 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm on a Chilton Railways class 165 and I'm on my way to Oxford. Today we're going to the City of Oxford Model Engineering Society's railway at Cutler's Low Park. So it's another episode of Minutes to Railway Britain. I'm going to be getting off at Oxford Parkway which is fairly new. It opened in October 2015 because from there it's a shorter walk to Cutler's Low Park than if I was to get off at the main Oxford Railway station. So we're still very much in the country as you can see just see the Bambry Road, just see the Bambry Road to Stone Terminal. The driver's just letting us know that the next station is Oxford Parkway. So that's where we're going to get off and then I've got a walk. It's not too far. It's about half a mile, three-quarters of a mile walk from the railway station to the park. So I've never been to this railway before so I'm really quite excited about this. It's a new railway for me and I've been to Oxford many times before but I've just never been to this railway. It's right in the northern suburbs so that's why I'm getting off here rather than the main Oxford station. So we're just pulling into Oxford Parkway now so I'll show you that. I will obviously have to stop filming to get my ticket out for the ticket parries then I'll walk and wish I'll show you as we arrive at Oxford Parkway. I mean sorry at the railway so we're arriving at Oxford Parkway now. Let's get off the train. So I'm going to class 165033. I saw the number of this one when I came in. Not sure what the unit on the back is but we'll see that as we go out and just let you have a look at the station as we before we leave. Oxford Parkway tell we're in the Cotswolds and now the Cotswolds stone of the bridge. There's our train we've just come on. So for a while when they reopened this stress attract this was the terminus for the children railways trains going to Oxford and then they finally extended the last bit down into Oxford so let's just watch the train go. We're going to visit the miniature railway at Cutler's Low Park. We've been walking for about 20-25 minutes so probably about a mile three-quarters a mile. I am from Oxford Parkway now I'm now walking through this rather pleasant rather quiet residential area in the northern side of Oxford but just up here the residential area ends and the park begins so I've never seen this railway before so I am literally recording this as I arrive so who um this is going to be interesting I don't even know when I get into the park which direction but I have a feeling it's going to be in that direction so oh it looks quite busy there's a lot of cars here um so obviously if you don't want to do what I did and come here by train you could drive here so that's also an option but um I do try and go to as many minutes as I can by train but sometimes it's nice to drive there especially if I take my ladder there's a map there um so we're here this is miniature railway I can see it so not too far now um what I'm going to do I've shown you the arrival of the park I think it's going to be a few minutes walk down there so I'm going to keep walking and I'll show you when we get there so I've just come down this drive and I can now see the miniature railway over there and it's quite a bit cute so what I'm going to do I'll walk around we'll have a look at the train first um and then I'll go and queue up and have my ride so as I said very excited about this not been here before um walking here a whistle of a steam lurker so that's a very promising sound there's the countryside out over there so you can see we really are on the very northern edge of Oxford um it would you could walk to the city centre I probably will because I was going to get a train back later on from the main Oxford railway station but I thought I'd come this way for a bit of fun I can just see I don't have to come just going to get out but I can just see a cloud of steam as a steam train disappears off in the distance so um let's see what we can find well I've never seen such a bit cute for a miniature railway it goes right the way around there so it's just going to be interesting it's double headed trains two um two quarry lines about to depart so I think I'm going to do a walk up here and um watch them go so I can see at least three locos in steam so this is really really quite exciting I think that train's going to come let's watch this train go by I'm going to go and join Q and have my ride well I've had a great afternoon here at Cutler's Low Park um really enjoyed riding behind the four steam locomotives very north wales feeling here today in Oxford um because on that train we had the quarry hunslet and we had Charles which um is a miniature version of Linda from the Faustino railway and we also had a miniature number seven Tom Rolk from the Talliglin railway along with another narrow gauge loco so it's really had that very north wales feel here today um as you can see this is the seven and a quarter and five inch gauge railway this is a head jump this side in here which is only seven and a quarter inch it's to get trains into the carriage shed so um you can see a train would have to reverse over these points up to the head shunt and then the racetrack line here swings out the way and then you've got the tracks going around there into the carriage shed I knew the racetrack railway wasn't going to be running today so um I wasn't expecting to have a ride but at some point we'll come back in the future and um we'll do the racetrack railway and as for the society themselves they've been around for quite a long time they started in 1955 they used to be at Berlin Palace and um they had a railway there they left Berlin Palace in 1988 I'll put a picture in now that's a headboard of the last train that ran in Berlin Palace they came here in the late 80s and then last year they built this extension here out into the park you can just see the Cory Hunslet and Charles out on that extension now so this was only open last year this extension which takes the line round there so previously the ground level tracks went round here and as I said we've got the racetrack in the middle so it's a really really nice railway you can get here by train or you can drive it took me like I said about half an hour to walk from Oxford Parkway I'm going to walk back to Oxford station just for the fun of it which I know is going to take me longer than it did um from Oxford Parkway but it's accessible by public transport and if you don't fancy the walk you can get a bus here so it's a really really nice railway it's in a very nice park so you know why not come and visit the railway at Cutlerslow Park I've had a great time so um thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from the Cutlerslow Park Railway goodbye