 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm outside the brand new Warrington West railway station opened on the 16th of December 2019. Now, the reason I'm here is because I've just finished making a video on this railway station and the other two railway stations in Warrington and just a general explore of Warrington. This video is an episode of Miniature Railway Britain, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to start here by catching a train and we're going to travel in to Greater Manchester. So as we enter the new station in the video we came out, this video we're going in, we're going to go and catch a train and we're going to the Ermston and District Model Engineer Society's railway. So I'm quite excited. It's the first minute of railway of 2021 at the decade. Now the Warrington West railway station is now complete. This is, yeah, need more railway stations in Britain. So I'm going to go down onto the platform, wait for my train to take us to Ermston and we're going to go and, as I said, go and see the Ermston and District Model Engineer Society's miniature railway. So time to catch the train towards Manchester. It's 1.50am at Warrington West and we're now travelling to the Ermston and District Model Engineer Society's railway. Now, it's a slight problem, it's not a massive problem at all, but we'll overcome it. I had intended to go to Chassett and Road station but I've discovered trains don't stop there on a Sunday. So I'm going to have to go to Ermston and walk back, which I really don't mind, it's not a problem for me, but maybe for people who say we're visiting with children, might put them off visiting by public transport, the fact they got to walk a bit. So anyone from Norther's watching, maybe could consider a few Sunday service trains stopping at Chassett and Road and Model 12 station. So we should see Chassett and Road and I'm going to try to show you out the window as the train passes through and then I'm going to get off at Ermston and we shall walk back. I don't even think it's more than a mile. That's Chassett and Road, that's what I intended to get off at. The place we're going to, the miniature railway, you can't see it from the train, it is just pretty much next door or the track runs next door to Erm, to Chassett and Road station, so you can effectively almost have an interchange between standard gauge and miniature. So we are now coming into Ermston, so I'm going to get off and walk back in that variation, which like I said, I don't mind, you won't tell you, but it's over less than 20 minutes to Ermston station. Ermston station before, so it is a first for me until just before Christmas, I hadn't even been on this line before, having quite a nice day exploring this part of the world. So I've arrived at Ermston, today I'm using a Cheshire day range and now if you've seen the other video that I also made today at Warrington, you'll have seen, I talked a bit more about that, so great ticket to have and go all over Cheshire and even parts that are further afield. So train departs, I don't think there's ticket barriers here, but I've got one to get ready just in case. Interesting booking station building there. I came a 150-101 and so not the Pioneer 150, but kind of the Pioneer of the Tugarm on 115, they're both doorless on the front of 150. As they depart, they should reveal each station building. It looks like it's a restaurant, so I'll get back here, I'll have a while to wait for a train, kind of, so perhaps it's not such a bad thing that their trains won't stop on that Chasseton road today. So this is the ticket office, it looks like it's closed on a Sunday, I come up here, I think we're into the Ermston town centre, so it's now time for me to begin my walk back towards Chasseton road. So I'm now walking from Ermston railway station to the Ermstonman District Model Engineer Society. I'll just give you an idea of how short the distance actually is. Ermston station is just there, what quarter of a mile that way. Now if we turn around on this bridge and look at that, you can see Chasseton road is quite clearly, well 300 yards away, so it's um the tracks between Ermston and Chasseton road is is no more than half a mile, if that even, so it really isn't fast. I would hardly say it'd have been good to have got off here off at Chasseton road, it's not really a problem to me to have to walk. So I've walked along the main road through Ermston town centre, I've come into this housing estate because I discovered that there's a path running along here which is going to nicely take us to the park where the miniature railway is. So I feel like I'm exploring now, I've never been to this area in my life before, like I said the railway line is only what travelled on that for the first time towards the end of last year. So erm it's all completely new to me, I'm enjoying it, always like going to new places even if it's in England and you know so looking forward to finding this miniature railway and seeing you know because every miniature railway is different and that's what I find so fascinating about, well you could say that about all railways actually all railways, different that's what finds so fascinating about miniature railways and that's why you know I have this kind of desire to visit every single one of them in the UK and when I've done that then I'll do the rest of the world you know some might crop up in between if I'm if I'm somewhere and there's a miniature railway some of the miniature railway Britain series may go abroad but we'll we'll see when that happens. I'm just going to carry on following this footpath this a bit further and soon we should be at the railway so I think we are very close we've now been going along the back of the houses the main railway line is there and yes I can see it I can see the railway it's about to reveal itself you can see a train in the distance here we are look there's so the railways here it's a raised track miniature railway I'd love to come and pick it out but there is a train in the distance and I can see some smoke of