 Hello, thank you for joining me. Today I'm on the Metropolitan Line, on the Uxbridge branch, the Metropolitan Line, and we're doing another episode of Miniature Railway Britain. Now, we should probably gap at the fact that we're on the Uxbridge branch. We're going to a Miniature Railway in Greater London. It's the second Miniature Railway of the series in Greater London, and it's also the second one we've travelled to on the Tube, although the first one we've travelled to on the Tube is Watford. The first one we went to was Watford. It was actually in Hertford, but we still travelled there on the Tube. And the last one we went to was in London at Harlington. We didn't travel to on the Tube, but it was in Great London. So it's the first Miniature Railway in Great London we've travelled to on the Tube, and we're just arriving now at Ryslip station. So, since the door's open, I'll show you a bit about the station. Arrived at Ryslip. Now, when the train pulls away, it's going to reveal something I want to show you. The interesting thing about Ryslip is it's the only original intermediate station on the branch. When the Uxbridge branch opened in 1904, this was the only station they provided. All the other stations have been added later, so this one's completely different to all the others, and it has more of a traditional railway station feel rather than, you know, your typical Tube station. There's some very nice Tube stations on this branch, which we'll feature in later videos now. Watch the train disappear. There we have the lovely old signal box. It's been beautifully restored. A few years ago, about three or four years ago, they restored this one, and they restored signal box at Chawleywood and also at Cheshire. So I think that's really nice. They've restored them, and it preserves the atmosphere of the station. And if you look down towards the station building, you can see it's got quite a big ticket office. It's got a nice lattice footbridge. So it's really quite an attractive station, and I have seen steam trains come through here, because a few years ago, on Christmas, they did steam on the Met, but they ran it to Uxbridge. So I've seen it was supposed to be Met number one. I think Met number one came through here on tests, but didn't actually pull any public trains. And then the prairie tank engine ended up working through here. So that was really quite a sightseeing steam train. They have also come through here, because when they've done have a steam on the Met events, the steam trains come through here to get to Metropolitan Main Line, because they're based in the depot at Ryslip. So just up there beyond the bridge is the Chiltern Main Line. So under the other side of Chiltern Main Line, then there's a spur that goes up to Ryslip depot on the Central Line. Now we have arrived here. Now one thing that's slightly difficult is I'm filming, and I've got to get my contactless payment out. So I'm just going to stop filming for a second while I sort that out, and then it will be outside of Chigaberry. And here I am. I'm now on the other side of the Chigaberry. So I just want to show you the see how tall the ceiling is. It's pretty hard to convey on film, but so by ceiling, I just did. So the other thing I wanted to show you is they have these little heritage information things. I'll take a picture and I'll post it on the Facebook page, but I've just discovered it's a building of national significance. So it's a listed building. I knew it opened in 1904. So this station is completely unique out of all the stations on this branch of Metropolitan Main Line. We now leave the station. I've got a bit of a long walk now to Ryslip Lido. It probably, if you're visiting as a family, you probably would rather drive, but it's a nice day. Well, it's not the nicest of days, but it's not raining. So I fancy a walk. So here we are outside the station. You can see a lot of buses come in and out. Picatilly Line train. Because also it's by the Picatilly Line. I'm going to head in this direction. The reason I'm going to go this way, even though Ryslip Lido is kind of that way, is because there's one of my favourite shops around the corner and I fancy a coffee. Also, if we get up here quick enough, we might be able to watch the Picatilly Line train depart. There's the Lattice Footbridge. Just have a look through there. You can see Picatilly Line train through the Palisade Fence. I appreciate it's not the best view, but at least you can see it's a train. Got these steps now up to the main road. There goes the Picatilly Line train. So we're now going to, now I've seen the Picatilly Line train depart. Continue up to the top of these steps up to the road. If we just go along here, whether it's going to work or not, I think it will. Yeah, Britain too high. Let's let you have a view of the station before we go any further. There you go. Ryslip stations. Weird bit of the Lattice Footbridge now. While we're gapping the traffic, I'm going