 Hi, thank you for joining me. I've just driven my larder on its longest ever journey I've just driven from Bucklehamshire to here to Darlington. It's the IFA Club's weekend. We're going to drive all around the north-east and visit a few attractions. So as you can see we have a Trabant, a Walkberg and if I pan around here, we have another Walkberg and Darlington North Road station which is the Head of Steel Museum. So we're going to have a look around here and then we're going to get in the car, drive further north and there'll be a few more videos from this weekend. Lots of lots of Walkbergs, a few more Trabants and maybe another larder. But now let's go and see Head of Steel Museum. We've paid to come in to the Head of Steel Museum so we're going to have a little look around. This is the old Darlington North Road station. Here's the ticket offices. Through here. Now this is where we should see some interesting stuff. Well as we get to here here we have a steam locomotive. But what we're going to do, we'll have a proper look when we get around there. Let's have a look what there is on this side. So if we go in here we'll actually have a look inside the booking office. So that's where it was a moment ago. So you can imagine all the booking clerks sitting here making their bookings and when people would have sent parcels by rail. You can see they had it been kept here. So this shows us what the station would have looked like. You can see the racks over there full of little Edmunds and tickets you get. You can't often get them when you go on heritage railways and some miniature railways do them. This is a great local. I'd love to see this running again. Sounds like a train has just pulled into the station because it is still a functioning station. So let's have a quick look at that. It's a way to rush this. But yeah there's a class 156. Let's go and see that. And then we'll do the museum properly. So out here they're going to think I'm running to capture straight but I'm not. So I'm outside now. I don't need to wear a mask. So you can see on the other side of the palisade fence is a class 156. So that will be going to Bishop's Auckland. And through there there's the overall roof of the station. So I'll just let you have a look at that. A little bit like I'm in a prison. Although if it is a prison it's a nice prison. So it's 156 440. I think it's about to go. 156 440 goes on up towards Bishop's Auckland. We're going to have a look around the site. So we will go in there. That's where the steam engines are. We have a look down here though on what was obviously once quite a big island platform. We can see there's a couple of diesel locos there. So we'll go and have a look at them. There's Darlington Railway Preservation Society's building which I don't think is open today. So I'm not sure if it is actually open so ever. So we probably won't be going in there today but we can have a look. So here's some wagons. So if you wanted to access Darlington North Road Station you'd have to come down this path and come up here into the museum. Let's just I think we can go down here. I don't normally go walking off the end of platform ramps onto track. This is a sharp bit of standard gauge track just here. So let's have a look. Here we have two diesel locos. I don't know the identity of these so if anyone does and wants to comment and tell me I'll be very grateful and I can look them up in my book and pick them off. So two little industrial diesel locos and there's some tank wagons over there. I'm going to head back to get on the station platform and we'll go and have a look around the museum. There's one other thing I wanted to show you on this side before we go in so back onto the platform let's go back into the head of steam and see some steam locomotives. In the men's toilets I can't use these ones though because hey I'll just for show you there's a barrier to stop you going in there's some more modern toilets next door but I quite like these urinals see how you effectively do a wee into one basin and you'd all stood around then so this one's like a full circle for six men to use those ones up to three men could use and then there's the other conventional toilets. It reminds me a bit though as I drove up here we stopped at services and there weren't urinals like this but there was a sink like this where you all stood around and washed your hands and all the water went into the same bowl so finishing with the toilets let's go and have a look at some steam locomotives. So there's number 901 which we'll get look up from the other side go around here so this is the old north road station and as we saw earlier trains do still stop here which is quite nice. There's a replica of locomotion the loco that a lot of people do associate with Darlington so we have various other exhibits to have a look at going exhibition room here of children's stories and there's railways such as Tom's tank engine Harry Potter because of course it has railways in it and various other things Paddington Bear has railways in it so it tells you all about children's stories and railways in that room. We have some quite nice modern model northeastern locomotives and here's an old northeastern carriage body from about 1865 so you have a look inside. As in travelling like this windows are quite small and they say modern trains today aren't very comfortable that really doesn't look comfortable. Let's go through here and you have a look at 901 you can actually have a look at the camp so here we have a big northeastern freight locomotive it's an 080 and this is the camp and now we're going to go and see some older locomotives as we walk through the old station hall. There's various other exhibits to have a look at as we go all sorts telling the story of railways Darlington and the area here we have a lave it must have been literally hundreds of laves in Darlington once. Here we have locomotive 1463 so this is a northeastern railing locomotive she was built here at Darlington in 1885 as we can see on the works plate there's a bridge here and we've got there at the moment and have a look down on the locos so there we have a locos kind of got older well locomotion technically is the newest even though it's an old design around 901 we've now got this one and look at this this is a really interesting locos something quite different but showing the story of earlier locomotives it's called Derwent and it's actually got two tenders it's got tender there for water and then it's got tender there for coal so what would have happened is the driver would have stood here see the cylinders driver would have stood here water came from here but the thymine would have been at the front of the locomotive here this is where the coal would have been in this tender and you would have put the coal in through there so that's really quite different and unusual it's not seen locally it's a little bit like a garret although differences with a garret the section that carries the boiler has no wheels and they have a power bogie here and here so with this you've got the two tenders which is like a garret but it's not like a garret in that the wheels are actually on the locos themselves and then here we have a coal wagon more exhibits telling the story of railways in the area but just around here there's quite a nice model railway the trains aren't going but it shows the area so down here this is Sheldon so this is the old Stockton to Darlington railway see locomotives similar to locomotion this then there's an incline which would have been a rope worked incline we're now going to make a way along the railway having a look at things as we go so there's a double track section some trains would have still been horse and gravity so if you look here you can see a horse pulling a guard van up the hill and that train there looks like it's ride going down the hill and just at the back there is a horse enjoying the ride down before working hard up again here this is the site of where we are today the site of the present north road station with a similar locomotive to what we saw over there going past and there's the school and bridge or school and bridge which is just up the road or what the railways should say from here still there still carrying trains two trains passing so it's quite an impressive little more railways there's another horsework train and then here is Stockton Key where all the cold it was brought down would have been transferred to barges probably on the river Tees I would have thought I think it's river Tees I'm not entirely sure if you know do comment and tell me what I'm going to do now though I've promised I've got here didn't I and we'll go outside have a little look around see which other cars are still here might be one or two other things to show you now I've got a carry-on driving north so let's go up over the bridge there's the Stainmore Summit marker post so that line unfortunately is closed but that would have told you Stainmore Summit I believe it was the highest railway in England possibly Britain 1,370 feet above sea level which is really nice big old wooden bridge wide the stairs are quite steep from here we get a nice view of the steam locals really going right up into the loft of the building so once you go up here you don't actually get such a good view of the locals but you get a perfect view of the loft of the building I'm not going to go outside and we'll see what's going on out the front I enjoyed my visit to head of steam museum some interesting locals in there now as for my larder it has been joined by a few more eastern block cars we have a lineup of trebants so that's quite exciting so these trebants are going to be taken part in the north east weekend which the IFA club is holding around the northeast finger so we're going to drive all around northeast of England over the next couple of days hopefully there'll be more videos from that but there you go here's a nice lineup of trebants the white one and the third one in there the four-stroke one the bright yellow one that's a two-stroke one and then these two blue trebants they're both two strokes and the warburg onion in the middle is my larder so I'm going to get in my larder we're going to drive north thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment do come and visit the head of steam museum in Darlington from just outside in their car park which has had a bit of an eastern block invasion thank you very much for watching goodbye