 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm just coming out for a drive in my larder today. We're in Norfolk in London, in London Borough of Ealing Today is an episode of Miniature Railway Britain We're going to look at the Norfolk Model Railway Clubs Miniature Railway. Come here in my larder This unfortunately may well be one last time my larder is able to drive Into London because of the Euless expansion which I don't want to get political in my videos But it's something I'm not overly happy about so I've enjoyed taking my larder to here Which doesn't actually feel like London at all. It does feel like a nice little country village Because this is the original part of Norfolk Parish Church. It's just up there The Western Avenue isn't too far over that way. So although it feels nice and quiet And like when you're in a countryside village, we are actually getting quite a busy part of London So the Miniature Railway we're going to, I understand the club has existed since 1950 And they've got their Model Railway or Miniature Railway Should I say at the community centre and across the road here by this pub and the Miniature Railway If you look ahead now You should see, yeah, look there's a train that's just stopped I'm not sure why that train stopped. There's a class 67 and It's almost as if on cue because I'm filming keys. Stop there. Let's get across the road We're going to be just in time to see the train get faster So there goes the class 67. Can you see it's a raised track railway In a minute, I think we'll see the loco run along there So it's going round in like a continuous loop. Is that another train coming? I thought it was trains here but I think we'll go and have a look That was good. And Britannia went past and there goes that class 67 So I think there's a bit of a cue of trains at the moment because it's a raised track It's on a continuous circuit. If one train's Waiting, the others have to wait. You can hear the Britannia opening up Let's just walk to the Britannia climb the hill. We'll go and have a ride So let's go and find our way in now. Although the railway itself runs parallel with Church Road I don't think we can get into the site that way. We've got to walk down here a bit more of the old part of the village to find our way in I don't really know why I've been to this railway before. It's not too far from me It's just one I've just never got round to visiting I think it runs on the third Sunday of each month. Some railways do that So I probably just haven't been available on a day when I'm known. It was running before but anyway We're going to visit that railway. So we're just along here You can maybe also hear I'd have to come speak now in distance the sounds of the western avenue And the sound of whistles, of course I think this is the entrance here. There's an awful village community centre So we're going to walk up the drive of this community centre Again, I can see the railway line I can hear There's a Britannia again. So whilst we've gone one way It's gone another Now the obvious thing I'm thinking is it's a race track. There's got to be a bridge somehow because You can't exactly have a level crossing on a race track. This is funny though. I like this So to come into the site to the site of the community centre, it's a bit like an old house There's effectively a level crossing But it's like the gates for the level crossing are the track So these open and as you can see the train actually passes over on top of them So that's going to be quite interesting. So They probably don't open these ones for trains to run. Oh, I see look you can see over there They actually step over the track To get into the site. So we'll walk up here Step over the track and then I think the station is just over there So I think it's safe to cross crossing the track Thank you And then as you can see the train will come along So I think from what I've seen to start with That the sector of line From there it's downhill Then we we saw that Britannia. She had to work hard to come up the grading up to here So we'll see the 67 go fast Then we'll see the Britannia and then we'll go on the line There's the Britannia There's a red light So it seems there and their signal section It's gone green now. So she's passing. It really feels like we've just come to someone's house It looks like the community centre is an old house an old Edwardian house with a nice garden and a mitrelle. It's always nice going to mitrelle In a garden. That's exactly what this feels. Here's the station over here The station there, that's funny It's called Norfolk Holt So it's like a little hole. It's called Norfolk and we're in Norfolk And I think there's going to be a train coming in a suit. So yeah, here comes that Britannia It didn't stop, but when the next train comes we'll go for a ride This video has taken a slightly unexpected turn. I'm on my way up the stairs to the loft of the house They invited me to have a look in the loft. Oh look at this Oh Norfolk tube station sign. They said I can come see some of the model railways So this is the Norfolk Moderally Club of O gauge section Going here. Well, look at that There's a O gauge model railway. I got under here and we're going to have a look inside. So what they were saying was They're not actually running the trains today um They have Club members running days. So what they said I can come back one day and film it when it's running So if you're watching this video in the future, they might be link on screen now Um, so I'll come back at some point and we'll have a look at this But today they just said I could have a quick look. It's great to see what a really nice layout They've got a terminal there and a terminal there. So it looks like you could bring a train out And run it all the way around Around there it goes under the second terminal round again over that nice bridge Right around onto this upper section of track and then into the terminal and there's like a branch line Station here. So perhaps we'll come back and see all this running one day and also I've managed to say you could actually In theory was that that spur of track So have two trains continuously running around. So it's a really really nice model layout Let's go and have a look at the o-gate section and then I'll go back downstairs and we'll ride some trains. Yeah, what a brilliant layout Let's go underneath Go under here And Go to here. What does this say? This is the o-gate section And what a fantastic layout this is look at this It's brilliant Let's um, just go underneath and have a little look at this one. So again The trains aren't aren't running, but we'll perhaps come another time And we'll we'll see the trains running. I think this one works on a similar way in that they've got terminal station here Look at that. Look they've got all the old um, you know like the bells of a signal box and They've effectively got many signal box here of all these little levers out there. It's really quite exciting signal which running So train will come out of here. It's called vermouth this station coming out of here running along Class 33 there. I think it goes underneath itself right around and along Along yeah up there right around over itself So by then it's done a full circuit a bit like the other one. You've got a branch line Down below and then the train would be Left here would be running along the upper section once it's gone right round Pass that in the high signal gantry and then there's another There's a terminal station here There's no push head completely return table. There's another is like a goods depot down there So again a really really nice layout. There's something just nice about being up in the loft And having all these trains running so fear for the future will come back and see he's running I'm gonna go back downstairs now and see more of the miniature railway So I really enjoy my afternoon here riding and watching the trains of the Norfolk model railway clubs miniature railway It's like I said at the beginning as we walk it up Up the drive. It really does have the feel of visiting someone's house who has a railway Running around the garden. I said the old houses the community center and we discovered inside there's some smaller railways, so we'll come back at some point in the future I just really like this garden. We've only got the garden with the railway running around it I just always find that a garden it makes it so much nicer whether it's got you know a model railway or in this case a metro and I quite like how it's high up It feels like when you're walking along you sort of see the train past your eye level, which is quite nice I think we're down to just two trains now Britannia has come off and gone on shed. It's nice to it's the other nice thing about miniature railways is you never quite know What you're going to get we've had a class 67. We've had the other diesel called pool and then of course we've had the Britannia So it's um, because usually if you go to heritage railway you tend to go there Knowing you're going to ride behind a particular local but when you come to a miniature railway for me part of the Excitement is not actually knowing what you're going to ride behind So I hope you've enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment if you'd like to come and visit this railway It's open on the third sunday of every month and it's fairly easy to get to You've got of course Norfolk tube station on the central line and Norfolk park station On the tilt main line. There's also not too far over there. There's numerous bus routes passing here So it's a very easy railway to get to so thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment from an awful lot of railway clubs miniature railway