 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm on a train and I'm not going anywhere It's quite nice train to be sat on And I can watch trains a lot out the window I'm a crew heritage center. So following on from our miniature railway video this video I'm going to show you the heritage center. So I'm going to get out of my seat This is the APT the electric APT The first tilting train in Britain the last video the miniature railway one ended here It's funny because the miniature rail which goes both sides. If you look out there, you can just see a track And if you look out there You can see the other tracks when we're on the miniature railway. We went all round the APT Now we're having a look in the APT itself. Well, there's a London north-western railway class 350 passing So let's have a look around crew heritage center and I'll tell you a bit about it. So we're in an APT carriage We are slightly tilted It feels a bit weird and being a bit tilted See it gives you an idea of the layout of the train And we go through here There's a toilet just there not particularly big bit sort of Typically sort of 1970s looking this is where you finish the other one because I said how's this model and you've got the Barbies and Ken as passengers enjoying a ride on the APT So if we go back outside now because the next carriage is the power car and we can't go through that So there's the miniature Rally The loco is just running around its train So this is the power car So passengers can't actually go in the power car So we have that's why that's come outside to get into the front Free passenger carriages, so I'll have a look in them and then we'll go and have a look in the exhibition Where there's some model railways and what I've done. There's a few model railways here So rather than meet too much while the trains are running. I'll make a third video So the first video is a miniature railways second one was the heritage center itself And then the third one I won't speak and it will just be footage of the model railways So if we just go through here Thank you This is the first-class carriage of the APT so you can see there's two plus one seating and The seats are nicely lined up with the windows the luggage space isn't that great Then you've got all this room here between the seats in which to put your luggage So that's first class. Let's walk through into standard class now I think this carriage here this very narrow, but this is the buffet Looks like that she did draft beer on a train. Unfortunately, there's no one there. So I'm can't have a drink Be quite nice with this and have a drink on the train. So this is Back in standard class Even then there were seats which didn't brilliantly line up with a window, but at least you've got some window That's all right. He's nice lined up with a window. We go through here into the front carriage And then the driver's cab will be just be on there Why the tartan seats it, you know, you know, you're going to Scotland when the seats of that color He's just been using the toilet So let's go back outside just show you from here that is the spare APT carriage or power car rather that was the electric railway Museum of Coventry until it closed and it ended up here 87 locomotive now never traveled behind one on the West Coast mainline, but I do Remember seeing them remember going to Birkhamstead castles a child. It was all 86s and 87s before the Pendelino Exhibitions and now so I'll just point out. There's a few more rallies, but we'll see Better later So now let's walk into the exhibition center Itself, so it's a big room. There's a few interesting things the cab of a 47 and behind us is a whole class So there's lots of this tells you a lot about Crew in the area there's that interesting vehicle there, which I'm not too sure what it is so little models of Buildings you'd have found in crew. So this is one of the pups Check world arms and over here there is some Interesting vehicle. So you've got a mini ice cream van Which seems to I think you've set some music off Another I'm not sure it's ice cream van and then you've got Yes, a box of ice cream van and a Bedford ice cream van That's a model of the pavilion in Queens Park in crew and noise. You can use the train outside Some more buildings here So now let's go back outside and we'll have a look around The rest of the site so I'm going to kind of take you on like a whistle-stop tour of Crew heritage center I don't want to show you everything because the idea is I make these videos and you can come and see if yourself But I'll certainly show you some of the best things There are to see here So walking back past the APT Set of wheels there There's the routemaster again wet in that door Let's go over there. Now that is the signal box the crew Junction signal box the North Junction because obviously crew is one huge junction and Insignal in terms is divided into lots of smaller junctions because some stations can have one signal box that controls the whole station But some are like crew not sure how many signal boxes there were but there must have been quite a few There's the miniature railway again So we're kind of now coming down to the apex of the two sides of sight So goes that way and that way and the miniature as I said is a v-shaped the other way it's quite unusually shaped So class 87's There's Not sure how many have been scrapped. I think there was 35 of them 110 miles an hour I much prefer these and a set of mark twos or frees and pendulino's That's those, you know things move on a few have been scrapped. This one's preserved here There's one preserved at the National Railway Museum There's one of them the only one that's mainly certified Shunster sleeper stock at London Euston and there's quite a few of them in Bulgaria. So There are still it's still possible to travel behind them, but not regularly only on the odd rail tour both in England Or I don't know when it's last been one and if there were any rail tours in Bulgaria I think they're more for good. So they don't reuse them on passenger trains Otherwise a tiger on the roof, but there you go This we can see that is part of where the 18-inch gauge tramway went up to the signal box I'm not quite sure the exact purpose of it needing to run up there, but I can see some Wagons, we'll have a better look. We go up. There's a little cafe here. So I'm gonna walk through the cafe We're gonna go up there to