Langford and Beeleigh Miniature Railway - Episode 115 of Miniature Railway Britain.

Hello. Thank you for joining me. Just been out for a long drive in the Lada to Essex to near Molden. Found another nice car to park next to. Um it's quite a big event going on around today. This is the Museum of Power and I've come here to have a look around the museum and have a ride on their miniature railway. So, I'm going to make my way through the overflow car park and find a museum. I don't have ever seen quite so many motorbikes. Literally hundreds of them, >> but my [music] main reasons for coming here was for the miniature railway. All the live music is great [music] and everything, >> but I can't really talk over it. So, I'm going to leave the event field now. I might come have a look here later and uh we're going to go over the river to the uh main museum. I wasn't actually aware all this event was coming. I just saw first Sunday of the month the miniature railways running. I thought right, I'm going to come and visit this miniature railway. So, does all look pretty good, but I probably will do most of the event off camera afterwards. Um, because there's a lot to show you in terms of what is always here. So, as I make my way around here, we go onto this bridge here. Excuse me, please. Thank you. Here we are onto the bridge over the river Blackwater. One, one of many rivers in the UK and Ireland called the river Blackwater. Camera's not picking out. I can see fish down there. And as we come over the bridge, we get to where we first see the railway. So, it's a 7 and a/4 in gauge railway. Not quite sure what we're going to see. As I drove along the road through there, I glimpsed a Deltic. So, we might be going to see a Deltic. No train coming. So, uh, what we'll do, we'll go I can just see over there the camera. Yeah, I just saw their heads going along as if a train was moving. Oh, and by the way, they've also got a model village here. We'll have a look at that afterwards. And then the building in front of me, that's the old pumping station that um is the actual museum of power. So, we shall also have a look around there. I'd sort of rush away from there cuz like I say the live music it's good and everything but it also potentially could interfere with copyright. It is all really nice though. Suddenly feels a lot quieter cuz everyone who's here is over in the event. What have we got? This is the railway station Langford. There was of course a railway station called Langford on a nearby closed railway which I might go and have a look at afterwards. Oh, look at this. They got a Garrett. Yeah. And um I did I did see a Dell 60. I drove along the road just there on the other side of the fence. I did see a Delta and they got a Garrett. Now that is very exciting. So, looks like we're going to go for a ride behind a Garrett. >> I've just bought my ticket. Lady's clipped it and we're about to go for a ride behind a Garrett. In the adjacent platform there is a Deltic. Might have a ride behind that later if that goes out. As I said, station is called Langford. We might go and have a look at the original Langford station later on. see off his go. Please keep the arms and legs inside the carriage at all times. Enjoy your ride. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hello. I've just had a very enjoyable ride behind the garage called Battle. What we're going to do now, we'll have a look um around the museum. I've tried to time this when it's when most people are having lunch. Now, it could be quite busy in there. And what I think I'll probably do is some of the working exhibits. I'll film them again without me talking just so I can be a better way of showing it to you. So, here we have the um museum building in there. So, we're going to go inside big boiler here and then we can do a bit of line siding. Interesting. There's a boiler there and then there's the modern boiler house. The line basically just does a a loop around the perimeter of the inner site. So, interesting little railway. So, we got huge boiler here. Now, let's just go into the museum and see how we get on. So, as we come into here, we can see various engines of various types all going around. Look at this. This is a heavy oil engine. I only know that cuz I just read that there. I find all this kind of thing fascinating, but I don't know about them like I do with railways and locomotives. Let go around. Got another one going over there. That's a single cylinder diesel engine. And then just around here, I find this particularly fascinating. Look, you got a whole workshop, a belt driven workshop going around. You can see all the bells going around which um wouldn't be allowed in today's in in a workshop of today. But I just find it fascinating seeing it all happening. You see the motor up there which drives it all. There's various other bits there. It's like a steam fairgrounds. Quite a nice little model railway here. It's not going