 Hello, if any of you are joining me behind me is the remains of Bridgenorth castle. It looks as though it's going to fall over But it's been like that for the last few hundred years. I don't think we need to worry We're here in Bridgenorth today in Shropshire for an episode of Minutes of Railway Britain But the Minutes of Railway we're going to is actually in Worcestershire Now those of you who know of Bridgenorth probably know it's where the Seven Valley Railway is and it's no coincidence The Seven Valley Railway goes to Worcestershire and we're also going to go to Worcestershire on the Seven Valley Railway So we're basically going to use the Seven Valley Railway to get us to the Minutes of Railway Which we're going to visit. I just thought to start up here in the castle gardens in the morning It's nice and quiet and it's a really nice place. So here I come on the Seven Valley Railway to Bridgenorth Here's where I'm visiting. There's a particular railway on the other side of town Unfortunately, that's not running at the moment. That's having some repair work done So I didn't feature that in today's video, but I've just had to walk all the way up up the up the hill I would have otherwise come up on the Cliff Railway. Let's go over to this corner here I'm hoping behind this tree. We should get quite a nice view down on Bridgenorth station That's where we've got to go to to catch our train and then Yeah, oh There Through there, that's Bridgenorth station The depot and everything the steam shed is just behind the station I can just sort of see the tops of some steam engines. So what I'm going to do I'm going to make my way down there over the suspension bridge to Bridgenorth And we'll see what steam engines are there and then our train shall arrive which will take us to Kilimanth today So here we are at Bridgenorth. There's standard class 4 number 75069. I'm not going to go on that train That's the 1115 to Kilimanth. The reason I'm not going to catch that one is because that isn't a winning local I've travelled behind that one twice before. I'm expecting the flying pig to come in in a minute And I'm going to travel on that one to Kilimanth so I'll get my winning local So I'm going to wait down here I'm expecting the flying pig to arrive before the standard class 4 departs. Ready for our journey to Kilimanth sat down in this rather nice compartment in a Mark 1 carriage, which is Always enjoyed compartment travel. I wish they built trains today with compartment travels I know you can't carry as many people but it's just so much nicer. Our steam locomotive the flying pig Has just gone shit if we look out there Taking on water interestingly oh my heart's here from the and she's one of the s-160s I've ridden behind her at the Churnett Valley Railway She's number s-160 225 3 So she's built in America. She worked for Polish railways and now she's over here. So that's quite a nice surprise See her. It's also a saddle tank on shit as well And it's no it's shunter and Hagley Hall just out of picture. It's that there's we have a ride behind flying pig I'm excited because it's a winning local She isn't really called flying pig just a nickname that were given to that class of steam locos So she is sort of known by fuges as the flying pig, but her real number is or her number is 4 3 1 0 6 I'm going to ride by 4 3 1 0 6 I said if you like flying pig all it she's just about to be cold You can just see a digger coming up with a coal. I'll let you watch out Don't know if they could do one as big cooling towers slightly to have anyone's left out at calm for I'm just here Cold so she'll soon come off shit and she's going to take us for the run to Kiddermint So it's about an hour's run. So I'm going to enjoy that and then we'll get to Kiddermint So that's where the coal yard miniature L is which we've come here today to travel to But why not make a trip on steam train to get there? Here we are at Kiddermint So that's just arrived behind the flying pig. She's just uncoupled from the train She'll run round ready for the journey back to Britain off Which I'm planning to travel on as far as highly go and visit the engine house museum But right now we're going to go on the miniature railway, which we've come here Today to have a ride on if I ever do a miniature railway Britain video that involves a heritage railway I'll nearly always time it around if I know there's a winning local out such as today Those of you don't know what winning loco is. It's a local. You've not traveled behind before So as far as I'm aware the flying pig is a winning loco for me I've checked through all my notes. I can't see anywhere. I've had it if I have It was at the dead of night once on one of their garlands when they ran all night I did do one of those because I didn't actually plan to I came to the gala and then my clutch went so I couldn't go home. So I'd stay all night on the train. It was almost as if I planned it Anyway, that's for the miniature railway. That's just round here. That's the railway museum Which I'm hoping to have a look in and then A miniature railway It's just down there and there's a warship locomotive. So let's go and have a ride on the miniature railway I enjoyed my trip on the coal yard miniature railway I always like it when you get two different gauges of railways. You've got standard gauge and seven and a quarter inch Always like, you know, two railways of different sizes together just adds to the fun of railways in general So we've had our ride up and down behind that or in front and then behind that little warship Which is a nice locomotive. There was a full size of warship Just up there at the diesel depot. So that was quite exciting So I've seen two warships today The plan is to go back on the standard gauge line Obviously, I've got to go back to bridging off But I'm going to go as far as highly and I thought to add to this video We'll do the engine house museum highly Because it just seems worth doing. