Parklands Miniature Railway - Miniature Railway Britain Episode 85.

Hello, thank you for joining me. It's a rainy bank holiday weekend and I'm in Norfolk in a village called Hemsby and today is an episode of Miniature Railway Britain and the miniature railway we're going to is one of those ones that's a bit different from all the others. It's here. This is Welcome to Parklands, the Parklands miniature railway. It's a holiday park that we're going into so quite an unusual location for a miniature railway. This is where this miniature railway is. It's one I've known about for some time. I've always wanted to visit and it's a bit of an emergency visit because it's going to close unfortunately by the end of 2024. The site's been sold off. All of this will disappear so quite sad but I think we're going to have a good time. Now this week they're having a big gala. There's going to be a lot of steam locos. I haven't come on the best day. I've come on the Saturday where there's all these vans. Everywhere I look there's vans unloading steam locos so as I say I've not come on the best day but it's the only day I can make it because of my other commitments. It's quite funny if you come in here look that's your first looking like the sort of place where you're not going to see a miniature railway. Your first warning there might be just something to do with railways. If you look here this building this is the reception and I think behind here we should find the railway station and if I'm looking ahead up here I can see some clouds of steam. I'll see what's around the corner. I think there might be a train waiting here. So this is the station behind here and what have we got? We've got a couple of steam locos on the shelf. We've got a Linton and Barnstable steam loco sat there. So this is Parkland Central so I think what we'll do we'll go for a ride and see what else we can find. I just had an enjoyable ride on the train. It's a really really nice little line you know double track most of the way around some steep gradients a tunnel and everything. What I'm going to do now I'm just going to do a bit of line siding. Feels like the oddest places to be going line siding there's all these little holiday bungalows and they've got this little miniature railway going around behind them. It's these sort of places where you get a miniature railway. It's like you can have a miniature railway when you've got a big space and you're going to have some fantastic miniature railways but the idea of having a miniature railway sort of weaving its way around somewhere like this to me that just makes it all the more exciting. So what I'm going to do I'm going to hang around and hopefully get some line side shots of the trains working. I think probably you know by the time you watch this video there will have been some videos of lots and lots of steam locos at work which like I say unfortunately I can't make it to their main part of the gala so I've just come along today for the setting up day so there will be some other fantastic videos but I'm just going to hang around and see what I can see. It's been a very pleasant afternoon here at Hemsby. I've really enjoyed riding the trains, seeing the trains. As I say it's, I know I'm speaking talking about the past now but I'm talking about the future if you know what I mean. I think they're gonna have a brilliant weekend or whole week actually but I've basically come on the worst days I can manage but anyway it's been it's been great and thank you very much for watching. Thank you for the the railways for inviting me. I've really enjoyed it it's just a shame this railway you know isn't going to be here after this year so thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment and from the Parklands Miniature Railway goodbye.