another steam train coming this way so it looks like I think the station must be over there somewhere I'm going to follow the track this way you can see the little signals up there and I want to walk around the edge and have a look at Chaston road station and soon we should see a train coming so let's let's wait and see it and I don't know what's going to be what sort of train well steam obviously because I could see the smoke it's interesting that here when I got further back there there was two footpaths so there's one footpath here on one side of the fence and then there's this footpath here well this isn't really footpath but the path sort of disperses into the part all trains coming so let's just watch the train go past and then we should go and find both railway stations the little station and the big station and it's this one that has the train coming today very interesting looking like I'm not sure what that was but it looked like certainly a miniature narrow gauge I could see more steam so I can see at least three clouds of steam there's at least three locos out so I'll try and have a trip more than I love these little lights so see how the lights are red and the train is currently in that section just up there the next light shows a double yellow and now that's gone red because the train's past it so so as I continue walking along here we are that's Chaston road station and see how close the miniature railway is they can always build a little platform here and actually have an interchange I can see another train coming this is um I haven't been here long but I already really like this miniature railway it'd be great imagine if a steam train came from the main line and he had like a double running that'd be amazing anyway I'm gonna let you watch this train go past so I'm going to temporarily leave the park to have a look at Chaston road station I've already really enjoyed just walking along that bit there because you know I've already seen three steam trains and there's another one running along there now so there's at least four steam locos out today so for a January Sunday afternoon that's pretty good going while we wait for that steam train to come I just want to show you Chaston road station so here it is whether we can get on the platform not not sure because no but it might be able to this is Chaston road there's the ticket office and here we can see two parts of the railway standard gauge a miniature so we go down here yeah looks like we should get on to the platform I've also realised that path I mentioned that ran parallel to the park actually goes into the station so let's have a look so yeah that path ends there if I go up here we should just see the steam train yes come on it's a 9F just seen a 9F pass through Chaston road station not something people you know would have believed you if you'd said once upon a time so I'm just gonna have a look now on the station always it locked you know I can get on it even though the train's stopping so this is Chaston road station if you want to catch a train here you've either got to walk to Ermston or walk to the park and have a little riding a miniature train so I'm at Chaston road and I've got to go and find to the miniature railway so now I've been to Chaston road station and I'm making my way to the miniature railway station now miniature right here it kind of goes down into a cutting because it's a rage track it's a bit like a little fence so it has to then go for a bridge and that looks like how we're going to enter the park I can see another bridge over there so let's go and find the station it looks like already I can see it's quite extensive rail it basically follows the perimeter of the park so really looking forward to a trip on it so yeah here we are look this is the the bridge and the metro goes underneath and I can see a load of steaming up going on over there so I think it's time we wandered over and let's see what we're going to find let's have a ride on the miniature trains well I've had a great afternoon at the Ermston and District Model Engineering Society's Railway just want to show you this before I go they've got like another circuit here which is like they're running in circuits this is just a small circuit here then the other circuit circumnavigates the whole park I was talking to one of the club members he told me for a long time they just had a smaller circuit here perhaps a little bit bigger than this one they've been around since the 1940s and then it was in about 1980 that they built their line which runs all around the park so it's a really nice railway it's it's you know it's just nice addition to the park it's also quite fun over there there's quite a gradient so the locals do work quite hard so it's I like to have had a great afternoon if you're ever in you know this part of Greater Manchester or if you ever bought a Cheshire Day Ranger ticket like I have on a Sunday then you know do come here yes you're gonna have to walk from Ermston Station but it's not bad walk it's only you know half a mile so it's um yeah very very enjoyable afternoon I've had so I'm now going to walk back to Ermston Station I'm going to walk over this bridge here you can see that's the steep gradient see that's in a cutting on an S bend going uphill so the locals really work there's a icing that the 9F is reversing off over the traverser back to the steaming base it's pretty going to be bedded down it's pretty finished it's day of steaming so so I begin my walk through we go a different way I'm going to go this way this time see a bit more of Ermston so from the Ermston and District model engineering societies thank you very much for watching as I said do you know come and visit them they run every Sunday of the year most Mitch Rowers don't run every Sunday this one does they don't run on Sunday if it's Christmas day so yeah do come and visit them and thank you very much for watching and please feel free to like subscribe comment and tell your friends about Henry's adventures and anyone who might like to come visit this Mitch Railway goodbye