No, not some coded message designed to get GCHQ buzzing, nor a plantiff cry that I spilt my orange.... the 'juice' referred to is the third rail and I have now completed adding it to the Templot plans for the two Hove branch tracks and the three West Sidings.

The problem now is to work on which side of the track the rail was located in the various parts of the formation. I have quite a few photos but there are still gaps where it is not evident whether the third rail was on the left or the right. If anyone knows where I might be able to find an official CCE's rail allocation plan of the period, I'd be VERY interested to know! I would be pretty safe betting that the third rail positioning has changed dramatically by now so no good trekking the 740 miles to see it, despite the lure of a school reunion the week after next.

See if you can work out from this pretty poor photo that I took in about 1961 the above formation.

Next - pushing and shoving in the yard (track timbers, that is). Adjusting the templates to prevent timber overlap and rotating timbers as necessary. Probably another week's work before we can start laying out templates and cutting boards again.

TH