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As you cannot see, we're at Mark's Tay station on the main line from London Liverpool Street to Norwich That way it's looking towards Norwich, and if I pan round, that way it's looking towards London We are doing, as my hoodie shows, another episode of Miniature Railway Britain Now the reason I'm here at Mark's Tay is I came up on the train from London Liverpool Street I actually had my first trip on one of these new trains, these new class 720s And the strange thing was, I could not find a litter bin in the train, in the actual passenger saloons The only place I found a litter bin was in the toilet, not the actual toilet itself But the room that houses the toilet was the only place I could find a litter bin So I thought that was a bit odd because I had a coffee, so I had to go to the toilet to dispose of my coffee cup So, we have come here today to catch a train on the branch line, which goes to Sudbury, it's known as the Gainsborough line After, it's almost Gainsborough, we're going to be getting out at Chaplainwakes Coln To visit the East Anglin Railway Museum, which I've never been to before, so I'm very excited about that But that's got Miniature Railway, so that's why we're going there There we are, there's a sign that's quite clear we are at Mark's Tay Because the other sign was a bit of a mystery destination And the station is nice with flowers and everything, there's a modern station ticket hall up there So, as I said, this is the main line Interestingly, the bridge doesn't have lift, so if you were in a wheelchair You've got a rather long walk, you actually have to go down and across the track As soon as there's not a train coming, let's just have a look It's one of the few stations where you can cross the track still On a barrow crossing, so as you come down to here So that's the main line, this is the branch platform where we're going to travel You can see the track points are set, so should the train not stop, it'll go that way into a siding And not go onto the main line, so here you can actually walk across the main line Or the branch line, rather This wasn't always a branch line, I'll go into a bit more of where it used to go later on But it's currently now a branch line to Sudbury So what I'm going to do now is wait for our train to arrive And then we shall go up to Chapel and Waits Colt It has arrived, so it's the Stadler Flirt Unit I did do a tour of the interior of one of these when we went to the Wells Harbour Railway Not so long ago It's quite interesting here because we're seeing it down at ground level Rather than a platform level So as you can see that's the pantograph just there Today it's running purely on diesel because the branch is not electrified So we'll be using this thing here which isn't quite a local because you can walk through it So to be classed as a local it has to be a vehicle Which powers the train which you cannot walk through So it is a multiple unit The only thing I can think of as a local in the middle And I'll probably never get a trip on it, I have been in it When we went to a crew, see this link on screen was the APT Because that's the local which the passenger's going to walk through So that's number 327, it's a class 455 We can cross the track in front of the train and we're going to board it So I always enjoy these trains because I just think they're just something a bit different And a bit of fun So let's get on and this is a new track for me as well Never been on this branch line before So on we get and just go I'm not going to do the full tour of the train But for those of you who wonder what it's like inside the local thing There you go So I mean you can actually walk right through it And you can hear it's fairly noise It says diesel engines hit each side of me And you look through to there See the rest of the train with the toilet Et cetera Well I'm going to go back down this end And sit down and enjoy a journey It goes in about 10 minutes time But I thought might as well sit and wait For this end because then I can see the main line And you know if you never know what might come from I'm not expecting anything exciting But you know watch trains So I'm going to sit down now and enjoy the ride The most exciting thing on the branch Is Chapel Viaduct So I'm looking forward to passing over that And seeing the views Because we might be in East Anglia But it's not as flat as you think The other thing I will say about these trains This is the furthest south enclave That these Stadler flirts come down to So if you want to go on one of these And don't want to travel too far from London This is the closest to London These ones run The Norwich and Stands Express units That are all electric Obviously they pass through here So you can go on them But if you want to go on a diesel one You don't want to go all the way up to Norwich and Stands This is where you need to come Anyway I'm going to sit down And we're off to Chapel Drive to Chapel Waits Cold There goes our train up to Sudbury So I'm going to complete my journey later This might be my next train I've got loads Actually there's no loco so maybe not So this is obviously the railway museum There's a DMU up there So as well as a miniature railway It's also a standard gauge So I'm looking forward to see what we ride on that Oh and rather amusingly Up there There's Toby and Henrietta Although Toby seems to have lost his face Maybe he's just wearing a face covering I'm not sure There's a steam loco down there though I don't think that one's going to go anywhere A little peck it So that's quite exciting Not many British railway stations have a plimp steam locomotive So if you were to arrive for a car you'd arrive here And you see a plimp steam locomotive And then this is the museum So what we've got to do now Is find out where I go to get into the museum Because I said I haven't been here before But it looks very nice And it's like a nice rural railway station on a branch line So this line once Now it only goes to Sudbury You could have once gone all the way to Barrish and Edmunds And Cambridge There's also the Coen Valley Railway here Which would have