 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at a railway station. It appears to be quite a quiet railway station But I can guarantee the rest of this site is a lot busier than this I'm at Stapfold Junction at the Stapfold Barn Railway in Staffordshire somewhere I've always always wanted to go to today. I finally got here. You might have heard steam whistles You will hear steam whistles and steam trains throughout the video Because there's quite a few there's at least seven steam locos out today It's not a gala. When I have a gala it'd be even busier, but I thought I'd come here today It's my first visit on a quieter day, and then I'll have to come back for a gala. So here we are at Stapfold Junction I'm not gonna... there's no train train on this platform today, but if we go over the footbridge, you'll see There. Oh, certainly train train and we'll have a look around the site. There's actually also a model rail exhibition on today So I might make a huge ring of looking at all the layouts, but we'll certainly point out one or two of them So as I come up onto the footbridge We come from... it's almost like a separate station, but this is the other side of Stapfold Junction. If you get some stations like this on the network, they have like a platform slightly out the way I'm trying to think of one like Wrexham General. Reminds me a bit of that. It's like a narrow gauge Similar to a narrow gauge version of Wrexham General. There's one of the many locos I've travelled behind today, Howard You see the turntable up there. So I've had six locos for haulage today. It's towards the end of the day They've all been winners. That means I've not travelled behind them before. So what happens here is Howard has arrived with a train Soon another steam train will pull in to this platform and then There's another steam locomotive waiting around the corner. That will take the train back and then There's another steam engine at the end of this one, which we'll go and have a look at that. That will depart So it's a very Quite an intense service they run here. But while we wait for a train to arrive We just have a look at a couple of things at this end of the site This is the more sort of garden end of the site and I'll get on to the garden railway This is One of the Sierra Leone railway carriages. It was either this carriage or one of her sisters I rode behind at the Welsh Fawn Landfare Railway a few years ago. Well, it was back in about 2005 We should visit that one again I'll see lots of locomotives and carriages today, which I have seen at other railways. So Some of them it's made me realize I've thinking I haven't been there for 20 odd years So I need to revisit some of them. So here we are his Stathold Junction Station I think I can hear the sound of a train coming up the gradient Waiting to work next to his locomotive called Alpha. So what we'll do we'll just hang around here and see the train arrive There's one of the trains arriving that was the first local travel behind today So there's three trains out but as I said, there's six locos although two of them are double-heading with two huntslets So what will probably happen now is Alpha will depart with her train and then two more locos will take over So where that Welsh Fawn Landfare X Sierra Leone carriage was was just up there You can see the line going down. Now what I'm going to try and do is Get there's a little viewing area where we can see the train go past Show you this bit in a minute. This bit's coming up. It's got run past it. So as you go down here It's just viewing area. So if we go up here when I came up here the first time this morning I thought this is funny. It just takes you up into a hedge and if it will where am I going down this path It feels more like being amazed and But it takes you to a viewing area as we come down here As if I'm queuing us to steam wreckers. These are two huntslets we have so they're waiting to take over the next train if you have a look at the Signal over there signals pulled off. So that's for Alpha to depart of her train Now the interesting thing about these two these are two sisters, but they were built 99 years apart and so one was built in 2006 and the other That one there that fold and simple Mary was built in 1905 that fold junction signal box. So you can see the signalman is standing there There goes the guard's whistle. Oh, by the way, if you think my face looks dirty That's because I've been standing on the balcony right behind the steep load goes and this gradient is pretty steep It's not the only steep gradient. So hence why I've got a dirty face here. Let's watch out for go past See the signalman. He's gonna exchange tokens I Got in a second. There we go. So these little dollies in a minute should go for the Eat there we go see how middle one just dropped for these two have now got the road to go back to the station So they will work one of the next train. So we'll just see them go Boys like Cory hunts it so I'm not sure how many there are because 20 years ago, there wasn't as many as there are now So I've started building them again because places like that folder built them various other places And they're such a nice little local perfect for motion hour gauge railways. So you'll see them everywhere from Wales to Corn First had my trip behind So my first trip behind the quarry Hunts it was at the Launston steam railway in the 1990s If you want to have a look at that video have a look at link on screen now So I'm gonna trace my steps up here. You may have seen we rushed past a little narrow gauge Area where there's some wagons will go and have