 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm on a bridge over the River Soh in the village of Baggington in Warwickshire. Today is an episode of Minutes of Railway Britain and the reason I'm starting my video here on this bridge is because the railway going to is called the Bridge View Light Railway. It's just over there in Russell's Garden Centre, so when we have a ride on the train we should get a view of this bridge. What I'm going to do first though is I'm walking away in the other direction and you'll notice there is another bridge here. This camera is the road which goes from the M40 up towards Coventry. I've just been driving along there and parked under this bridge is my lard. So we're going to get my larder, drive around the corner to the Bridge View Light Railway. So here we are, we're driving over the bridge. Now this railway is quite a new one. It's only been here since about 2018 I understand, but I did go to this railway at its old location which was just up the road. There used to be the Electric Railway Museum and unfortunately that railway museum had to close, but it had all sorts of various EMUs which had run at all different parts around the UK. It had a nice little railway. I had a ride on it, so if you want to see the link on screen now, you'll see it's a very short video. When the railway museum closed they moved to here and this is where we're going to today and I can just see a train down there and an old lathe. So I'm very excited. We're going to have a look at this railway and also it's a garden centre as I've mentioned. There's meant to be some quite nice gardens, so we're going to have an interesting afternoon. Here we are, we've arrived in my larder. We're going to go and have a ride on the railway, but I've just noticed up here I have to do this after the railway. There's our tractor and it says there's some gardens. So it'll be quite fun to go and explore the gardens, but let's go and have a ride on the train first and then we'll have a look around the rest of the site. It's quite a big garden centre. You can see all the typical garden centre where you can buy plants and garden features, etc. I think there's a cafe here. I've also been told there's a maze here. So it's the sort of place you can go to and have a really nice day out. And it's also quite interesting. The village, there's a few other attractions. There's a castle, there's an amphitheater and there's an aviation museum. I've been to the aviation museum before when I visited the railway museum. Just before the railway museum closed, I went to the railway museum and as it was next door, I went to the aviation museum. So the easiest spend of day in this village with the amount of tractors it's got. So we're coming to the garden centre now. We're going to go down through all of the forest of flower pots. This is a bit of a feature of the garden centre's railways I go to. It always starts coming to walk through an area like this, which is always quite fun. Oh yeah, and then it says bridge view like railway. There seems to be a music event going on in the area. I can just, sounds like status quo I'm playing. Probably isn't actually status quo. Anyway, yeah, I can hear the singing. It's not as good as the real status quo. Anyway, the bridge view like railway. That's what we've come here to see. I'm going to go through here to the station and then here's the railway. It's all looking very neat, a nice garden and there's the railway station and there's a train. So I think we're going to go for a ride on the train. And then when we've had a ride on the train, we'll perhaps do a little bit of line siding. I think I can walk around the gardens and explore the site. It was a very enjoyable ride on the train now. Let's go and have a look around this part of the gardens and we're going to explore the rest of the gardens. So I'll just talk to some of the members that tell me about the railway. As I mentioned earlier, it was originally just up the road at the Electric Rail Museum, which unfortunately closed. When they began to build the railway, they started with the station and they began to build the railway that way. So the section here, which we rode on first, this is the newest part of the railway. So we'll go for a walk around here and we'll walk. There was a couple of other stations. I noticed this old lave I saw from the car as we arrived. So yeah, big, big old lave, making quite an eye. It just somehow fits nicely into the landscape of the gardens. This is really quite pleasant gardens. I'll tell you where it reminds me a little bit of. It's Bresingham in Norfolk. It just has that kind of feel. Got a train going. I think there might be train guys. We might be able to watch the trains go past. So you've got a level crossing here. We'll see a train cross that in a minute. So I said that's the newer part of the line. I'll show you where the line used to go to in a minute. There's a pond here. It's, like I say, it reminds me of the foggy bottom garden. The Bresingham, quite a nice big, big pond there. Oh, now is that the