 They would gladly have given us two coaches, but then we had to have the diesel, so I didn't think about it. He's very cozy. There he comes on board. He's very good. They're by Stapler. This is where we're going to go. That car's got UK registration. It's the first one I've seen. Well, look at how steep the railway suddenly gets. Look ahead, chaps. Look at the steepest of the line ahead now. God! This is working hard now. I want to hear it. Do you want to sit here and speak a move? Okay. I don't mind anything. The freight goes steep. It all slides off though, steep. I'm racing. It'd be nice to see it from the side, watch it go past. It sounds like an express locomotive at speed, but it's the racetrack. Would you mind shutting the door into first pass? That'd make you a terrible racer. There's another train coming down. Diesel coming down. I think I was actually. It'd be really nice to stand in the field and watch it go past. Oh look, there's the passing loop. And this is the first kilometre. See the post? That's the kilometre post. It'd be interesting. Nice. Coins, the whole railway. Is there a complex to the point? Is this the point? Yeah, there's just an overly complex to it. Yeah, so there's a conventional point and then the track and the rack. Thank you. You can see the points again. See how when it changes, see how the middle... See that swivels? The rack has to change. I don't mind that. I was running there myself though. That's really steep. Bro, it's alright, we're all together. In green. We're done. I bought... I looked and I'm not filming, so... I remember last time we spoke, we talked about Tim and his video channel. Oh, Tim Hitchcock? Tim was with the... What has he been up to? I'm not saying I'm copying him, I'm just thinking along his... He's just a lot more professional than I am. He's president. Do you want that one? Recently. Yes. Sometimes when I see his video, I can hear my voice in the background. If you dislike him... Well, I think it is, but you're probably going to say it's going to happen now, so... Don't say anything you don't want on YouTube. I've not actually met him yet, he and I keep talking about meeting up. So, at some point we will. He's a terrifically nice guy. I'm sure, yeah, you see... You can sort of get a vibe off people, even if it's just online. I get that vibe from him, that he seems like. He is one of life's best friends. Yeah. His fascination with the camera is truly... Yeah. ...pore inspiring. It was minus 16 or something. Not one point in one of our videos. And he's still there, rather than trying to get his camera off. He's barely moving his fingers. Yeah. I'm going to have to get a GoPro, like, in the middle sleeve. Yeah, very good. Yeah, I mean, I'm just using my phone. I'm not whole, I can get... ...to get quite good videos. I make what, a nice one, a flying Scott. It's the other day. The one to your arm? Yeah. Like, my film, you know, I'm on the train. It's not quite the same. My film, a couple of the rare bits of track, and about one and a half thousand people watch. It's also quite happy. Well, when Scottsman was first released, yeah. He had to. He was included as the star of one of the Great Britain series. Yeah. And I got a call saying, would I like to go to Great Britain? Oh, okay. So I went to Great Britain. Yeah, I went on the last leg of the Great Britain this year. Oh, did you? I asked nicely. Asked there's nicely. Could I... They did things to Felix, though, which is incredibly rare. And into Liverpool Street. So I just said, you know, can I come for a ride? And he said, yeah, go. He goes, I'll sit down in the break, keep quiet, and go. So the only thing about our two series, they will have a number of things. Do you know Vaughn? Who? He's not Vaughn. Vaughn? Vaughn. He's not Vaughn. No, I don't. Vaughn drops in and out of the course all the time for me. And I feel so that for the other series, just for a few days, he's always all paid up and everything, but he just, he can't get the time to come along. I see, yeah. Come on, come on. I think that's a dear proof fence, and like that kind of thing. I used to work in the deer park. Yes, that is, yeah. I worked for the National Trust at one point. So did you? Yeah. Attingham Park and Shropshire. Oh, right. And one of my favourite jobs is with our bad weather. I used to have to walk through the deer park fence perimeter looking for any breakage here. If it was all morning, it'd take you all morning at five mile walk. It was a perfect, yeah, it was a perfect start. Well, we have a small deer park in Greenwich of course. Yes, I know it. It's on top of the cross there. I often go up there. Yeah, my girlfriend likes to go in there. Do you live in London? I live in Buckinghamshire, so... Oh, you're from London? Yeah, in a yard, Scotland. So it's quite handy for their day trips. I can get up to London. Oh, Scotland, yeah. Sometimes I get sent to Diggert for that cardiff one with Scotland. I had to get to Diggert. That was quite easy. We came with a little ferry man. Every night, we used to go out to the local drugstore where