 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Rice at Lido in Greater London. Rice at Lido is of course known for its minute to railway, which is just over there. I can hear a steam train from our best. It's just pulling in over there. I know you can't see it particularly well now. We'll go over and have a better look. It's their gala. It's their May gala. So what we're going to do, we're going to ride lots of different trains. We're going to see lots of interesting movements and everything. It's actually the evening. It's the Saturday evening. It's Saturday the 13th of May 2023 and I've been invited to their evening part of the gala where they're going to do some interesting running. So it's going to be a really exciting evening and they've got their first visiting steam locomotive, which we shall see quite soon. So let's go and ride the Rice at Lido railway. So here we are. I've got my visitors badge and we're going to have a look at what's going on down here. So when I previously came, there was just this one platform. There's now a new island platform and there's three trains all waiting to depart. It feels like I'm out of London Termini. In fact, technically I am out of London Termini. I'm in Greater London and with the Termini up there, it's a terminal station. So there's three trains up here. We've got two steam locos, a visiting steam locomotive, Mad Bess and the diesel locomotive. So I think what they're going to do, they're going to do a speech to declare this fake platform, which we're walking along open and then the three trains are all going to depart within a few minutes of each other. So there's quite a lot of people down there so I won't go any closer, but we'll have a look at the steam locos during the course of the evening. It gives me great pleasure to officially dedicate the platform at Willow Lawn Island platform to Stan and Sylvia Simmons. So the platform's open and there goes the first train to depart the new platform. I'll probably get to depart that platform later. The reason I'm going to travel on the second train, this one's called by Mad Bess, is because this one is scheduled to overtake Christopher's train. So that's why I thought if I travel on the second one, a bit like when I was in Dresden a few weeks ago, we had a bit of parallel running. So we're going to do something a bit like that. So sooner or later we should depart off to Woody Bay, the other side. Woody Bay's actually that way, we're going to go right round the line. So this is going to be quite an exciting trip. The best miniature railway runs I've ever had. I really enjoyed the parallel running with Christopher. I'm looking forward to having a trip behind Christopher later. There's another, I've got a bit of a story about Christopher. I'll tell you that when we travel behind Christopher. So here we are at Woody Bay. There's the bay itself. There's Christopher. Christopher's just down there on Shed. So we've got, it's the first time they've had two steam locals here, which I think is really nice. In fact, it's a bit of time until Mad Bess departs. So we're going to have a look at Christopher. Now, the story about Christopher that I want to tell you goes back to when I was a child. That's Christopher in the WD livery. Now, Christopher hasn't always been called Christopher. Christopher was built by the X-more steam railway and called Lorna Dune. Now I went to the X-more steam railway back in, was it 95 or 96? Have a look at Link on screen now. You can see my footage from my visit back then. And I travel behind Christopher. But Christopher looked very different. Like I said, it's called Lorna Dune. Since then, being built as a bigger loco, it's the same loco because it's the frame. A locomotive takes its identity from the frame. So it's the same locomotive. Now down at Little Hampton railway, we really should go down here and have a ride at Little Hampton. I have done that railway, but not made a video. So I've had this loco when she was called Lorna Dune. She's been rebuilt. She's now called Christopher. Works at Little Hampton has come on holiday to the beach in London for the weekend. But the X-more railway has since built another locomotive called Lorna Dune just to confuse everyone. So we'll have a trip behind Christopher later. I'm going to go back to the station and we're going to get on the train hauled by Mad Bess for a trip up to Haste Hill. Mad Bess is going to work the 1807 from Woody Bay going only as far as Haste Hill. So it's a bit like old times when I was a child. Because when I was a child, you get on the train here. It only goes to Haste Hill. So that's what we're going to do now. So we've now arrived at Eleanor's Junction on the train that's going up to Haste Hill. We've got to wait for Robert to come along. Robert is the diesel loco. The one of the ones I've not yet had for haulage and Robert's used to be hauling a ballast train. It's double track all the way down to Willow Lawn. But this section of line is single track as you can see just beyond Mad Bess single track. So we've got to wait for Robert to come along. But the other thing that for me is exciting is to get out here. I've never been out at this station before. I've got out at Haste Hill. I did in my other video. I have a look at Link on screen now. I bought a ticket to Haste Hill but I've never actually got out here. So I'm picking off a winning station here. Just up there, it's hard to see from here. But at least we've turned here. Well this was once the end of the line. The line's been extended a few times. That was all explained in my original video. I wonder if this fence here, look, that looks like a piece of old rail. I wonder if that was once some old Right It Lider Railway rail. Anyway, let's wait for Robert to come along and pass Mad Bess here at M&M's Loop. So here we are at Haste Hill, the station that used to be determined. So I remember as a child when I came here, we used to catch a train, we'd come here to Haste Hill. It was usually one of the diesels, certainly before 1998. If you have a look at Mad Bess, she was built here by the Right It Lider Railway. She has riced it, works number one, 1998. So she's now going to run around her train. She can now go up to the turn table, which doesn't get so much use now. Now this is no longer the termini of the railway. But it's just like for old times' sake to come here on the train. It'll be the end of the line. And then I'm going to see which other train I can catch back to Woodlawn at the other end of the line where we started. And then just spend the rest of the evening having fun and riding trains basically. Surprise. The train came into the carriage head. So I've just had, I'm not a super track master that has to do every little bit of track, but that's really rare track, which I'm really pleased about. And it was a winning loco, Bayhurst. I may have had it for haulage when I was younger, but it's not recorded anywhere that I travel behind Bayhurst. So I had a winning loco and some super rare track. What I need to try and do now, Robert is down there. If I could get on the train hauled by Robert, that's like the winning loco of the evening. So I'm on the beach in Great London at Rysip Lido. You've just got to do it when you're here. You've got to walk on the beach. Just say you're on a beach in Great London. Over there's Woody Bay Station and all the workshops. The railway goes right round the lake and Woodlawn Station's over there. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to walk over there, send them halfway there. I might as well walk on to Woodlawn and then get the train back and just keep riding really until it gets dark. And we're back at Willowlawn. I've made it back to Willowlawn. And we're going to go for a ride behind Robert, my winning loco of the evening. There's going to be a doubleheader going out first. So we're going to watch out. And as I said, we're going to get Robert. Robert looks so dwarfed by the big carriage, but you know, it's all part of the fun of Minuterellas. You have big and small and, you know, various different combinations. And as I said, this is, I said at the beginning of the video, this is the London Termini. And that's going to be, I think, the 2035 with the two locos and only two carriages. I'm going to catch the 2050 to Woodie Bay, bought by Robert. I've had Robert for haulage. We're back at Woodie Bay. We're starting to get dark now, but that's all part of the fun. It's something about riding a miniature train in the dark through the woods in Greater London to the beach over there. It's just all really exciting. It's really a fantastic fun evening. We're having a lot of fun with miniature diesel locos. I think what they're going to do is they're going to put a few locos together and we might be going to run a quadruple header maybe. We'll have to wait and see if it's going to be good fun, whatever we're doing there. Triple header. And I've had Lady Delakes now, so I've now cleared all of the Rhysip Lido locos for haulage. And Robert, like I said, I was really pleased to get Robert. I did also have a ride behind Christopher's. I've had a ride behind, I think every locomotive here this evening. It's about getting on for 10 o'clock. Probably the latest I've ever made a miniature railway video, but it's really been a really good, fantastic evening. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. And from the Rhysip Lido, about 10 o'clock at night. Goodbye.