 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm sat in this very comfortable first-class compartment in a mart-long carriage at a Buckingham Ship Railway Centre I've come here today to do another episode of Miniature Railway Britain. Come on steam train, by the way We're on the stand, oh, and there's first 120 So we're going a bit of a race Come here today to do an episode of Miniature Railway Britain because we're about to go past the Golden Spring Miniature Railway But I thought I'd start with a ride on the train But before we get going, it's all exciting because I want to say thank you very much. We have reached 5,000 subscribers. So for everyone who subscribed, thank you very much. That really means a lot, and I'm very happy you've subscribed I think we're about to overtake furnace number 20. There she is And then on this side is the Golden Spring Miniature Railway, which is where we're going to. So you can just see now We've just gone past the station A few one-way from the passenger train. So it's episode of Miniature Railway Britain We're going to the Golden Spring Miniature Railway, maybe it helps you there, and I thought we'd start the train ride So when you get thrashed there, when you come to Queen's and you get a ride up and down There's two lines each side of what was the network rail freight only line, which is just there But since HS2 has come about that has now closed, but we're going to have a look at that There's Wales Wood over there on Shed. I'm hoping to get a ride behind her. She's a winning loco So it's going to be quite an exciting day We'll have a look around the railway center and we'll make our way over to the Golden Spring Miniature Railway Which is run by the Ellsbury Society of Modern Edges. Furnace number 20 is overtaking us again So we're at a steam gala, the spring steam gala. By the time you watch this video Oh, an old underground train there I would have published a video with all the footage of the steam gala There'll be plenty of races with furnace number 20 So if you want to see some races without me talking look at legal screen now That vehicle there, that grey thing, it's not an easel. It's actually a steam rail car It was built for Egyptian railways of all places. It's quite good here So you can see some unusual trains and locomotives that you wouldn't expect to see in Britain from other countries So we'll have a good look around all of that. We're just coming into Queen's and Rose So what I'm gonna do, we'll get off the train. I'll show you the loco We've just travelled behind and we'll go and have a look around the site. So here we are. We've arrived at Queen's and Rose That's the locomotive. We've just travelled behind an Andrew Barkley 060 built in Kilmarnock in Scotland You see quite a few Andrew Barkley loco's at Heritage Railways. Usually they're 040, but there's a few 060 So she was a winning loco, not travelled behind her. I'm pleased to have her for haulage I will later on hopefully get Waleswood, the other loco for haulage That's a winner for me. What we're gonna do, we'll have a little look around the site. There's First minute to traction engines. There's a minute to traction engines. Just come in here for that So let's just watch that go by and then we'll continue to explore the site Cool, I like that. There's also a little steam lorry over there But as a there will be a lot of footage of all these kind of workings in the steam gullaby. Yeah, so There's our loco again What we'll do, we'll go over here. I just want to show you a few things And now I'm gonna kind of make my way around the site over to the Mitch Rally This big beast here, Janice. She's a South African loco She was actually built in the UK in Glasgow, but she was built South African railways, and she's actually narrow gauge She's three foot six inches It's hard to tell from here, but because a lot of people will say well how can it be narrow gauge? It's huge and it is huge, but narrow gauge doesn't necessarily always mean small So this is Janice That's supposed to have a steam again, but it's nice to see it here. Last time went to a minute's railway We featured a full size South African loco was down at the Myzons Railway in Surrey They've got a South African tank engine. You see that diamond? That means this diamond here means you're built in Glasgow You often see loco's around the world with a diamond on that usually means they were built by North British in Glasgow Now from the train I pointed out we could see an Egyptian steam rail car. Well There's a few unusual things here That's the Egyptian steam rail car. That's DMU light used to work on this light. It's either a 115 or 117 I do remember them when I was little on the Chilton mainline and there's an underground train so quite an interesting combination of Trains there that's all kind of underground. We're gonna continue with undergrounds. There's something else I want to show you over here. Oh and the big building in front of us That used to be Oxford Rooley Road station It was at Oxford Rooley Road and they dismantled it and bought it here when it closed as a station It was used as a garage for a while then when anyone just re-developed the site It was bought here if you want to see the site of it Well, it's like now if you have a look at this link on screen now video called the other side of Oxford We did go and have a look at the site So variety of trains over there now talking of underground Here is a New York subway carriage. So that's another very unusual thing to see I'm not sure if it's the only one in the UK, but there certainly isn't many It's quite and yeah, just adds to the variety It's funny if I go over here. What we should be able to do is see a New York London underground London Underground with a South African steam locomotive in the middle Let's probably know where else in the world you can do that. Come up