 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm standing up on the village green at Hartford Heath This is a small village above the county town of Hartfordshire, Hartford So Hartford is a couple of miles down the hill. It's really pleasant up here And the reason I've come up here is because today we're doing another episode of miniature railway Britain What we're doing today is we're going to a railway we have already Featured before but I was out this way so I thought it'd be nice to visit again We're going to the East Hart's miniature railway. So that was why I thought it'd be quite fun to Include Hartford, but not the actual town itself Hartford Heath And it should be quite a nice walk down the hill. It's great and well where the miniature railway is Situated and I thought after that will continue walking so I'll do quite a long walk today down to the railway line That goes to Hartford East, but I probably won't actually go to Hartford East on the train I just thought I'd make a nice day's walk out of it So this is Hartford Heath, very pleasant place I'm going to continue down to the end of this road because This is where I believe there's a footpath at the end of this road which will take me down to Great Amwell So let's go down to the garden centre and find East Hart's miniature railway While I reach the end of Hartford Heath Village at Mount Pleasant Road I've come down into the woods now and following this path down It's a rather pleasant path. It's turned into a bit like a sort of old drover's track lined with Hornbeam trees. In fact all the trees or most of the trees should I say in the woods seems to be hornbeams You get the odd large oak tree Standing tall above us So this path is becoming quite exciting It looks to me like it's possibly some old drover's track as it bends around the corner here and Descends slightly lower than the woodland So I'm just going to follow this all the way down Which is probably some ancient way down to the Great Amwell and then that's where we're going to go and find the East Hart's Miniature Railway Now making my way through the flower pots and sundials of the Vanhake Garden Centre here at Great Amwell I just heard a horn of a train and that's what we're going to look for so we're going to find East Hart's Miniature Railway Which is just here in the back of the garden, it sits us to the train's fair, my pal So let's go and find the trains and have a nice, very nice miniature railway Like I said, I have been here before It has like the feeling of taking you for a ride around the garden And it's seen as very attractive so when we get to here We have station Amwell, Junction, single box Oh that is interesting When we last came here We got on the train and we went round the circuit. It's like a folded in half figure of eight We went round clockwise, but today They're going anticlockwise so this video We're going to see it in the opposite direction to what we saw when we came here 80 months ago So let's just watch the train go past. It's By two in the moment, just watch it go past Well that loco, what I like about it is, well it's called Lady Amwell Because we're here in Great Amwell It's a miniature of one of the Rice at Lido loco, so the Rice at Lido loco's are You know, they're full size for the size they are for the 12 inch gauge railway That's a miniature one of them So it's like a miniature of an hour of gauge loco, but it's a real one So I think that's quite cool. I think now what we should do is go and have a ride on the East Hearts Minch Railway Yeah, oh at least I'll get a run fast Railways very kindly give me a visitor badge and give me permission to Take you line side and have a look at the shed. So what we'll do we shall go for a little walk The train we're on is out on the system somewhere. She's actually just there By the scissors crossover Still now past the station on the avoiding line So yeah, they said I can have a walk around line side and the Sheds obviously keep away from any trains so See this train pass we'll have a look at the end to see what's on the shed and then we'll go for a walk They've got some very nice gardens here, which this railway Troubles around this just watch the train go past again while we were traveling on a moment ago So the train goes off. Let's just have a look at the guys interesting looking cocoa here Looks like you can actually sit right inside. I was quite like seven and a quarter loco's you can sit inside Because you can't always lot them because they're miniature, but that's more like a Bit like what we've traveled on a mention hour a gauge. Although the driver kind of does sit in with his head out Let's go along here. We'll go across this little crossing here, and then we should go into the garden Glass been freshly mown this morning so the So as I said, it's basically a folded in half figure of eight. Well, it's also two independent circuits So you can clearly see they're to run together here one goes through a tunnel one. There's no cutting we go up Onto the bank above the cutting you get quite a nice view of The whole system. I think it's a really nice. It really feels like you're in someone's garden and So, you know as we've seen from certain miniature railways It doesn't really matter how big your garden is most time you can have a miniature rail If you've got a garden this size then this is the sort of thing you can do so we've got the station over there and And the gardens here the tunnel down there. There's a bit. I really like it's a nice path. So We should go So here there's like a little stream of a lighthouse I wouldn't quite call this a model village, but it's nice to see a model building light house up here And the stream trickles off down there down to the big pond Which as we saw the train was over a bridge over so there's another few of the station just there Now where am I going to walk along beside the station to go up this path up here and we come to That's the lighthouse way where a moment ago. Here's the stream There's a bridge here over the stream There's like a little branch line there to well Siding I suppose more from the branch line. So they're like an old mine or something So the stream Was off down there Into the big pond. So we'll cross the track again here and make sure Nothing's coming Here we are. There's there's the bridge