 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Alton today, Alton in Hampshire. You can see the south-western railway on that side of the fence. We're here on this side of the fence at the Midhant Railway. Today is another episode of Miniature Railway Britain, and yes, I know the Midhants isn't a Miniature Railway, but there is a Miniature Railway further up the line. So what we're going to do, we're going to use the Midhant Railway to get us to a Miniature Railway, so get two railways in one video. Nice old sign, Southern Electric. So, electric trains on this side. It's diesel at the moment, although I'm hearing the electric going out. We're expecting to find some steam further up the line. So, you may have been able to hear at the beginning of the video the sound of a diesel locomotive. That was a Class 20, so we're going to walk up here. This station used to have Shaf2 footbridges. They've put a new bridge with lifts in, so that's good it's accessible, but it kind of feels something's missing now. The old footbridge has gone, which is somewhere around here. There's a nice WH Smith selling coffees and teas, so perhaps I'll grab myself a drink before I get on the train. So our locomotive has disappeared up here somewhere. So what we'll do, we'll wait and see the locomotive come back, and that's going to take us up to Ropley, where the Midhant Railway is. We're going to go for a ride on the Ropley Miniature Railway. We are approaching the strong country as that sign with a blue bullet-positive show. So, let's wait and see how the diesel locomotive arrives and up over the Alps we're going. Behind this Class 20, I'm going up onto the bridge where I should get our first view of the Midhant Railway. My plan is to do a little tour of the station first, but from this bridge we should be able to see the steam locomotive arrive. I can just see the Midhant Railway in the field over there. So the steam locomotive is due from this way. We'll see that arrive, and there's our train. There's also the engine and everything over there, so we'll go and have a look around all of that before we go on the Midhant Railway. So, let's wait here and see the steam train. So, having watched the steam locomotive depart, it's now time to go and find the Ropley Station. It's a really, really nice place to be. It's nice and quiet as a few people about, and it's just got that atmosphere of a country railway station. A little bit in the middle of nowhere, we're quite high up. The next station, Medsted and Fourmarks, I believe, is the highest railway station in the south of England, but this one, so it's just slightly further down the hill. So what we're going to do, we'll go and find the Midhant Railway. It says Entrance, so we'll have a look at the railway, have our ride, and then we'll go up and down, because I think it's out and back. It's a 10 and a quarter inch gauge railway, so there's the station there. It's called Ropley High Level. So what we'll do, we'll have a ride to the other end and see what we can find. Having an enjoyable ride up and down the track, about a kilometre long, nice and nice straight on ride, we come back to the standard gauge line. There's a footpath here, which is quite an exciting footpath, because you've literally got a railway each side. So my plan is, by walking up here, we'll see the Class 20 come fast. There's a Class 67, 10 and a quarter inch 67, and there was our 47, so that was Ropley High Level. Also, this footpath gives us the opportunity to have a look. There's this pretend steam locomotive called Hasty. I've ever seen that. She visited Catterborough Park one day, just for a day once, and I'm going to see her there. So we are literally between two railway lines, 10 and a quarter standard gauge. So we'll have a look up here. We'll see the 20 come fast, and then by the time the Class 20 goes along, the steam train should be due, which I'm going to have around the steam train before going home. So it's quite an exciting day. Oh, another thing to show you. Track's fairly level. It goes up one in 50, just see the marker. Ironically, as that line goes up, the standard line goes down. It's a very nice scenery, as I was coming back on the miniature train, just looking across the valley. I just thought it was a really nice miniature railway, high up on the hill at this country railway station on the standard gauge line. Just, you know, perfect. Sort of place, you know, could spend hours here. Been to the Midhance Railway a few times in the past. I don't think I've ever made a video here. Probably one day. I mean, this video is for the miniature railway, but obviously the Midhance features quite a lot. One day, perhaps I'll do a branch line in Britain, and we'll explore the Midhance Railway properly, and, you know, look at everything on the Midhance. I think that's their engine ship behind there. We can't receive much from this side. So what I'm going to do, hang around up here, I think the footpath goes down a little bit, should get a view of the Class 20. Having had a very enjoyable ride on the train, seeing the Class 20 pass, I thought we'd just have a walk through the station, because this has to be one of the most attractive railway stations I've ever come across. I mean, in the spring, all the tulips out, so it makes it even more attractive. So the steam train due fairly soon. So I was going to get that up to Islesford, and then maybe have a wander around near me. I thought, because it's known as the watercress line, I should try and find some actual watercress beds, which, you know, I won't have to walk far to