 Hello, thanks for joining me. You're probably wondering where on earth I am and if I got off a train here and saw that sign So would I be if I pan around a bit? You can see I'm at a typical British railway station We're at Hanforth in Cheshire, but when I saw this sign I thought what on earth is that? But then I realized there are some rather quite unusual signs here. So here is The real Hanforth sign now if we come along here We have the traditional London Midland region red sign of Hanforth and I pan around There's another one there British Railways Hanforth station looking down there the cameras. We're not picking them out So we're gonna have to go over and have a look. There's all these different Hanforth signs some really quite interesting and unusual ones So firstly, I'm gonna show you around the station show you all these really exciting signs And then I'm gonna walk into town centre. I'll be able to remove my mask and We're gonna go to the miniature railway in Hanforth Which I've not been to before but I'm really quite excited about going to but before miniature railways I have for you a little narrow gauge railway. Look at this on the station. Here we have a garden They've laid some narrow gauge track and there's a wagon there so it's all supplied by the friends of Hanforth station and It's won many awards from the Winslow Dean Rotary Club of Some of the best stations in Cheshire. So it's really nice to see a station, you know That's had so much put into it. So this is the theme garden done in 2002. There's the wagon on that little narrow gauge railway So I'll show you see that It's an old sleeper for carving on it and then there's the wagon. So now let's go over the other side and Have a look to see what we have over there. So Steps and Station That's an old That sign. I believe that's what was it when they were regional railways. I think that's a regional railways Hanforth station sign Just get to the top Get to road. I'd plan to just take you here to Hanforth and we'd walk straight into town centre when I got here I realized there was so much to see. Look, there's a silhouette of a steam locomotive There's a British rail sign of Hanforth So here's the front of the station. There's even a pub called the Railway So what we're going to be doing when I finish here, this is where I was going to remove my mark I'll walk down into Hanforth Go have to wait a moment because there's a few more things. Look at this This is exciting Hanforth Twin with Malahide, which is in Ireland It's the furthest north station on the Dart, the Dublin area rapid transit It's also on the main line up from Dublin to Belfast. So Hanforth is twin in Malahide Well, I suppose Hanforth is probably, although in Cheshire, is a similar distance from Greater Manchester that Malahide is from Dublin There we have the BR round of station sign There we have another British rail's Hanforth station sign. We've got some artwork here Let's go down onto this platform and Have a look at all these other rather exciting signs You know, I really like railway stations. They're just a bit different and you know, do something exciting. It just Makes things a bit more, you know, just differently exciting. It's fun. I wish we had more such signs. Just look Now we have Hanforth. Look at that, SNCF. So imagine for a moment I'm in France and I'll be saying bonjour, and I don't know how to say thank you for joining me in French But we have it in French. And then you come down here To Hanforth signs here. This is the Manchester Metro link So that's the older Metro link style signs And that's the more modern Metro link style signs, but Metro link doesn't actually come this far south to Hanforth So we're now coming into here. What else have we got? There's the dot matrix. Next train is going to crew So we're not going to wait and see that because it's not for about 15 minutes You might see a few trains passing through at speed. So I'm obviously going to keep behind the other line So let's have a look see what else we can find. So here we have Hanforth Irin-Rodirin sign. So Irin-Rodirin. That's Irish rail. So we've had French. We've had Irish We've had we I think it was possibly Russian and for those of you who live in London Hanforth He's also now a London underground station Hanforth is a London underground station and It's also got a DB sign Hanforth and so it's really quite You know, how many different signs and then now we're in Northern Ireland Hanforth Northern Irish railways We're pretty much having a trip around the world and over there. I think I missed that one But there's one in either Japanese or Russian Sorry, not Russian Japanese or Chinese maybe And then we have a Merzy rail Hanforth is now a Merzy rail station. This is really quite funny I you know, it's just I've never come across a station like this and then I think this one Maybe that's London overground. Not sure. You know what's the comment. Tell me please do What next? Oh DLR Hanforth DLR stations I Not sure. Oh, no, I can't see this one We're now on the island man Hanforth isle of man's team railway company This next one. Oh now the Netherlands Hanforth Isn't in a Netherlands style sign This one my viewers can help me out here. I don't know what style that's written in So if you want to comment and tell me please do No, it's just a noisy vehicle up on road. Here's that British railways sign This one I'm not entirely sure I might have guessed irish, but we've already had irish. So anyone knows Which country that one is please do comment. Tell me. I think that's it now There's one more old style sign here of Hanforth. So what