Petit Train à Vapeur de Forest - Miniature Railway Europe Episode 8.

Hello. Thank you for joining me. I'm at Brussels Midi Stroke Zur Station. There's two EMUs going out over there. This evening I'm going to go and visit my first miniature railway in Belgium. You did hear me right this evening. It's not often you go to miniature railways in the evening, but this railway we're going to today, they've had a 12-hour steam up. Now, I've been at um the Pur to Dendeond Railway Gala all day today. And when I saw this was on, I thought I won't be able to go. When I realized it was running from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. I realized I could go. So, what I'm going to do, I'm going to find my way out of the railway station. I catch a tram and we're going to go and find this miniature railway in the Brussels suburbs. All right. I just got off the tram over there. Walked across the park. You can see some railway lines, various railway lines. And then look at this. Here we have a lineup of trains. And this isn't all of the trains. There's quite a few out. The place I'm at is Lauchi Train, Evapa Deforest. So, French um name. Oh, there's a Is that a Swiss or German loco? So, there's some [music] quite interesting stuff. >> Yeah, I've never seen the Ryan Gold Express in miniature before. I think we're about to see a steam departure, so let's watch that. whistle to go. They got fantastic seal gantry. I can see a signal box over there. I think they got a few sheds. So, we'll look around. There's a tram over there like a Belgian tram maybe from the old Vista tramways. So, I think we're going to have an interesting interesting evening here. And it's just nice. They're doing it. I mean, this is half 6 in the evening and they're doing this till 10:00. I don't know how late I'm going to stay. I've got one ticket to be going on with. So, my plan is to get a steam all ride. And um maybe that train isn't going whistle. I'm intrigued to see where it goes cuz I can see track everywhere. So, perhaps I better go and queue up. It looks like we're not about to see a steam all departure, but we'll do plenty of line siding during the course of the evening. >> One more steam train. I just see a lake over there. So, it goes around the lake. So, yeah, I'll have to sus the layout out once I get on board. Right, let's go and queue up and have a ride. Oh, I pick your train. You're probably only going one. >> It's got the road now. Yeah, >> he's got the road now. >> I don't mind staying a while. I' got the food truck there. >> Yeah, I'll stay. There's a bar in there. I'll >> have a beer then. Round five. What's Okay, Maybe that's Hey, >> where we are. I've just boarded the train. I'm sat on the Vagen Lee carriage. So, it's like a continental sleeper carriage. It's quite interesting seeing what they're running cuz some of the trains like there's a you see there's a diesel over there. It's got wagons and so it looks a bit like a good train when there's no one on it and others a passenger carriages like this. Like there's this Ryan Gold Express going around. I don't got any footage of it yet. There was a crocodile Swiss crocodile with Swiss carriages going out. So, there's a real fascinating variety of things. And I always say this in these modern engineering scientists, one of the exciting things is you just don't quite know what you're going to see. anything quite literally anything can turn up. So they're just watering our loco at the moment. They've also got a brilliant signal gantry up ahead. The station is called Forest Zent Jac. Um and there's also an avoiding lying around now. I've not quite worked out the layout. So pretty looking forward to this layout. I've seen trains disappear and you don't see them again for about 10 minutes. So it's probably a well over a 10-minute ride we're about to have as soon as the ordering is complete. over. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. That's how it go. Heat. Heat. Heat. Wow. Heat. That was a really brilliant ride. Really enjoyed that. Good 15 minutes. Um I was talking to one of the volunteers here. She told me that the station that's not its usual name. That's renamed this weekend in honor of a member who passed away. We're now going to have a look around and see what else they got. So they got clubhouse here and we're going to have a look at the sheds. They've got loads of locos. It's a really quite a fascinating place. So, go in there in a minute. There's a bar in there. So, I might have a beer when I've done this. We've got um a signal box there. So, you can see two guys up there controlling the railway. I'm talking across the turntable. Really like that tram they've got. And then this is depo. And uh there's a few steam. There's two more there. That one was just out. Mallay locomotive. The um depot here then. So we got two locos on shed and then there's various other locos down the back. Got quite a fascinating system. You got traverse so you can slide across. If you look there, they've also got a lifting traverser for putting um equipment up here. So that's also quite fascinating. If you look down there, you can see they've got bark shear over there down the end of that road. There's a black where is it? Black five. There's a a 4F. You might be able to see over there. I'd love to see a bark chair going that American loc in the corner. There's a Prussian loco up there. So, that's quite fascinating. And then what we'll do, we'll go out here. There's um a workshop. So, there's a few locos in here. Here we are in the workshop. >> Got a Royal Scot locomotive here. Queen Victoria's rifleman number 6160acific and visit >> Union Pacific American local. Let's just go down here get a better look at that. >> And I know I always say this, but that's why I really like coming to these railways cuz you just don't know what