find, but all I'm going to do now is wander up this way again. So it's a very nice tropery here. We've got the Rockblee station. Okay, right, now that bell, I'm fairly sure that means the train's left made of lead and four marks. So I probably haven't got a huge amount of time, but I've got time to show you what I wanted to show you. So that's good. There's a very good viewing area of the yard. We've already had a bit of a look at the yard when earlier on the S15 was sat here. She was watering to see what else there is. So we've got the two MT on shed. So as I said earlier, when I first came to the Midhamps Railway, she was my local. I rode behind, travelled behind her and Bodmin. Is that? That's the train coming. That's my train arriving. So let's see this arrive, to go and jump on it. Well, do I point it out from here? Up there, the bridge. Up there over the shed. That is known as the Harry Potter Bridge. Used to be at Kings Cross. And in the first of the Harry Potter films, that's the bridge you see Harry Potter walking over. I'm now going to have to run because I have a train to catch. And we've just come here with a class 47. Which is quite nice because we had a miniature class 47. 47, 8, 3, 4. And now we've just had 7, 5, 7, 9. We did have a round trip with the Steam Loco. I'll put all the Steam Loco footage in a different video. So have a look out for that. Meanwhile, I'm going to watch the Loco. It's not really going to run round, but it's just going to go back to Rockney. So I'm going to watch that. And then, since it's the WarshQuest Live, I thought I'd go and find some WarshQuest beds before I finish the video. Here we are. This is New Owlsford Town Centre. I'd be looking for somewhere more modern. But this is New Owlsford. Old Owlsford is a village about half a mile or so in that direction. The railway station is not too far from here. You can just see the Parrish Church railway station is basically just behind it. So Owlsford grew up around the watercress industry. And a lot of the watercress, some of it would have gone by train up to London. Hence the mid-tank railway also being known as the Watercress Line. So as I said, having had the ride I just thought it would be a nice way to round off today by going to look for some watercress beds. Now, there's a river down there, at the bottom of the hill, so I think that's where I might find these watercress beds. So from Owlsford Town Centre I followed a road called Mill Lane. It's taken me down to here, the River Owl. This isn't the main river. This is just a leak. The main river is over there. Now the River Owl, you can see where Owl sort of gets its name from. Owl's Ford, a Ford on the River Owl. The River Owl joins up with the River Itchin. And the next station on the closed section of the mid-hunter railway towards Winchester was called Itchin Abbot. So you've got two railway stations, or you did have two railway stations in succession with their names off the rivers. The water sort of goes into there and there's a bit of water going off over there. So earlier on, I walked along the path out of the railway each side, the standar gauge and the miniature. Well, here I've got a river on that side and on this side I've got a pretty wild section of the River Owl. And not only that, we've got this cottage. It's called Fullers Mill Cottage. It's built right across the river. So this would have been the mill. And there's more water going off there. There's just sort of water going everywhere. So I'm sure I'm going to find some watercress beds in. There's a very, very nice garden on that side. This cottage is pretty cool. Just jutting out across the river, like I said, it was a mill. So it's fairly sort of obvious as to why it's built like this. It is there. And there's some foisteria growing there. So in a month or so's time, that's going to look really nice. So we'll have a look at this side of the mill. And there's a footpath sign. It's called the Watercress Way, this path. There's a little sign there. There's Watercress Way. There's also a footpath going that way. Well, that is a house of a difference. Nice fat cottage over the river. There's more water coming out over there. We're going to follow River Arl a bit further around the corner and hopefully we're going to find these watercress beds. I've just been for a very pleasant walk. I continued along River Arl. I walked up over the hill right round in a big circuit past Old Arlsford and I'm now heading back into New Arlsford. As you can see, that's the river. There's a swam and some ducks. And look at this. This is some watercress beds. And it's really quite fascinating. So the water sort of flows along the top. And then it kind of goes down various different galleries. Watercress would have been taken by train up to London. I suspect now it goes on a lorry of some sort. But it's really quite a fascinating landscape. At first glance, you think it just looks like a sort of overgrown pond that's meant to have some sort of walk feature, but it's a working farm, effectively. It's a crop. I like it. It's different. We can go and have a closer look here. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, but walk out into the field. So, I'm now in the middle of a watercress field. This is possibly the strangest why I've ever ended a miniature railway video just walking out into a watercress field. But, you know, it's all different. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. And from in the middle of a watercress field, do come and visit the Midhunter Railway. Maybe come do this walk for yourself. Goodbye.