 thing for joining me we're in Essex today, we're out for driving my Lada, we're going to the Barnards miniature railway, we did go there back in the summer we had a good look around the site but it was just after that heat wave so everything was very dry and they weren't running any steam so today we're going back there because they're having a gala so we thought we'd go there get some steam and see the railway see a lot more action so I'm not going to talk too much in this video, if you want to see the tour of the site it's got some very interesting gardens and have a look at link on screen now you'll be able to see my visit in the summer but today it's more about seeing the trains so as we're just coming along here ahead of us is the London Tilbury and South End Line, well it's actually the not the section to Tilbury the section from the direct line from London Fenture Street to South End to Tupernese so that's the railway line there because if a train comes along but if we don't see one now I expect we will at some point just coming into Furrow now so the railways over here the other side of this fence or at least the site is no matter where we go it's into here, yeah it is here, this is railway parking straight ahead there's a level crossing up here we might have to wait for a train to cross so just coming in well it's a steam engine there in steam and they can open the gate and let us cross so we've got a steam engine now on the turn so yeah look the gate's opening for us we're just crossing the railway line believe it or not over there that's a runway so an aeroplane can take off there's a mini traction up there traction engine up there so we just drive along part of the car we'll get out and we're going to go have a look around so here we are we have arrived at the Barnards Miniature Railway in my larder we're going to go and have a train ride now so the railway station is just over there so we'll make our way around to the front there's a there's a traction engine just there so we'll have a look at that as we go past and then we're going to go and have a train ride so they've got quite a few locals out so here we are next to that good to see that we might see more of that later on I'm going to follow the driveway around now to the railway station so as I said I've already mentioned all the gardens are all out over there so they're not open to the public today they are open sometimes usually on a Thursday it's part of the National Gardens open opening which as I said I did do back in summer and it was very good so I do recommend doing that but today we're just going to enjoy the ride on the trains so we get to here look at this entrance Barnards Miniature Railway I think this sign here reminds me of the entrance to Beckinsclaw model village it's that same sort of you know welcoming art so they come into here now when you get here you've got there's like a cafe area there I think that's where you buy tickets so you can sit here and have a tea and cake now one other thing I want to show you I wanted to show you this last time sounds like trains off I want to show this last time but um I didn't because there was lots of people see these little summer houses you get a surprise when I show you that they are these are the toilets so each summer house has a so they look really small on the outside they're quite big it's like the biggest toilet cubicle either thing I'm actually going to use it for that reason let's go and have a train ride now so yeah that is the toilets here three of them I need to do I need to get myself a ticket and then we'll be able to there's a train just departing now so just missed that one top and tail train so I'm about by myself ticket we can go on the next train I've now got a cup of tea sometimes having a cup of tea while I wait for my train and I've also bought a rover ticket so this means I can have as many rides as I like and as there's quite a few locos out to travel behind then I think I'm going to be using this very well today the plan is we're going to get a steam train to Setotary which was as far as we went last time and then they should be running a diesel train from there to Angel Green so we'll do steam on the on the main line and then we'll continue to the very end by diesel come back and then we'll probably travel back behind a different steam locomotive from Setotary back to here back to the that long canvas building is the railway station well you've already seen but let's have a quick look see what's going on so there's a goods train steam haul goods train there no passenger trains like now my cup of tea when train arrives and we jump on it we are Setotary Hulk now we've got these two locos which are sisters now let's have a look at this one and there's a train on the CTT line two cars three five seven and two don't actually have a class but they're basically the sisters if you haven't looked at this one let's go over here I'll show you something this is HBR on the tender that's the holly bush railway now that was near Wolverhampton in Staffordshire unfortunately it's closed now it's a railway I never made it to but at least its locos are still out steaming so what I'm going to do I'm going to hang around here and I'll watch this one go I might have a while to wait I'm going to wait for a diesel to come along so I've basically got steam diesel and up there electric and then the diesel will take us beyond here to Angel Green so let's watch this go local looks like it's going to go onto the turntable turn around and then take us back back to where we started we're going to run around get an idea of the gardens there really nice gardens as I said that was brought in well after this let's watch Uncle John the locomotive run around our train through it now it's going to turn around and of course the main line is just there had a great day here at the Barnard's Mitchell Railway last time I came right behind that local because as I said earlier the hot weather meant they weren't running steam the gala's pretty much finished with today there's a bit of shunting going on I've seen a few locos go back to the shed I've really enjoyed it here so if you're thinking they're coming to visit if you want to see the gardens then you've got to come on a Thursday but if you want a day like this we see lots of steam lots of exciting action I mean that last run back to the station double head apparel are running was fantastic so I hope you enjoyed this video please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from the Barnard's Mitchell Railway goodbye