 Hello, thank you for joining me. I've just arrived here in my larder. I've parked under an oak tree But around me everywhere are pine trees. The place we've arrived at today is The Pinewood Ledger Centre, which is also home to the Pinewood Miniature Railway. Just here, it's near Woking In Berkshire, so there we are, that's this Pinewood Miniature Railway I've never been to this railway before, so it's why I'm quite excited about I can hear the sound of steam locomotives And whistles being steamed up, so I think we're gonna have quite an interesting afternoon when we see what they've got running here So we get to here. This is the main shed, little diesel loco. It's a great Western loco There's a county class there being steamed up, turntable Couple of other loco's on the shed. There's even a bullet Pacific over there So I think we'll do, we'll go and see what there is. We'll go and have a ride And just have a look around the site. So it looks as though over there That's the ticket office. So we're going to queue up. Let's just go and have a look The loco. There's a train set here. There's a high mech. That's quite nice That's what I'll do. I'll try and get, I think it's a nice mix of diesels and steam We can get a ride with a diesel and a steam. That'd be quite good So see there's that high mech there. What I'm gonna do I'm gonna join the queue and see if we can get a ride behind this high mech I'll have a look Yep Having had an enjoyable ride behind that high mech I thought we'll go for a little walk around some of the site, do a bit of line side And I'll come back and have steam haul drive I think you can see it's getting a bit busier. I arrived just when they start So I'm gonna be quite busy, which is gonna be quite good for me Because what that means is there should be a lot of trains So on that double track text and there was a level crossing I thought we'll go for a walk up there It'd be just like being by a main line Various trains go by, should be quite a nice Just to stand there and watch trains, always good fun So walking down here, by the way, the rest of the site You can see all these buildings here It was a Canadian military hospital The stands and it's now used by various different people So when it says it's the leisure centre Not like a leisure centre with a, I think it's a whistle Not like a leisure centre of say like swimming pools That kind of thing, more like leisure is in This sort of leisure, like riding a minute to trains I know if you say it was a little theatre I think it was a café in the site So it's that sort of leisure And also, there's all the steaming bays It's a little great Western loco Going down here, my other sort of leisure Iike Is going for walks in the countryside By doing what we're doing now For a nice walk into the woods And as I said, we're gonna do a bit of line sideing That's the level crossing there That's the branch line to the sheds So like the depot branch, if you like The railway itself, it was you may have seen From the journey we did It's effectively a figure of eight But a bit of an out of shape figure of eight The station is just over there Oh look, there's a two-MT loco I think the station's a bit crowded So where is the high mech about to come past? The high mech we rode on that on this next trip That's on the inner of the eight So there, that goes That's on the inner eight And then that will then go across There was a flat crossing It'll run down the double track section Around the loop at the end and back So probably what we'll do is as we go along We'll see that high mech come past us again And as I said, I'm just gonna hang around By the level crossing So if you want to visit the site It's easy enough to visit if you've got a car Probably would be a bit of a walk if you don't have a car But you can do some quite nice walks Another nice looking path going off down there It's free to park So it's free to visit the site You just pay to have a ride Or do what you'd like to do And there's an orange-style and copper wheel Loco, which we'll have a look at later on So that's on the inner of the eight This is the outer of the eight It's quite a nice little viaduct I went over it, it's more though when you go past it You can appreciate it as a bit of a hole So they had to build a viaduct The railway understand has been around since 1983 I think it officially opened to the public in 1988 So it's been here quite a while Very nice setting for railway I always remember with this one Like I said, I haven't been here before I had always sort of looked I spend like time in sort of research When you look for a railway on Google Earth Some railways are very obvious This one, you can't see anything on Google Earth Because it's all in the trees So it's a bit of a mysterious railway But now I've been here and sort of seen where it goes It's really, it's a really pleasant railway I can hear a steam train Don't know if you'll see it And it's that orange-style and copper loco At the moment you can't see it particularly well But you can hear it It sounds really good You might just see it through this gap in the trees here Should just sit in the distance But you can certainly hear it We saw a similar Orestan and Koppel locomotive At another recent miniature railway But it wasn't a miniature We went to Tinker's Park If you want to see that video Have a look at the link on the screen now Down in Sussex They've got a seven and a quarter inch gauge miniature railway But they'd also got a two foot gauge railway And we saw that local debt Now when we get to this crossroads in the woods Notice a level crossing Here the steam loco This is like the end of the double track section And as if I'm magic about high makes coming along again So what I'm going to do now I'm just going to hang around here basically And just watch trains Because it's a nice place to watch trains I've enjoyed a nice bit of line-side I think it's a really nice bit of track here Because it's at high level as the trains go past This is the big loop at the end of the railway line So what I'm going to do I'm just going to have a little look up here So you can see the railway line It goes off around there That's the end Down here there's a little bit of a river I've noticed which is quite interesting So here's a stream I get across So I've just come across the stream there What we'll do, we'll walk up here There's a footbridge just here Just a bit of fun Always enjoy a walk out in the countryside So if you do come here As well as having a ride in the train I think it's a nice walk like this There's a bridge up there I jumped over the stream just for fun And then I still hear the trains Come back over the bridge And then what I'm going to do I'm going to walk back I'm going to get a ride Hopefully I won the steam locomotive I'm not sure which one Just see which one comes along I've had a really nice afternoon Here at the Pinewood Minutaroa I've enjoyed riding behind the Heimlich It's past 20 going by now It's almost like being back at Reading In the 70s or 80s It's a nice mixture of trains they're running Of course you've got Clan Line And the 2MT And there's also the Orestine and Koppel Just to make things even A little bit more different I'm going to walk back over there to my Lada now And that will be the end of my visit I've really enjoyed it here But like I say it's a good place to come I think you pretty much have to come by car There's a children's playground There's lots of other things to do So you can quite easily spend a day here There is also a cafe here So you can get teas and cakes Etc So it's a good place to come for an afternoon I think the public running Is usually the third Sunday Of each month So if you come along on the first Sunday Of each month that's when the railway runs to the public Anyway I'm going to get back in my car And go home Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment Thank you to the railway for inviting me And accommodating me today It's been a great afternoon So thank you very much Goodbye