 oh thank you for joining me today I'm driving through a very rural area of greater Manchester we're going to a miniature railway it's called the dragon miniature railway and it's just here turning into the garden centre now it's at adobe's garden centre and the miniature railway runs around part of the ground so just turning in now when I've parked the car you'll be able to I'll show you the miniature railway I'm going to try and park at a miniature railway viewable space so my car my larder can sit and watch trains and I've found the space here it's quite tight oh that's an interesting maneuver to get in but this means that when we're on the train we will see my larder from the train so here we are parked the car I'm going to run over to the station and we're going to have a ride on the dragon miniature railway a miniature railway as I was walking from my car to the station two trains came along so I thought I'd film them they first they go around this loop around here and as you can see the track runs parallel to the road a bit like at brookside where the railway there is below the road here the railways above the road and then you've got the garden centre car box as I said when I parked the car parked it so it would have a view of the railway you can't see it it's just behind those trees up there so if you look here there's a set of points that's the junction for the this loop what we'll we'll go inside and have a look but there's a station and there's another loop but before we go inside I wanted to show you the river goit so the garden centre is there we're going to go in through that gateway there there's a foot crossing but just here is the river goit now as I said it is all part of Greater Manchester it's a very rural part of Greater Manchester so it does feel a bit hard to believe we are actually in Greater Manchester but it's a bit like that with London there's very rural parts of Greater London and no doubt there is other big conurbations so here is the river goit so yeah the river goit the railway comes under the circuit another circuit down there in those trees now we run across the road there's a huge weir on this side so it's really quite an attractive part of Greater Manchester I can just see some people walking off across the fields that's probably quite a nice walk another place that really is worth going to here I've already been there and done a video last year just around the corner up there is the Chadkirk estate and there's a lovely non-conformist chapel in the Chadkirk estate I appreciate having to shout at the moment because it's quite busy with traffic but I'm gonna get back across the road when we can and get into the garden centre and we'll go and see the railway but it looks safe after this car and we're gonna cross right and wrong god this is a oh yeah cross go across the road twice there's foot crossing there just for people who want to look at the river anyway here's that foot crossing I told you about we're going to now go and have a ride on the Dragon Miniature Railway the way of the trains open the gate it's fair to say no trains are coming there's a huge puddle here to walk around that so the station is up here so I'm going to go up to the station and I'm going to have our ride around the Dragon Miniature Railway system I came here well I said I came in before was when I did the Chadkirk video I had a ride and they didn't have those in-coast carriages so I'm now going to go over to the station and we're going to arrive the Dragon Miniature Railway so I'm now sitting on the train in the in-close carriage this is Otterspool Junction so we're on the class 17 logo the other train with the 47 is in the other platform I had a trip on behind that logo last time so this time I'm getting the class 14 so it's a winning logo for me so I'm happy that was a very enjoyable trip on the Dragon Miniature Railway with this Clayton class 17 there's only one real one left in preservation and that's the Chinrin Prince Raspberry so I've had a few trips behind her this is definitely the first miniature one I've ever had and it was a winning logo for me today so the railway starts here it goes off onto a single track section and there's a loop up there and you may notice you see there's some colour light signals on the gantry and this thing here that is a token apparatus so when I got off the train you notice I just filmed the class 47 the driver hung the token back on that post so when the class 17 departs the driver will take the token off so if a driver gets to that point and there's no token then that means he cannot proceed any further because there would be an opposing train somewhere on that section so here we have some real token operation on the miniature railway so there we go I've had my ride on the Dragon Miniature Railway one thing I've just noticed here it's not out today but they have this attraction called Tara the Tram so it's a tram that children I believe can ride up and down this little line here so it's like a separate miniature railway so that children actually operate it themselves if you have a look it's quite interesting the there was never anything quite that exciting at any miniature railway when I was a child or not one we visited so it just goes up to the gate up there and comes back now if we just have a wander around here you may have seen from the video we did pass the sheds I think the train was struggling a little bit because of the conditions but you can see there's a western loco western champion the real western champion is preserved and I've even done a mainline tour behind her there's a steam loco which is a bit covered up called princess and the trees are sort of in the way there's a baby deltic so what I think I'll do is um I'll have to come back here another day and do the railway with steam because that kind of comes to my next thing once I've done the railway if I don't do steam I come back and get the rail over steam I don't mind not having steam it's not the b1 end all but it's nice to so this little section of track is then connected to the rest of the system via that gate over there I think what I'm going to do now it's just starting to rain and it's getting towards the end of the day seeing as we're at a garden centre I'm going to go and see if I've got a tea room and I think I'm going to go and get a cup of tea and then um it'll be time to jump back in the larder and drive home so from Otterspool junction station on the dragon miniature railway thank you very much for watching I hope you enjoyed the video if you're in this part of Greater Manchester or if you're in North Cheshire and um you do you want to do a bit gardening then do come to this garden centre have arrived on the train or even if you're just passing just stop the car and have a ride and as I said you've also got the Chadkirk estate because it really that is a really nice place to Chadkirk estate that is also well worth visiting so from the 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