 minute to railway. So here we are we've arrived at the Northfield and District minute to railway here my larder and I think a train is just arriving there's already one in the station there's another diesel train just pulling in now so we'll go for a ride on the railway in a minute we'll just have a look at a couple of other things so point of which one we'll go for a ride on. We've got their new ticket office here it's the first day of their 2023 season it's also my first minute to railway of 2023 so I'm really excited to come visit a railway which I hadn't been to before so there's the two locals sat there they've got a turn them they're both as you can see they're both facing the buffers so I think the way they turn them is the train has to go out on a turning move before it comes back into the station and then it'll take us off on our ride. Now this railway is fairly new it's only been here since 2019 it's a garden centre what's called the Harlow Garden Centre it's about halfway between Harlow and Northfield over that way is Northfield now I've noticed there's a few planes taking off and landing there goes the train now let's watch this the train is going off on a turning move so it's departing the station as you can see reversing no passengers on and I think what will happen is it will disappear off around there we should see it then heading forward and then it will reverse back into the station and then I'll go and buy a ticket and we'll go for a ride so there it goes. This reminds me of the Fancott Miniature Railway the Miniature Railway at a pub over near Luton they do a similar operation there with their trains so you can see he's reversing still in a moment we'll see the train running forwards and then backwards. So as I said earlier it's been here since 2019 it was at the Eppingongar Railway at one point but not to the extent it is not the extensive track layout is now it ran up and down the platform at Northfield I have been to the Eppingongar Railway that's another interesting place to visit they're not actually running today but they're not too far if that's Northfield airfield over there and Northfield station is probably only a mile or a mile and a half away from here so that's potentially somewhere you could visit on one day now there's the train can you just see over there you can see the train is now heading forward it's gonna disappear behind those bushes and then in a moment the train will reverse into the station and it'll probably form the next departure because as you can see this one sat here the engines off and it's not currently running so this is a big picnic area here and the railway I'm getting impression it goes off around there and I can just see the train he's now heading that way but I think it's the shape of the return loop that he's it's kind of a this shape so it's basically a triangle but a very kind of curvy triangle oh there's something else moving over there I can just see another train anyway the train is now reversing into the station so that will form the next passenger departure so even before we've had a ride it's been quite interesting watching how they operate when you don't and sounds like this diesel locomotive is just starting up so that's good so we'll see both of those in action so now look you can just see the train is arriving at the station backpacks with no passengers on so it must mean there's effectively a railway within a railway that the passengers don't get to travel on and there's effectively what's called a sit-in crossover over there double-slip so trains must be able to arrive and depart from each platform with a train back in I'm going to go for a ride wherever I'll get on this one I might get on the next one but it's time for me to go and buy my ticket and have a ride I enjoyed my ride on the train there's a airplane just flying over you might just be able to see that come out of Norfield Airfields it's quite nice if you like light aircraft you see them coming in and out the airfield and you've course got the train train I was on has just gone to turn so I think in a moment it will come reversing into the station there's a few people they're waiting so in fact they're both the other ones just on the turning move you just see the one which we saw do the turning move when we first got here that's also doing the turning move so that should mean there'll be two departures quite soon so what I'm gonna do I thought I'll go and get some line-side shots of the two trains in action and then I'm probably gonna go over to the garden center and get a cup of tea the train I'm expecting to see the other one reverse into the station any time soon the fact that both trains are out on turning moves says that we can be there goes the station master he's going to so as for the ride itself the line it takes you on a loop off around there now I've noticed there was a shortcut back to the station so it could do an out and back but of course it went off down a branch right down there and then we saw the Loco ran around so it's quite an interesting complex of railways and for a fairly new one it's developed quite a lot a friend of mine said that he came here one day when I think the epiongo rail had a bus rally and the bus came up in he said that he got on it and the ride was literally the turning move but that was when the railway was brand new so I think we probably can expect to see the train one of the trains reverse but I can hear it I can hear them so they're out somewhere so like I said the turning move is effectively arriving itself and I get the impression that was the ride before they extended the line it's funny I can hear the engine so I'm just been kept in suspense now as to when the train is going to come back it's definitely there we go there we go so I think that's probably the one I was on yeah so that's the one I was on so although it's effectively a model of the diesel Loco it's powered by electricity but it's got some nice sound effects as we heard on the ride it's called Bowden British Rail River it carries a number 207 so I think it's a bit of a fictitious Loco but I quite like it the hidden sound of it right so with the train now in the station and ready to depart we're going for this as I can point out nothing too exciting it this garden centre regarding getting here I not sure as I said that some of those buses come up here when they have bus rallies but I would suggest it's probably a better one to drive to it's kind of halfway between Harlow and Northwield of course Norfolk is on the Epiongle there's a plinth loco up there interested so I would suggest you're pretty better off driving here so you've got the whole garden centre complex over there so it's quite a big site I said I will probably go and have a cup of tea there when I finish making a video my car's not the only old classic car as a method is that's quite a bit older than my car so usually when I go somewhere in my lard I'm about the oldest car in the car park but not today so we get to hear little notes a little sign there saying miniature railways so the miniature railways over there somewhere behind the trees now it was here I noticed a path so I think you can go for a walk down here and go down this path it says beware of trains let's have a look as soon as we come down here laughing I like look we come to a miniature foot crossing so it does say stop look listen before we cross the line unless it's got little miniature miniature crossing warning lights so you can see the railways it's actually up quite a hill here so shame they're not running any steam so I think if they were here would be a great place to see a steam engine working up the hill around the corner and then back down again so I'm gonna do I'm gonna wait here and we'll watch the train to go past so having watched both the trains on the loop part of the line I've now made my way to the other end of the site so the stations over there this is the section which is a bit like a branch line as I said you can do like a loop and you could go straight that station but the passion trains come down here now I noticed when I was on it they have a token so only one train can come up here at a time I understand so from looking around one of the trains the sees or the electric diesel Bowdoin is down there with a passenger train and then the other one the red diesel locomotive is waiting to come back is waiting for Bowdoin to clear this section because they can only have one train up here I can just see some movement up there now is that that's Bowdoin diesel electric locomotive running around the train she's down there she's gonna come back with the passenger train one way and then as soon as that trains pass the token will be hung up passed over to the red diesel loco and then that one can make its way up the branch so we'll stand at this little spot here and we'll watch the action on the branch so now seen both trains in action on the woodland hold branch I think the loco is just running around so that'll be heading back shortly I almost tempted to walk over there and ask for a lift back but I'm gonna walk back I won't be too late because the main station is only over there there's this big field here and then there's the garden centre I don't know how obvious it is in the video but you've kind of got the main station there the railway basically heads off that way and then I say you've got the branch down here to woodland hold so I've really enjoyed it here today first miniature railway of 2023 no doubt first of many miniature railways in 2023 so the miniature railways Britain series will continue as one I can get to a miniature railway well there's a lot more miniature ways I've still not been to my first visit to this one today and there's a lot of others I want to visit well but I'm visiting all of the miniature railways is the whole point miniature over it and so many more miniature railways videos to come in the future I hope you've enjoyed this video as I say if you want to come and visit them then have a look on their Facebook page their website it will have the running dates so do come and visit them it's very easy to get to you might also just be able to hear the motorway it's not and it too intrusive the noise but that line of coniferous trees behind there is the M11 so it's basically one junction up the M11 from the M25 so it's a very easy railway to get to by car and I'm not so sure about the public transport as I said I know buses sometimes come up here when they have a bus rally so I hope you've enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from the Northwilden district miniature 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