 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm at the Chilson hilltop village of Homer Green. Homer Green means Comes from the manor of Homer. We're about halfway between Amisham and High Wycombe, and it's at the Lattertowns Model Engineering Clubs miniature railway. It's situated here in Homer Green. It's not quite in this part of the village So this is the common as it's known. You've got your parish church just over there There's an old Baptist church just there. I remember when they converted that into a house They had an open day, so I've been inside it as a house, but not as Baptist chapel Anyway, we're gonna go and find this miniature railway, which is run by the High Wycombe Model Engineering Club I have been there before but not since I was a child. So whatever it's only up the road for me I've been meaning to come here for quite a while. I've just never got round to Revisiting but here we are today. I'm revisiting somewhere three-quarters of a mile away at the moment I'm not gonna walk there Just parked here. There's my larder. So I'm going to get in my larder, drive up the road to go and find this miniature railway So here we are. I've arrived at railway. Well, almost arrived at railway. The railway is situated at the local sports club It was quite easy to find. I was around about just back there. I was a little sign saying steam trains today There's another sign saying pointing into the car park So if we get here, it is pretty much just as I remembered it. You can see that Sportsy looking building People playing sports, but the quite funny thing is all these sports in amongst them the semaphore signal That's my cup of sport So that it says to trains. So what we're going to do is we're going to walk across this field I believe the railways just over there by that hedge. So as for the railway or the society the society's been around since 1920 They started off as said there the High Wycombe model engineering club So they started off in High Wycombe by two gentlemen who had a common interest in model engineering And they met and they got a few other people together They met in a local hotel and the man who ran the hotel was also interested in model engineering So they set up the High Wycombe model engineering club and they would meet in a local methodist tool Unfortunately one time some one evening some methylated spirits set fire to one of the tables And they were told they were no longer allowed to meet there But in a way that kind of led them to look for somewhere bigger and better to me so from from there They had another hall at one of the local technical schools and they set up a miniature railway at the Rhine Now for those who don't know the Rhine is a big park very close to High Wycombe town center It's somewhere that possibly one day in the future. I would like to go and make a video That's in the future. So it's a big park with a river Y inside of it They had a miniature railway there, but the council didn't exactly make things easy for them And they banned all moving models, which doesn't exactly get down very well Then eventually they relaxed their rules so that locomotives could be used there Clown particularly well. The club was originally for all forms of transport You know model engineering, model locomotives, boats, aeroplanes, and the flying club They broke away and set up their own branch up at the career field So it there was a boating club as well, but I think they've also broken away So really it's just model railways, miniature railways and model engineering So we've come across this big sports field To this coniferous head and we're welcomed by a sign which nicely said High Wycombe model engineering club and I can already see as railways on each side So there's a railway line there, railway line there, raised tracks From what I remember, I think it is all the same one. It kind of somehow loops around So let's have a little look at it and hear a sound of trains It's three and a half inch in the middle, five inch and seven and a quarter inch So I expect train will come round soon So I think what you've got you've got the station just over there You must get on you must go round in a loop around here right around here train coming That's what's the train to pass then we'll go and have a ride ourselves Just coming around the bend right now Let's go and have a ride now Can you do this one? This one coming off. Where is it going off? That's good. Yeah, right anybody for the Yes, yeah, that's right. It's it's young come on right boys So I've just had a trip behind a western western jubilee, which is quite appropriate given It's the year of the Queen's platinum jubilee So that's the station. Let's just go over here. We'll have a look. There's a few locomotives On shed in the steaming bays and the steam locomotive just came out as I was on that trip So if you look over there, there's a great western 1400 A couple of southern locos and I think just coming along now is steam locomotive as a Royal Scots Pass 6159 Royal Air Force Which is quite appropriate because there are Royal F or RAF bases in the Highwickham area There's a footbridge Yeah So um Stand up here and watch a couple of trains. We'll have a look. It's not a very huge side But there's it's quite a pleasant side I think the main point of this footbridge actually just to get to the public toilet if you visit here But it also provides quite a good place to watch trains So the steam trains gone around there the western should at some point come under here And then you've got the double track section with a loop at each end There's also a semaphore signal which you'd have seen when we were on the train I believe that came from somewhere on the western region in the redding area So it's quite appropriate to see the western running beside it I'm expecting the western will come around the corner. So it's got its next lot of passengers And then I saw there was a tent doing teas and cakes. I suspect I'll go there and get a cup of tea That's always nice to do at these places So I'm not sure if the west I'm not sure if the western's coming just yet. I can't hear any Noise to suggest it's only I'm just going to wait here and see what happens Just stood on the bridge stood down here watched a couple of trains go past We have two red locos out the diesel and the steam a western and a lms What I'm going to do now there's nothing else down here other than Toilet so I'm going to go back over the bridge. I'll have a little walk around the site I'll probably get a cup of tea. We'll do a bit more line siding And then of course we'll have a ride on steam locom And then I'll have both the locos out today. I think some of the ones down there probably are Going to be out today But maybe not just yet and I think one's been out and it's now gone on cheers having finished its turn of duty for today So let's just have a another look around the site So it's quite nice how you've got the sort of you walk through the apex of the two lines the both trains are currently under the station at the moment There's all this air it's it And there's the tea there so I'm definitely going to go over there and get some cake and then perhaps what I'll do If I'll just do a bit line siding This area here what's trains go around these loops so I'm going to hang around here. Let's see some trains go by This is very pleasant. I've got myself a cup of tea. It's okay. I can see the trains over there So I'm just going to sit here now for the next few minutes. Watch the trains go by Eat my cake, drink my tea and then we'll go and have a ride on that steam locom I work in model engineer and clubs miniature our way to Holmar Green I think I just wanted to point out on this on the diesel train. Have a look at this just see Designs designed by the children from the local school, which is just across the road So they were given the chance to design the sides of carriages and they come over and have a ride every now and then Which is quite nice. I know the school I went to certainly was nothing like that Exciting the best I could do was managed to see a few trains from the science block when I was at school Which got me into trouble a few times, but anyway Should have gone to this school if when I was a child because I have a miniature railway across the road I've really enjoyed my morning here. I've had a ride behind both the steam locom and the western It's been really enjoyable to come back again after so many years Hopefully my next visit won't be after quite so many years a couple of other interesting things Already pointed out the seven four signal just over there. The whole line is signaled as well So trains can't catch each other up if you look over there There is a little red signal. So that's because there's a train and it's just gone green There's a train in that section if it's now moved to the next section So it no longer needs to display a green aspect. I think what we'll do We'll just wait here. We'll see one more train go by and then Every time for me to walk back across that field to my larger and go home So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and do come and visit them It's not easiest place to get to by train But the right bus is occasionally up to Holm-a-Green Holm-a-Green is almost an after suburb of Highwickham If Highwickham was a city in Germany, there'd probably be a tram route coming up here So give you an idea of where you are But you can always come here and go for a pleasant walk in the Chilton Hills around the area It's really nice up here So from the miniature railway at Holm-a-Green which is run by Highwickham Society of Model Engineering Club, thank you very much for watching and goodbye