to run across the road. And as I said, I'm going to my favourite shop, the Waitrose, to get a coffee. This one, those Waitrose, that's by a railway line. I've always liked those ones. It's a bit like Sunningdale. So when you get your coffee, you can sit and watch the trains. In fact, I remember when they did do the steam on the met, as I've already mentioned, sitting in here having a coffee and watching the steam train go past. It's going to find my way. It seems around the back. That way is going in there. It's all right, don't worry. Thank you. Didn't realize there was entrance here anyway. It seems to have come in the back entrance to Waitrose. Never actually ended up filming right the way into the city before. Right, I better get my coffee and then we'll carry on walking up towards Ryslip Lidre. Got my coffee from Waitrose. I'm now going to walk up through Ryslip Town Centre, through the suburbs, and up to Ryslip Lidre. We're going to go and have a trip on the Ryslip Lidre railway, which I'm really quite excited about. So here we are. We're about three quarters of a mile up from Waitrose now, and Ryslip Town Centre. I'm just walking through this rather pleasant housing estate in Ryslip. I think I was ever to live in London again. I used to live in Wembley before moving up to Staffordshire. If I was ever to live in London again, I wouldn't mind living here in Ryslip. It's nice. We've kind of got the best of suburban London, and as I'm about to show you, London's countryside, just behind you. We're now going to go into the woods. The woodland we're going to go into now is Parkwood. I'll just show you where we are. We're in an housing estate here. We've got that up here, and you might just be able to see the little railway line on the map. And then we're going to go for a trip round the lake on the Ryslip Lidre railway. So this is Parkwood, which we are just coming into now. A boardwalk ahead. I always enjoy a boardwalk. It just makes the path that much more exciting. So we're going into Parkwood. It's the remains of what would have been this huge broadleaf forest, which covers all of what would have been Middlesex before the formation of Great London in 1965. But we're talking going back to a very, very, very long time ago, really, before even humans kind of built up and London grew. So as you can see, we're going to follow this boardwalk down through Parkwood, and we're going to head down the hill to Ryslip Lidre. Now the lake at Ryslip Lidre was created in 1811 as a reservoir to feed the Grand Union canal. So kind of brings memories back of Rudyard Lake and Rudyard Lake railway, because that is a railway, smaller gauge, running beside a lake that was built to feed a canal. Although this railway is completely different to Rudyard Lake railway, but it happens to go around a lake that feeds a canal. So this is kind of like the last remnants of rural Middlesex. I mean, Middlesex, as I said, doesn't exist anymore, but it was a very urbanised county when it did. But it did have areas like this. So I'll say it was rural Middlesex. This is now rural Greater London. There is such a thing as rural Great London. If you ever do the London Loop, which we have done in the past, I haven't done it for a long time, you can find some really very attractive countryside that's in Greater London. You just wouldn't know existed. The boardwalk's ended there, but I can just see up there it starts again. So I'm going to carry on walking down through the woods. Love the sound of the birds singing. It's very pleasant, very peaceful, and I do love these big old oak trees. Quirkus Roeba, is that in name for an English oak? Like that is about 100 different types of oak, but I won't go into that today. We'll do another video on that one day. Back onto the boardwalk. I'm going to carry on walking through the woods. Next time you see me, we should be at the railway station. So I've nearly finished walking down through the woodlands. It's been quite a pleasant walk. A little bit muddy, but then what do you expect in the winter? It will be muddy. We're almost here. I can actually see the station just there. The Wrights at Lido's Woody Bay station. It's got three stations. Now, one thing I just want to show you, which I think is quite interesting, once upon a time you just have to pay to go into the Lido itself, and that's why here there's the remains of a turnstile. Now, I don't know if I can go. I can't go through it. It's seized up, but you're the paid to actually enter the Lido itself. And in the summer, you'd go swimming in the lake. And I remember going swimming in the lake as a child. So that's the old turnstile. And right here is a very nice looking railway station. There we go. So let's go and find a train and go for a ride. Before we have our train ride though, I thought let's go to the beach. You know, I'm on the beach. I'm in Greater London, and I'm on a beach. And this is, of course, no mistake in it, the Lido itself, but it's