 Hello, thank you for joining me, I'm out in the Pleasant countries I'd say, you've probably gathered where I might be going, you've just heard a whistle. We're near the village of Shenton, it's the first transport to come to the village, what's the aspect of the Zuche canal? Just over there now, the towpath is on that side of the canal, so can't walk along the towpath. However, I'm on station road which comes from the village, the village is that way, and we're going to go to a railway station, now you already know going by the sound of the whistle at the beginning of the video that we're at Heritage Railway, today we've come to the battlefield railway, it's a railway I've always wanted to go to and today they've got a hall class locomotive running, number 6989 Whittaker Whitewick Hall. I have had this locomotive haulage before, she was at Quainton most of 2019 where she was restored, I thought it'd be nice to have her now on a bit of a longer section of track, I mean I do really like Quainton, the bottom she railways into, but it's more of a day out to see lots of different locus rather than go for a long train ride, so here we are, we're just coming up the stations there in front of us, sounds like the train is going to go soon, so I'm going to have to buy my ticket and get on the two o'clock departure for a run up the line to Shenton, now the reason the railways called the battlefield railways, because it runs near where the Battle of Bosworth happened all those years ago, that's the plan for another day, I think I'm going to come to this area online, just go for a nice walk and we'll go and find the field of the Battle of Bosworth, but today we're going to move up to a very nice station building, you can see the smoking, it's steaming distance, smoking is easy, the steam locomotive, very attractive to stay from the building, I'm going to go in through those doors and we're going to go and have our train ride behind Whitewick Hall, probably unusual for a great western locomotive, they probably wouldn't really have come here in steam days, but still it's nice, that's how preservation is, you get all sorts of unusual locos turning up in different places, so here we go into the booking hall, it's quite nice, bigger room and I should buy my ticket from there in a moment, I'm just going to go out here onto the platform, it's just nice, it's just like a tube room, food's nice as well, and then we should wander up here, we can see our train, so it's actually fairly quick, so I'll buy my ticket and we I'm going to get on this one, but they're watering at the moment, so I've got about 10 minutes before the train goes, I'll show you the locomotive that we're going to travel behind, just to the viewing area, I think we'll do that afterwards, but I think I'll buy my ticket and have my train ride, a very enjoyable trip through the countryside, we've now arrived at Shenton, the hall has just run round her train, so she's just up there waiting to couple to the carriage to take us back to Shakerston, the railway once carried on that way in the direction of Dunn-Eaton, maybe one day they'll reopen it and connect it up to the main line, that'll be nice, there's some kind of excursions off the national network, so here I just want to show you one thing, this is a car park, it's mainly for people going to visit the site of the Battle of Boswell, what they've done, it's quite nice to book a toilet book in the style of a railway station, even though we can see there's a waiting shelter just up there, no longer park the railway, and the old station ticket office is just over there, so we're going to have a look at that in a minute, so quite an attractive building really for a toilet block and built to look like a railway station, so that's for the Battle of Boswell, which I'm sure many of you have heard of, famous time in Tudor history, that battle took place just over the fields over there, so we're not actually going to go there on this video because I haven't really got time and we will go there in the next video, it's definitely going to be coming because the local is up there, coming to the carriages, so you can see where the line ends, and it's a foot path now in that direction, so perhaps one day we'll come here on foot and we'll walk on the old railway and have a look at that, so I'm going to show you the, that's the station building and one other thing I'll have to show you, because we're here, is a battle hat because we're near to the Battle of Bosworth, if you look it's not far away, two kings one day, battle, no it's Bosworth, battle field heritage centre, so it's 15 minutes walk away, so I think that's something we might come and do another time, we could come here on the train and go there, but I'm not sure when, here's the station building, so half of it is the ticket office, the other half is the glass making, you can actually make glass, which is quite an interesting use for an old station, you can have a quick look, so this is all the glass and sail, which they've made, and if you look behind me, you can see the glass kins over there, there's too much of that old glass, which looks very interesting, I'm now gonna go and get back on the train and travel back, before I get on the train, I think I just want to tell you this station building, I just went and had a look inside, it came from Humberston Road in Leicester, so they actually dismantled the station, which is quite common on houses, they dismantled the whole station building and rebuilt it here at Shenton, on my second round trip, rather than going all the way to Shenton again, just so I could film the loco department, which of course I will put those shots in, because she looked really good, she pulled it out of here, she made a lot of noise, we've heard her whistle then, so I've got a bit of time, the train goes to Shenton and back and of course it means it's another station I've visited, now this one's quite interesting at Shenton, I said about how the station building came from Leicester, Humberston Road, well what's happened here, the station building is intact, but it's now appears to be a garage where they sell cars, so the station building's over there and they've got a platform just on this side, so it's not, there is, no it's not quite a passing loop, if you look up there the track's not connected, they've got a siding and it's purely a siding, so trains can't pass here, here's a little tea room, it's closed now because this will be the last train back to Shenton, we'll just have a wander up here, I'll show you the old market Bosworth station building, town market Bosworth is about half an hour or so in all these wagons, there we have the old market Bosworth station building, very similar to the one at Shakerston, a big car park, there's a good shaggy campark here, the thing I quite like, it's nothing to do the railway, it's an old Sierra state park there on the platform, so after now I've got away from my train, wondering about grading, it sits 1,440 towards Shenton and at the moment it's level towards Shakerston but the grading does vary slightly in both ways, so here we are from market Bosworth station, I'm now going to wait for my train back to Shakerston, here we are we're back at Shakerston, it's dusk now, we've had a couple of round trips up and down battlefield line, had a great afternoon, so if you ever are in the Midlands area then do call in and visit the battlefield railway, have a trip up and down, it's a great railway, interesting ride and if you have a bit more time you could go and see the site of Battle of Bosworth which I'm going to come and do at some point in the future, so thank you very much for watching and thank you to Battlefield Line for a great afternoon 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