here To the old Quainton Road station the original railway station on the Great Central of Metropolitan Mainline Which as I said trains did pass through here until fairly recently But it has since closed for the building of HS2, which is nothing See she's got a queue number plate a queue red. So that means she's a fairly modern local or road registered vehicle if a car Isn't identifiable by its year. Sometimes they get queue red There goes fairness number 20. We're gonna have to go and have a ride on her later. She's not a winner, but I'm gonna have to have a ride I've ridden behind her at the lakeside and have a freight railway Where she used to be based then again it ties the locomotive works and then hopefully today here. What's nice is I'm not sure when maybe 20 or 30 years ago They put this footbridge in because previously the only bridge between each side the site was the one Down at the old Quainton Road station. This bridge not only provides another route around the site But it means you get very good views of the train and also it's You see over there. There is a lift on that side and there's ramp on this side. So it means, you know Access for all is available here. There's a lift over there So we're gonna wake our way up here see that underground. That's another underground train that one just there So in a few years time We're gonna be able to watch high-speed trains speeding past at 200 miles an hour. That's gonna be quite fun So this site is constantly evolving and changing and it will be somewhere where you know When you think we've just seen the oldest steam like a in-steam in the world go past and Just the other side of us is like the newest high-speed line in the world It's just like two complete opposite ends of railway technology Here together So when we get to here we're going over the bridge get an ice view where I've just been that's the train we've just come on that one there and Furnace number 20s up there. So we've probably wait and watch her go under the bridge You can see the buffer up there So they don't go for about half a mile and then the line continues that way to Ellsbury to one in the middle They did occasionally used to run Special charter trains up here. I came up here on a Shelton turbo once in fact I once came up here I don't have video of it unfortunately came up here on the Hastings 101 unit and she did a trip up to Calvert So that was really good charter But I've also come up here have a look at the income screen now and see a Chilton railways Last one six five passing through the site running on next to a steam locomotive Which seemed to be out of order freight going underneath us now steam or freight and it looks like furlough some 20s coming this way So two steam trains and then the miniature railway is just over there So we'll go and have a ride on that so the station is is up there Which we saw from the train so you get parallel run with the main line and then it kind of goes all the way Round over behind those carriages behind those bushes So it's a quite exciting railway to go all these spring minutes rally Minimum is coming back on the freight train as well So this bridge is a quite a good place to come and watch trains And it's a miniature trains and we get to walk through this part of the yard So we'll see more standard gauge stuff as well. So like I say, it's very exciting place to come visit I usually whenever I come here on the other day It's not a place I can come to you know for a little bit of time It's a sort of place I spend all day at so like I say, although You know, it's not a huge amount of is in distance to ride. It's there's a lot to see and do There's another on ground carriage on ground frame there I think we can walk through the restoration shed Might see some more locals some great Western leave a nice as a panier think under restoration And here's a huge love to have a trip behind is a huge heavy freight And I think out of the event but you can't have a look in here anyway to come in here So, yeah, it's a panier tank London transport livery on here. It's which it cool I have had a ride behind her both here and the battlefield line the box. There she is So I'll see her in action at the battlefield line. Have a look at Lincoln screen now There's the heavy freight tank. That is going to be something to see if they could get to home Maybe not here, but somewhere like the Great Central Railways where there's like a Ring and really really long train that is going to be quite amazing to see of course The Great Central Railway is basically the same railways here. It's just further up the line So it's yeah, what part of the old great central right, so we didn't go through there But the matter is that I probably would have been you know to pick up to get to tea stock as a metaphor for Rally tea stock So the electric metaphor from Rally trains would never come this far the electrics only ever gone as far as Amisham But and it's nice, you know There's quite a lot of London underground stock here because it is Seems funny that we're out in rural Buckinghamshire, but it was part of the Metropolitan Line once it was actually on the London underground Quaintain Road is a disused Tube station or disused on the underground station Which seems strange, but it is Ah now this locomotive another one I have had a ride behind her. She's something quite special She looks like you know a hundred fell tank that we see it quite a lot of heritage railways But she was the last steam locomotive to be built in Britain Most people say no evening star was but evening stars the last main line steam locus to be built in Britain This one was built four years later in 1964 Well, and she was actually last standard gauge locus to be built in Britain the very last commercial locus We built Britain was a steam loco two-foot gauge loco called Tranquil and she's now statfold barn