I'm gonna do Now I'm gonna walk back along the platform And I'm gonna head to Hanforth town centre and we're gonna go and ride to the miniature railway So we'll be after our little trip around the world. We're going back to Hanforth, England So I've just walked up from the railway station I'm now walking through paddock shopping centre in the centre of Hanforth. This is where all the local shops are now The miniature railway we're going to is behind these shops. So what we're gonna do And then we're gonna go and find the little railway. So, um, it is literally just behind these shops there It's quite a nice little, I like this centre Even the buildings are sort of, you know, not traditional style It's nice to have a little green space right in the centre of the town. So if I follow my way through here Out of this corner here, on the park, where the railways in is just behind here So it's probably one of the closest miniature railways I've ever found to a town centre because normally they are some distance So if you're coming by train like I did, once you've finished looking at all those amazing station signs from around the world It, um, it's about five ten minute walk up from the railway station to here Or if you come by car, you've got this really big car park around the back of the shopping centre So you could park here, and then you'll have a very short walk to the railway. It's just through this gate here This takes us into the park And here, what we've got so, here we are, here's the park. I can see a train going around in the middle of this So we're going to go down here, we've got the tennis courts, and Jim in the park, and Steve, and I can see a big Class 47 diesel going around So here we've got a raised track railway in the middle with a ground level, seven and a quarter inch gauge railway I'm just going to show you this because it's the first bit of track we see, look There's a bit of track just there, now that is for the visiting locals The locals will arrive here, they can't, there's this little driveway, unload there, and then go off down there to join the railway So what we're going to do now, we're going to walk across this door, and have a look at, um, that's the club helps with everything, that's the engine shifts onto there There's a little steam loco, I'm quite excited about having, hopefully I'll be able to have a ride behind the steam loco Just there, and, um, out on the track is a Class 47 diesel So, just arriving at the station now, I'm going to have my ride, and then when I've had a ride, what I'm going to do, I'll do some, you know, some, um, run pass shots So, enjoy, let's just watch the train go past before I then go and get on the next trip So when the train arrives at the station, I'm going to get on, so let's go for a ride behind the Class 47 at Hanford A bit behind this steam locomotive, and the Class 47, this loco only had it's boiler tested this morning, and I was its first revenue earning passenger So, I'm really quite proud of that, and Class 47 is coming along, now if you wonder why it's in that grey colour It's due to be repainted into city colours, so that's why the Class 47 currently has no livery, but I'm sure if we come here soon, it will be in city livery, so I'll let you see Class 47 again Now this building here, this is the clubhouse, I've been given permission to go and have a look and show you a few things inside the clubhouse So, that's where we're going to go now, I'll just show you a couple of things here, you've got the steaming base here That's rather interesting piece of equipment, so that swings round so they can get a loco from here, across the flat level track to the race track Without actually having to lift it, and then they've got a turntable, there's a steep bank up there into the engine shed But now we're going to go into the clubhouse, because we're going to go and see a couple of other locos inside, because it's also the shed Actually coming through here, this is the clubhouse, now a bit unusual, but we're going to go, gentlemen, in a minute we're going to go in there I think someone's using it because there's actually a steam loco in there I'm just going to show you here, this is their main engineering workshop So you can see the track, see looking out there, and there's a couple of more locos just down there So what I'm going to do, I'm going to leave the club members to eat their lunch And now they've come out, I'm just going to just go through here into the men's toilets And as if by magic we have a steam loco in the men's, there's the urinals there Here in the men's toilets there's a steam loco, which I think is quite funny, it's just here out the way, it's just been put here But hopefully in the future they'll be out running again, but have a look at this, it's called Lostock There's it's work to play, it's a really nice little loco What I'm going to do now is I'll go back outside and soon it'll be time for us to head back to Handforth Station So come out here, I've had a great time here, so what I'm going to do, well look the steam loco is out again See the steam loco over there, I'm going to head off to Handforth Station Travel back home, so hope you enjoyed watching this video Please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment, you know if you're in Handforth Or if you're in Manchester, jump on the train and come down to Handforth It's not far from the station, come and enjoy this railway Look at the big cubing now queuing up to have their ride on this really nice little railway It's really nice to park in Handforth, so thank you very much for watching and goodbye