we were drugged by the police. And he fired a five or six pack of yams there for a job in the supermarket. So, all that stuff. Yeah. We need to wear the ones that they don't fit. Oh, my God. I don't understand the rules. You don't understand the rules. It's not very easy for him to travel. Very easy, though. I don't know if he's doing so well, but he's been more aware. I think we are... I think it's up to people to know we're going to the fast fashion store. Stop the rock. It's a very friendly way to travel, to be honest. It's a piece of cake as well, isn't it? We're off right now. I used to use some of those old things as language exercises for children having speech support. I think I can. I think I can. Yeah. No one can, man. No one can. It was like, yeah, with that Reverend Audrey, I remember Edward and Gord and Gord was like, I can't do it. I can't do it. They was going, yes, you can. Yes, you can. Don't be silly, yes you can. Jordan was always like that. Though it was Henry, unfortunately. I remember my mum, when I was little, I was sort of complaining, I got a headache and I was like, God, why did I call you Henry? The one who's always got something wrong with me. I should have called you Thomas James or Edward. Maybe not Gord. I was like Toby. Yeah, he's a nice little... There's another local. I'm doing the Norfolk tool. How are you? We're going to the Norfolk world. Toby, there's a crab there. Yeah. Whoever the director of that is, is a passenger of mine. Let's see him again. Yeah, because you get that day trip where you go on the charter train. It's winter this year, isn't it? I think. My mum and I stew it. But we're not... I'm not available for that. Yeah, we... Yeah. Because I don't really get learning about the day trips. You know, they never tell me anything about those. Normally I'm so busy with everything else. Yeah. Well, I... I know a few of the crew. I had a few of them on my last tour, didn't I? I had the... What's his name? Les. I had a whole group of them. Which tour was that? Uh, whatever it was. Happy Christmas, Les. Happy Christmas, everybody, from the train. I think we've come forward with six more trains. Excuse me. We didn't go up blind, you know, actually. We didn't go up blind. It'd be easier for us. Oh, stop. It's just... There are reasons that it happens. You have to affect anybody else. Yes, it helps a lot. It doesn't have a table. I will go and say, I don't care what room you find. Find me somewhere with a desk. I don't know what door is that. But I've got a little table. But I've got a shelf behind it. So a shelf unit. And a shelf unit in the third tower. It's just brilliant. It's put on my paper. I came back up and they made the room. It's all these piles of people. And all these pens. It's not hosting it. It's doing it. That's what I was doing last night when I got here. I thought you could go to bed now, you know. Or better, get yourself organised in the morning. You don't know what might happen tonight. You may be tired. But you're going to fall a little bit. Or we could be putting quarantines as we were at the Palace Hotel. So was that on the tour then? We were out in... Oh. And they quarantined 12 of them on all of me. And then the old people wanted to get rid of the rest of us. They tested negative. So we went on at that point. People were naughty. We went bananas. So we had to go into quarantine as well. Oh, it's a long story. That was when Scotland had different regulations. Yeah. I remember taking a group in early 2022. We used to have to wear a mask. And I just kept getting asked, where can we get a coffee, where can we get... I took one a few weeks later and the mask relation had gone. No one asked at all about getting a coffee. You know, they wanted it just to say... I always thought that was silly. Imagine you got a coffee in your hand. You didn't have to wear a mask. We were wearing masks in Germany. So, well, November last year we were. This January? February on the back again. We were still wearing masks on trains. But not in Saxony. Yes, it isn't safe as it looks. As we went on the train together, the moment we hit Brandon's work, the official game of the train starts for our mother's night. And, like, what even the Germans would never do. Also, this is ridiculous, you know. We've been sat here for the last two hours. And now you're for the last 25 minutes going through the night. Well, it was like that when you got a train up to Scotland. And that's a bit too big, Germany. Yes, that's a yes of the right sort. I was there in November last year, because my girlfriend's at Heidelberg University. Oh, right. She kept telling me, make sure you wear a mask. But I went out to ride the trams on my own. I'll just buy a coffee and make it last the whole journey. Do you speak German? I understand bits of it, but not properly, you know. The only German I really know, that's our own pair of girls, one of whom came from Heidelberg. Oh, OK. This is back in the... Yeah. Back in the early mid-sixties. I have to be careful though. I think that it was gone a little lifetime ago. My mother