 Hello, thank you, do you want to me? I've just arrived in my larder at Stains Park, come here today for an episode of Minutes Railway Britain I don't have to walk far from my car to find the railway because it is literally just here. It's a racetrack Minutes Railway There's a steam locom over there being steamed up looks like a 5600 class So hopefully we'll see and have a ride behind that one later I can see the station over there got a few steaming blades There's no trains at the moment so that can only mean that the trains are out So what we'll do, we'll wait here, we'll see the trains pass us And then we'll go and have a ride, oh just see, there's a train coming now So I think the widest gauge must be 5 inch and then we've probably got 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch Which 2.5 inch, you sometimes get it at these racetrack ones but you don't often see many locos of that gauge anyway I think there's an 08 coming around the corner So that was 08 number 08 then 2.88 and it was called Invicta Now I think there is another train so we'll wait and see that happen Just see the other train coming along, look over there by the road, there it is It's a diesel this time or that was also a diesel but technically they're battery electrics in this But they're modelled on diesel so let's watch this go past Not too short it is yet, we'll have to have a look as it goes by That was interesting, I thought it looked American as it came round the corner And it went past, I had a look and I noticed B&O Railroad so I think that's Baltimore and Ohio Railroad So it must be a little switcher, so a switcher, we've got a switcher and a shunter In the UK we call diesel locos or steam locos, shunters in America, they're known as switchers In Europe you tend to see electric shunters, we don't really have many electric shunting locos over here But that's quite nice, quite a little combination of two American and British shunting locos I'm going to do now, I'm going to walk over there and that's going to have a ride Steam locos, ready to sit over there, so I'm going to watch the steam locos come down here I'm going to have to do a bit of interesting track work, this is like a gate, it opens So there's two functions really, it's effectively the points because the thing with the racetrack You can't have points in quite the same way but it also means they could get any vehicles in and out of the racetrack So let's wait here and watch the steam locos come off shit I've had a pleasant afternoon here at the Stains miniature railway run by Stains Society of Model Engineers Steam locomotive is sitting there now, waiting to take its next, lots of passengers on a trip around the track It's quite a nice track, I like how you've got track here, track there but it's obviously all one continuous loop It's funny how I've never been to this one before because having lived not too far away from here It's just one I've never got round to go into so I'm pleased to have made it here today Last time I made a railway video in Stains was completely different, that was about the old Stains West Railway So if you want to see that, do have a look at that video That's unusual as far as I'm aware Stains West was the only house in Britain that got converted into a railway station That's really quite a unique thing but if you want to see that you have to look at that video If you were to come here, I came by car as you know today There's that little car park there which is free to park in, if that's full As you can see, one of the residential areas, you can park along the road You could also come by train, now we're doing engineering works today So that's why I didn't come by train and also it's not too far But if you were to come by train, the railway station, if you were to go through the park that way That must be about half a mile or so away, and it'd be a flat walk So it's not impossible to visit here by train and go to the steam locomotive And the Thames is about a quarter of a mile or so down the road in that direction So let's just watch the trains go by one more time Thank you very much for watching, please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment Thank you to the Stain Society Model Engineers for a pleasant afternoon Thank you very much, goodbye