Sorry there the other day. Um, so yeah few different lasts They did get them all together once the National Rail Museum had an event called 1968 and all that which I went to So this is Waleswood. This is the loco. Basically. I've come here to see I want to ride behind her I did see her at the Not churn it money chase water railways gala last October, but I didn't actually get a trip behind us She was also built by her clock in the 90s. It's over a hundred years old. She's still going strong So we're going to walk up here now. We're very close to me. It's really is literally The other side of this hedge and there's a lot of crossing up here So we'll go have a look around the site as well as the military railway They have some model railways as well, which we we did see from the trains Here's the level crossing says miniature RIO and so I'm quite excited See which like a steam that wasn't right behind. It's a good string mill them the hunts of hudwell clark is shunting the goods train That's a bit of complex track work here. Look at that God knows how many rails and then See the junction that way North Junction one of first came as a child and used to go around this circuit So it's gradually extended So here we are Coming up to the top of the site. There's the steaming base. There's a traction engine again She got a list So that's the traction engine And we are gonna walk through here says fairly big saw. That's quite cool. It's like a small house like a model house, but half-size Obviously you're watching this can't spend it there's a great smell of steam coming from the steam Because traction engine quite slow Next to it what we're going to do now Often here to rally once we'll be able to see a train come through the tunnel so we come up to here There's this little picnic area up here above the tunnel So you should see the lower line That's the row and I'm down there. It goes directly under us Not sure what trains gonna come if not if I don't see one now. I'll come up here later and film The village of quaintan is about three kilometers from all that way might just be able to see the windmill talking unusual things cable cars That tracks in just about to pass us It sounds like a train coming so I actually set off the funicular cable cars in the trees. There's also a little model tram Let's just walk past. We'll see the little tram. So technically this is like a model village. You might look so So you can put your foot on those pedals and set them off Not been on it looks we like great orn tramway car right now Let's go and have a look steam engine just passed us is now pulling into the station up here is a big outdoor Miniature model rally. This is the miniature really some shed turners. I'm like these. Well, I remember that Wells child That's been here for years that looker What's going on here? There's a steam like over there. You can just see over there times the tank engine We'll do if we hang out in this corner here. We should see something come past on One side literally on one side or another either so the 16 million of it Well, it's gauge one and he's got three and a half five inches and seven and a quarter and over there You've got stance gauge and I've come along a time where not much is going on clever If we can step up in terms of sizes We'll see something on 16 mil and we could potentially see something on the gauge one then on the nature Couple of starting to spring interaction now a couple of steam locals you see Thomas there. He's not lifesteen. He's electric Seems to have picked up as well as any in caribou and American looking clear story coach I'm in grab on jealous that he's got a further counter together There's a steam like this right of the other side I do want to see that and probably by the time I can hear some whistling on the miniature So we're pretty see train on the miniature It looks like And there is a train on the miniature We're right behind one at the South Downs like that That's all good. That's quite good. See now There is a train. Let's just see this train on the miniature railway and then I'm gonna go enough to have my ride Looking too excited. It's q1. There's only one of these preserves. She's in the national air museum She was in steam at the Blueville a few years ago Let's go and have a look over here over there. There's also a little cafe up this end of site You've got one cafe down in gold really road station and there's another little refreshment kiosk Just there so I might go and get a cup of tea and then go for a ride. That's golden spring Central Let us up traction again. I'm now gonna go and have a ride on the miniature railway I Just said I've never had a ride behind the q1 and now here we are I have just had a ride behind q1. That was the low code that we traveled behind and I'm probably gonna go and enjoy the rest of the gala now watch a few more trains. Maybe have another ride I've had a great time here and And as I said, there's gonna be a video by the time you watch this video There already will be a video from the gala today So I hope you enjoyed it do come and visit the Buckinghamshire rail centre and the golden spring miniature railway They're two very interesting and quite different railways, but they're side by side So it makes visiting the two together quite an exciting day out I'm just gonna head over to the model railway again. I thought a bit nice place to finish. There's a single fairly less feeding on And of course there's the q1, which we just rode behind And there's a cute little narrow-gauge steam locomotive. Just watch that go by. Oh, there's another steam on the main as in the miniature Watch that go by and I'll probably end it. So I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching and please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from the golden spring miniature railway at the Buckinghamshire railway centre. Goodbye