taken you to Well right through to Haverhill So it was quite an extensive place Once quite an extensive rail Network But now it really is just the branch So there's a 101 DMU And there's a little shunter up there And Kai here Looks as though Looks like Thomas again without Facebook We're going to have a proper look at that later on I think there might be some things to see On this side before I'll find my way over to the museum So I'm not sure what we're going to ride on Didn't know if I was going to go on this DMU Somehow I don't think it's going to go anywhere Because the way that shunter's parked We've got here Then come to here see the old ticket office Bridge Start with a gel booking hall So that's where you'd have bought your tickets And there's an old W.A. Schiff store So what we're going to do now Let's see Let's come out here Now this is out front of the station Guess I'm going to steam locomotive And find my way into the museum And see what we can find Well I have boarded that 101 DMU We could see I'm sitting in first class Very pleasant And we get a nice driver's view forward But there isn't actually a driver unfortunately And we're not going for a ride on this train But we are going to go Obviously for a ride in a minute to railway Because that's what we came here for We're going to go for a ride On another train So we're going to have to go and find that Now I thought I just thought it'd be nice to have a look At the interior of a class 101 DMU And we can kind of compare First generation DMUs With the third generation DMU Which we travelled here on I mean I do quite like the third generation DMUs on this line For once they're a modern train Actually like in that first class If you're not on a locomotive train In first class and looking at the drivers I've used You know, great I think And sort of walk through here About the early first class They have And that would have been The toilet That use This is the guard turn Which modern trains don't tend to have So walk through the guard turn And then we will walk through I mean the second carriage now Walk through here And then we'll go and walk through the museum Have a look at the museum as we go Two minutes to railway So that's the main line Do you have a track there? This is the DMU About a whistle So I think What we might be about to see Is a train come past On the main line So as you can see It says a light here for the East Anglin Rail Museum And that is exactly what we did So there's a A blue locomotive over there It doesn't have a face So I think it's It's an industrial locomotive But it's been playing, dressing up With certain famous blue locomotives But it's not actually that blue locomotive today And it looks like it's off With a passenger train So what we'll do Is we'll go down here We'll cross the track here And then we'll wait and see the train come past Because I think What he's going to do I know what he does There And then runs forward down here So we'll see that And then we'll continue to look around the museum Although the wagons were the carrying passengers And are the riding The wagons which was also quite fun So here's a bit of footage from the ride I just had on this bit of track Good fun Nice bit of fresh as the locomotive we shall Well the railway I know at least Over there somewhere But first let's have a look at these We've got some There used to be some shops a bit like this In George Cross When you arrived at the railway stations You went down the slope these days In games And I don't know if you can see from the wind There's a couple of All model trains Cuzzles Et cetera So very nice to see The Ford Angler It obviously isn't the way we're going to have to go There's some work going on here I can see some miniature railway lines So it's a little local And I just heard a local So what we're going to do now Is get on the train And see where it takes us Because it's a new miniature rail For me I've never been on it It's been rebuilt fairly recently So as I've never been here before Never went on the previous miniature rail It's a nice scene You know there's a locomotive And the highest level is a German Around I've never actually travelled on one I remember seeing one when I was a child Not far from here at the Cone Valley Railway Which is actually part of the railway That this station was once The junction for And I visited there in 2002 So you get to go and see I've put the link on screen now You can see And so the junction went up there But you can see the video when I visited then We had a one two one deal here on that title You'll see in there Let's just have a look in this good shed Seeing as we're here it looks A bit interesting As we come into here Got a couple of vintage carriages Very nice space This good shed And a few old signs Such as Harold Wood Which I passed through on my way here It's on the Great Eastern Main Line That's the crane So they would have lifted Cargo out the wagons onto this area here These doors would have been open That could have been taken away by Laurie Maybe horse and cart Maybe a traction engine Right now let's go and find The Miniature Railway There's also one of the smallest pubs in the country here It's that one there called FireDuck Unfortunately it's not open to it's own kind of play Which I would have done Talking of the FireDuck Once we've had a ride on the Miniature Railway I feel we've been over it We really should go and walk under it We're going to take slightly unusual routes to the Railway I'm going to take you to this one behind this building So the Railway is down there There's another building with model railways in Which is quite interesting It's a mile process That's half a mile from somewhere That one would have been three quarters of a mile from somewhere There's a load of old Eastern Regions station signs Chippewa Riverside, South End, Leonsea, Chippewa, Westcliff They all come from London, Tilbury and South End Like all of those ones More Stratford South End on Sea In Brackett's Victoria We went there last year When we drove on a dusty bin It's another Lincoln screen Have a look at and see the South End Pure Railway A few little ground signals here