a look at those and then we'll continue to explore the rest of the site So we'll come back down these steps And just here Moment that goes so we'll go through to this area here You can see there's a turntable and a couple of locos and there's narrow gauge And wagons and there's those hunts that's again just through there There's more wagons in this curved shed. So this curved shed Joins up with the railway line where we've just been. So let's have a look around here. Nothing's moving here. And you can see there's two gauges two foot and two foot six or that's what I'm 99% sure they are I should keep thinking this wouldn't want to go to narrow gauge railways It just in case I'm not sure I should take a tape measure with me just to be sure to be sure but anyway Very sure nice little guard fan P-way brake fan Says the to the guard would turn this wheel a lot people must take it for being a steering wheel people don't know much about railways It's not a steering wheel. It's the brakes See inside I've ridden in these are four We were having a ride on one at Teleglenn Railway. It was great fun riding down from the hills Looks like a ballast wagon and there is literally so much stuff I can't possibly go through what everything is and I don't actually know too much about anything is There's these two locals here. I'm not too short there. I guess I'd say they're mining locals I'd thought they're electrics. They probably work down in mind But I might be wrong and if I am wrong do comment and tell me I'd love to know what they are I have bought the guidebook which lists all the stock so which I haven't actually had a chance to look up There's so much here. I got here fairly early this morning I got here about 11 o'clock came up on the train. They put a vintage bus on which will probably see some of the vintage brushes They put a vintage bus on from Tamworth railway station. That's how I got here There's another shed there. There's even a bit of what looks to be standard gauge track up there I know they have had standard gauge track in the past. So as you go around here It says tram this way and garden. So yeah, they've got trams here. They've got a garden railway Well, look, there's Howard which we saw at the railway station So how the wait here for his next turn or her next turn to work to train This looks like a standard gauge piece of rolling stock a steam crane So it's and it does power it would have powered itself because you can tell by the gears on the on the wheels At least I think it possibly powers itself. So that was built in Bedford So there's another railway here called the garden row, which isn't actually running today So here's a rather sharp railway going off there through those gates. So that's the garden railway So that's not open today But that's not a problem because it's a brilliant reason to come back here again. I Personally chose to come here today not on one of their garter days because I knew I really wanted to explore the site And I feel if I've come on the garter day, I just be it's been fairly overwhelming with just so much stuff going on today So if I come on the garter day, you know, I thought I'll come and see the site on the quieter day And I do wonder why I've never been here before It's an amazing place There's a diesel loco We're gonna see so many locus the shoe wait later on in this video We're gonna just keep it's gonna get ridiculous fairly soon come around here private tramway level crossing Yes, they have trams here and we're just crossing a stream at the moment This bridge takes us over a street And on the other side is the garden rail, which as I said, we're not doing today because it's not running So when we get to here, it says tram this way So you'd cross the track and go and have your ride on the tram, which I did this morning. So that's the tram stop and You see over there that shed. That's the tram shed. It's really good here. I was standing down here earlier And when a train comes up this hill Really open up and it's pretty mad Just see the trees to guard the railway. So as I said The reason to come back, but there's loads of reasons to come back. So what I'm doing now is I'm following the railway Down the hill. So that was that fold junction. There's three stations, which you can travel on and off today And then this rain goes off on a big loop Right the way around to the other side of that field and they've also got another loco Working what's called driver for a fiver. The queue was about an hour long So I thought well, it'd be fun, but I'll give that a missed and here comes a tram Seems really funny seeing this tram just running through the fields with no wires or anything I'll explain where the trams come from And she's gone past, but I'll let you watch her go past So That is a Burton and as we like railways tram number 14 So she worked not too far from here actually, but what happened was she I believe she ended up in America And then a few years ago. She was up for sale So the opportunity was taken to bring her back to the UK and it's quite nice She now runs here nearer to where she would have worked The interesting thing was I'm not sure which gate she previously was but they had to obviously regage her to two foot Or is she two foot six to one of those gauges to work here and she's must be fit of an electric motor because as you can see There are no overhead wires here. So So yeah, this is like railway line What looks like a tramway isn't what the tram's running on just to confuse everyone and then the tram is over on the far Tractors free tracks running on here There's also I said we went over a river