 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at London Liverpool Street today, and we're going to Peterborough Not the usual station you're to come to to get a direct train to Peterborough, but today there is a direct train to Peterborough I'm going to go down to the platform and find it I just wandered down this end of the station just to have a look because you never know what you're going to find And this isn't what I'm expecting to find our train, but a bit of a surprise. It's a class 37 sat there, 37608 So that's quite exciting to see but our train is just over there, so let's go and find it So here we are we're on the platforms and here is our train class 47 47 815 Great Western With a raker mark 2 characters, so this is really exciting to Yeah, just ride a proper train on the line out of Liverpool Street So I've never done local hold. I've done local hold out here when they were local trains of Norwich Never done diesel local train out here, but to do local haul train up through Tottenham Hale Harlow town, etc. I've not done before so as you can see it's a train of mark 2 characters I remember mark 2 is on this line when they were hauled by class 86 So it's kind of bringing back some nice memories. There's another 47 down the other end I'm going to wander down there and have a look so that'll be hauling me there and then later on Behind 815 that I've definitely travelled behind before not sure what's on the front So we're going to see am I going to go and find a winning local 47 813 on the front so not winning local but it's going to be nice to have a good diesel batch on the line Which you wouldn't normally get Norwich's proper traction like this on so I'm going to go and find my seat and enjoy the ride We are on the train, much potter than usual train. It's actually a first class carriage So I thought I'd sit up here a lot of the diesel batches are right in the front to get the fresh but I thought I'd come back here It's a little bit quieter and I can have People sat there so I can't expect but it's it's very pleasant. I mean I do quite like the Stadlet milk units. They're probably about the nicest in my opinion new trains you've got but this is really nice It's run by West Coast Railways and put a leaflet on the table quite often travel on a jack-of-art There are the Charles trains now. I'll talk about local. You have a look. This is my map of where I've been everywhere my truck hours and Basically the yellow lines are what I've done on a unit a green highlight is what I've done on a local train So I can highlight all the way up here in green and then Orange which is steam but obviously not doing any steam today So it's gonna be a great trip. I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the ride up to Peterborough Following my arrival at Peterborough station I've had a rough brisk walk round to the other side of the river and railway lines and we've come to the Rail world. Well, there's a view. So we're gonna go in there We're gonna go in and we'll see the class 47s go past from there So the bridges you see to go to bridges as to east coast main line. This much lower bridge That's the line that goes over to Ealy, which I've traveled on so I'm just gonna head up there. That's where the Can't miss the first exhibit I've seen it a lot from the east coast main line. This is a hover train This is part of an experimental hover train which ran in Cambridge here. So let's go and see the 47s So after seeing the 47s depart I rushed over here to Peterborough Neen Valley station to see this pacer arrive on the Neen Valley Railway That'll be going again in the next 20 minutes or so. So what I'm going to do is I'll hang around here I'll watch that go and then we'll have another look around the Rail World site because that was the whole reason We came here. I'd love to do the Neen Valley Railway I could do a round trip today, but I feel if I was to do that I wouldn't have time to get off at each station and have a really good look and of course There's a couple of miniature railways up the line. There's one and ferry meadows, and there's also now one at Wantford. So The Neen Valley Railway is a video for another day. It's just making a bit of cameo Appearance day. Anyway, this is the hover train. So this was an experimental hover train which ran in Cambridge There's not much you can see left of it But it was a thing in the 70s that different countries were experimenting if you want to know about the French ones Have a look on the Tim Traveller great YouTuber He's made some interesting videos about the French hover trains But this is the carriage or one the carriage from the British hover trains Of a more familiar high-speed train just hiding underneath it. There's an HST It's a one-carriage HST and you may just be able to see there's also a Danish steam locomotive Which we don't get the best view of here. The Neen Valley Railway was known for having lots of foreign locos And I think they have got a Danish steam locomotive So I'd love to come and have a ride behind that So we're definitely definitely gonna come back and do Neen Valley Railway at some point possibly by the time You're watching this video. I may what I've