WOMAN: For the second in our series about locally-run businesses, we meet Simon Winridge, co-founder of the hugely-successful Winridge Forest Railway Park.

女士：在我们关于本地运营企业系列的第二期节目中，我们请到了西蒙·温里奇，获得巨大成功的温里奇森林火车公园联合创始人。

Welcome, Simon.

欢迎，西蒙。

Now, perhaps you can begin by telling us a little bit about how it all started.

现在也许你可以先告诉我们一点如何开始这一切的。

MAN: Well, during the 1970s, my wife, Liz and I had just acquired 80 acres of sheep-farming land, and we decided to settle down and have children.

男士：好的，在20世纪70年代，我的妻子丽兹和我刚刚获得了80英亩的农牧土地，我们决定定居下来，并且生育孩子。

Pretty soon we had a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Duncan.

很快我们有了一个女儿莎拉，和一个儿子邓肯。

The place was wonderful for the kids: they particularly loved trains and gradually built up an enormous network of miniature railway track.

这地方对孩子来说太完美了：他们特别喜欢火车，并逐渐开始建立一个庞大的铁路轨道系统。

I began to develop larger-scale models of locomotives but we didn't think anything more of it until I went on a trip to a theme park near Birmingham and decided we could do a much better job!

我开始考虑发展更大规模的铁道机车模型，但我们没想更多，直到我一次前往伯明翰附近的主题公园的旅程，我才决定我们可以做得更好。

So we set up a small one ourselves based on the miniature railway and we opened to the public for just a month that year, 1984 - in July - our driest month - because our children said they didn't want our guests to have a miserable, wet visit.

因此我们自己以小型玩具铁路为基础建了一个小公园，并且在仅一个月内对公众开放，那是1984年7月，也是这里最干燥的季节，因为我们的孩子说他们不希望我们的客人来拜访时是痛苦的、湿乎乎的。

I dealt with Park business and Liz carried on with the farm work.

我处理公园的生意，而丽兹继续农场工作。

It soon became clear that we were onto a winner.

我们很快发现我们成为了赢家。

We began to extend the railway track and lay it among more interesting landscape by planting trees, which in turn attracted more wildlife, and by making cuttings through the rock.

我们开始延伸铁路，通过种植树木和开凿岩石将它延伸到更有意思的风景区，这反之吸引了更多野生动物。

Nowadays, we're open all year round and we're pleased to say that Winridge is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the area - with 50,000 visitors a year - a million and a half people have been through our doors since we opened.

现在，我们全年开放，并且我们很高兴地说温里奇是最受欢迎的旅游景点之一，每年访问人次达5万，从我们开张以来，已经有150万人来过我们这里。