Down here So when trains are going In that direction they don't call it actually hope they do on the way back And as I said, they go off for a trip around the loop You may see if there is a train going along there will see the smoke in the distance. So That's where they go the plan is to eventually extend it take the train massive Gradient but up past those farm buildings. So yes, there's another train coming So this is a train passing through strawberry park on the through line on by the way in that building is the One of the halls housing the modern rail exhibition. We'll go and have a quick look I'm not going to show you every layout because that'll take a long time and They're all very good else, but here's number 19 coming. We'll watch her go past Off she goes up the hill number 19 was built by Hudwell Clark in Leeds So So some of the locos are newer, but I think all the ones out today are older ones So this is strawberry park station So as I said, we'll go out the front and I'll show you a few things when I arrived here when I came on this vintage bus From the railway station. I arrived just the other side is fence, which you'll see very shortly And then I came in here. So as I haven't been here before I just came here and a train pulled in so I got on it so Here we go. There's a big American truck here on display You can see some of the buses. So I came on that isn't the bus I came on It was an old Walsall bus from the Wyville or Whivel Transport Museum, which has a miniature railway So I have been in the past at some point we'll go there to do an episode of miniature railway Britain Talking a miniature railway Britain Over there when I came in I noticed there's a miniature railway under construction So once that starts running to the public that too will be featured in miniature railway Britain So there's at least two more miniature railways in the pipeline for me to visit. So this is this big shed here Which has lots of model railways. We're gonna have a very quick look I'm not gonna show them all because it would make the video a long long video But it just shows you can have a great time here if you do come here for the day because there are so many So as we go in Just giving you an idea and there's very few trade stands quite a lot going on This will be a model railway. Just watch the train go past and then we'll go back outside It's quite amusing what's coming. It's the APT, the gas turbine APT painted in in the city So I just haven't watched her as she goes past She's the help from the hand of God but So as you go to the fictional livery you may remember a while ago I did make a video where we went in the real APT the one that's preserved at crew if you want to see that video I haven't looked at link on screen now Different now double fairly So I've ridden behind some double fairly in the past on the first in your growing as I said this whole hall is completely full of Model railways, but I'm not gonna show them all like they've made video very very long What if that's the bus that came on see that blue bus over there the other side of carpet. That's the one I came on What we're gonna do now, we're gonna have a look at a few other things and There's basically a room full of locomotives. There's so many locomotives. I haven't counted them all But it's got to be I don't know on the whole side today. It's got to be I'll say getting on for a hundred Maybe not quite maybe 70 of a lot though So it's kept me entertained all day I don't know if I've ever seen in the UK. That is so many narrow gauge In one day, so there's a couple of the buses so I'll be getting the last one back to Tamworth station at five o'clock We're gonna go over here Where these sheds are there's a few interesting things to see over there And then we're gonna go into this shed which houses more of the model rail exhibition and it also houses just Loads and loads and loads of loaders. This is nice a little van That's that fold palm railway you've lost in van And I said nasty bus switch bought me here, and it probably will take me back again. So you got this little corner here. I Haven't noticed this till my first got here. There's various assortment of interesting vehicles moving this huge excavator to your road vehicles and then It gets more interesting for me. I think so. I mean, he's a good deal because there's a narrow gauge Diesel local over there. There's this Engine built in Stockport It's like a horse and trapped there now these Funny-looking locals. I believe these are electric locals from either to Norwich quarry in North Wales If it's not to Norwich, it's another quarry if you know which quarry do comment and tell me Not sure where that local worked I've had one of these a similar one of these on the Weltshine Territage Railway one that worked on the channel tunnels This one says no me cable tunnel. So that's obviously where that works on the construction of the tunnel Beats the Veloco looks just like a little Shunt of then you realize how long it is and powerful. It must be a couple more diesel Now so there's some of your diesel locals But imagine a shed about ten times the size of that full of steam locals. That is what we're going to see soon Again now We Could go in that way that would be the shorter way in but what I'm going to do I'm going to take you the other way around just because I think and It will I want to say for the real best bits till last and also we might see some other trains on the way There's a boiler over there steam locos boiler. It's just things lying everywhere. Look. There's something off something or Yeah, there'll be a steam