but you can just have a look. um tramway as well. See the trams? Great steal no moving. A lot going on. There's a man. We're now going to make our way through into the next tour. So here we have the main exhibit. It's a triple engine. As I say, I'm not so clued up as I am about um railway engines, but we've got steam engine built open gates interrupt here. Now, this does go. It's not going at the moment. So, what I think I'll do cuz this is sort of their main exhibit. It'll be fascinating to see all this running. So, I'll definitely come back and I'll I'll put some captioning of um well, I'll put some footage of it all turning. It's turning. It's not turning now. You can see there have been two more of them. It's lally got show where the other two would have been. So it's quite a fascinating museum. All sorts of things of days gone by. Cameras, old telephones. Oh, this is cool. There's a model of Bradwell nuclear power station. On a previous time, I bought my lard to Essics. I went and parked as near as I could to the old nuclear power station. Sometimes when I fly to Europe, it's usually the last thing in England I see. And this is the turbine hall is building in the foreground. That's not there anymore. And the Bravo power station doesn't generate anymore. They might build a Brabwell B, but we'll have to see on that one. We got we got various other exhibits. um vacuum cleaners, some actual hoovers, irons. So, it's all quite fascinating. And um there's some models there that compress there. Now, we're down the other end of the triple engine. Look, I say when all this is going, come and have a look at this. Go out through. >> Yeah, it's fascinating to see those go. Got various other exhibits, engines out, Spitfires, and cars. A few steam openers there. There's other people look at them, so I'll take some pictures of those on Insert now. There you go. So, you can see those. What I'm going to do now, um, this train is still over there. So, I think I'm just going to head around the back of the museum and, uh, do a little bit of line siding. So, let's do some lighting. Yeah, I know. Here you come. >> That is the world. Yeah. That was daddy. Okay. Heat. While I'm in the middle of my line siding and waiting for the garage to come along, I found this really nice stretch of straight track in a corner museum in an orchard where no one really comes to the river Blackwater down there. Where does the name come from? Langford and Beely. Well, Langford is the village which the museum's situated in. And my plan is when I finish looking around the museum is to have a quick look at the village and hopefully go and find the old Langford station. And Bey is a lock further down the um the river Blackwater. So that's where the name comes from. I'm going to wait for the garage to come along. Heat. I love history. Stop Joking I spent the last 30 years. Oh yeah. Okay. Heat. right? I think I've probably seen the train at every possible line side point. But there's something else here to see. Aaria, that is a model village. There we are. Look, it says model village open. As you may have known, if you've seen my videos, I really enjoy going to model villages and I do some work at Beckens sometimes. So, it's always exciting to see another one. Look at this. This entry which starts by walking down this tunnel of lights ahead of us is the model village. Now admittedly I have already been down here to have a look around. Come here. There's bubbles there coming up but there's bubbles being blow. I was having a chat with a gentleman who built it and um he's actually very kindly given me permission to step off the path into the village. So I'm not just wandering around because I feel I can. I've been given permissions. There we are. Look at this. Really good to see a model village. And it was quite interesting chatting to them. They've got the usual um some of the jokes. If you have a look there, some of the joke names. Now, what he was saying, see this building here? This is made out of drinking straws. Lots and lots of drinking straws. Now, like I say, I have been given permission to do this. I wouldn't normally just go wandering off the thing. Oh, yeah. This is the probably one of the most common model village models you get model of the model village. It's called Happy Land. That seems to be fair, isn't it? >> And then if we Oh, look. Look at these. There's like all little houses all going up the tree. It's quite cool the tree cuz [music] as you can see there's a big net over it. So it saves them to clear up the leaves. We should do that. And then there's a a stream running right through the middle of the model village. >> Thank you. Even listening to water at this scale is nice and relaxing. >> See how I am meant to be here cuz the police station here and I wasn't. The little policeman might have come out and told me to go away. There's a pub here. Look. And uh he does free ale every Christmas day. Here's the local