already been So there's not really a lot else to see in this area I'm gonna have to go back into the site and we'll have a look around there So I'll have to go back to ticket office get one ticket out show them I've already been in we'll have a look around the site now. I've just seen a few interesting train movements class 47's places It's all gone a bit quieter now. You can have a look around the site. So here's the the hover train It's quite interesting. I was just reading the board about it It would have traveled at about 300 miles an hour. I said it had a test track over in Cambridge here If it's been rolled out over the country They've probably gone from London to Edinburgh in about an hour and a half So obviously much much faster than today's trains. Thanks to it is a model railway And I think if we press this button Should all start up You should see a train in the moment now. So Yeah, I can see First trains over there something should come out of these. Oh look James there James the red engine and there's a Just saw glimpse Thomas right over there. So we'll wait and see what is a lgb to double-headed lgb tank engines So it's like there's four circuits here, and then there's another line going up and down There's another train just coming around the corner another norm Thomas one. I think most of the trains are Thomas There's six trains. Yes, you've got Thomas James Percy and Toby And what I can see and then there's the lgb tank engine So that's quite exciting. I'll film more of the model railway Later on and I'll put all that into another video We're gonna go and look around the site was a couple of things on this side So this is the site of the old steam ship here. There's as Percy The end of his line he goes over quite a nice So some's a bit in the wrong place, so I can't show you that well, but there's nature's tea over there Right on the bat is a maglev carriage. I'll put a picture in now So that would have worked at Birmingham Airport between Birmingham International Station and the airport. I've been on its replacement quite a few times The other one is at the National Rail Museum hidden away So we're gonna go over the river now. It's quite unusual museum This in that it has a bridge in the middle of the museum over the river So it's effectively two halves. So where we were then that was a site of the steam ship So the steam ship would have been there. That was the Midlands steam shed LNER Randa or Round the line north and the Midland had a line coming across we're going up here now So it's quite an unusual railway museum. So that side has most of the rolling stock As it is literally next to the Neen Valley Railway. It has a connection with the Neen Valley Railway The other side of the river is more of a wildlife haven hence the name of the place It goes Thomas Reversing with Annie and Clarabel and there's the HST over there We're crossing the Neen now So it's funny really because you go over to public footpaths that kind of go under the site So it's like gentlemen walking on the river Neen there. He's not in the site. They're just public footpaths That's the bridge on the line that goes to Ely So I passed over that bridge on the class 47s and I will go to be dark by the time I go home But I'll go back over them this evening when I go home I can just see over there that she comes pretty out the spires of the cathedral Peterborough is a cathedral city. There used to be a power station just over there That's where Astor is. Peterborough does have a modern gas power station There used to be a coal power station and this used to be the yard all this area here. That's the wildlife haven This was the yard for the For the coal yard for the power station. So we're now across the river and it says Wildlife haven so it's gonna the video Tony's gonna change quite a lot here I did rush through here earlier to get to the viewing point see the class 47s, but now I'm not rushing anywhere. I'm just gonna walk around and enjoy These rather different sort of gardens. They're gardens. We have a woodland Railway theme. So we've got this old bridge here, which we're walking over Looks like we can go walk under and have to do that There's a signal box there. So let's go over the bridge and we'll go and have a look in that See there's no one else there. It's one of the things I'm making videos is Go to these places and you're going to have other visitors, which is is great But when there's no one there, I've sort of got to see some opportunity Interesting Look that's out the power station. I'm not too sure. Let's have a look in this signal box And then we'll go down there under the bridge I did think about seeing the train here as well 47s but in the end I didn't and Again, it's a Okay, so it's like there's no leadness But you can do two things here You watch birds and insects on one side You can watch trains on the other at least the birds and insects don't run to a time date There's also some rail cameras there and this tells you it's not much in the way of movement But this would tell us if there's a train coming on. I can't see there's anything So we won't wait for a train. There's a Thames link class 700 Park ground, the siding's It's the