in 1980 that bridge over the big pond which has fish in it Go around here That's the end of the tunnel in their sheds So what I'm going to do now. I'm just going to hang around here. I think Do a bit of line siding just watch some trains go past because that's Always what's good fun as much as I enjoy riding the trains. I do like to see them pass So we'll do some line siding One I'm thinking I'll show you while we're here some bit of the signaling I'll do a bit down to some line siding and then I'm going to make my way down to the Lee Valley and Find the main line just because we're something to do Though I as I drove just to see how easy it be if you want to come by train. So when we're on the train We stopped here and as you can see as a signal gantry Currently both signals are red So what happens is when the train is on the outer circuit It'll be stopped here if there's a train due on the inner circuit going into station So that was why we had to wait and then when we were on the inner circuit We saw the other train stopped here on the outer circuit. So that's why that that's why we got stopped there But at least we could watch the cricket match while we were sitting there So I'm going to sit here watch the cricket match wait and see some trains Following having a lot of fun at the East Hearts Mitch railway. Just come down to great and well church great And well is the village where the railway situated. We're going to go down here to the new river So as I said the parks got half a teeth. I've got quite a long walk ahead of me. So I'm gonna walk along down to what's known as the new river, which is like a flat aqueducts supplying water to London So it's not an aqueduct up in the air. It's aqueduct on the ground So it looks more like a canal. So we go down these steps. I just thought you know, it's a okay It's not a railway, but it's a waterway and it's quite fascinating It runs along the lee valley and the lee valley Also has the heart for these rail line, which I'm also going to try and find Try and see a train at some point and maybe catch a glimpse of a class 317 in their final Months of service, but we come down here. This is the new river is looks quite interesting I believe oh, yeah, there is there's a monument on the island To slip my name, but it's coming on screen now. So there you go That's this is the new river I'm gonna follow along what you know, it looks very much like walking along a canal If you look to here here, you think oh, yeah a canal the thing that gives it away Is it's not a canal is not many boats are gonna fit under that bridge and not even many canoes I should think so I'm gonna follow this. We're gonna find the rail line We're continuing along the new river as it's called here Is one of the pumping stations quite an impressive building So if you was to sometimes when you get a train Northern parts of London, you'll see various of these rivers which Thank you. Thank you aren't canals their rivers You will see them and alongside them you'll find pump stations like this So it's really rather present walk. I know I say this quite a lot in my videos I say oh, perhaps in the future will do this or do that. Maybe I'll add this to my list I've always wanted to walk the whole of the River Lee, which is a step We are in the valley of the River Lee starts up at Lee grave on the Station on the middle of the main line it flows through Luton down through wheat Hampstead and Then through and Hartford and where bit spell lea and then it changes to le or the other way around the column Which but I think that's a interesting thing about River Lee But the River Lee itself is somewhere over there as is the railway line to Hartford East So I'm going to continue along here. You can see how we're not actually down at the valley floor We are going by the parallel road or a few feet above the valley So I'm just going to continue to get some Margaret's We've arrived at the village of stances and Margaret's see on the village sign there There's a picture of a steam locomotive looks like an N7 or an N2 Which would have worked the Hartford East branch probably steam base We're going to go along here now to the station whether we'll see a train or not I don't know. I have to see if there's one due but I said we'd finish with a full-size railway I'm probably well. I'm not getting the train. I know that I've got a walk back to Hartford East Which is about three and a half miles away. So I've got quite a long walk ahead of me. It's been been a good day I've enjoyed this long walk. I've not been to this station before so what I'm going to do across the road So here is the level crossing. I Don't think there'll be a train due just yet because as I got here I could see a traffic jam All the cars were stationary and they say started moving so the train must have just come along It's a new station for me It's got quite a brutalist looking concrete bridge So it looks as though the bridge is used for people who are Not Wanting to wait while the gates go down you do sometimes get that when you come to these stations So just there Here's the level crossing Says there's St. Margaret's level crossing Quite an attractive station So let's go and have a look There's no ticket barrier so I can just walk on and have a look Always interesting the old signal box survives just past this awning here walk past it I'll have a look that's quite a nice thing to see and then as I said I'm gonna might hang around see a train Next one's not for a while. Okay, but look at this. We have the old signal box here at St. Margaret So that's quite a nice feature to finish with if We don't get to see a train. So I hope you enjoyed this video Thanks very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment if you'd like to visit the The East Hearts Miniature LWI. It's quite easy to get to by car If you're thinking of going by public transport, you're probably get better getting off at where station You can walk along the new river not the section I did but different sections of the new river and up It probably take you about 20 minutes to half an hour. So that's quite a pleasant walk to do so From St. Margaret station, thank you very much to the East Hearts Miniature LWI. I had a very good time there Really enjoyed it and thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment. Goodbye