 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm standing by Caldecoat Lake North in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire Caldecoat Lake South is just the other side of that road bridge there. Caldecoat Lake is well known for its landmark windmill, which is now a pub on this side and a premier in on that side But we've come here to have a ride on the Caldecoat miniature railway, which is just the other side of this rather impressive pub This is an artificial lake. There is the damn side of it right round over there So we're gonna walk up here and look for this miniature railway. And the miniature railway we're going to it's the Milton Keynes Model Engineering Society's Miniature Railway I've not been to this one before on this site I've been to a few old site which was over at Dean's hangar in Buckinghamshire Dean's hangar was once on the railway map because there was a tramway from Stony Stratford to Wolverton and in the opposite direction from Stony Stratford it went to Dean's hangar. It was a steam tramway And one of the tramcars survives in the Milton Keynes Museum, which will have to be subject for another video another day And so that is Where the rail used to be at Dean's hangar used to be a country club. I remember going there having a ride You got on the train it sort of went around the sides of two fields and then There was like a loop at the end. So it's quite a nice little rail. Unfortunately We don't have any pictures. It was that period Between everyone having a digital camera. Everyone having an analog camera And I don't think we had camera at all as a train Warm, I don't think we had a camera at all at the time. So I've come here today in my larder which is Park stair And the railway is literally just behind it. I can hear the train. So what we're going to do we're going to go In and have our ride So here we are here's the station says to the trains trains running today And there's like a level crossing now. I wonder if I have got a way for the train to come across or come on Can we get through? The train's just pulling into the station now. So I think I'll be okay to Can I please? Thank you very much So let's go and have a look. So it says to the trains Just switched the engine off. There's two engines here The turns over as well says a little five-inch gauge engine there and there's a larger Seven a quarter inch gauge engine called Hagrid. So let's go and have a ride behind Hagrid With my trip on the railway the train's gone out for another ride You can see they've got two platform lines and when we're on the train We went through on the through line. So you go around twice. You can just see the train is Currently over there. I think it's way around the big curves. It's like a big oval shaped miniature railway And the other feature I particularly like is the bridge over there and from there you can see down To the river Ozil valley I'm going to do now though We might as well just watch the train pass through the station on the through line And then I'll take a few line side shots and then I'm probably going to go and have a pint in that pub And then I'm going to go for a nice long walk to walk you off before going home I'm now going for a walk around Coddacoat lake seeing as I was here and it's such a nice day So I've come right around here as the windmill over there where we started So I've been all around this side of the north lake and what I'm going to do I'm going to finish the video here, but I'm going to continue walking around the south side lake I did have a pint in the pub. So I want to walk it off before I drive home. It's very pleasant here. That's the dam Over there So, you know, if you would like to come and visit this railway, it's very easy to get to I came by car It's free parking. If you were to come by train Fenney Stratford or Boebrick here on the Bedford spreadsheet line aren't too far away um, it probably be A couple a mile or two mile walk along beside the lake so quite a long way, but you know Pleasant walk to what this reminds me of Regarding other miniature railways in Milton Keynes There was one a willing lake. Well, I think there still is one at willing lake I went on it as a child, but it's not running at the moment But he actually runs under a road a bit like this the other place I can remember Visiting a miniature railway as a child was at um Gulliver's land the theme park It's a children's theme park and if you have a look at Lincoln screen now You can see a very short clip of a train I uploaded some of our family footage a couple of years ago under my archive series. So That's the other miniature railways that are on Milton Keynes. There's a few others Nearish, but we'll do those in other videos. So from Coddicote Lake and the windmill which is now a pub which has a miniature railway behind it Reminds me a bit of Fanko actually, which isn't too far away Um, thank you very much for watching. Please feel free to like subscribe and comment. Good