 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm just sitting in a little hut down in the war trenches Not down on the front line as such, but we are in a trench now. I'm standing up here because I'm not being shot at This is a recreated trench at the Aitdale Valley Railway So there's done quite a good job here. Let's have a look around The trenches now the reason I've come here today is because we're having an eastern block car meeting the IFA Club It's holding one of their meetings here We're going to go on a road run later. So what we'll do once we get out of the trenches as I said It's safe to do so. We'll go and have a look at the eastern block cars Then we'll go for a ride in the train. So as we come up out here, you can just sit up on the hill Eastern block cars. What we'll do first is we'll just have a look at a couple of Railway things I wanted to show you. So here we have a railway, typical Railways you've found in the war. That shed is new. I think and yeah, it's new. Let's follow Crossing so we would go up there to where the cars are. Let's just walk along the railway along here Now circumnavigating or almost circumnavigating the field is a railway known simply as the field railway Now I came to a gala at Aitdale here a couple of years ago, and they actually ran as a one-off They ran passenger trains on the field railway. So I'm going to put a link on screen now see that video Including a ride on the field railway. So we've got quite a network railway tracks Here and the main running line, which the wherever ride on runs off into the woods up that way. So we'll go up there later once The train arrives at the station. It's still quite early in the morning. So it hasn't site hasn't actually opened Officially to the public yet. Um, just the people who are displaying Eastern block cars, but we come to here Set a point here. Here we have a loco This all diesel loco It's a motor rail loco As it's um, that's pretty much works. I've got these the number it's identified by Sit on it. I'm not going to drive at this point I would be quite fun if I could um, see as I'm sitting in the driver's seat if I took the handbrake off and Drive off up there. That would really make a good video, but um, I don't know how to drive it. I've put my foot on that pedal and there's probably no No diesel in the loco. So yeah, I'm not going to drive and I'll leave it here But we're going to walk up beside the track and um, I can see another diesel loco Which I think the reason it's there is because it has a connection with um, the car meeting That we're attending. So we'll go and have a look at that And um, we'll have a look at all the cars here. So my larders here join back up of other larders And um, various tribunts. It's the second Eastern block car weekend we've had this year. We have one up in The Newcastle area, which was great where we went to the Royal Museum at Darlington went to Beamish We did a road run around the northeast today. We're doing a road run around Stoke on Trenton and Cheshire And what else did we do? We went to the Tanfield Railway. That was it and I did a few other things So that that was a great weekend. So the Field Railway is This railway here. So as I said, I was once lucky enough to Have a ride on a very rare passenger train So the Field Railway runs a couple of hundred yards down there, but it's more interesting If you do this way, so you got the says railroad crossing All kinds of wagons and a few other locos there and The locomotives you can see that's kind of displayed with the cars that is built by Orestine and Koffel a German company. So it kind of You know blends in nicely So here we have German locomotive German car if you have a look, um Down here see So this is O and K so Orestine and Koffel Um, the locomotives here There's most of them are owned by the Mosley Trust and they each have their identity. So if you have a look here It's Mosley Trust number 74 But that's um, that's the local just um, it's number that the most trusted given it's not its official number I have to work out. I'll be able to find it out what it is. Um What it's official numbers and take it off if I haven't already ticked it off So here we have a Trevant. So we started off down there down at the trenches Let's have a walk through see what cars we have on this sleigh here this morning. So obviously locomotives Trevant walkberg The next car We didn't have one of these at the northeast event That's one of them. That's a mosque of it. So that's a russian car And uh, we have another Trevant and Barkas Kuba wagon Trevant Number Trevant you may recognize some of these cars quite a few of them were at the northeast event Interesting Trevant there Zafer jet that was at the northeast event And then these my larder and another larder these were both at the northeast event. So you may recognize them This walkberg here was at the northeastern event now one of the things we were missing at the northeast event So i'm really pleased to see one turn up. We had we didn't have as a starva or a yugo the yugoslavian car You know the people's car of yugoslavia. So it's really nice to see yugo and also great to see a larder neva here We didn't have any neva. So um, we need a larder samara to turn up now And then we've got you know the three main larders that were sold in the uk Whether one will or not. I don't know. Samaras have turned up at these events. Um, but Yeah, you nearly always you tend to get larders like mine. Sometimes you get the ones round