 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Coatwater Park in Swindon. This reservoir was built to provide water for the Barks and Wilkes Canal, which has since closed. So that's the dam up there. You can see an old diving board, which is no longer used. The reason we're here today though is I'm out with Rail Trail Tours, holiday company who does some brilliant tours all around the UK and Europe and the rest of the world and the tour I'm on at the moment is called the Lost Village of Inba. So tomorrow we're going to go to Inba, this Lost Village, which I'll probably have to do a different video on. But today, day two, we have a special charter here at the Coatwater Miniature Railway. So we're gonna go, we're here, we're gonna go for a ride, rather look at what's going on and which locals are running and and then we're gonna go from here to the Sunset and Dorset Railway. But as we come into the, into their railway, they really have got quite a lineup for us here. You can see there's a lovely American Maccardo, class 66, and there's also class 40 just over there. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna have a ride hopefully behind this beast and enjoy the morning here. So what we're gonna do now, we've been given permission to go over to the end of the, so we'll wander over there and we can see some of the other locals which are currently on shed and then it's time for us to go, well, we'll do a bit of line siding, then the Sunset and Dorset Railway, so I can come down here. So we've walked along over this bridge over a ditch. This is a running line I'm crossing, so it's got to make sure no trains are coming, there's nothing coming, so cross here and this is the sheds and the steaming base just here. So here we have lay-free, I'm gonna fly in Scotsman's Little Sisters, Dick Turpin's gonna have a closer look. So this is 7 1⁄4 inch, it's the class 66, class 50, and the class 52, Western, these three diesel locals are 5 inch, so you can see this is 5 inch, that's 7 1⁄4 inch, and then being steamed up behind us, Bedro's headboard is a Britannia number 7 double double, double zero five two, third of Tay. So the two surviving Britannias are of course Oliver Cromwell and Britannia. So what I'm gonna do now, I'm gonna hang around here, see if they'll start up some of these these diesel locals, well they're actually electric, but models of diesels, because when they start up they sound pretty good. So we'll see them start up, do a bit of line siding, and then we'll go to Midsummer Norton for the Sea of the Sunset and Dorset Railway. So here we are, we have arrived at Midsummer Norton, the home of the Sunset and Dorset Railway. If you look that way, there's not a great deal to see, but the track bed used to go that way, but if we turn around, we can see they have started to restore and rebuild the line. Midsummer Norton Station was always known for having really attractive gardens. So what's happening is we're gonna go for a ride up the line. This local is on the rear of the train to bring the train back, which is Railway's Shunter. So we'll walk up the platform and I'll show you what our motive power is to take us up the line. So we've got three Mark 1 coaches here for the journey. It's just about a mile of track never restored and it is all up here. So you get the steam locker has to work, which is what we always like to see on any heritage railway. If you have a look here, though, as we've passed, there's the old good shed. See another steam locker, obviously number one. Now I had this one at Chinna back in the 90s. If you have a look at the link on screen now, you can see that video. It's like a work at Chinna in the 1990s. And then we come to here. Here is one of the most unusual steam engines. I've ever seen it. It's a sentinel vertical boiler locomotive. So you can just see the boiler is vertical and I understand it works. Oh, they've just fired an O8 Shunter up. I understand it works for the fillings of the here in front and a drive chains. So I'm not sure where the O8 Shunter is up to, but it looks as though it might be about to depart. I just found this very interesting little museum about the wall. If you're wondering what this building is, I'm actually inside a pillbox. I've never seen a pillbox so nicely restored. You often see them in the corner of fields and, you know, they're always not the nicest places. But look at this. They've really gone and made a really nice little museum out of a pillbox, which I think is really, really quite nice. You'll see in a moment where we are. We're not far from Midsum and Alton Station. In fact, we're very close, but we'll look at all these little artifacts on display here. And then says mind your head. And you may have just heard something from a bit after the war of diesel, Loco. If you look down there, there's an O8 Shunter. And that's Midsum and Alton Station. So this is our final view of the coach. Oh, look, there goes the O8. Let's have a look at that. Our final view of the summit of Alton Railway. I'm going to head back to the coach. I hope you enjoyed this video. And, you know, if you want to come on a day out like this, then do have a look on the RailTrailTours website. You might have a look at what they do. We do lots of tours to lots of interesting places like this. So do have a look and see what takes your fancy. So I'm going to head back to the coach. We should park just down there. So I hope you enjoyed this video from Midsum and Alton Station. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. I'm going to give you one final look over Shed and I'll say goodbye.