you're going to see. You to have a Royal Scott next to a Union Pacific logo and various other little steam locos and there's a tram running. That's what I think makes why I enjoy Yeah. I think I'm being called to have a look in the ze box. So, um what I'll do, we'll we'll do that last. Um because I'm not going to turn down opportunity to look in the ze. There's a few other um English enthusiasts here. So, uh let's have a look. >> Oh, and also down here. We'll go up there in a second. Look, got the siding. Got various sidings of various carriages. They got some nickel plate railroads um wagons which you can ride in. I think we're just about to see a train pass here. Yeah. Look at this. That's the one we were traveling on. I like how look they even made some miniature gate level crossing gates up here. >> Looks quite good without pass on. But yeah, see, look, you can slide I'm not going to do it, but you can slide them across and close it off. Um, I better go to Cbox. I think that's where I'm supposed to be right now. So, it's a really quite a nice afternoon. Basically, the way this has happened is I'm here leading a rail trail tours trip visiting Belgium. We're visiting various heritage railways and um one of the members spotted this was on, so we decided we'd come, a few of us would come here tonight. So this the um >> to the signal, >> you know, >> I mean when you drive, you just follow the signals basically. If you have something open, you can go. Yeah. >> Normally at least. >> And do do all trains usually follow the same route that we follow? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But you can have a shortcut if you need to. >> We we have um we have a few shortcut that we can that we can take if if we want. >> Yeah. Um, and when we make a full lap, uh, it's around 1 and a half kilometer. >> Yeah. Yeah. [clears throat] >> Uh, which is quite decent. >> It is. >> It was a good long run. Yeah. >> You need to look after a fire properly. >> Uh, yeah. >> I just been in the single box. I just filmed a bit and you could hear the gentleman show me around what was going on. I want to go in this clubhouse now cuz there's a few items on display and it looks like they sell beer. So, I think that's a Yes. So, the clubhouse also becomes a bar. So, we'll certainly have a look at that. Let's just have a look at some of their other locos on display. I saw one of these today actually at PERS. It was doing shunting. Um, we got a tram here. It's nice scale model of a tram. Not sure which system it's comes from. American Southern Railway. Wagons. That looks like a Stamia tender. I think that yeah, it's a tender. There's another Belgian urban rail car. There's all these pictures of various other locos they've had. They've had an S160 visit. That would have been Look, there's all these They've had so many different things visit and run here. So, we've only seen a few of what what's run here. There's a few wagons there. Tank wagons. Few locos. British loco there called Morning Star. So, um, yeah, that's all very good. I think now I might grab myself a beer and then maybe have a ride. Cheers. Got myself a beer and it's really turning out to be a very pleasant evening. Um, keep interrupting this beer cuz I keep putting it down to run off and watch the train go past. So, yeah, this just a really fun evening. trains, beer, nice place. All the volunteers here really friendly letting us have a look around. Um, yeah. So, if you're in Belgium, do come and visit them, but it's easy to get to. It's just on Crown Route 82 at a stop called Bent. Anyway, I'm going to try and finish this beer now. Look what's going on. Every time you look, something's happening. Look, you got the Furka Over Palm carriage stop being put away. They were being pulled by an RHB logo, but I'm not going to be pedantic. Um, still Swiss train, which was good to see. And it's quite since I was in there, they've put quite a few coaching stock away. It's all very fascinating. Get nothing. Oh, he works. What's up? question down there. Sit down. There we are. I don't know. Yeah. It's like Heat. Heat. I'm up big on Thank you. Heat. Heat. Let's go. Hey, love this. Hello. Heat. Well, this has been a very enjoyable evening and it's not quite the end. Um although it is pretty much the end of this video because they're doing a 12-hour steam up and it's only quart 9. So they've still got another 45 minutes of steam to go. So there are still passengers boarding to have their steam ride. I've had two brilliant rides. I had one behind that loco Mia. I think the other locos's gone on shed. I think we had well over a mile's worth of seven and a quarter inch steam haulers. They're just going round and round and it's a fascinating circuit they've got. Um, of course in the video I'm going to put sort of it's developed. It's evolved. It wasn't all um Oh, look at that. There's a painted royal Scott on the side. I didn't see that there cuz there was a burger there earlier. So, it's been a brilliant evening. Had some nice food. Had a couple of good beers. You know what what more could you ask for? We've been playing driving around on trains on this miniature road. got a bit of a bank here. It's just been a great evening. So, if you're in um in Brussels, do come and visit them. Like I said, it's very easy to get to. You just got to get on tram route 82. Um I'm going to leave you. I don't mean anything to happen, but anyway, I've got to go and catch a tram back because I've got an early start tomorrow to go and visit some more Belgium Heritage Railway. So, it's been a brilliant evening. So, thank you very much to everyone. Thank you to all the volunteers all been very friendly showing us around. It's been great. And if you're watching, do come and visit them. Thank you very much. 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