 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Denham Golf Club Station today. I've come to tell you about my new hoodie for my Minute to Railway Britain series. Now, it's not actually a Minute to Railway here, but I want to tell you about rail trail tours who have kindly sponsored my new hoodie. So, we've come into the grade two listed waiting pagoda at Denham Golf Club Station. This is one of two. We'll have a look at them in a minute and the rest of the station. But first, I just want to tell you a little bit about rail trail tours who kindly sponsored the Minute to Railway Britain hoodie. This is their latest brochure. Now, I'm just going to show you a couple of the holidays and explain about how their rail ticketing from your home station to the holiday works. So, for example, this one here, ship shape and Bristol fashion. Now, I appreciate you can't see everything that's written, but if you would like one of these brochures, then if you ring up the rail trail office and speak to one of their friendly members of staff, they'll be more than happy to put one in the post for you. So, this holiday is based in Bristol and if you were to buy the rail trail rail inclusive package, they could do your tickets from your home station. So, say it was here at Denham, you and or Denham Golf, you could, they would do your tickets from Denham Golf to Bristol Temple Meads. So, that would include tickets from here to London Marlborough, the London Underground between London Marlborough and London Paddington. And they do you either a first class or a standard class seat reservation from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, whichever you wished to buy. They can also do you a tour base fare, which means if you didn't want to buy rail tickets through rail trail, you could drive to Bristol or make your own way there, but they can do that as well for you. I'm not going to go through all the holidays in the brochure, because there's so many, but as I said, you can ring up and get one for yourself. But regarding miniature railways, some of the miniature railways I'm going to visit on my series are included on their holidays. For example, this one here, the Lake District in Cumbering Mountains Explorer, visits the Ravenglass and Estelle Railway. And there's various other holidays, this one here, step back in time, visits the Hevershaw Light Railway, so that's 15 inch. So that will be included at some point in my Miniature Railway Britain series. And coming out soon, there'll be the Rail Infusion, Yaston Steam Tour's brochure will be out in the next month or so. And that will include even more miniature railways, and indeed narrow gauge and standard gauge railways and some heritage tramways. Certain miniature railways include one of my favourites, the Beckinscott Light Railway. So, you know, do ring up and speak to the friendly office staff, they'll be able to post you one of these brochures if you would like one. So now I've told you about what rail trail tours can do if you travel by train to one of their holidays. I'm now going to show you around Delham Golf Club Station, because it's a railway station that's always fascinated me. It's one of these ones that's just a little bit different. It has quite a rural feeling to it. Now, as I said, we're inside this corrugated iron waiting pagoda. You can see up into the roof. I think these are possibly the only ones left on the national network. There are some on heritage railways. And as I said, they're listed buildings. If we look here, there's this one we've just been sitting in. And there's another one on the other platform. We'll go over there in a moment, because I want to show you around the station. That way is looking towards London Mar-a-Lavone, and that way looks towards George Cross, High Wickham, etc. So this station was a later addition to the railway. The railway opened in 1906 as part of what's known as the Final Link, or the Bista Cut-Off route out of London Mar-a-Lavone. London Mar-a-Lavone already existed as the Great Central Terminus, but this section of line was built to High Wickham to join up with the already existing Wickham Railway, which came from Maidenhead and Bourne End. Unfortunately, the Bourne End to Maidenhead section is closed. Ever since they closed it, I think they wish they'd reopened it. There's a train coming. Maybe one day that will reopen. Let's just see this train and then we'll go and have a look on the other side. So that train's heading north. We're on platform one. There's a train due fairly soon. I know the dot matrix indicator and cameras don't work. It goes all sort of like that, but there's a train to London Mar-a-Lavone in about 1332, so in about 15 minutes. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to take you onto the other platform, show you the other waiting pagoda. So the station, you approach it up these two paths, that one there onto Slade Oak Lane, which heads off towards Chalfonson Peter. And there's this path here, which goes down towards the village of Denham Golf Club. Now we have featured Denham in the past. We've been to Denham Village. It's quite an interesting area, Denham, because you've got Denham Village, and then there's Denham Railway Station about half a mile that way. And then they built New Denham on the road to Uxbridge, and then Denham Green grew up around Denham Station. And then, as I said, the railway was here, opened in 1906. In 1912, they decided to build this station called Denham Golf Club Platform at the requests of the golfers. The golf course is just across the lane over there. I don't think there's many people playing golf today because it's quite a cold autumn day. So they opened this station for the golf club clubbers. It was called Denham Golf Club Platform, which meant it was a bit more than a halt, but not quite a station. If you look there, it says Denham GC, so Denham Golf Club. So any golfers who travel to the station now, whether they do or not, I don't know. The interesting thing is for train-folding, we saw people getting off the golf clubs. They would walk off up that way to the golf club. So I'm now going to take you down under the railway bridge, and we're going to have a look on the other side. So it says station sign there, Denham Golf Club. So the village you've got here, this is known as Hire Denham. So around the railway station, the village called Hire Denham grew up. There's something interesting here. It's an un-staffed station now, but originally, even though, or I don't know about originally, but at some point during its life, it did become a staff station. And a building on this site was the ticket office. Now the building we see today isn't the original. Unfortunately, the original one, which looked very similar, was destroyed by fire in an arson attack. But due to the station's listed status, they decided to build a new one. And I believe it houses all the equipment for the dot matrix indicators and the rail announcements, etc. Because I remember after the fire, all the dot matrix indicators were broken and there were no announcements. So what they did was they rebuilt it to provide the scene of how the station would have been originally. But the one thing that was never put back was the ticket window. So the original one, there would have been, I can't remember which side the door it was, but there had been a little ticket window where originally there were sold tickets. We're now going to walk up the slope. We'll go and have a look at the other pagoda, the train coming, speeding towards London, Maryland. I like the children lining that there's still some loco-hauled trains. I don't know if we'll see one today. They don't tend to run in the middle of the day. It's more in the morning commuters and evening commuters, but you never know. So if we come up here, here's the, we're now coming on to the down platform. We get a better view of the whole scene of the station with its pagoda shelters. So there's the ones, the one we were in a moment ago. Here's the one on this side. Let's have a little look inside. It's quite dark in this one. It's quite a, it's a loft. So it's quite a sparse station, no ticketing facilities, another train coming. And pretty much not a lot other than you can get on trains, although it does have now quite an intense service. You used to only have a train about once every two hours. Must say intense, more than every two hours. It certainly has more than it used to, but as you can see, a lot of trains don't stop here. That's going to Birmingham Wall Street. So here we are at Denham Golf Club Station. And if you look down at the camera speaking out, I can just see Denham Station about half an hour that way. So from Denham Golf Club Station, thank you very much for watching. Thank you very much for Rail Trail Tours for sponsoring the new Miniature Railways Hoodie. And next time I wear this hoodie, I'll be at a Miniature Railway rather than a full size one. So thank you very much for watching and goodbye.