railway station's up there. So again, this line in the foreground is the line which goes Let's go outside. I can show you. It's you better This line is the line to Eevee. It's not electrified. In this case main line over there is the bridge I was showing you Over the mean is literally just there. That's the signal box Behind us. Looks really good for a record. See what's down under the bridge now Let's just follow this path and see where it takes us. It feels very nice and Peaceful and you know away from everything else Now we get to a junction here Some path going off down there There's also some steps up here And I want these people to go to places. I tend to walk down every bit of the path. Oh, it's nice There's a pond here and another Like a smaller version of the bridge we just crossed So you've got a pond here Makes it very nice and calming listening to the water And it flows off down there in a stream To another bridge. So if we go down there and then is Like a lookout tower or mound So I don't know which one to go down. They all look so exciting That stream that created runs off and down there. Let's just have a Look around. Let's go up here Usually when I go to a sort of view point it's when I finish the video, but this one's kind of come on us How do I get to it? Okay, um, so the path is over there. This is it's like a maze this place For another bridge So yeah, it's a bit of a Amaze this place Quite unexpected. There's some more railway over there. I wonder if we can get to that. Perhaps we can't go down there I didn't say we can't Let's go back around there in that building. That's the exhibition center There is a cafe over there and there's also Some model railways, which I had a I poked my nose in just after seeing the 47th department So like I said, I'll put that on to another video. I might show you a clip. I'll have a look It's remind me a bit completely different but puzzle wood in Gloucestershire It's like a woodland where there's all these paths that take you down different places It's a bit of a maze. Oh, yeah, that's that bridge that went over the stream If I'd just come straight around there, we'd have made our way up the mound So we're now going up the mound This time This is what we get at the top. We get a view of the site You can see the stream we were looking at flows off Down there. The river Neen is just behind the trees over there So now I'm up here. I should be able to have a look See what else there is I think if we make our way down and under that bridge We can go and explore over there And then we've seen that part of the site so it's It's exciting here because you've got the railway aspects of It which I like And I do like going for walks In the countryside and just exploring So it's sort of got Yeah, both we've got gardens. We've got water It's got basically everything I like here Going under this bridge now This is mind your head. It's quite a low bridge Not the lowest bridge I've ever been under if you want to see what that is Have a luckily link on screen now Somewhere very different to here Where should we go now? They look so sort of exciting I've been inviting these paths. What's this? Neen bicycle Neen Holtz bicycle platform. What's this then? Is that a bit of railway line? I could see Oh, yeah. Wow. Look There's one of those rail bikes And uh I wonder if it works. It says don't touch it. So I'm not going to touch it But oh, yeah, there's a halt. So if I let's just I think we can go on to the platform So technically I'm now ticking off another railway station Um, I don't think I'm going to get the bike for haulage I don't know if it works or not. I'll say it says don't touch it. So I won't I did have a car and one in Serbia once But now I'm going to trek over there Um, yeah, so this is Neen Holtz An unexpected shack For those of you who don't know shack is a term that enthusiasts refer to for a railway station Probably because that is a little bit like a posh Shack. It's sort of done and painted and everything But you get some on the main network that aren't so nice as that So if you ever hear enthusiasts talking about a shack, they're talking about a railway station Let's go up here now. This will take us down to the other end of the site There's a little model church. It was kind of a model. I'll go down there It's like someone stopped building Uh, an OO scale model village outside So let's go have a look at that I'm quite enjoying my afternoon here. It's been completely different. I started the day off diesel bashing I ended up walking around a wildlife haven, which has little surprises So do we call this a model village or more of a sort of a scene? Yeah, look It's a model village So that's quite nice, you'll see They could have a model railway and a miniature railway They got, I don't know if that happened on Hanbelong 7th They had a miniature railway This place would be, yeah, amazing We've been down there Look, let's go down there again. We have been down here We haven't been down the other path If they had a model, a miniature railway, that would be great That's the path that took us down to that bridge Look through these beach, this little beach avenue Um, actually, we're just going to