 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm out for a walk in the London Borough of Harrow just walking up Cannon Lane. We are going to a miniature railway, but right now we're going up over a slope over the Metropolitan lines, Uxbridge branch also carries Piccadilly line trains, so we're coming to this rather cage-like separate pedestrian bridge over the railway. Food of trees over there is Roxbourne Park, which is where we're going to, but if you can just see through the mesh, here's the railway line. So up there is Rainer's Lane station. It's the junction where the Metropolitan line trains turn left to join the Metropolitan main line at Harrow and Hill, and the Piccadilly line trains turn right, head down through Alporton to join the rest of the Piccadilly line network. Rainer's Lane, there was nothing there, it's just when they opened the railway they named it after a local farmer, Mr Rainer. So this is back onto Cannon Lane, which only really goes to a school and Roxbourne Park. So the park's down there. Now in Roxbourne Park is the Harrow and Wembley Model Engineering Society's miniature railway. The society's been around since 1936. The railway's been at its current location since 1976. So we're going to go and have a ride on that railway, but first we've got a bit of a walk through the park, so I'm going to do it in a moment. I'm going to be on the other side of that fence. We'll walk along beside the railway and we'll find our way from Standard Gauge Metropolitan line to the miniature railway. So we just saw a free car Piccadilly line train heading for Roxbourne. It must have been on railhead treatment, which is going to nearly always six cars. To get to the railway, you've got that avenue of London Plains, but what we're going to do is we're going to follow this path along here beside the railway for a short distance, because there's something down here I would like to show you. As I said, Rainer's Lane Station is in that direction, but this park is called Roxbourne Park and there is a river called the River Roxbourne and down in that corner over there is a river. So you'd naturally think it must be the River Roxbourne, but it's not. It's the Eddingbrook. The River Roxbourne is about half a mile that way, so I'm not quite sure why they called it after the river that doesn't flow through the park, but that's what they did. So as the railway goes off that way, there'd be a bridge or a culvert just down there under the river. I'm going to cut off the grass over here. I'm going to go right here to Brook itself because it seems we might as well feature the river that flows through the park and then I'm going to walk off in that direction over towards the railway. So right now I'm in the London borough of Harrow, but the railway itself is in the London borough of Hillingdon. So this park is actually in two boroughs, the fast borough jobship department is in Harrow, which is that corner where the railway is, which is in Hillingdon. So as we come down here, I'm at John's Park, and that's where the entrance is. A few words come here from our train from Rainer's Lane. It's trust me, in Rainer's Lane, there was nothing there before the railway, it was just the junction of where the metropolitan frequency lines joined or split, whichever way you're travelling, and they named it after a local farmer, Mr Rain. So what we're going to do, you can hear a train, let's watch that train. It was a 49S stop train. I always thought it was something nice, no matter where you are, you know, when you're in a park and a train gets passed, even more when you're in a city like London, and you know, you've got trains passing through, it's this sort of green area in the middle of an urban area. So we come down here, this is the bridge over the river, the river Rocks, well, not River Rocksworn, the Yedding Brook, as I've said, the River Rocksworn does actually flow through Rocksworn Park, and then that way goes to Rainer's Lane station. So if you come by train, that's the way I would suggest coming to the park. There's the river down there. What I'm going to do now is follow this rather pleasant part down here. So it says Rocksworn Park. I'm going to follow this rather pleasant path down beside the river, and that will take us to where the railway is. So I'm just going to walk through the awesome leaves and beside the river up to the railway. So this woodland path comes to an end. I'm still following the Yedding Brook down there, come out into another one of the many open spaces of Rocksworn Park. I still need to get to the other side of the river. So somewhere up here, there must be a bridge, and then, like I say, across the bridge. And we should go to the railway, which I'm quite excited about. I have been to this railway a couple of times over the years. I remember coming here as a child, not long after it had been featured on the BBC Children's Programme play days, where they used to go to different places. I remember first seeing it on there, and we looked at the end and said, how am I going to get to the railway? So I was like, okay, perhaps we should go there. So my parents did take me there. You might just be able to hear the wind's not blowing it out. I can hear whistles of steam engines. So that's exciting. We know we're going to get some steam, which is always good at Minnets Railways. So I think it can't be