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We're at Beckinscott model village Here is their souvenir shop, which is an old mark one carriage and just over the fence here is The seven a quarter inch gauge Beckinscott light railway Beckinscott model village is well known for its extensive gauge one model Railway, but we're not here to see any of that the reason we've come to Beckinscott today is to do the International Stacation challenge now if you're wondering what that is It's been set by a youtuber called the Tim Traveller the Tim Traveller He visits interesting places around Europe around the world Railways canals canals all sorts of interesting buildings and he makes videos and Don't think he's yet seen him make a video at model village, but you never know But he so he's it's a brilliant channel basically have a look at link on screen now There's a link to it and he really is one of my Inspirations behind making the videos I make but what he's done is he has set his viewers a Challenge and this challenge as I mentioned is called the international Stacation challenge so all you have to do you have to go to your local area And you have to find something that looks like it's in a country. It isn't so I've come to Beckinscott model village. It's all 1930s England So you're probably thinking what am I going to find here that looks as though it's in another country? Well surprisingly as we walk through the very center of Beckinscott. It's all very English, but there are some non-English buildings to see and that's what we've come here today to look at we're going to do a little bit of a Well tour here in 1930s England There's a train on the gauge one model railway. I know I said when not hit the end of that but you can't exactly ignore Such a huge model railway. This is Mary Lou station down there The busy station And that's the signal box where it's all controlled from but if you want to see I've done various videos on Beckinscott and the model railways and indeed delight railway So, you know do have a look at those videos and you'll see a lot more Of GK Chesterton pulling the express and the local trains the goods trains the two-bill unit You'll see a lot more of that. So let's go and find something from another country We're just coming up to here. This is Beckinscott new town. It only opened about three years ago And it's up here where we're going to find the first of our International buildings It's just here in the center. Have a look at this This is the Hotel de Ville in Longers In front. This is the town which Beckinsfield where Beckinscott model village is situated Is twinned with so Beckinsfield's twin town has this building in full size But here we have the Longers town hall in miniature so Here we are. We're in France in miniature France in in the middle of 1930s England. So That's France What we're going to do now though. We're going to go down under the town walls. There's the town walls Now if we're here over the edge you can see the airport not one of the international things we're looking for but I said we weren't here to see the gauge one model railway but the next The next thing we're looking for has well is actually part of the gauge one model railway So as you can see the railway runs along the side of Hanson airfield now when Beckinscott was created in the 1930s by Roland Calingham. He created the model railway and He wanted a few obvious You know challenges such as hills and lakes to cross. There's a train departing and from sprouting station. You may just be able to see There is a rather large lake. This is Alexandra Lake and the railway needed to cross Alexandra Lake so He had to look at various designs of bridges To find a bridge that would fit in nicely with Beckinscott but he looked beyond the shores of England and The bridge he chose to model. Well, we're about to see it. It's just here That is Alexandra bridge and it's a model of Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia. So a moment ago we were in France. We have now come down to Australia Where we see the bridge Is there going to be a train coming? We saw a train go in that direction now because it's single track It might be a couple of moments till the next one comes You may just be able to see a tram running along the cliff tops. It's about to see where my finger is The tram shall appear any moment there we go And can I hear a train coming? Not so sure Yes There's a train Coming along the side of the airfield. So it's going to cross Alexandra Bridge And here's Winchwood Castle, which sits nicely on the on the banks of Alexandra Lake I can't see many at the moment, but sometimes you see them here But there's lots of koi carps and you could say they're international because they are a Japanese fish Um But I just want to now see a train crossing Alexandra Bridge before we then Continue our world tour because we've got a couple more places to go So we're going to go back to Europe and then we're going to go somewhere else The train has just stopped at the station The tram's just arriving. The passengers will be stepping off the tram onto the train and these miniature 1930s people are about to experience crossing Alexandra Bridge Or as I said, we're actually in Australia, Sydney Harbour Bridge There he goes a double departure. Let's you can see that the tram and the train are both departing at the same time The train is about to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge, just it's British train, but Australian Bridge So as the train continues up into the tunnel, I'm not sure who's winning the football match But the railway now goes Under this hill, which we're going to walk over this hill, but Beside this hill, there's a ravine and it's in that ravine Which has our next European Building or mode of transport rather that we've come to see just here. It's the cable cars. There we are It's just rang the bells because this one has arrived down at the bottom You can see it travels up there over the waterfall giving the occupants of Beckinscott some spectacular views as they ascend To the top of the hill in this very alpine area of Beckinscott So I'm not going to pin this down to a particular country. You could say it's Swiss, Switzerland or Austrian But certainly alpine and alpine is certainly as nice as it is. It's not Great Britain. So that's our third international Place we've seen so we've done France. We've done America. We're now in the Alps. What we're going to do We're going to have to go for a little bit of a walk around here And we're going to go around the main lake now in our walk to find another international building here at Beckinscott Well, um, I walked there Just a couple of things you might be interested in know if you would like to visit Beckinscott It's very easy to get to it's a five minute walk from Beckinsfield railway station Which is served by Chiltern Railways trains out of london marula bone um, so it's you know do come and visit here and See 1930s england with it's a few non 1930s buildings for yourself. It's really is a great day out. I've been coming here ever since I was a child and I've never tired of coming here always been fascinated by this place Oh, we're just going to pass the circus now. This wasn't really one of my planned international buildings But have a look they obviously have acts from various other Countries going by the flags Anyway, let's continue because we have somewhere else to go to We are going we've been down under We've seen two european buildings or off to america now. So as we get to here As we come to the end of Beckinscott have a look at that There it says Beckinscott on the other side of the lake in a very hollywood style. So Here we are. We've been to france, australia, the alps and now American style Beckinscott. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much to the team traveler for coming up This idea. I have really enjoyed taking part and I always enjoy being at Beckinscott So I've really enjoyed this new take this new look at Beckinscott. Um, so thank you very much for watching Thank you to the team traveler for creating this idea and from Beckinscott model village. I shall see you soon