the gallery where you can watch trains So that's the cafe in the shop So we're now downstairs in the signal box. There's quite a lot to see here I'm not gonna show you everything Because it would take a while And whenever I see these things, I would end up buying books and videos Which usually annoy certain relations of mine A nice modern railway here, an American style railway But I'll make a separate video on this with the trains going round I wanted to show you this This really nice viewing window to a cruise station I remember when I last came here Ten years ago, I ticked off my last Pendelino here The last one I hadn't seen it went past and I ticked it off So yes, great modern railway American style model railway So in a separate video this And the model railways we saw in the other exhibition hall will be shown I'll just quickly show you this one. There's a little model railway there Which isn't running So there's no video, that is an AF With a good strength. So there's all sorts of signaling equipment Far too many for this guy, there's too much data But if you like your signaling, it's great. Now this is cool This is all the relays underneath the signal box from an electronic signal box There's just, you know, so many relays. It's really quite fascinating So there's a lot about signaling here as we will see more of. Let's go upstairs now Here's the tower signal box itself. Look at that array of little levers It's a bit like, you know, the Beckinscott model village where we have been a few times They've got a signal box a bit similar to this, controlling their gauge on model trains And but this is on a really big scale Stuck to rain again There's a railway station out there There's another array of signaling levers It's amazing There's a huge map up there of everything it would have controlled I'm not sure how many people they needed, but there have been probably quite a few people up here Now, let's just brave the rain for a moment There's a light engine on the middle of the railway down there This is, what's great about this is you've got a good view of both railways So you've got the west coast main line here That's going up towards Glasgow That's the line to Manchester Railway station's there And the lines to Chester's over there So where are we going to go now? Pasto's Locos For the other signal boxes and we're going to see some more signaling It's shame that it doesn't work as well Whether we want to stand out here in the rain waiting for one There's some of that 18 inch gauge railway that used to run around the whole of the crew work site Crew work's about half a mile over there Now let's go back down the stairs again Generation of the APT Of course you've got Pendelinos The other thing that happened last time we came here Duchess of Sutherland just happened to go past But everything now happened today But that was great because I saw three generations of west coast main line now Now instead of out the APT with other power We can go in this one have a look So let's do it and get out the rain Very small All sorts of motors Don't know too much about it So I think when they were in service passengers couldn't have walked through here So in my books technically it's a loco haul train Because to me a loco has to be a vehicle on the train You can't travel in So HSTs, TGVs to me Are all a form of loco haul train Well that's a power cut I suppose However he's not a loco that's a Driving van trailer Now I remember these On the London Liverpool Street to Norwich In fact even quite risk I've travelled on these out of Norwich But not to London But to Great Armour from Lower Stop When there was the famous Short set with a Class with two class those things That train coming here it is Another Virgin Voyager That's the lift that was on Class 37 I don't know sometimes they might do Passenger rides up and down This little demonstration It's not very long But maybe they do that on special events I'm not entirely sure There's a diesel shunter here I think it's a Rolls Royce Built diesel shunter I'm not entirely sure And A free shunter Maybe that was a great brand one Maybe it's built up Signal boxes Through Station A So I'm not sure if that's its original site That's Tesco's by the way As well as many Tesco's Are surrounded on all sides by A heritage railway centre And it's up stairs Through Station A We've got a nice little window frame So it gives a I assume that's Possibly this section Of lines this might be its original place I'm not sure that's a book That's what the signal one Would have written down All the train movements Now We're going to go and have a look at that one That is Believe it or not it's from Exeter It was taken apart when it closed In I think 1935 they bought it here And it's all working It's not actually controlling trains But it's controlling signals So let's go and see See a signal box It says signal box open Way in So we're now underneath The signal box So when a lever is pulled Now you can hear All these moving You can see there's weights And all these different colours That pulley just Dropped So that was someone upstairs Pulling levers Into signal box So let's go upstairs and see what we can See a signal box in action As if he's It's like As if the trains are running through Of the train So it's a really smart job Why he's constantly pulling the signals The signal one's very kindly said I can have a go So he's given me his Rag, Duster, I think I've got pull 91s that's a black lever That's a point No plunger So here we go So that's, I've just Changed a point there Do you want me to pull anything out We can get Jess and see The little box ones on the bell So that's how they communicate With Jason All these bells ringing There's a diagram of What would've Of all the trains running So now I'm going to Press the plunger Like that Release it Now pull the lever I haven't pressed it properly You've got to hold it down Now you can't do that You've got a camera in your hand There we go I've now just set a signal To let a train go through That was quite fun From Crew Heritage Centre Hope you enjoyed watching this video Finishing up here That was really great fun To have a go at pulling levers In the old extra signal box Hope you enjoyed this video If you're ever in Crew Maybe you're just changing trains And you've got a few hours Then do walk from Crew Station To come visit the Heritage Centre Thanks for watching And goodbye