too far now. Admittedly, I have been here before. I've not been this way to the railway before. It's an explore as I make the video. So it's got to be this way. If this is the Yedding Brook below us, which it looks, it's quite a built-up bridge, but yeah, there. That's the Yedding Brook. So as I keep saying, you can see the water nicely down there. I keep saying the Yedding Brook flows through the Rocksbourne Park and there's a river of Rocksbourne. So why is it not called the Yedding Brookside Park? I don't know. Okay, right. I think we're nearly there now. It's a very pleasant quiet park for Great London. I bet you ask a lot of people from London, have you heard of Rocksbourne Park? They'll probably say no. It's a shame because it's a nice place. Right, where is this rail? I'm going to keep going until we find it. I'm now just crossing this final piece of grassland area of the park before we come to the Yedding Brook somewhere down there in the trees. The Yedding Brook is just over here. So let's go and have our autumnal trip around it. I can actually hear a train already. So what are we going to hear that? Diesel locomotive of some kind. What have we got out here? So the track is literally the other side of this fence. There's quite a nice little circuit. Just all train going in front of me. It's a nice little circuit they've got here. So basically it covers this end of the park. So we'll wait and see what comes along and then we'll go for a ride ourselves. So if you have a look here, you can see there's like an inner bit track and an outer bit track. I believe you go around the inner one first. You kind of do a big loop around. So basically the train just follows it around. Can I hear a train coming or am I? There's going to have to be a train coming soon. Let's just walk a little bit. I'm sure we'll see a train go past before we get there. So the station is at the other end of the site and if you want to come by car, you can park at this end of the site. There is a car park. So let's see where we end up. I can clearly hear a train. So the railway, you can see there's two tracks here. They go right around there and there's like a tree-like tunnel through the trees over there. So if we look somewhere over there we should see a train emerge. There we go. Class 20. Funny because class 20s have been known to work on the Met in preservation. Well here we have a Met. So what should happen is that class 20 will go around and coming along on the track closest to us. So the track is the widest to seven and a quarter inch and you've got five inch and three and a half inch. So the class 20 expects is seven and a quarter inch. Here another horn of another diesel. So let's just watch class 20 go by. So the class 20 has gone by. We know they're running steam because we've heard some horns. So what's always exciting about miniature railways is you never quite know what you're going to find. Whether it's going to be steam, diesel, electric, whether it's, you know, what locos, you just don't know. It's really a bit of a whatever turns up. As like a heritage railways, as nice as they are, you tend to go to a heritage railway knowing what locos are. So if you're going to travel behind that miniature railways it's really, yeah, just wait and see what you get when you get there. So there's a complex bit of track there. See the steaming bays? Oh look at this, this looks exciting. There's an American steam locomotive. So what do you mean about the, what you don't, you just don't know what you're going to get. Look at this. That's pretty cool. We're just going to have a ride behind that right. So the station's over there. Let's go and have a ride on the Roxbourne Park Miniature Railway. Oh, I see. I've had a great afternoon here at Roxbourne Park. I've really enjoyed having a few trips around the railway. The railway very kindly allowed me to go line-side. So I was able to get some more shots of the trains there. I did also have a trip behind the Class 20. I'm just coming now. I'm just telling you about this because I think this is quite cool. This is a miniature narrow gauge loco. I know we've had confusing discussions in the past about what's miniature and what's narrow gauge. This is a narrow gauge loco on the Wildtime Railway. It's called Knaven Castle. And this is a miniature version of it. So the real loco is one foot 11 and a half inches. But this is scaled down for a miniature scale. So it's just coming into the station now. And then when this train finishes its journey, it'll be the end of my visit. I'm going to go home. As I said, I've had a great time. Just watch this for a while. A little steam loco. Quite like that as well. So yeah, I've had a great time here. Thank you very much to the Her and Wembley Model Engineering Society for being so friendly and allowing me to line-side and allowing me to visit. I'm going to go home. So if you're out this way, do come and visit them. They're very easy to get to on the Metropolitan Lines, Uxbridge Branch or the Piccadilly Line for that matter. Just get a train to Rainers Lane. And it's a very pleasant walk beside the Eddingbrook through Roxbourne Park to the Miniature Railway. Here comes that class 20. So we'll see that class 20 and then it'll be the end of the video. So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment from the Roxbourne Park Miniature Railway. Good bye.