loco, you know a miniature one or a model one. It just seems You sort of walk around you miss something the first time and then you find it again That's that stream again, which we walked over And off down there. So as we come towards here, that was Strawberry Park station just over there That path here provides a shortcut to Strawberry Park station And we're back to two huntslets which we saw getting ready to take over the train They're just calling it Strawberry Park. So what we'll do we'll walk up here to Oatry Hole for us. It was there this junction here This goes through those gates and into this huge shed, which I mentioned a moment ago We're going to go and have a look around and It's very exciting inside that shed. I was just like when I walked in I mean I was expecting a lot But I was just like what is this much? I just could not believe the sheer Scale of how many things that were here. So what will happen is the two huntslets will come up here and then There's another train You might have just heard the whistle of waiting just around the corner at Oak Tree Hulk So that will They'll pass each other It looks like people getting on off while we wait for them we'll have a look in this little area here So Where are we? Yeah, we're gonna go in there soon. But first I just want to show you a couple of things here There's a few interesting things here There's a gauge carriage The other end of the tram line is just over here. We go through to here with a little sweet shop there And so about loads of it everywhere. There's a local there. There's a traction engine there We'll go through to here and There's a train waiting here. I'm not sure which locos on it. If you're wondering why the whole school don't tree hold There's your answer So that's how for which we saw earlier on in the video waiting here the train I've not been there, but it reminds me of what I've seen what the bed of some railway in northern France looks like It looks a bit similar similar characters you stand outside people have been let's tell me It's just so nice. You can stand outside and enjoy being on the train. Enjoy the views If you get to here At least cadets are patrolling to be level crossing. There's the tram so We're waiting to see a train get past So it looks as though the tram has now finished with the day So I did have a ride didn't actually get go upstairs because there was a queue and I was concentrating on Riding as much as I possibly could So yeah, I just got waiting to see the train pass now What I might do actually is Because I don't know how long it's gonna be and it's getting towards the end of the day I might just skip that one. But if you have a look at the link to the actual video. I've made of the gala There's gonna be plenty of run-bys in that so you will see lots of trains passing So there's certainly no shortage of trains there. So How far's waiting to go? Let's go and show you what I actually came here for this so many different things to see There's this hall here. This has got like Micro layouts really really small layouts But we're gonna go through here to this building Typical there goes the train, but Just hear them steaming through but like I said do watch the other video you'll see everything in there We're going into that build and we're gonna take you this way because there's a couple of other locos I can show you on the way So that would be quite fun And it's just Is this local which I'm pretty sure it's a compressed air I think we might be being missed that picture behind Built in Leeds now we go through to here. This is where the main bulk of the moderale exhibition is held It goes upstairs as well. Yes It goes upstairs And I'll quickly walk around here to a couple of things on the way layouts are everywhere There's one up here. I do quite like him. You'll see why in a second This layout here is quite cool because it's actually live steam Sourcing steam locos working whether we will now but it was so again, that'll be in the main video Some of the live steam we saw here We walk through to here There's locos everywhere. These are of all sorts of different things Locos everywhere. It's like this one Under the tank engine. Let's just run past. I think there's a steam locos coming out on that live steam one So we've got to we'll see that Including as I said so much stairs. Let's get this way again. There's more diesels even up there So it's just a bit mad this place for seeing so many different Locos sort of like it's all these bookstores look behind them Feeling this one standard gauge not entirely sure again do comments and tell me There's more railways Right question is do we go upstairs or stay downstairs? I think we'll do we will go upstairs and then I'll show you the view that is a little bit unexpected, but pretty amazing And as I said about there being locos everywhere model miniature. Look at that. That's a channel tunnel construction loco And then we come to the upstairs which well firstly gives us quite a good view over this part of the exhibition More quarry hunts. It's this one's actually been cut away as you can see the interior workings of the steam loco I'm not going to go through in too much detail, but basically Fire is in there And then there's water it is the tank here, which is blue the water is injected into the boiler Goes up to the dome where the steam is once it comes to you and the steam obviously powers the cylinders So I'm a little bit slow goes from her a good side though so you can see what she really looks like So she's called good truth. She was built in Leeds in 1909 to works number 995 So that's and here's one of