quite funny how they've actually created a beach. And I do actually remember as a child making a sandcastle here in Greater London on the beach. So the railway runs off up there right around the lake. And see over there, that green roof building, that's a pub bit, the other terminus is near there. So it doesn't, no railway along this bit, which is quite nice. So it kind of, it is an end to end railway, but with a balloon loop at this end at Woody Bay station at that end is called Woodlawn. So I'm going to go and find the trains. So here we are at Woody Bay. This is their station. It's on a balloon loop. So the train comes in here and it departs this way. Now, before we have our train ride, I've been given permission to show you around the carriage sheds. So it's not every day you get to do this. So I'm going to walk off the platform and we're going to go through the carriage sheds and we can go and have a look at the locos. So the railways were kindly giving me permission. So we're going to here. This is their carriage shed. Now, obviously it has just been Christmas, so they've recently been having Santa specials. So that's why there's these rather large Christmas decorations. So this track here, this is where the coaching stock that's currently out on the service train is and here is their spare set of coaching stocks. On a busy day, they can run two trains. So it's, today they've just got the one train out, but the way the line is, as you'll see when we go for a ride, I think that Christmas keeps us slay here, didn't it? And there's more Christmas decorations than even a big snowman. So they run two trains and two trains can pass each other, because as we get to here, as I said, it's a bloom loop. There's effectively double track up there. So when the train leaves the station, the train will come along this track here and then it returns to the station up there. Oh, it's a convoy of horses walking through the woods. See that? I don't know if you can see that through the woods, but there is a convoy of horses. So crossing the track now. I'm just going to walk up here. I want to show you their set of P-way wagons. So again, I have been given permission to do this. So if you ever come to us at Paito, you know, don't just walk off up the track like I am. We see the horses there, convoy of horses walking through the woods. And here is their set of Tippers P-way wagons. So you can see this one's for the ballast. So when they go to re-ballast the line, the diesel logo will take the train round and they can dump their ballast onto the track. There's another wagon there. So as the convoy of horses walks off into the woods, you head back towards the station. So the train is round the other side of the track, so they said to me, you can go and do this while the train's out, so there's no risk of me coming into contact with a train at the moment, because as much as I like trains, I don't want to come along now. So it's very uniform railway. Everything's very efficient looking. So you can see the point levers are always yellow. You know, I think it's very pleasant and, you know, really nicely done railway. So let's have a look. This is their main workshop and again they have said I can have a look. So we're going here. You can see some of their logos. So here we have one of their seven lamb logos, Bayhurst. Her sister, I think it's John Renny, is currently out on the passenger train. So they've got quite a few diesels and they've also got a steam logo. Mad Bess, she's called, and she's based on Blanche on the Faustiniog railway. So she's about half the size. So all the diesels here are pretty much freelance except for one which we'll get to in a minute, but Mad Bess is pretty much a scaled down version of Blanche on the steel rail. She was actually built here by the members of the Rise It Lighter. Well, you can see there's her works plate. Woody Bay works, number one, 1998. So that's how old she is, 21 years old. And here is their inspection pit. They've even got an overhead crane, which I think is quite cool. So, and they've also got some very good facilities. One of their smaller laves, drills, and they've got a big lave. They've even got a wheel press. So yeah, this is their workshop. I think it's very nice building, very nice for working on logos. I'm now going to go out here, and we're going to go and see the last of their logos. So as we now go out here, we're going to go and see the, so that's the workshop. We're now going to see the engine shed. What lovely view of the lake, Rise It Lighter Lake. And I said on a few beaches in London, I don't think it's the only beach in London because I think there might be some down by the river tent. So that's their beach. Here's their pit for when they want to wash out the steam loco. Now this is the main line. Trains will come in that direction, but we'll check. There's no sign of a train. We're going to go here to their engine shed. We're going to go and see their other