 Hello, thank you for joining me. We're at Chester today. Now, I've just arrived on this Virgin Voyager It was pretty overcrowded because there appears to be racing on. I won't get into a rant about how the trains are too short, but they're not really long enough for the amount of people that were on it this morning. A couple of things I want to show you. Light is old station lights. You don't see that many of them. Some still at Stratford-upon-Avon, but they're disappearing. There were some at Nottingham a few years ago. I'm not sure if they're still there. We will be doing the Merzy rail later, but we haven't come to do a barrier-less Merzy rail like we did with the barrier-less tube stations. But if you count Chester as a Merzy rail station, if it is served by the Merzy rail, then you have to go for a ticket barrier to get to all platforms, except the one we're on now. And what I want to show you on this platform, while it's here, is this class 156. 156. 461. Because for our military railway Britain series, it has something relevant. Although it's not miniature, it's full size. It has an advert for the Ravenglass and Estelle railway now. Although it might be possibly next year we get to do that, it might happen this year, but I somehow don't think so. It's quite nice to see the Ravenglass and Estelle railway can be seen all over the northern network by the vinyls on this unit. And they're nicely done vinyls, they're not intruded, they don't block the window. So, yeah, Ravenglass and Estelle at Chester. And just so you can see, there's your usual glass wall you get when you have ticket barriers, and we're here. The main ticket barrier is there. As I said, it's very busy over there because there's races on at Chester. Plan now is to go and see if the Groves and Apartments of Railway is running today. So I'm walking from Chester railway station to Groves and Apartments. This isn't necessarily the most direct way to walk, I just thought this way was a bit more interesting. So I'm coming along the canal, the Shropshire main line. If you have a look over there, you can see there's various houses, some new, some not so new. Behind me is the steam mill, which I think is a fascinating large building. Up ahead is a water tower, there's flats on this side. The place I'm heading for, though, is Waitrose. I'm going to grab a coffee before I go on the miniature railway. And I like how it's probably one of few Waitrose in the UK. You can actually directly access by barge. In fact, if you own a barge, you can get a barge closer to the front door, and you can get your car to the front door, which is quite an amusing fact. I'm pretty sure that is unique. They should have a McDonald's here, and if you like to get drive-through McDonald's, they can have Leica. What would it be? A sail-through McDonald's? I suppose that would be quite funny. So, just coming here, there's a lot of new construction going on. There's going to be a, you know how to watch birds, it's interesting. And there is, I've always been fascinated by that tower. The views from the top of the tower must be amazing. You can see how they've demolished various buildings around it, but they've kept the tower. And we're sort of in amongst all the new construction of new apartments, both side of the canals. And here we are, Waitrose. So, next part of the video, we shall be at Grovesham Park. Let you see the views both sides. I'm now going into Waitrose, get coffee and some lunch. So, I've got my Waitrose coffee, and now I'm going down the travelator. Believe it or not, I think there are some people out there that actually go trying to do every travel later. There is. I'm not one of those people. But I'm using it as part of my transport to get to a minute to an hour. So that's certainly unique. I said we'll get to some by metro, some by tram, some by trains, some in my lard, but never before have I used the travelator to get to a minute to an hour. So, just thought I'd show that, so I'm now going to go out the front of Waitrose. And onto the main road, cross the road and go and find Grovesham Park where the minute to an hour is. So, coming out of Waitrose, there's a big town we saw. There's Waitrose behind me. I've got to get across there. So, off I go to Grovesham Park. So, we've now got across the busy road and we are about to enter Grovesham Park. So, we are very close now to the minute to an hour. Yes, it's just at the end of this path. So, let's see if it's running. By the way, if you're ever in Chester, do come visit Grovesham Park. It's a really nice park. It's got lovely views over the River Dee. I'm sure we can have a quick look at them. There's also a ruined church at one end. It's just outside the historic walls of the city centre. I'm not doing the city centre today. I've got other plans after here. We get to sign. It says there a minute to Raleigh this way. So, let's go and find it. I know we have been here before. So, I know we're not far away. It should be just around this corner. See what we can find. There we go. See a little crossing. And there's the train. I'm sure that's the loco I have at the Brookside. A minute to Raleigh. I'll have to find out. Anyway, I'm going to go and jump on and have a ride. So, there goes the train. I missed that departure, but what we'll do as soon as we're here is have a quick look at the station and then what we'll do is run over to the other side of the park and see the train come in. So, we've got a lovely little station. There's like an isolated bit of track here. Cross here. There's like a bit of track that goes just beyond the engine shed. Now, I think that might be, perhaps they, you know, let children drive their own train on a safe little bit of track not connected to the main line, so to speak. So, that's the station building. That's the engine shed. So, if we go over here, rather because of quite a cool long budget, we should see the train in a minute. So, it's quite short of a minute to Raleigh, but it's pleasant. Let's see. There it is. I can just see it. So, I'll stop talking to make you watch Train Goodbye. Time for my trip now. Quite excited about this. You know, they do something, either have a tunnel or don't quite follow the natural contours of the land. It just makes the ride that much different and that's what makes miniature railways also unique and I think that's why I enjoy miniature railways so much. I enjoy this one so much. I decide to have a second ride. I guess the train is just sort of following it around. As at the beginning of the video, I said I would show you the view over the River Dee. We're going to go and do that and then I'm going to go and go back to Chester Station and get on the train and go somewhere else. I say somewhere else. I've got this ticket here. It's a Cheshire Day Ranger. So, I'm going to go and bash the hell out of the miniature rail system and enjoy its units, the 507s and 508s, while I still can because soon they're going to be replaced by these new Stadler trains which I think look quite cool but you know, I want to enjoy these ones. I'm not going to try and go on everyone but at least see every one of them while I still can. So, let's just go and finish Groves the Park with the view over the River Dee which is about to open out in front of us. The video started at Chester Railway Station so I thought I'd end it at Chester Railway Station. We're just on the footbridge and we're just going down to the platform because there's something else I wanted to show you. We're just going down this... I find this set of steps really strange. We've got, like, the girders growing out of the roof. It just feels a bit... It's different, I quite like it. Anyway, that isn't actually what I wanted to show you. It is just up here. So we come down here. This is this platform. You'll notice it has a third rail. That's for the Mersey Rail trains which I'm going to get because, as I've already mentioned, I have a Chester Rail Ranger which covers the railways of the Wirral. So I'm going to go and do some track bashing now. But the thing I wanted to show you up here which I always find quite an interesting story is most of the station has an overall roof but it ends here and it starts again there. And you may wonder why it does that. Well, it hasn't always been like this. The roof once carried on, but at some point the DMU derailed and it demolished the centre ports and the roof flaps. So that is why there is this section here with no overall roof where these 2150s are. We've got a Northern 150 without a door in the front and a River Trains Wales, although they're not called that anymore, Transport for Wales 150 with a door in the front. So, from Chester Railway Station, I hope you enjoyed my little trip to Groveson Park. I'm going to go and bash the hell out of the railways on the Wirral. Goodbye.