train? Yes. So the station's over there. One of the trains has departed. So we'll go over here. We'll watch the train go past and I want to walk to the other station. That's my plan. And then we'll have a look at the rest of the line. There it goes. Disappearing behind the trees. I'll walk to level crossing. We can watch the train cross at level crossing. Those passengers are enjoying their first-class ride in the first-class seats as I did. Very comfortable. There's this dinosaur here, which stands nicely above the railway line. What I'm heading for is the second station on the line I wanted to show you. So originally it was just the out and back. And then this is the newer section. So it's done quite a lot really. It's come on for a railway that's only five years old. It's really done quite well. Get to here where the train's just disappeared. There's another railway station. It's called Midway. Now, one of our students, one of the members, he told me the reason why they gave the station the name Midway. Let's go on the platform. I'll have a look. There we go. There was another halt round the corner where you can go and see Father Christmas. So people probably do get on and off here. But I don't think many people get on and off here, if ever. So this is probably the least used station on the bridge you like. As for the bridge itself, I won't go down there because the track clearance is quite limited. But the bridge is... Well, we'll go the other way and have a look. But this is what I want to show you. So we've got some signals here. You can just see the next signal down there. That long straight section, that's the track that I rode on about a mile away up the hill, up at the Electric Rail Museum. So they relayed that here. So they began to run along to here and it was just an end to end line. And the reason the station got the name Midway, you'd think it'd be Midway, wouldn't you? It was originally called Midway. But with the river down there, they said they kept getting bitten by midges. So they decided to call it Midway. Let's go down here now. As soon as I start mentioning midges, I'm thinking, can I feel a midge by me? I don't think you can. I think it's just that feeling. Anyway, we're going to go round here and see the bridge where we started. And then I'm going to go maybe have another ride, go to the other end of the site. So that is the bridge. It's just the other side, the Palisade Fence. But that's the bridge of the bridge view like railway. I'm going back there to watch some trains and maybe have another ride. Well, having had fun on the trains, I'm now in the Pottingshed Cafe. That's the Garden Tennis Cafe. Have a cup of tea and I'm going to go and explore the gardens because they told me at the railway. They're really quite extensive. So I'm quite excited to look around the rest of what appears to be quite a vast site. It's now started to rain. I'm going to explore the rest of the gardens of the site. So there's quite a lot of gardens, a bit late for the roaded endrooms this year. But I should think if I came here in about May, this would have looked really quite amazing with lots of different coloured flowers. We're going down here. This is called, I think it's called the Quarry Garden. Now, the reason this garden is fairly important and relevant to the railway is that this is the quarry where the stone from came from to build the bridge that we started off the railways named after. Oh yeah, it does feel like that. We are going right down into a quarry. So this is imagined quite a long time ago, a couple of hundred years ago. So maybe longer. Then we're down here digging all of this out. And the stone that was here where I'm standing is now part of the bridge. So this, this is the quarry garden and there's a lake there. It says danger deep water or a pond. Maybe yes, pond, a bit ambitious calling it a lake. So this, this is the quarry down here. I'm going to continue through the rain, find my way out of this and we're going to see what other, what else we can find. And these gardens literally seems to be going on forever. I've gone from being down at the bottom of the quarry to a higher up point. You can see down there. There's another pond. I kind of came down this ravine from that quarry all the way down there. And I found my way to up here. It's, I didn't realize it was going to be this big. So as I, those of you who watch my videos know, I do like exploring gardens. So this is as fun as riding a train. So for me, I'm having a really quite exciting day. We go down here. We go back into the quarry. We go out through the wild flower meadow. And we're going to find a maze. So keep going. Get down here through these bushes. There's so many other narrow paths going off, which I don't know where they go. I'm not going to explore all of them. But look, this is another part of the quarry. There's a path going off in that direction. I don't want to explore that as well. It's the quarry. Let's go out of here. There's a sign to the river. That is the river so that we started by. I'm not too sure. We're coming