loco. So when Rise It Lighter Railway first started, they had a steam loco called Prince Edward, which is now in a private collection. And so I don't think we're going to get to see that one anytime soon. So their oldest loco they now have on site is in here. Now we're going to hear more Peeway wagons. They've got a rail mounted generator. They've got another one of their diesel loco. This one's called Lady of the Lakes. So again, freelance. And here's another train from their Santa Special. Quite a nice structure to come here before Christmas and seeing this has looked interesting this section. Here's another one of their loco. Which one's this? I'll slip my mind of memory. Graham Alexander. So this is another one of the freelance loco. Now when I said they're not quite all freelancers, one that's slightly a bit based on a real one. Here we are. It's this loco here. It's called Robert and it's based on a Western. I think it's a really cool loco. I really like it. She does sometimes go out when they have got on. I have to come on for it. There's one there. So here we are. I've now shown you all of the locos except for one. And that is the one that's out on the passenger train. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to take you back to Woody Bay Station. And we're going to wait for the train to arrive. And we're going to go for a ride. And I'm going to show you some of the other stations on the right side of the railway. Because there's free. This is Woody Bay. There's Haste Hill at the end of the lake. And somewhere over there, there's a station called Woodlawn. So I'm just going to go back to the station, Woody Bay Station. And I'm going to wait for the train. Originally when the railway first opened, there was only one station here, I believe. And it was like a dog bone shape. So it did a loop at the other end, which I will show you when we go for our ride. And so it's just like the train went round and round. So there's a disuse section of track. And then they extended it to Haste Hill, which again, I'll show you Haste Hill that used to be the terminus. That's now the intermediate station. And then eventually it was the line was extended round to Woodlawn. So I think it's time for me to wait for the train to arrive. They've let me have a look in their control office here. They have their radio control system. You can see the radios, which the drivers and the guards carry. So they can communicate with the drivers and guards when they're out on the trains. And then that way they can control the railway. So say if a train's approaching a single line section, they can say to the driver, you need to wait here. There's a train coming in the opposite direction. And then they can let the driver of the opposing train know that the train is safely waiting and they can pass. So this is their control office. Now if we go through here, we come into their ticket office. Now here we have somebody selling tickets. So what happens is people come to ticket office and they'll buy a ticket to have their train ride. They're single to Haste Hill please. One single to Haste Hill. There you go. That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. You're welcome. So I've bought my ticket to Haste Hill. I'm on the train. There the guard's blowing his whistle. It's quite a long train. See how it really curves around there. If you look that way, you can see our local. So we're going to go for a ride. What I'm going to do on the way, I'm going to show you some of how the railway's developed, because as I've already mentioned, this railway has been extended over the years and it's got longer and longer to the point where it's now about one and a half miles. So as soon as we're on the move, I should be able to show you some things. There we go. We're departing Woody Bay, which is for the beach. So that's their carriage ride, which I took you for a little walk around and we're going to get some really nice views of Rice and Glideau in a minute, literally right now. There you go. Not many railways in London give you a view of a beach. So we now pass through the workshop. So like I said, they've got workshops there, carriage sheds there, and the railway gets quite interesting up here because we're kind of going onto their double track. So when the train returns to Woody Bay, it takes that and you can just about see the end of the platform at Woody Bay. And here are those P-way wagons. You're about to see which I mentioned. This is like the railway's P-way yard. We're going to ride up now the double track section as the P-way wagons. So having a look out here, you can see it's a double track section. Now, you may have noticed I've only bought a ticket to Haste Hill. But don't worry, we are going to do the full line, but I wanted to get off at the intermediate station in Haste Hill. So there will be, you will get to see the full line, but I'm going to put that on a separate video because it's a bit longer than some of the others. It