the other day said, you know, I never thought I'd have two retired sons. Well, not that we never thought we'd have an aging mother in her nineties, you know. She changed. My grandparents all died at age. It's considerably younger than I am now. Yeah. Are we kissing? OK. Can we see the sun? No. It's a bit hot. I don't know if... Yes, fine. If it's the Perks was here, if he'd be recording the sound, if he'd be playing it as the latest Mozart symphony at his house. Really is a great sound. Well, certainly I'm recording the sound, but we've got to be sure. I guarantee you this, and we were part of a news story because we went down for the weekend to be able to come home with our luggage because that was the weekend. But my dad was a new friend. He just did the service. He enjoyed getting around. Yes, sir. What an appreciation. You have to be careful. It's not possible, in fact, in the last season, we weren't able to travel. So we had to make the resale and have the service. We didn't want to have to take the flyers off the carpet and they wouldn't do it. We couldn't trade it. We didn't want to do it. We just made the half of it. Yes. We had a news of a... this story, he said, one of the students, he said he'd done the service. He said he'd done the service. He didn't do the service. So that was the... one of the... we were... we were down when we were already two years old and they were on the other door. Okay. It's a funny little story about that. It's probably not. We had quite a bit of... afternoon tea in my street. Happily. What do you do in the country? The irony was it was during that period last summer. So in next winter, the first rain is 101. Wow. And in our rooms, I reckon, it was a four of us, Gatsmar 8. The windows were only open at 1.80 here. And without any discussion about anything, I think it was the 40th region. My room is now, I think we have our own. Nahi wave last year, I was taking to Channel Island. And, yeah, it was interesting to see how it affected people. People were really forgetting things. Oh, yeah. Well, I'm used to the heat. I used to be to a specialist bringing... Oh, wow. Japan and places in Africa. I don't worry about that. Britain doesn't sort of deal with it. We can't deal with heat and we can't deal with cold. Well, the day that's all finished, there was always an announcement saying don't travel, you know, because of the heat. And I said to everyone, well, look, you just get on with your journeys. And they said, what are you doing? You going home? I said, no, I'm going to the Arla Wight for the morning because it's about 20 degrees, or 10 degrees cooler there than it was on the mainland. I had a very pleasant morning. And that was the hottest weather I've ever had steam on. I was amazed they were running steam on the Arla Wight. Well, yes. Well, I was thinking I might get one of their diesels which are quite rare to travel behind if they ever go on there. So I had steam, I think, in 33 degrees is the hottest I've ever had steam in the UK. Have you ever done their Bosnia, the Yugoslavian tour? Yes. My dad and I did that a few years ago. That was brilliant. With RTC? Yeah. It was Nigel and Jana. Nigel and Jana? Yeah. And Jannis, you know Jannis? I know Jannis. Yes, I know Jannis evolved. Yeah. And Jana, Jana and I took the last tour out to Ukraine. Of course, she's Ukrainian, isn't she? Yeah. And I didn't share it with the public. I didn't get arrested there, but I did get thrown out of the hotel because I refused to pay the price that they wanted. Basically, they were saying the bill had to be 10, which it had to be. And there was a long thing going on, and he said, I'll throw everybody out of the hotel. So I just thought, if you're really going to throw 50 people out of the hotel, please do. Can you imagine the story? So he read, he said, I'll throw you out. So I said, that's all right, I should go. And Jana's outside. The snow's beginning to pour. Do you know what do we do when they don't know anything that's happened? I said, we'll see them at breakfast. But what about you? I said, I'll find that hotel. I'll meet you in the morning at the station. Most of them didn't even know I've been in the hotel. Soviet hotel. Better Russian couple who put me up in this funny old hotel. Terrible was the brides in Ukraine and Jana was so embarrassed. She was a good laugh to have on the tour. She was a lovely girl, very lovely girl. And I speak Russian, you see, so... Oh, do you? So it helps. So she's still doing stuff for her, basically all that? Yeah. I have heard from her a couple of times. Yeah. I still would like to, I need to go back to Russia, but I'd love to go to Ukraine. I'll kept in touch with her for a while. It's typical. I thought she's already let it in there. And she's married now, is she? Yeah, she is. To a Lithuanian. Lithuanian, yeah. Well, I know Lithuanian as well, which is good. Yeah. I used to be in the Soviet Union back in the... Oh, right. ...1989, 1981, 1982, 1983. I was based in Moscow. Oh, okay. So I got to know a lot of the whole big states. Yeah. Now, I've always been quite