take us to Right, uh, we're having to retrace our steps here We've been to here before So if we go back over that bridge and then we'll Walk off down that path and just see what's at the end I sort of feel like I could, um, just go off and do this all off camera But I don't know what I'm going to find So I quite like sort of discovering it on camera for the first time So we'll have a walk down there now and see what there is This seems to be like the path at the back of the site But not everyone necessarily goes down straight away Isn't it? It's more peaceful So it feels now, I don't feel like I've got the place myself There are other visitors around but it's, it's sort of spread out Um, so that's why it feels like I'm just wandering around here on my own Let's go down this winding path Another place I have to say that reminds me a little bit of is, um, Is at Mount Sorrel, a branch off the Great Central Railway That's got a wildlife and railway kind of outdoor museum It does remind me of that place a bit So that's the end of that stream and see the awful So it's very pleasant I think I'm going to come to the end of what there is to see Although that said, wouldn't be surprised if we find something else Let's have a look at some old, here see what I mean About finding something else from Railway Bounds There's a bit of a lookout up there, we'll go up there in a moment So there are any things to see in here Might not be now they are locked up, okay Um, some beehives over there They're active, I can see a lot of bees Let's go up here to another viewpoint And then I think I'm going to go and get a cup of tea Because there's a little cafe over there And I've done a lot of walking around in the last hour Or more running around I think Well, this is a nice viewpoint Looking out across the river Neen And you've got an HST and a hover train in the background Moment ago, we were over there I've come back over the river Neen I've left the site now What I'm going to do, I thought I haven't got time to do the whole Neen Valley Railway today And like I said, I want to do it on a day I can do the whole line But because I've got still quite a long time Where I four hours till my class 47s take me back to London I thought I'd go for a walk I thought I'd go for a walk along by the Neen The logical thing to do And then thinking about it I thought, well if I was to walk along by the Neen Valley Railway So you've got a river Neen there The Neen Valley Railway here There's Peter Browningway station If I walk to Orton Mid, the next station I can have a ride on that pacer Back to here and I can take that off the haulage And I'll have done a bit of new track today And then at some point I'll come here again in the future And have a proper ride on the whole length of the Neen Valley Railway So I've walked for about half an hour Probably just over a mile along To this part of the river Neen There's a canoeing course here on this way I think it's something I would particularly want to do See some boats up there The station, Orton Mid, is just over here So you can see that road bridge That road actually goes right over the top of the station So probably in the next sort of 10, 20 minutes or so My train will arrive To take me back to Peter Brown So it's been quite a long walk Of course it's a flatter walk Because I've been following the river See here's the railway So I came across there I went over there to make that video The train's coming from that way So that's looking towards Wandsford Get a nice view of the station here That is post signal And the signal box, there's a junction as well Because you've got the line So one way goes to Peter Brown Neen Valley If you were to take the other line That goes to the connection with the East Coast Main Line There's also some nice signal box So it's like a Midland style box And it's got a modern frame Admittedly, I don't know too much the history Because this wasn't the plan It's just a spare time Of course I thought I'd do this little bit Neen Valley Railway I will come here and do a proper video Of Neen Valley Railway And I'll do the history And which station is open when I have a feeling this might be a completely modern creation That's certainly a modern station building there So yeah Apologies for no History on Neen Valley Railway It's coming in another video So this is a bit different for a heritage line station Having a modern road bridge running over it But at least from the station itself You're sort of by the river So if you were to come on the train If you get off here and go for walks Further up here's very meadows Where's the Mitch Railway Again, that's the video for another day I'm going to wait for my train now To take me back to Peterborough, Neen Valley Had a great time here in Peterborough So today I'm now standing on the bridge over the river Neen I'm going to follow the path back to the city centre You can just see the cathedral over there See East Coast Mainline behind me So I hope you enjoyed this video And if you're in Peterborough Do have a ride on the Neen Valley Railway And visit Railroad Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment And from a nice sunny evening in Peterborough Goodbye