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to take the train From Kidderminster town station and effectively you've got three railways Because the miniature railway station was called Kidderminster town high level That's Kidderminster town over there behind that shed is Kidderminster mainline station. So you do sometimes see mainline trains over there passing The main line on the main line passing seven day railway. Anyway, I'm going to walk down there Perhaps get a cup of tea and I said time to catch the flying pig as far as highly So as the flying pig steams off towards bridging off, you can clearly hear her climbing the bank We're going to have a look at the engine house museum Good to see a class 33 here always like class 33s The engine house museum is just over here past the bridge. So this station here You can see there's only a platform on one side very attractive station So generally the passenger trains Don't stop here. Oh, sorry. They stop here. They don't pass it So that also means giving a chance to get up to the museum And then we'll be able to see another passenger train passing. There's a peak out today a diesel locomotive That's my other winning loco, which I'm hoping to catch back to bridging off It's interesting. It looks like here there's um old cattle docks That's where they'd have loaded cattle when they were taking them on the train in days gone by Here are our loco whistling away Just want to show you a couple of things up here before we get to the museum See the river seven down there After yesterday's rain, it's quite full Not flooded yet. Obviously, we don't want any floods. Unfortunately this railway has suffered Quite badly in the past being close to river seven some other slightly more unusual items are all in stock Um, so it's like cherry picker on on rails I'm not sure if it is covered up and then looking a bit sad There's a perry people mover These I think these are cool little things if you ever go to star bridge They run between star bridge and star bridge town. They're great little vehicles And I know quite got how they work their diesel but they have a flywheel underneath and they can run on the flywheel engines They're very environmentally friendly. So Shame to see this one here graffitied and with broken windows You know, I know it's not exactly a heritage vehicle, but it's something Unusual and unique. It just seems A shame it's been vandalized And but yeah, that's sometimes what happens So let's have a look at the perry people mover Quite interestingly the perry people mover is currently sat On the line. It's just starting to rain. Good job about to go inside just out on the line It goes up here to the engine house The engine house is a little bit like, um, well, it's a railway museum That's exactly what it is And it's where the assembly railway can put some of their out-of-ticket locomotives So if a locomotive Isn't in use, you know, it's waiting an overhaul waiting its next boiler certificate They can put them in here, which I think is a really good idea And if you have a day rover ticket, then that gets you admission into the engine house So it's a perfect thing to do. It's a pretty good journey, especially like I say, it's just started raining So, yeah going for a walk probably isn't the best idea. So what I'm going to do I'm going to go go inside and we're going to have a look around the engine house Make my way straight up to the cafe to get a cup of tea Before we look around the museum Reason why is because there is a train due imminently to pass here. It'll be the standard class 4 So I can just see up there the signal Is in the down position. It might the camera's probably not picking it out So we're going to watch that go past and then we'll go downstairs We'll have a look around the museum, but because of the rain we've just, there's no one else up here So I'm the only person on this nice long balcony for watching trains who's actually going to watch the train So here we are. We're just outside the museum. It has a little Morris minor there, which is quite nice to see It's very interesting museum inside. Unfortunately, I can't actually walk round talking The reason for that is they play music in there and I could get copyright strikes So unfortunately, I can't take that risk. So what I'm going to have to do, I'm going to do the next best thing I've taken pictures of the locos and also did a very interesting tour of a royal train carriage So I'm going to put pictures of some of that in so you can have a look at those But unfortunately, I can't actually walk around talking because like I say, getting a copyright strike Isn't something I want. If anyone from Seven Very Railways watch it If you ever want to, if ever you do have any days where you don't play the music I'd quite happily come and have a look around Without the music and I could do quite a nice little tour because there's a lot in there to see But anyway, I hope you enjoy these few pictures and then what I'm going to do I'm going to wait for the peak, the diesel loco, to take us back to Bridgenorth Here we are back at Bridgenorth. Been a great trip up and down the line Had two winning locos. There were three trains out. I could have travelled on all three But as I've had to stand the class for twice, I've just chose not to What's quite a good little thing is you get this little map and inside is an OS map of Of the Seven Very Railway and it's really useful for sort of planning You know if you would say wanting to go for a walk or something if I get the the map Open which is easier said than done when you're on the camera As you can see inside it marks the railway quite clearly Marks all the stations on the railway everywhere. It says Seven Very Railway like that That's a station. So this is quite a good little thing to have We can see up there the peak. So what what we'll do We'll finish the video with a shot of the peak Departing. I'm pleased to get this peak for haulage. I said it was a another winning loco I think only once in my life before have I had a peak and I think that was that Well the East Lancashire railway There's always a bit of a running joke. Sometimes people say Does anyone know which loco is working which ever train and I always think it's funny to say 45015 because that's the peak at the battlefield line, which is a lot worse It's probably never ever going to run again But yeah, this is his one Pretty big loco is there. What a beast of a loco these peaks are I think they're great I used to run on my local line the Chilton line on the rubbish trains But that was I don't actually remember them. I remember class 31s first sevens On the Chilton line and it's nice the way that we started off with steam And today we've progressed onto Deanville. So we're going to watch this Depart and then that will be the end of the video. So thank you very much for watching Thank you to the Seven Valley Railway for a great day. It's been really enjoyable Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment