 Hello, thank you for joining me on this lovely summer's day. I'm in St. Peter's Port, the capital of Guernsey. There's the harbour and the town centres just there. Today is an episode of Minute to Railway Britain. We're going to find the only Minute to Railway I know of on Guernsey. There is one on Alderney, but that's for another trip. The reason I thought I'd start the video down here is because for Railways and Guernsey, well, there was the German occupation railways, but the only other civilian railways was the tramway. We're trying about three miles along the coast at St. Peter's Port, so it would have run somewhere along here. Further back, the tram shed survives and some of the tracks there. I took a picture. Have a look at this. So you can see the picture of the tram tracks. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to keep walking. We're going to get a bus to go and find this Minute to Railway. I've just got on the bus now. We're going up to Sumeray Manor. That's where the Minute to Railway is. Seven and a quarter inch gauge Minute to Railway. It's maybe in a nice state at home, so we've got a bus ride up the hill. Although it's that way, so the bus is going to have to go round the houses. So that is very easy to get to. So the bus is going to take us there. When we get there, we'll look around the gardens and have a ride on the Minute to Railway. I've just got off the bus. There's nothing to say about bus stop. They paint the word bus on the road quite often for the more rural bus stop. So I'm probably a couple of miles out of St Peter's Port. You could walk if you wanted to, but it's all uphill, so I thought I'd get the bus. So here we have the entrance to Sumeray Manor. Let's go in and have a look and see what the manor is to see. So it's a stately home. It's supposed to have very nice gardens, which I'm really looking forward to, because I do enjoy looking around gardens as much as I enjoy Minute to Railway. So here we are. This is the gardens of the carpets over there. So I've got to go and find where we get tickets, but if you have a look here, there we have the manor in front of us. So this looks really exciting. I'm looking forward to exploring the grounds and of course riding the train here. So I went to inquire about where you pay to get into the estate because I thought, OK, that's the entrance. Went off down there and I was told it's free to visit. So the actual estate itself is free. And what you do, you pay for the things you want to see. There's a few different attractions in this estate. So rather than pay one big price, you pay a few small prices, which is quite nice. So you don't want to do something you haven't got to pay for it and not do it just simply. So here's the manor house. You can do house tours. I don't think I'll do that today, but what we'll do, we'll have a little look around the grounds. There's lots of undiscovered modern art around the estate. Here's some here. I don't know too much about modern art. The last time we went to an estate, I can think of where there was a lot of modern art was, well, look at that giant stone camera. That's quite cool and was Halton Hall up in Norfolk. We saw a lot of modern art there. So if you're interested in that, have a look at the link on screen now. What we're going to do though is we're going to walk around the back of the manor. We're going to go and find a miniature railway. I might do some of the gardens. I've had a go on the train walk when I've a little car. That's what I always like to see. Look at that sign. It says trains running today. So this is what it's coming for. So we're now around the back of the manor. So that's the entrance there to the tropical garden. That sounds quite fun, but we could do that afterwards. And there's a tea room there. Maybe I'll go in there and have lunch afterwards. But what we'll do first is we'll go down to have a look at the railway, because that's what the manor would come for. So it says trains this way, which is exciting. It's a bit you sort of never quite know what you're going to find when you go down. Oh, that's nice. It's a great thing. Let's have a quick look. Oh, that's really nice, isn't it? That's really, yeah, nicely by water on a hot day like today. Let's now go and find the train. I'm sure riding the miniature train will be quite nice and cooling. You know, the sign says train, so we must be heading in the right direction. So quite excited about this one. I'm always excited about going to a miniature railway, but this one's a bit mysterious. I haven't seen that many pictures. There's not that many videos I've found already of it. So I don't quite know what to expect. I know it's seven and a quarter inch and I know it's got a diesel locomotive. There's a little train sat there, so let's go and have a look and see what we have. So it says manor station. The track runs along there. It looks like it runs around the children's play area. Let's have a look at the locomotive that I expect we're due to be riding behind. There it is, the little diesel and it's got the Guernsey flag on it. So that's the station. So this is the diesel locomotive we're going to ride behind. Seven and four signal there. Let's have a look here. So it looks as though the railway goes off there into the woods. And then I think does it come, must come back over here. Yeah, so then you can see the track. So it obviously does a loop around there. So let's go and ride the miniature railway. Yes, thank you. I really enjoyed my trip on that miniature railway. I've certainly never been on a miniature railway where there's snakes hanging down. That's a bit different. And this first bit here, section of track that runs off through the bamboo. It was like a miniature railway through the jungle. It was really quite exciting. Really, really enjoyed it. So there's the local there. I had a bit of a chat with the driver. He said that the local is about 40 years old. They did originally have a steam locomotive. I'll tell you what the local, and indeed to a certain extent the railway, remind me a little bit of, is the Van Stone Park Miniature Railway in Hartfordshire. It's just got a similar feel. And the local looks like a meteor locomotive, which are 10 and a quarter inch gauge. And this is seven and a quarter inch. So it's, I don't think it is a meteor. It just reminds me of one. If you want to see that video, look at the link on the screen now. You can see what I mean. But the two railways, they just remind me a bit. They just have a bit of similarities. There's someone's got a big insect hotel. Nice to like building them. We've made out of pallets and you've put lots of twigs in that and all the insects go and live there. The joke always used to be that there'd be a lady bird, would be the receptionist. We're now going to have a look up here. Like I said, there's a tea room and there's the garden, the tropical garden. So I might have a look at them. Let's just go and have another look at the lake. Now I'm going to wander around the estate and see what I'm going to do next. Well, that was certainly a very different shot of a miniature train. Never before have I put my camera through some bamboo like that to film a miniature train. So here we are back in front of the manor. I've had a great afternoon here at Sumray Manor today. I really enjoyed it. I didn't do the house tours. House tours, I think they were on a Saturday, maybe one other day. And today's Sunday. It says though, if you go on them, you pay to go on them, but you do get a glass of wine. I did pay to do the sculpture trail and tropical gardens. That's really worth doing. I've put that on a separate video, so have a look at the link on screen now. You'll be able to see the other gardens. It did of course feature the railway a little bit because we went past the railway, but from the front garden at Sumray Manor. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. Do come visit this manor yourself. It's easy to get to. I come up on the bus. I might walk back because I've got about three hours before my boat back to the mainland. So it's a pleasant afternoon. I'm going to walk back. So thank you very much for watching. Goodbye.