are out this way it's definitely worth visiting and you've got some really nice walks so this must be the tunnel on that side where we just saw the train come out the tunnel can't see a lot there's a lot of these rose-hit bushes but it's down there but if we look here we get a nice view looking down onto the railway line so what I'm going to do now we're clearly above the tunnel I'm going to walk off and head back so oh yeah that's the turns play area just here where many people travel on the train to so the train should be in the station at this moment in time I'm going to hang around this area now do a bit of line siding and then time to go well I've had a great day here at the Evesham Vale Railway the staff have been very pleasant let me have a footplate ride they're all very friendly here so as I said you know if you are out this way do come and visit them it's a really really nice railway um you know it's it's just like like any miniature railway they're always exciting to to visit but here you know you've got the miniature railway you've got the garden centre the shopping centre down there you've got a very nice country park so do come visit the Evesham Vale Railway I hope you've enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and um from just outside the Evesham Vale Railway station the Ford she goes off on another trip do go on her train let's say goodbye