 just arrived at Hastings on this train just come down from Charing Cross. Today we're going to do an episode of Miniature Railway Britain. We're going to go to the Hastings Miniature Railway. I've never been to this Miniature Railway before so I'm very excited. It's been a while since I last went to one. The last one I went to was the Ashwood Miniature Railway. The wind's getting up and there's been a lot of mainline steam, various other things lately. So I haven't been to a Miniature Railway since then so I'm really quite excited to be going to one. But before we go to the Miniature Railway, I'll just bring you down here on the platform and show you the station still has a working signal box and it still has 7-4 signals which is really nice. The sun's coming out, just wish the wind would die down. So we're going to go out of the station, turn left, sorry turn right so Leonard's head north up through battle and that way it's looking towards Ashwood. I've never been on the track beyond there so that's probably a journey for another day. Although that said, I'm tempted I might walk to War and get the train that's coming in now. That would have started at War. That's probably going to London Victoria so that would go along to Eastbourne, it will reverse and then from Eastbourne go up to Brighton Line so that might be my journey home. So here we have the Southeastern Class 375s and the Southern Class 377s. I'm going to go and make my way out the station, go down to the seafront and find this Miniature Railway. So here we are inside the ticket hall at Eastbourne's railway station. It's a modern glass building, it was built in 2004. It's a shame in a way, I mean I don't mind this building but it replaced an Art Deco building that was built in the 1930s. They're still similar station buildings like it at Marguerite if you have a look at this picture. So it looks a bit like that but not quite the same, it was an octagonal station building so that was demolished and they replaced it with this one. Anyway now let's go outside the station and we're not getting on a bus but it's not that far, we are going to walk to the Hastings Miniature Railway which must be probably about 5-10 minutes walk in that direction so let's go and find the Hastings Miniature Railway. So I hope you can hear me, I'm trying to shout as loud as I can. But in front of me there's the Miniature Railway, up there is the Finicula Railway. There is another Finicula Railway somewhere over there. It goes up to the castle but I've been told that one's close today so it's the video for another day when we're about to go and do the castle so we'll come back one day. Right now let's go and hide on the Hastings Miniature Railway. Here though I thought I'd show you quite an interesting place here. So apart from the wind that's the only thing very windy but other than that it's really interesting. So one thing I'm going to do now is I'm going to cross the road and I'm going to go up the East Hill Lift. Possibly it's the steepest Finicula in the UK and look at that it's very steep and we're going up all the way I'm going to this end so we can see the view as we ascend. Get the view out over the sea and we should see the railway by just down there. I can just see the station and the lights playing about. We'll have a look when we get to the top. Let's see the other one coming down. There it is. So the other one's descending as we ascend. It's almost looking vertically down. I know it's not vertical but it's making my legs go a little bit jelly. I'm not going to be someone who has a problem with ice but yeah it feels like we're going up really high. At least over here we can see the view. I can talk without worrying about the wind because it was windy down there. I reckon it's going to be really windy when we get outside so we're about to find out. I've never been up there before so I don't really know quite what I'm going to find. But no doubt we're going to get some good views. At the station you can't see much. The railway is named after. As it was up there but I had a little walk around the top but it got even windier the higher up the hill I went. So yeah so I'm kind of quite glad to be back down although I did enjoy. There is a fisherman's museum here. My plan is to travel back in all these boats. So let's just go and see what this fisherman museum is about. It seems to change not to be inside the fisherman's museum. As I said it's inside former fisherman's chapel. It does seem really strange seeing a boat in a church. It must be the only church I've ever come across to have a boat inside. It's certainly the only boat I've ever come across inside the church. So it's quite interesting the museum. We've got a lot of models of boats and information on marine wildlife and what they'd have caught. Some models of some of the fish and crabs they would have caught. Let's just have a look through here. What's interesting there is a model of where we are. So it's the finicular we've just been on. There's a railway running along there and that must be the church that we're inside. That's the church that we're currently inside. So it's quite interesting the museum. If you do come and visit the miniaturale do come and have a look in this museum. I'm not going to go through all of the artefacts because I don't know too much about fishing. But it's very interesting to see. If you're coming yourself you can do that. What we'll do now is have a look at probably the most exciting thing about the museum. So we've got up here at these steps and we show on board the boat. And it does feel really really strange being on a boat. Firstly being on a boat and not in water. Being on the boat in the middle of a church. Like I said is this the only church to have a boat inside it? I think it probably is but I might be wrong. If you know of a church with a boat inside then do comment and tell me. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to go out back to the miniaturale and have a ride back to the other end. So we're back outside the Fisherman's Church, the Fisherman's Museum. Walk through these boats to where we will see the miniaturale again. And then as I said I'm going to have my ride back. So as we come to here clearly you can see it's tasting the miniaturale. There's a rather big diesel bloke out here which I quite like. It's called Uncle Jim. I feel like a mainline diesel just got out at each end. Here's their turntable. So it's kind of not a train here at the moment. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to wait for a train to take us back. So let's go for a walk round to see what we can see before we head back. So to give you an idea of just how close the miniaturale is, it's literally there all the way up to the train. The train coming out of the tunnel. Quite cool how the tunnel, effectively, the train goes through the building. I don't think it's quite unique but it's certainly unusual not many miniaturale ways to do that. But that's what makes miniaturale ways to me so interesting. They're also different. You never find out what you're going to see when you go to a miniaturale way. So it's been a great day. This is one of the drivers here. This is Nick. Nick, how long have you been a driver here? What's your favourite loco out of all the ones we have at Hastings? Yeah, I've got two favourite loco's. I've got Gong and Jeremy Lee. Of course you get to see that one as well. She's a 47 class in a city library. So yeah, that's one of my favourite loco's. I've seen it since the first lockdown so hopefully it'll be coming back this year. And I'll be seeing it again. Well no doubt then I will see it either here or come here again. Or at Rockley because Rockley is on the list. That's it, yeah. And I understand you've got a YouTube channel, haven't you? Do you want to plug that while you're on camera? Nick's railway mags on YouTube. So well thank you very much Nick. Thank you. Had a great time here. I'll probably get the train back down to the other end of the line. Then time for me to get back to London. A great time here at Hastings. Just had my last ride of the day behind what I think is possibly the biggest 10 and a quarter inch cage loco. Yeah, I'm one of the other end uncle Jim. I think might be slightly longer than this. This is a real beast of a loco. I really like it. I love how it blasts its horn. It's got a real sort of American feel to it. So that's the loco's turn. The loco's going to work a train back. It's just starting to rain. I'm going to make my way back to Hastings station to cat on the Hastings again. Because there is government railway in Hastings. So we'll come and do that in the future. So from Hastings Minutes Railway, thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, to comment, as a driver hooting a goodbye. And from Hastings Minutes Railway, I'm going to say goodbye.