 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Reading today, importantly known as Reading Gen, all until 1974. We're going to Prospect Park to visit the miniature railway now. I wouldn't get a train from over there, but there's not one for an hour, so I'm going to leave the station through the ticket barries over there. I'm going to walk to Prospect Park. So I've now been walking for about 15 minutes through Reading, through Reading Centre. This is Reading West Station, so this was where I intended to come up, up that long slope from down where the platforms are. I've never been out there, and it's only been to Reading Station, Reading West Station, about once. Going over this, uh, over at Tarston Bridge, should see the station. So if you are coming to this railway, then do come by train. Unfortunately today there's an engineer who works on the line down to Basin Soak, so that's why there's a lot less trains running. And, um, my train got there about five minutes after a rail-opposite bus. So you can see the station just down there. So, yeah, that's where we didn't arrive from, and not really much to see on that side. It's a cutting and up there. I think it's called South Coat Junction, where the line goes south to Basin Soak. The Barks and Hans turns west, and goes towards Newbury, and eventually Taunton down to the West Country. So I'm going to continue walking in this direction to Prospect Park. I've just been walking along that road, along there for about half a mile or so. Basin is a rather interesting-looking Italian-made church, and across the road, that's Prospect Park. It was once a country, a state, and it's one of those ones that's gradually become an urban park. But I believe I'm at the wrong side of the park for the railway, so I should cross the road and walk through the park down to where the railway is. I've just had a pleasant walk across the park and walked almost to the railway. I can just see the old mansion, just stuff on the hill up there, that it's really the railway that was come to see today. So here's the station. You can hear the whistles of steam locos. Sound very American whistles. What I've got to do, I've got to go over the station footbridge to buy tickets before we go for a ride. So that's probably one of the trains we're going to travel on. So let's go up here, go over the bridge. Thank you. And we need to get our tickets before we can go for a ride. It's a little bit crowded up on this bridge at the moment. There's two tracks, or two railways. That's the ground level one. American steam locos steaming below us. And down there is the race track. And there's a class 58's below us. That locos nickname is a bone. You can see why from up here, how they are very much like a bone. So we come down here. So it's quite interesting that public right of way, actually has a footpath, footbridge over and it's a rally. We're looking forward to getting some American steam haulage when we've got our tickets. So we're just coming down now. To come by car, there is a rather large car park. So although I came by train, it's just easy to come by car. So I've got to go over to that little hut there by the ticket. There's also a little tea room, I've been told. So we'll go over there and see what we can get. I've just been in there, I've had a cup of tea. We had a look at the model railway, bought some tickets. So let's go and have a ride. We'll have to have a few rides. Well, there's a few railways and a few locos. So let's go and ride the railway. I've had a few rides on this railway, really enjoyed it. It's an interesting connection with Reading. If you look on the locos, it says Reading Lines, Pennsylvania. So that's obviously Reading America. It's American Locos, it's a Baldwin. So it's quite nice that here in Reading England, we can ride locos from Reading America just in minutes of scale. And then there's the other American Locos. Just leaving in now. Comes off the bank there, so it's really nice. The Railstraps Minister Railway. There is talk of them sending the Railstraps Minister Railway over there to another loop where the car park is. But that'll be something for the future. Have a look at this, have a look at this local now. It's got a rather big light on the front, which is quite cool. So I've got two tickets left. So that probably means two more rides. Just watch this high-mick go past. And we'll go back over the footbridge, over the other side and have another ride on the American Locos. Not sure which one, but Paddock have a ride on both of them now. So get some more American mileage. So that one says Chicago, West Pullman and Southern Railway. That's going to have a trip behind that one. So had a great afternoon here at Prospect Park on the Minutes Railway. As you can see, the car park is starting to empty. The trains are being put away. I'm going to, rather than do the walk, I did, although I did quite enjoy it. I'm going to find the way out that way and go and find a bus to go back to Reading, where I shall get the train home. So I've really enjoyed it here. So if you want to come and visit this railway, we know you can get there by bus. You can get there by train from Reading West. It's a bit of a walk, but it also has a large car park. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. Thank you to the Reading Model Engineering Societies for a brilliant afternoon. Really enjoyed it. Really enjoyed getting some American steam haulage. And as everyone else seems to be leaving now, it's time for me to go. So thank you very much. Goodbye.