A train buff has spent more than 30 years building a working miniature railway track in his own back garden.
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00:00I'm Derek Burwell and I live in Palsall, Walsall, West Midlands.
00:05The railway started well over 30 odd years ago.
00:09It's been an ongoing thing, it's been re-sleepered because sleepers don't last forever.
00:15But it's kept us busy and it's entertained quite a few people over the years
00:23when we've had garden parties for birthday parties.
00:27I started many years ago because my dad used to work for Birmingham Couch and Carriage Works.
00:32I was fortunate to be able to go round the works and see what we used to produce.
00:37Probably that's how I started with the railways.
00:40Trainspotting down Beskett, Rudgeley, Wensbury, Wolverhampton.
00:46I was always out trainspotting and I've always been involved with railways.
00:51And I'd say it keeps me busy.