out of the woods. Oh, this is the wild flower meadow. So we're now into the wild flower meadow. There's a path going off that way. It's this wild flower meadow. If we go down here, it says there's a creepy overgrown maze. Okay. Go that way and find that, shall we? So I've now come through that. What I thought was the wild flower meadow, but I've just noticed a sign here. It says wild flower meadow down there. The maze is down there. So let's go down there and see the wild flower meadow. It's dark, isn't it? See what that's like. Then we'll finish up in the maze. I think I found the wild flower meadow then. And just like the rest of the site, it is pretty vast. It just seems to go on forever. So if you're going to come and visit here, like I said, there's a lot of other things to do in the village with the castle and the aviation museum, but you can have a really nice walk around here. I can just see the end of the garden centre over there. There's a few people buying things. I think the river must run right around us if we can find it. I think the river might be just down here because we did see a sign. It did say to the river. So let's find that. Then we're going to go and see the maze, which I'm really intrigued to see what a creepy overgrown maze is like. Is this the river just here? It's a bit of an unusual place. Yeah, look, this is the river. And look, there's a bench with old tractor seats. So yeah, I think this is the river. So again, there's the river. I'm now going to go and find the maze as if this place doesn't feel like a maze as it is. I'm going to go and find an actual maze. So having now explored the wild flower meadow and walking up this path, an old Rolls Royce over there, a bit random. You always get unusual cars around garden centres. We're going to go and do the maze. Now, you know, it's a creepy overgrown maze. I kind of see what they mean. It looks creepy overgrown and so dark. I don't think you're going to see me maze. Yeah, you pretty much can't see me. When I go further, my face could just be in darkness. I'm going to go down here and hopefully see in the middle where you can just about still see me. This video really has had the oddest turn from a miniature railway to a dark, scary maze where we come around this corner. It gets a bit lighter. It goes from coniferous to privet. So I've got coniferous ones. I'd privet on the other and a bit more confident of finding my way. Okay, that's dark. Dark dead ends. Um, yeah, a bit more confident and find my way to the middle because previously it was just so dark. You couldn't see anything. It really was just weird. This place is going to try and find my way to the middle. Well, it really feels like I've been in this maze for quite a long time, but I think I'm coming to the end to it. It's interestingly, I've worked out it's layer. So this is the privet. Um, it's this privet, this sort of circuit of hedging. And then this one beach, but then we go back to coniferous. But I can see through the coniferous and form of light. We get to here. Spider just walked in front of me. I don't think we're quiet at the middle, but I think we're getting there. No, I'll wait. That looked like I did end, but this goes around here. Oh, and then a box, box hedging, more privet box hedging. I think we could be near the middle. This is probably the strangest way I've ever ended a miniature railway Britain video by going in a maze that is genuinely quite scary. Um, but I think we've finally arrived at the middle. So through here and well, here we are, uh, overgrown garden in the middle. This has got to be the middle. You can see the layering of the maze. You can see it goes box, privet, coniferous. There's some beach in there. So you can sort of see we came in where the trees are tallest in that very dark bit. Now, interestingly, there's three other ways out over there. When I go in a maze, I always have a policy. I do the keep left trick. So if I keep left, I either come back to where I started or I go to the middle. If you come back to where you started, it means there's more than one way to the middle. And I soon discovered that this one. I went right round. I was back to where I started. So here we are. I am in the middle at this garden center. If I can find my way out of this maze in time, there's a cafe called the potting shed. I need to find my way out of there on time. I need to have a cup of tea. So I hope you enjoyed this video. It really has been after doing the miniature railway, of course, was fun. And that was the whole point of coming here. But after doing it, I have had quite a lot of fun in, um, probably one of the stranger garden centers I've been to. So many garden centers, mainly gardens that have railways. But it really has been quite an enjoyable day. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. If you are out this way, do come and visit this garden center and have fun like I have. Try not to get lost in here. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment in the middle of a maze, which I may never find my way out of again. Goodbye.