 Hello, thanks for joining me. Today I'm in the Lash Royale Museum, standing by this lovely King Castle locomotive. It's number 6000, King George V. The real one of which is of course preserved now. What I've come here to do today is to try and answer a question I get asked quite a lot. A lot of people know my miniature railway Britain series and people who enjoy it and I'm really pleased that people are enjoying watching it. One thing I get asked about a lot is what's narrow gauge, what's standard gauge and what's miniature. So I'm going to try and explain how. So here we have what is a standard gauge locomotive but obviously it's in miniature form. So it's effectively a model built to run on a miniature railway but it's a model of a standard gauge locomotive. But you also get quite a lot of miniature railways have scaled down narrow gauge locomotives. So just here we have another locomotive, again a standard gauge locomotive but scaled down. Now if we look up here I think it's one of the coolest miniature locos ever up there. I don't know much about it, it's a mallet so it's articulated. That is a scaled down narrow gauge locomotive to run on a miniature railway. So if I haven't already really really confused you there, what we need to do now is go and look at some narrow gauge locomotives. So if we walk through this part of the metro, you know I could spend all day and hit so many fascinating things. There's architectural models, you know there's all sorts, models of signals, chairs, even models of ships. There's so much in here but what I want to do is explain to you the difference between miniature and narrow gauge standard gauge. So basically miniature is any scaled down railway nearly always built for pleasure whilst narrow gauge wasn't necessarily built for pleasure but it was where you couldn't fit a full-sized railway. So the tracks had to be narrow which I'm going to show you some examples of. Of course this is all standard gauge stuff, the Deltaik in the western and the Sterling single. I've actually seen that on the main line once a few years ago when it had done the railway children's play at Waterloo. She was towed by Classwater 7 to south. Now regarding miniature and narrow gauge down here we have a model of the Vale of Riding Railways locomotives. Now that is a miniature narrow gauge up here. So it's a model of a narrow gauge locomotive but it's smaller than the real thing so it runs on a miniature locomotive. That look there looks very excited to be at National Railway Museum and in the background is Mallard. Now what we're going to do so now we've seen a narrow gauge locomotive miniature. Let's look at a narrow gauge locomotive not in miniature. So as we walk under the northeastern railway footbridge with Mallard next to us like I said I haven't actually come here to do standard gauge stuff so it's great to sit in the background but that's not, perhaps we'll do it another day. Here we have a double fairly locomotive. So this is a definite narrow gauge it's not miniature it's smaller obviously as you can see we have a standard gauge locomotive in the background it's smaller but it's not miniature. So railways like Stinyo don't feature in my miniature railway Britain because they're not miniature railways. They're scaled down railways because it wouldn't have been appropriate or possible to build a standard gauge railway. It doesn't mean I won't visit narrow gauge railways I probably will but they just won't feature under the miniature railway Britain series. So that's narrow gauge, standard gauge and then narrow gauge in miniature and I think on this section track here this 15 inch section track there was a Bassett locomotive like you'll see at places like the rail miniature railway which we'll perhaps go to at some point soon well we will go to exit to miniature railway and we're doing every miniature railway. So as we walk through more standard gauge loco such as low star and then we have a great western rail car we'll take you to see some more narrow gauge loco's for not necessarily loco's but narrow gauge trains. This one this is again an example of a narrow gauge railway where the train was decided it wasn't appropriate or necessary to build standard gauge. This is part of the old post office railway in London now it's a tourist traction called mail rail and you can actually ride a passenger train around some of the system. So again that's not a miniature railway it's a narrow gauge railway obviously when it was built they never imagined they'd carry passengers but they do. So this carriage post between Mount Pleasant sorting office and London Paddington underneath London it was the London Underground line and not many people realised it existed. So that's narrow gauge now if we go through here another narrow gauge railway which people possibly didn't know about this is one this is the channel tunnel so when they built the channel tunnel narrow gauge tracks were laid to convey spoil and various equipment in and out the tunnel and this is one of the trains that's been preserved there are also other places where that's happened such as Crossrail before the standard gauge lines of Crossrail were laid there were narrow gauge lines and carrying on with narrow gauge loco's. I've mentioned in a couple of videos before about crew works it had its narrow gauge system we're here we have another loco now this one is narrow gauge not miniature it was built at crew works but it ran at Horwich works as you can see it's a rather funny looking thing it's a saddle tank is directly on top of the border so it gives a very tall strange thin appearance and we've got one more narrow gauge vehicle I'd like to show you I think we've done all the miniature railway ones we've already been to the miniature railway over in the South Garden on a different video here we have a narrow gauge railway carriage so again you can see it's quite large so it's definitely not miniature it's full size but it's narrow gauge it's narrow gauge see full size is another complicated one because full size doesn't necessarily mean standard gauge what full size means is not scaled down so this isn't the scaled down carriage it was built to be this size for the railway it ran off so I hope I have explained a bit about the differences between standard gauge and miniature narrow gauge and here's the stationery steam engine we're gonna I'm just gonna finish with one more definite standard gauge thing as soon as I'm here I want to show you the newest exhibit in the National Rail Museum one of my favorites one of the things I'd love to see steaming again is this bullet boys fascinated by this locomotive almost looks like a standard gauge version of that um Horwich locomotive's tank so I'm just gonna walk around in front of the loco and I shall reveal on the turntable which you might seem impossible to see HSTs here but here we are so Kenneth Grange the pioneer class 43 is here on the turntable at the National Rail Museum so thank you very much for watching I hope I've let you understand the difference between narrow gauge miniature and standard gauge and please do feel free to like and subscribe and tell your friends thank you very much for watching them goodbye