her sisters built brawler later in 1932 This is Mitchell Michelle King of the scarlets Some don't She was built in 1889 So she's built 100 years before I was born And there's a picture of her king of the scarlets at work probably at the Norwick quarry We have some hunts that didn't just build steam locus. They built diesel They still build diesel today. This one was built in 1939, but her works numbers of 2019 so Now this is where oh, there's a public part What we're gonna go through a door in a minute, and this is where it's really going to go mad Oh, look at those works plates all over the wall. It's gonna get mad in a second So right one last view over at the model exhibition. Oh, there's a few more Little locus down there and there's one just here Steam loco up here now we're going to see a mega collection of Narrow gauge locus look at this that it's just mad It's just like Just I don't know what to say. It's just so exciting to come to subway and find these many locus. It's just amazing We're a huge turntable in it. We're gonna go and have a look at these locus of course. We can't not do This is will it they come from all over the world this diagram shows you all the parts of the shows all the parts The world they've worked so just about everywhere And then there's another one. I think along here this one shows you all the countries in the world Well, they were built and then also parts of the UK where they built was much of it And so quite a few in Europe one was built in Africa couple of American locus I'll show you which ones are American You might even know already by looking Here the exhibition is starting to pack up now So it's quite a good time to come and have a look round You can see some of them need a lot of work doing before they're ever gonna run again, but that's all part of fun So we come to the ground and Here's some of the various locus So like I said, I'm not gonna comment and tell you what every single one is but some of them. I will I'm just gonna sort of walk past them all really So these are various industrial diesel locus quite a lot of locus here are industrial not all of them Most of them are some of them would have worked on various railways and again I don't know too much of this one's of interest to me Atlas if you kind of look it says Abbey light railway And that's a picture of the ruined Kirkstall Abbey over in Leeds It was a narrow gauge railway near the Abbey. Unfortunately it closed when the owner passed away I never actually rode on that one, but one day we'll go back there and we will do a video a non-railway video on Kirkstall Abbey Winch So as we come down here now here's some of the more weird unusual things, but no less very exciting. There's this Land Rover and yes, it's on railway Even though it still has a steering wheel now, I've seen this Land Rover in action It was a Adrian shooters railway and the beaches like railway over in Oxfordshire I did go to one of their open days once. I don't think there's any footage this But you have a look at link on screen now You can see the footage of the steam locomotive Darjeeling steam locomotive is this rather mad-looking rail car called the goose And I remember this Sandy River parlor car This was an Asian shooters railway and then has an American local there I'm gonna have a look at that properly in a minute The sound of steam you can hear now, that's all playing out in speakers This local is actually German built by Orestine and Koppel, a German company, so it's got a tender There's another local, a second local that's come across is called Howard Although Howard's quite new despite having a vertical boiler, only built in 2007 Another little diesel locomotive Come round here, as I said, it's getting towards the end of the day Hence why a lot of the Stools have been packed up, but that's why I waited till the end of the day to make this video Come to here More locals Look, here's an American one here with the parlor car from the beaches like railway into their plate Davenport locomotive works, Iowa Better build as when they built this local in Iowa, I had no idea she'd end up on a farm in Staffordshire for her retirement Another diesel locomotive A few of these around, I've ridden behind one or two of them There another one which they've built a few newer ones in preservation, but this one was built in 1918 over in Stoke-on-Trent Here's that, here's two of the loco's awaiting restoration Now this loco here, this hunts that's Cory Hunts it, Cloister, I have had for haulage back in November 2004 at the Kubrickstee Museum So she was built in 1891, so again, she's quite old but I have had her for haulage When she was there, the other loco that used to work there I'll show you, it's just around here, this one, Wendy She also used to work there, but I've not had her for haulages Saddle tank, it could be mistaken for being standard gauge, she's a peck it ever looked So we'll continue to walk around, see what else we can see I think they're gonna close soon, so I'm gonna have to wrap up this video, another Cory Hunts it from Jonathan This one I particularly like around here, it's a mallet, so it's articulated and then We'll go to around here and we'll finish up on the turntable So yeah, do have a look at, it's just mad this place, I just can't believe to see so many loco's And then on the turntable, there's another few loco's, so I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching and from the Stat Folklarn Railway Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment, do come visit one of their events. 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