headlights Larder nevres are probably the most numerous form of larder You'll get on britain's roads. Um, there's pretty more of them than any other ones And then there's various ones like mine. There's other ones. You do get quite a few left hand drive ones Which have been imported You have a land rover here That's quite interesting. Um, it's not eastern block, but you know, it's it's quite nice sometimes to see Other vehicles joining us. Let's just have a little nose up here. So the um Outside that was coal miners Bought coal miners taking them to work. So the fields railway has a said runs off down there over there Is the station building. So that's what I'm going to go later on and capture train. So the main line runs along there The railway sheds are just down there. So what I'm going to do now is um I'm going to hang around. We'll see if any more cars arrive and then soon it'll be time to go and have ride on the trains go for today Stand hope number 13 which bought stock in As you go, it's off right from the shed Okay, so works under built in 1917 I'm going to have to go and buy my ticket and uh, we're going to go for a ride Up the railway line. I've just jumped on the train. I bought my ticket. So we're at silverdale station Never ride up to ape jail road. It's a nice little run Behind a winning steam loco for me. So time for a ride up to um Had a nice little ride behind stand hope So winning loco for me. So I'm happy with that. I'm going to watch the run rounds And then um, we're going to travel back. It's a nice assortment of Narrow gauge carriages we have here today So she's running around now. So I'm going to um, watch her come past and then time to ride down back to silverdale That was good fun. Now let's go and have a look in the museum So I've got um, very interesting museum here. I've been in here before never actually made a video in here before see of um various things to do with the Potter is area to soak on trend area I'm not going to show every exhibit, but I'll give you an idea take you right back to the very early times the roman times And um, you can walk through I find this fascinating All the different types of bricks you could have got in stoke on trend area. Look See that have the name says that's an ebstop brick I've just always um it might come from the fact that um My father once was a bricklayer. His father was a bricklayer. It's a bricklayer and runs in my family It's not something I've ever really got into but I just think this is really fascinating Just how many different bricks there are because you know, you don't sort of think You know, we think every brick you see in the building you don't realize you know underneath it cemented in there it is the um name of the brick Of the company who built it now here we have some locomotives that was the main thing I brought you in here before We have a motor rail like the one we saw down on the field railways once called city of Gloucester Here we have a mining locomotive. So I have to take a miners to there and you know to work at the down at the coal face Some fascinating maps. Oh, I came in here once when it was raining I just spent ages looking at those maps. So it's um, it's it's not very big museum It's a very good museum Here, yeah, it's a Ruston company Ruston's company built today coast So, you know, if you come here you'd want to spend longer I'm just giving you a quick whistle stop tour museum that you you can spend hours in this museum There's just looking at everything. There's a mine and rescue service van Look around here There's a there's a model there This is a really nice model model of the original silverdale station. So that would have been the standard gauge railway And obviously now we have a narrow gauge railway, but the narrow gauge station Um over there, which is what's now called this of course silverdale is based on this station building. So That's quite nice. Um to see it recreated There's a model looking down. It's I know it's a reflection. So it's not so easy to see that's like a pit coal pit So, um, it's kind of the layout it would have been underground various miners equipment The interior of what it possibly could have been like in a miners house When he'd have come home, which is would have been his lounge or dining room And um, this is of another era having a bath In the kitchen because that's how it had been once That's like a little yard that he got a bit of an angle for You know, I'm drying your clothes. They've probably gone to work on their bike That's the hospital because unfortunately Mining was a risky business lots of injuries could have happened. So, um Yeah, there'd also been a hospital. I'm gonna follow our way around here You can see there that Those blue things their teeth that had gone round and round and round and cut away at the coal And then they'd have brought the coal up to the surface For use around in domestic and industrial around the pottery's area. So Here we are back to here again where these localities are. I'm going to do now I'm going to go and do something you have to do when you're in this area I'm going to go to the cafe and I'm going to have some oat cakes for lunch. So It's lunch time for me now And then we'll go and have another look at the cars before we go off on them Our drive around Stoke-on-Trent and the pottery's I've got quite an impressive lineup here. I'm really pleased to see turn up is this. This is a Fiat 125 So this is the car that effectively became the larder or technically