 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Little Hampton today at the railway station. Nice to find a railway station that still has 7-4 signals. That way is of course looking towards London. I came down on this Class 377, as the buffer's down there, it's a terminal station. Today is another episode of Miniature Railway Britain, and we're going to the Little Hampton Miniature Railway, and today is their 75th anniversary gala. So it's obviously a railway that's been there for 75 years. I have been once before, maybe about 10 years ago, so I'm looking forward to revisiting that line. When I last visited, they were running with a local called Lady Barbara, who I last heard was at Statfold Barn, so I don't think that's here anymore, so the railway will be a bit different from my last visit. Last time I came here to Little Hampton Station was also quite a few years ago. It was in maybe 2016. It was on a rail tour called the Bogner Bell. It was Royal Scott under Class 47, so we went down to Bogner, had a couple of hours there, and then we came round to here. There's a free car Class 377, and I remember, so the steam local was at that end, so it worked steam into Bogner, diesel took us round to Little Hampton, steam back up to London. So if the camera is going to pick it out just out of down there, I've noticed the signal has gone into the up position for the train to depart back to London. I'm now going to make my way out the station. We're going to walk along down by the River Arran towards the seafront, and then we head east along the coast, and that's where we shall find Little Hampton Miniatur Railway. Here's the River Arran on its last quarter of a mile before it joins the sea just up there. I can already smell the sea breezes, which is a really nice smell on a nice warm summer's day like this. I always enjoyed this part of the walk from Little Hampton Railway Station down to the beach. I think it's a really pleasant way to walk past the harbour, seeing all the boats and everything. I always remember this bit from my kind of teenage years. There was an episode of The Inbetweeners where they went down to Swanwich for a geography trip, but it was actually filmed here, and it was in here where they got stuck in the harbour when their boat wouldn't start, and Jay set up a flare that was here. Even though in the episode it was implied that they were actually filming it in Swanwich, in between this episode it was filmed here in Little Hampton. So we're going to continue on down there, down to the seafront, and then we're going to go to Mutipa Park, that's where this railway is just up here. So we've just walked on a little way from the harbour. We're almost at the point now where the river Arran joins the sea. Over there are some other seaside amusements, but no minute to railway, so I'm not really so worried about it. Look at there, I must have enjoyed it when I was a child though. Here is where the river Arran flows out into the sea. So we've now got pleasant stroll along the beach to find this minute to railway. There always makes a seaside town that much nicer. Well, any town, actually, but a seaside town, the idea of having a minute to railway. It just seems to really complement it. So there's the beach. Out there, people swimming in the sea. I'm not going to go swimming today. It's about 22 degrees. It's quite a bit warmer in London, so it's cooled down. Perfect weather to go swimming. I'm not going swimming, I'm going to ride trains. And that is just along here, the Mutipa Park station. So after a pleasant stroll along the beach, I'm now almost at Little Hampton Minutes Railway. And I can see something that seems a bit unusual. See over there? There's a steam locomotive. That steam locomotive is Mad Bess. Yes, Mad Bess from Right It Blider Railway down here on a holiday for the weekend at the seaside. This video actually makes a perfect sequel to my last minute to railway, Britain video, where we went to the Right It Blider Railway's garter. And they had Christopher visiting from this railway. So after Christopher's trip up to Greater London, well, funny enough, a beach actually. Greater London's got a beach that rides at Lido. Mad Bess has come down here. And I understand she's not the only visitor. There's going to be another visiting steam locomotive, so we're going to go and find that. In a minute, look at that. There's a sign there that says trains running today. So let's get across the road and we're going to go and enjoy a ride on the Little Hampton Minutes Railway. You can see the steam locomotive. I'm really getting quite excited. So there she is, Mad Bess. Obviously, this is Norfolk Road. Newford Park must be the other end of the line. It has been admittedly a while since I was last here. So let's have a look at Mad Bess. So if you want to see my last trip behind her, have a look at me on the screen now. You can see my visit to the Right It Blider Railway's garter. So there she is, Mad Bess. I wonder if she'll be pulling my train. Or maybe there's another train due to arrive. Whichever train comes next, we'll have a ride up line to the other end. Behind Mad Bess, there's no turntable. So she's going to have to run tender first up the line to the other end of the line. This is going to be an exciting trip. First time I've done this line with steam. This feels really novel to ride behind Mad Bess because I've only ever seen a Right It Blider Railway. I think this is the first time she ever has visited another railway. So it seems really quite strange to ride behind her here. But it was very enjoyable. Now what I think is probably going to be our next location is just here. It's called Rosemary. And she's from the Exbury Gardens Railway. I've not been there yet. Somewhere I very much would like to go to both for the gardens and for its Minutes Railways. That's a video that's going to happen at some point in the future. What I'm going to do, I'm going to ride the train back. I'm hoping that Rosemary will be pulling it. I'm not too sure. And then I'm just going to go for a bit of a walk and do a bit of line siding. Rosemary's an ex-moor steam railway built, though. And I kind of told the story when we were at Right It Blider. But I'll briefly go through some of it again. Christopher, I've had before. When I rode behind Christopher Right It Blider, it wasn't a winning locomotive for me. Because I've had Christopher at the Exmoor Steam Railway in the mid-90s, when Exmoor Steam Railway was open to the public. Now, the railway exists, but they closed about 2001 to public. And they're purely a factory which builds steam engines. So if you want to buy a steam locomotive, they can build one. I think Rosemary was built in 2001. But Christopher used to be called Lorna Dune, and it's been rebuilt, a locomotive takes its identity from the front. So if you want to see Christopher back in the mid-90s, sorry, not Right It Blider, I saw Christopher Right It Blider, if you want to see Christopher in the 1990s at Exmoor, have a look at Link on screen now. Meanwhile, Rosemary is going off the loop and she's about to pull out trains. It's going to be a really exciting ride back down the other end of the line. And then we're going to do some line riding. So they've got three loco's in spin. I'm not sure if they're scheduled to work with passenger trains today. So we'll drive back in time for a bit of line riding. So that's my winning locomotive today. We've just gone into the other platform. So I'm not a super truck, I should worry about everything. So now I've been up and down the line, and I've had the winning locomotive. I may have arrived behind Christopher later, this train. Line riding, so we're just going to watch the little steam trains puffing along the coast. A rather pleasant afternoon for a lovely summer's day. Well, I've had a great afternoon here at Little Hampton Miniature Railway. Here's now Bess at Musbret Park Station. This is Musbret Park here. There's a little centre over there. I'm just going to quickly show you the lake. There's a lake with peddlers on it. This railway has that sense of being like a real railway that does function taking you from somewhere to somewhere. It has two fully functioning railway stations. So you can use it as a genuine transport. There's quite a long way, because if you from the other end to here, so if you were in Little Hampton, and you fancied coming to this park, where you can hire peddlers, you don't need to walk, you can get a train and look, you've got this huge lake to hire a peddler and go for a boating ride. So I thought I'm not going to do that today, though, because I've had too much fun with the trains. That's the station over there. So I hope you've enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. Thank you to Little Hampton Miniature Railway, Brite at Lider Railway, and Exbury Gardens. I must go and visit that one for bringing their locos along. That's what's been a really, really good gala. So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment from Musbret Park.