This is a very interesting museum Worth coming to We'll show you up this way Get an idea of railways in the Eastern Region There is, I'm not going to take you in there But there's all smaller artifacts in there Always main about modern stations having ticket barriers You can't go and see the trains But here they have some old fashioned ticket barriers You know that one's closed But luckily this one's open So what you've done is you can show them A ticket on the window and they'll open it I think one's going one way One's going the other way I think we're actually going out the wrong one But I think that's too much Eastern Region Wooden Bodied Carriages Have a look at this one It's like the guards I see a dresser's got a little step up A bit like the modern train that we came on That other step up I suppose the guard could stand here And knock ahead at his train And then if we come out here And yeah so then let's have a quick look In this one there's the interior Of how trains used to be Compartment stock So as John's made out of building there The Thompson Centre has a model railway in it So I'll have a look in there later And I'll insert a clip now So you can see one of the model railways And then just down here Is the station for the miniature railway So what we'll do is we'll have a ride on the miniature railway And then as I said I'll finish looking around the museum Once I finish looking around the museum I'm going to go for a walk around the Colm Valley And the main object is to walk under the viaduct So this is the miniature railway There's a little station that's called the B1 Not the Shoe Station And there's the train I might have just missed this one Winds blowing the gates shut So I'm going to wait here And see the train go past And we'll get on the next one So as another group of passengers Enjoy their ride on the miniature railway It's time for me to go off for a walk Because I'm in the area and might as well enjoy it So it'd be nice to have had two steam locos for haulage Little and large They were saying no Because as you can see it's a fairly short railway But to me any railway is always good fun No matter the lake they would like to extend all round there So we'll have to wait and see They said that that's their plan So I said well when that happens I'll be back to make another miniature railway Britain video because that is how I said the series works If a railway changes significantly Or holds a special event or something like that Then I will come and visit They said that it'd be quite cool If they could extend down under the viaduct But I think that might be not so possible But that really would be quite a cool miniature railway There's an old LNUT coach there So what I'm going to do now I'm going to make my way out of the museum It's funny actually from down here I can see two steam trains on the miniature I can see the steam loco on the standard gauge The loco steams off It's time for me to leave the museum Go for a walk around the calm valley And we're going to go and have a look underneath that viaduct That's promised I said I should come here we are below it That's looking north that way Toward the Sudbury And that way is looking towards Marks Day Well our shot didn't go quite to plan I watched it back just to see what the wind interference was like And found myself upside down But I thought it was quite funny that first bit anyway So as for the viaduct itself It's rather big and vast And it basically towers above the village This is the village of Chapel I'm making my way to the railway station Because what I did I then went to the other side of the viaduct Watched the train heading south over the viaduct So there's that picture now Or video should I say And now I'm making my way back through the village To the railway station What I'm going to do I'm going to head north To finish my journey to Sudbury Just to complete the track I was going to get out in Sudbury And go and have a look around Sudbury But because I've opted to do such a long walk I think I'll have to leave that for another time But one other thing I could not end without showing you Is the river Kulm itself Which must be here So it's rather small river here This isn't the same river Kulm goes through Watford So not to be confused Although not that far away There are actually two river Kulms The viaduct then towers above it So the whole point of the viaduct Is to take the railway line over the Kulm Valley We get to the main road here It goes to Halstead Where was one of the places Which was served on the Kulm Valley like railway Which ran from here One day after the video Perhaps I'll try and walk the old track bed Or what there is to walk of it That station road there That's where I've got to go Very Essex Field this village has That's because it's in Essex I suppose that explains it Anyway, I'll leave you with one last view of the viaduct Before I head up to the railway station Subway again to the line As I said it did want to carry on Before but exploring where the line used to go Here's a video for another day So it's just a single track Single platform station There is only one track the whole line Apart from the connection With East Anglia Rail Museum It does look like though Subway is probably a rather nice town to look around So another day we'll do that I have planned to do that today Possibly not in the video But in my own time Have a look around Sudbury But decided to go for a walk around the Colm Valley So you know I can't do everything Train's too long for the platform Because the previous trains When it was the 156 Would have been fitted in here nice Which is what I suppose I might as well do Is get back on the train Ticked off this station I've ticked off the line The only station I haven't been On the platform of On this line is Brewers Walk through the funny loco thing And we'll go sit at the front of the train And enjoy the ride Unit's offered is the only one they've done So I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe And comment And from at the end of the Sudbury branch At Sudbury On the train waiting to go back To Mark's Day in London Thank you very much for watching Goodbye