it was the 124 that became the larder and the This is what became the fso. So the Fiat 124 is Slightly smaller slightly different front, but that is really that's incredibly rare to see that although The larders are rare They're quite common compared to Fiat 124 and 125 So this is like a really mega spot to see. So I'm really really pleased this turned up I've come down to the engine said they're always very kindly given me permission to have a look down here That you see there that is their newest acquisition. It's an Avon side Locomotive and it seems they've already started on the restoration. I don't think you have a look at picture I took a bit earlier So you can see it needs quite a lot of work, but you know, hopefully one day we'll be running again We'll be able to kind of ride behind it. So Here is where the train we traveled on would be kept at night those carriers And I expect our loco was here and some of the other diesel loco's which have also Come out like, you know, we had that Orestar and Koppel loco went to join our fleet of eastern block cars Here's some of the loco's which are not out today This loco here have had a trip behind this one. Um, have a look at Lincoln's screen now Can't see that one in action. So That's that one's a nice loco. This is what they call a well tank. So if you have a look Obviously the boiler for those of you who don't know too much about railways The tanks are usually on the side or in case of stanhope that's working the train It's a saddle tank the tank's over top here. The tank is a well It's down between the between the frames and the wheels. So hence the term well tank things down below One of the numerous diesel locomotives. I don't know how many diesel they've got but Lots maybe even a hundred I think they've got this beast. This is built by Hunslet and Leeds. It's must be their biggest locomotive I have had a trip behind this one once at one of their galas. So this is a really nice locomotive It's possibly one of the biggest two foot gauge loco's certainly the biggest one there is here This is quite a well known loco. This is Joffrey I think she's currently out of ticket and when I came here Last year when I just came for a day out on a walk around the country park Had a trip behind this diesel loco. So I don't think I'm probably ever going to have every Loco they've got here because they have got so many but you know working my way through we come down here It's quite interesting. These carriages these came from the festennial grill. So they've bought them To eight once the line's been extended then I would have thought they'd have to use these carriages for the longer ride So I have to come back again. Well, we'll keep coming back because I like it here. So, yeah There's always good reason to come back I think I've had this loco for haulage once. It's another motor rail one when they ran train passenger trains on the fields right away. So That one I've cleared And um, as I said, there's just so many I my knowledge of um railways I I don't know all of these loco's. There's just so many As it works, but he's possibly a german built loco. It's fairly well. It's sort of tall and thin another motor rail simplex loco This is um Friar Frida one that's built by Hunslet. Have a look at the count So, yeah, very impressive Possibly is one of certainly is definitely one of the biggest collections Narragage loco's in England possibly the biggest and it's certainly one of the most impressive Another thing I quite like is all these headboards. They've got here the various other trains, you know, but they've run After face. I really I'd love to have gone there. Okay be like railway. It was um In Leicestershire. It was the vicar. He actually appears in some Thomas the tank engine books as the fat clergyman And he had a railway in his garden a two-foot gauge railway Model railways. They had a steam loco called Teddy, which has since been restored to steam a standard gauge loco It closed I think 2005 I really wanted to go there, but you know when I discovered it I was kind of too young to go anywhere on my own and just never got there But now if I knew it was closing or you know, I'd go there, but you know, so many railways come and go But um, this is a railway that's that's growing. So that's great What I'm going to do though now is I'm going to have to go back to my car We're going to go off on a road run So what I'll do I'll make a video on the road run around the Potter is and Cheshire Staffordshire area So that should be fun. I'm looking forward to that. I've had a great morning here at the Apedale railway Nice to get a winning steam loco So, um, that's my first narrow gauge winning steam loco about 2021. It's about the fourth one. I think fourth winning steam loco of 2021 So, um, yeah time to go back to the car, but I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching Thank you to the Apedale railway for hosting us and for a great time and allowing me into the shed to make this video You know do come and visit. It's a great place. You've got the railway You've got the museum which we had a look in they sometimes do underground mine tours I've never done that again. I'll just come back and do that There's a great country park if you haven't had time today if you walk up the hill you get good views So, you know do come and visit Apedale. So it's a very very interesting place So, thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment From in the shed at the Apedale Vale railway. Goodbye