fascinated by that area. I can't show you a picture now, because obviously my phone's busy, but my everyday car's a Lada. Ah, brilliant. And there's hardly any left. There's... I mean, I think Lada Reavers, there's less than 20 on the road, but I insist on keeping mine going, much to my mother's and girlfriend's annoyance. It's only a few... Exactly, yeah. They... There's one in America that they've put a TH in. Oh, okay. And have you seen the photographs of the stretch flowers in Cuba? Yes. But they're quite protested. No, it's a deer. It's a deer walking up in front of us. The deer, baby, is on the right-hand side. If you could pass it on. The deer. There she goes. There she is. I can't see. Thank you. Well, that's one less option for the stuff of this evening. Yeah. It might be at the forum. Thomas, I suppose, pours an odd stone one, I suppose, he's talking about a stone one. Serious, isn't he? I haven't got my knife, so I'm going to use it. He might be another passing, though, because the track east is out and there's cities. Or are we at the summit? There's a summit. I would say this is the summit. That's good, because my arm hurts from having it to the little... Yeah, see, they go blue when... Shoppergum. Is this the summit? I don't think this is the summit. I think it's just... There is a hose. Who's got the map? I've got the map. My fondest memories will be when we go back onto the Atkins Bay bar on Tuesday. I am. It was there once on the national day here in Austria. And we were in one page, and we were completely in their traffic. Everybody wears a track along the national road. And as we had the station, one of the groups started to yodel. And all across the valleys as we went up, everybody was singing to one another. It was the most amazing thing. Quite magical. But it's a little known fact that the champion yodeler of Austria for the last eight or nine years is the Japanese. He's a superstar here in Austria, but it's a ambassador of some concern that Austria has not produced a world-class yodeler for some while now. Yeah. That's another reason why they don't like the loco and carriage coupled, because it's loco derailed. We're actually hired in the parachutes. I can see people out there parachuting, and we're hired men. Ah, yes, there is the top. This is where you tell us the restaurant is on the next summit along. The restaurant is 200 metres up from the station. I can see over to Salzburg. I don't see any of you having a problem yet. I've talked to one or two guys and wondered if it would be an issue and they've set their sights on it. The one thing you can do is to worry. I have to be honest. I don't personally know one. It's very difficult. I can only go on one idea at a stop. 200 metres back now. Come up here and win some of them. I'd like to come up here and win some, then. I think we're seeing one of the very best days. Look, we're going to be hired in the moon in a minute. There's an aeroplane down there. You suddenly see there's a helicopter hovering. Well, I just saw an aeroplane. Going down the valley. I like how the smoke is overtaking its train. See now, the smoke is overtaking the train. It's a walk up footpath sign. It's a walk up here. I can see the footpath that runs all along. That's the footpath down there. There's a door going into the hill there. There, look, there. That was a door. It's just into the robot. There was only one problem. That day, 1507, there were 1509 on age. There was a 1503, I think it was five. 1507, I think it was five. I'm like a boomerang. I'm like a boomerang. I keep leaving and coming back. For all young people, it's going to be an awful time. That's what she knows the most. The name is... I don't know the name, but maybe... That has to be part of the outside range. You want to look out the whole... Let's do that. Let's do that. I think I could do one. Should be really... I've always wanted to go. I think we're about to get some more amplified thrash in a minute. Turn on the car. Oh, well, a tunnel. I wasn't expecting a tunnel. The amplification is going to get a bit mad now. It's only not steamed up here, because my... I can hear cowbells. Can I hear cowbells? I think it's the rattle of the axons. Oh, there's the... There's another railway, look. It's a funicular. It's actually a funicular from here to the very top. It doesn't look like it's working. It's probably used for delivering post. Possibly. There you are. 800 kilograms. So this isn't high enough. There has to be another railway. OK, chaps, your task, as you choose to accept it, is to reconnoiter and try and take the restaurant. That's where we're dining. What time are we up there? Now. We'll walk up slowly when we've taken the pleasure off. I'll tell you what time he wants us to look at. We're a bit later after the program. We just have the six now. The one time we were still here, it was six already. That's a good question. I like the chair. Have you got your thing in hand? OK. That's going off at the end. Oh, no, it doesn't. Just enjoy dinner. I think we have to cover up. I'll find out. Wait, these guys...