church here. coming back up to um normal height. I'm going to make my way out. So, like I say, I was given special permission to do that, which I'm very grateful for. See the water wheel there turning. It's a timber merchant. >> There's a a sign post there. You probably can't see what it says. It says here is four miles, everywhere is 5 miles, and there is four miles apparently. Great view of the village. In front of that tree. Turn around. Turn around. >> Just pause the camera while some other people have their pictures just taken down here. That's cool. Look, you dump it and [music] we e lav it. You dump it and we'll have it. >> Another interesting building is this one just down here. See these two unfinished ones? I was talking to a gentleman. He said they're made out of um you know your coffee stirring sticks. So they're made out of them. So that's >> that's quite cool. So I'm gonna finish in here [music] just let you see some views over the model village. I think it's pretty pretty cool. Always always enjoy going to model village considering how many there are and considering my involvement at Beck and Scott. I have actually been to very few. So great view over the village. Got one more thing I want to show you before I head back home. I came out of the moral village and noticed the Garrett had gone on shed. So it looks like the Garrett has finished its work for today. But that must only mean one thing. I just heard the sound of a diesel loco. The Deltic must be out. So I think be rude not to go and have a ride behind the Deltics. So, I'm going to make my way over to the station and see the Deltic in action. Oh, look. The next depart from Please. [music] Enjoy your ride. [music] Yeah, that world. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. As you can see, I've now stepped out of the museum. This is St. Charles Church in the village of Langford. The reason I wanted to come here was because being called the Langford and Beey Railway, I wanted to show you the village of Langford. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to walk up the road and show you the old railway station here, the Standing Gate Railway Station. I'm a little bit further down the road now from the church. I've just come down this footpath. The road you possibly didn't hear is up there. And hopefully we're going to find the old railway station. It says the Blackwater Rail Trail. Of course, I work for rail trails, but it's not coming from Look. Looks like old railway f. That's a Yeah. Okay. That's a bit of a shame what's happened here. They've had to fill the bridge in. Look. And this all looked a bit ugly, but I suppose maybe it was at risk. I don't know. But um anyway, here we have the station. Look. So I think the platform is genuine Langford and station. So this was on the railway line from um Wam to Molden East. There's a bit of information here about the hole. There's a picture of it there. Um closed to passengers in 1964. freight lingered on a little bit longer. So, it's a shame. Morton's not the largest town in Ethics without railway station, but it certainly is one of them. So, it's a shame there's no railway to Morton anymore, but it looks like I'm not going to do this today. It looks like you can continue on down there and you'd end up in Molden. I've shown you the Langford bit of where the miniatur railway gets its name from. We've got one more thing to do. We've got to go and see where the beely bit of the name comes from. In order to find the beely part of the railway's name, I'm doing this walk around Molden. So, I went into Morton, had a look around. Very nice town, but I thought I'd be going off on too much of a tangent if I included that on the video. Now I'm actually not that far from the miniature railway having driven my car into Molden and um come out but the beely part. So there I went past Bey Abby. I'll show you a picture of that and then this is Bey Falls or maybe that's Beanie Falls, but this is where River Blackwater and River Chelmer join each other. So anyway, this this whole area here, this is Bee. You can see the water going that way on a hot day. It is quite a nice relaxing place to come and end the video. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. If you're thinking of visiting this railway, um just check the um days Mitch Railway runs. It doesn't run every day the Museum of Power's open. And I did check the buses. Unfortunately, there's no Sunday service to Langford. So you could get a bus into Molden and walk. I've seen plenty of buses in Lond in Molden and you could walk the way I'm walking. It's a very pleasant walk, but be prepared if you're coming without a car to walk quite a long way. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the video and um thank you for to everyone at the museum for a great day. Please do feel free to like, share, comment, subscribe, and from the Bey Falls, which the railway takes half of it name from. Goodbye.