hello it's Thursday 17th of August we
are just leaving
Inverness to head to our teams to start
left his phone in the hotel
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and I made it and at 8:54 with six of us
before our training six but I put my
hand in my pocket to take a picture of
the Train who says they're taking
pictures attractive doesn't help but I
realized that my phone was normally
I ran back hotel wait left left keep
left filling in the room leave Kate ran
up grabbed my phone got back about 90
seconds there and it's not raining
this forest see the digger
building a new station yes they are
Loden history of course he's good to get
a train now from here through a beam or
we'll be going tomorrow actually doesn't
know
but so that they can speed up services
between Elvan in vennett and a whole
bunch of other things we're building a
brand new station here forest forest
everybody's hit by the way you need to
get out there rates the prettiest town
in northern Scotland but because of
something called bury links bowel Massey
and Gould Street later that is sadly no
time to stop the chorus today but a new
station new station coming to porous
take you through our rope arrow today
we're on an in Venice to Aberdeen train
I think Vicki were now interns have the
right number of trains left we're now
into single digits it's very simple
together have a Dean we change we come
down weirdly we've got a change you've
got to pick up a stone table and
Lawrence Kirk we're just slightly
awkward but they are easy-peasy compared
to and this is it and everybody from the
start was like how you do bury links and
bolstering the answer is by getting the
very limited services that go there
and there's a morning train we've missed
that this morning there's an evening
train I think it comes out to Al's Go
Green Street it's going to Carnoustie
this evening we have to be on this train
this evening it's doctor the extremely
awkward bowel Massey berry links and
Gulf Street but these are the final
awkward stations
and Wallenda
to the lovely Greg contact us to say to
him honey
which we are they're traveling home
the last remaining section of 10
the rail network there everything
nice by catering
but rambling
so it's quite willing to see them
Suns come out right inch inch
waiting for train to Lynette's come the
other direction
standing here for a second
I've got time to get a shot in the pub
Richards
we made it to Everdene actually two
minutes early in fact a lot of the stops
on the way down the Train sat because it
said we've got here early think there's
a lot of slack in the timetable from
Inverness down for Abilene and then we
have a 40-minute wait
next trainer or for Aberdeen station is
very pretty especially in the sunshine
can we go to the Highlands Andrea what
we're gonna is a fault line
I would guess tectonic plate fault line
maybe not a tectonic plate but an area
where things are at fault
can we go to the open air swimming pool
can go to the Stonehaven beach would
look like there might be possible
there's a castle
or then he texts me as if nor I don't
remember calling for her to do it and he
says all the station's
2563 stationery
we've only got 50 to go we're coming
into our birth and we hate to meet some
woman and I can see him waving it and
he's waving Lee and he's waving me and
he remembers
remember this young man
this is John who was in our Clete built
pilot videos took us to the clip up
background way he definitely thought
seized from our growth and you're in
charge of route our way simply put their
name Merrick either blah it's your face
your family's wrong way way way
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we're cursed miniature railway and we've
been let back I keep saying backstage
like it's a theater but into the bother
you called it a bother John tell us
first of all a little bit about the
railway how long has it been here a
little bit back the history
well the rail was built in 1935 by my
grandfather and it goes I suppose even
further back than that and when he was a
little boy he was brought up on a dairy
farm in Dundee he somehow caught the bug
and that really bug that we all know and
love actually and he started collecting
models these models over the years grew
bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger
until one day there was one big enough
he could actually ride on that was 7 1/4
inch gauge and it was him in his early
twenties around the farm he laid he laid
some track around the farm and 1934 I
started giving rights and it was only
decided that I want to do this full-time
I want to you know find a place to build
the railway he put a letter to all the
local councils and
Arbroath district 10 came so that time
being one of them
they said we've got a lovely little
patch of land to you and Westing's Park
Arbroath come and build a railway so in
1935 the rail was built and it's been
here ever since
it's very rare to have people who've
been in missions the families been there
since the very beginning yes this is
lovely to be a part of it and we'll do
our best keeping the railway going and
as a voluntary organisation
not-for-profit purpose and
for as long as possible you said your
grandfather caught the railway bug
you've got the railway bug would you say
I certainly do I believe they're really
bugged is certainly something and that a
lot of us don't know we actually have
until later on in life
some of us catch it as little children
and I know I appearance for years and
years and years it runs in the blood you
know almost thicker than blood railways
certainly with myself that's why I be
classic doing a rail with bug and I'm
sure you know an awful lot of people
who've got it as do i and yeah you know
when you're talking about somebody
else's got a railroad book I think I
used the town before also and to be a
puffer nutter
I'm not quite a puffer nutter that's
more like an anorak ER I'm not that you
know they're sort of train enthusiasts
whereas I'm a real wind easier so I sort
of have an understanding and a love for
railways but I'm not yeah I'm not so
taking every single number and
completely breaking the fourth wall
really good job I didn't look at it and
I didn't think his number and I I would
go out and wave to the Train and usually
that's what we must catch they will give
us a nice though I'd like to say I'm not
a puffer butter is a great expression me
it's a great expression but I do like a
railway yeah but I just I don't when
you're not an anorak I don't I don't
want to write down you know you're
wearing even wearing made mine I don't
know Nick
yeah I don't want to write I don't want
to write down the number of a loco
unbelievably journalists such a nice man
he volunteers indeed no bags
John hudecki volunteer ball the Coast
Guard and he a call just came in in your
pager that's your bag that's my bag
you've gotta go really sorry
seriously John volunteers for the Coast
Guard and his beeper just went off mid
interview go save lives go save lives
my beginning
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the miniature railway is also by the
mainline going to Aberdeen
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right the calls come in yeah John's on
his way back yeah we're gonna go meet
him yeah and you get to go do something
which you've wanted to do quite a while
and that's to go and meet at the station
that's named after a 70s Altima it's
time to go to Barry White Barry leave
this is the age of constants and is that
why they're a railway stations here for
the golf courses
that's certainly like golf swings this
but links is a golfing term there's
another golf course which will just pass
and very shortly which is Barry golf
club so presumably it could be a station
it's just oh and the barriers are down
so there's a training map to go through
so we've got to bury links well what's
interesting is that when we arrived in
the car the barrier gates it down the
trains come through and the gates are
still down but that's because oh there's
another train coming but the gates have
come down way in advance as John just
pointed out and this the platform's used
to go on a lot further
but also there used to be a whole other
platform you can see here this is the
edge of what was an abandoned platform
that yeah it gets one train in the
morning going that way from one train in
the evening going that way and we're
going to be on the train going that way
in about about an hour and a half time
what you think but I think a very engine
Monsieur Monsieur link name
why is he friend's name Barry I don't
think he's French fire is going up do
you be cool sorry Goodridge sorry the
barriers or the Barry is
it's bigger than I thought it was going
to be is it quaint and yes it's sort of
middling on the quaint scale you do that
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we also stopped at pharmacy to lady
timbre Gary what's in the distance the
tapering into the tapering that's pretty
good view
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this train is harnessing
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we are at Carnoustie that thing about
day how was your day it it's not a
miniature steam train just to say thanks
John come in John come in wave goodbye
also Gary and Chris turned up they just
don't have to go
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it looks easy on a man just a simple it
looks like someone's face with immense
loads coming out but might lose my
notice pointing this is a
I'm gonna stop