was just easier to do it as two separate videos. I've got some new sleepers there, waiting to be installed. I believe after they've stopped running for the Christmas period, throughout January, they'll be relaying some of the tracks. So you can see the new sleepers. There's been a lot on Network Rail, really. You can sometimes see it on Network Rail waiting to be relayed. And then the railway will reopen again, ready for the summer. It's quite pleasant. Right, it feels hard to believe we're actually waiting on them travelling through this woodland, but it's, yeah, very pleasant. Anyway, here, you can see the double track formation splits now. So when the train returns, it comes back along there. So although the track splits, it is just a double track formation, but with a bit like, say, between, where am I thinking, between Princess Risbury and Saunders, it splits, but it's still double track. It's just got an area of punch-like movement. But the one thing I want to show you is this here. This is the original railway. When it first opened, you'd go down that section track there, and it would take you around the corner and rejoin the other line there. So that was as far as Rice and Lido Railway went. So it really was quite a short little dog bone of a railway. It was then extended. What I'll do, I'll put up all the dates of when the railway extended on screen afterwards. So the railway was then extended up here to Eleanor's Loop. So you can see now the other track formation was interested in the train here. I like that. That's cool. Here's the other track, the other line. So we're back on what looks more like, you know, traditional double track line. Going to carry on up here towards Eleanor's Loop, which was the next terminus. And then the line was extended to Haste Hill. And I remember, as a child, when I came here, Haste Hill being the terminus, I remember getting off the train at Haste Hill. And now the train goes all the way to Woodmore, but I'm not going there right now. This is a huge station we're passing through. This is the old Eleanor's Loop station as a sign. So if you can see where you'd have, after the extension opened, if it came an end to end line, so you can get off at both ends, it had two stations. And this is where the double track section ends. We're going to Singletrack now. We're passing through an old turntable bit here. So when it's terminus, the trains would have terminated here, the loco would have been turned around, then headed back down to Woody Bay. So the line's now, we're now on the next extension of the line, which takes us to Haste Hill, which is where we're going to get out. Funny thing about Haste Hill, because we're in Greater London, all the stations on this line are in the TFL journey planner. And Haste Hill is the least used station on the TFL journey planner. I believe only about 10 people a year around that number used Haste Hill. So it must be the quietest railway station in London. So, you know, I couldn't resist the idea of getting out of that and adding to their passenger numbers. So we're just coming out to Haste Hill now, and here we are. You can also, if you come here, you can walk around the place along and get off at Haste Hill. Now Haste Hill is set down over, so I'm going to have to walk, and we'll walk back to Woody Bay and then catch a later train to do the full line. That gives us opportunity to get some nice shot of the train. The train will carry on up to Woodlawn, and then I'll watch the train somewhere while I'm filming. So, as Thomas goes off for his little trip around the Rice and Lido's Tea Room at Woodlawn, I've just arrived here on the train. The station is just out there. I'll just show you the station, and then I think it's time for me to head home. So here's the station. The train's already gone while I went to have a look at Thomas. So this is Woodlawn station. That's their other ticket office. I've had a great time. It's been a really enjoyable visit to Rice and Lido now. The one thing you may have noticed was that I didn't film the whole journey like we usually do on the Minutes Railway Britain videos. The reason for that is because this railway is a bit longer, but you are going to see the whole route, because what I've done is they very kindly gave me a cab ride, and I did a drive as I view. So have a look out for that. There's going to be two more videos, drivers I've used, of the Rice and Lido Railway in both directions. So thank you very much for watching, and please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment and tell your friends both about Henry's Adventures and about Rice and Lido. And if you're in this area of West London, do come and visit them. It's a great day out because you've got the railway, you've got the lake, you've got the wood, so you can have a really nice walk and you can have a ride on the train. So from Willowlawn Station at the Rice and Lido Railway, thank you very much for watching, and goodbye.