 Hello and thank you for joining me. I'm in East Sussex today. I've come to the village of Isfield We've come here to do another episode of miniature railway Britain Now the village of Isfield is home to the lavender line You're briefing of what's the standard gauge railway doing on miniature railway Britain Well, the reason is it's the miniature railway here as well. So if you look there, you can just see the old level crossing gates That was the line south down to Lewis and then here is station and here's the preserved lavender line So this is a section of the old line from Lewis Which went all the way up to London north of upfield the line is still open but this section closed in 1969 1858 so here's Isfield station and I can hear the sound of steam So coming from a standard gauge or an hour or a miniature railway local I'm not sure but no doubt we will find out quite shortly because we're going to go and have a look So this is the car park of Lavender line Southern region railway. They've got lots of diesel Thumpers and everything which I'm quite excited about because I should have get some interesting standard gauge haulage although as I said It's a miniature railway video. Well first here look at this Something a bit different little Belgian built tram local. So we'll be having a ride all that no doubt DMU carriage and just in front of us here That's a bumper carriage. So that's not the one that's out. I think Very soon a fun for arriving. So we'll probably see that arrive And then we're going but we're also going to go around here to find the miniature. Oh, it's called the rail is miniature I I believe it to be a five-inch gauge railway and it runs along beside the main line So what we'll do is and we'll go and have a look at that. So we're just going around here There's a carriage of all sorts of junk and stuff. Oh, yeah here. We are this is sign. I was looking for So it says this way to platform two and it says Riley's miniature. Really, that's what we come here to see but obviously we'll see the standard gauge stuff as well So I'm now standing on the main formation Looking towards Lewis It's filled signal box Here's another bumper carriage So I've never been on one but bumpers used to work the line And up until upfield up to about 2005 the line was still worked by bumpers Whereas two bumpers here Each other There's a little shop. We'll have a look in there You might do and here is the Riley's miniature railway a little ginti down there The steam I can hear is coming from the standard gauge line. So what we'll do the train comes along we'll go for a ride I'm not sure I'm going to do the standard gauge line first or the narrow gauge line, but This is pretty cool So what I'm going to do I'm still not sure which train I'm going to catch first Whether it be that one Or the Riley's miniature railway, so I'm going to hang around now and just see which one comes along first or which one gets off first rather Great little trip on the Riley's miniature railway. If you have a look it's called Evelina Junction That's because all the money from this railway goes to a children's hospice the Evelina children's hospice Riley's miniature railway come from a little boy who was born with a heart condition Who um Basically has always had to live in a hospice the idea is that the money made from the railway is donated to that hospice So if you have a ride on the railway, you're not only having a nice time, but you're it goes to a good course There's the signal box there the old disfield signal box can't go have a look in there, but there's a family in there right now So let's leave that for another time. So, yeah, that's the railway looking towards Lewis where it used to go I'm going to wander up to the car park now because what I was thinking was The steam train has gone out that little tram steam engine if we're down in the car park around the right time We could see it come back past while we're here. We could perhaps have a look at this Thumper you might be able to hear the noise the thumping sort of noise And um, this reminds me of well, I don't really remember these in service I'm just a little bit too young. I lived in the wrong region But I do remember once going on a southern region unit to esport And seeing them when they're around must be about 2003 because I think it was 2005 They finished on main lines, but it's pretty nice to hear it ticking over I've had them in my videos in the past. I hate things unit the preserved unit. I've seen that out a few times That's a narrower bodied version So if you look there that's like a guards compartment And then this is the passenger saloon here so you've got the network southeast moquettes you can Might feel safe Coming through the window So you can see you can't actually walk from one carriage to another and then if we go up to here They still have these first class compartments So this is a first class compartment of a thumper unit So that's oh very comfortable The other day I went on a zoomer from in venez To london and when I got back my back really hurt because of the ironing board seats are very hard and uncomfortable I know it's all these fire regulations, but these seats are so comfortable I wish I had more seats like this or more trains or trains are compartments as well Anyway, um what we're going to do now Is well the miniature railways just out there you can just see the station sign I don't know if a train's going to go past. I'm going to go out in the car park though Come on see the steam train go past. So let's get out again The steam train's not quite back The railway line it goes about a mile up there to a little hole called worth hole Another thumper unit. This is an unusual thing. This is like a laboratory Um rail car. So it must have been for BR members and staff could do certain research Within that little rail car. I'm going to go back down here And we'll go out into the station car park where we'll have a look at the Rest of things. Do you really love that sound of the thumping sound? I'm going to go out here I'm going to wait and see the steam locomotive come back So, you know, it's a very interesting place to come to Lavender Line You get a ride on the standard gauge and a miniature railway It's um, well, it's near Lewis It's to the south, Fuckfields to the north It's not the easiest place to get to by train But I have seen quite a few double decker buses going past. So Even it's a Sunday today. So it has got public transport links. So you can get here. Oh, look at that Now that is how I remember seeing the thumpers. See that livery there. It's the conic slavery. I do remember I'm running in that So I never went on one on the main line. I went on the electric unit. So yeah, that's 205033 so I probably may have seen this unit on the main line. Obviously it wouldn't run without front It's been repated, but that faded livery on the side. That's the conic slavery The rightest miniature rail we went to just beyond past the water tower for the standard gauge That was where we saw the thumpers when we got to the other end It's a nice little Morse minor there So if we go here Just go up to where the engine sheds are And um, you can stand the thing around here when you see the steam train pass Which um And then I'll go and have a ride on the steam train and ride on the fomper. I've never been on a fomper before So it's something ticked off my bucket this so there's the other fomper unit. So let's wait and see the steam train pass So after watching the trains On both lines. I've come back around here. The railway's being packed up I think the steam loco on the main line is going to go on shed. I've had a great day here Really enjoyed it. So as I said, do you know do come and visit the lavender line and the rightest miniature railway And um, as soon as there's no one else in the Cigar box and go in there to finish the video if you come here By bus there is a bus stop there. So it's fairly easy to get through. You just can't actually get here By train about a bit of a walk. So this is is filled Cigar box So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to say goodbye. Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from it's filled Cigar box. Goodbye