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In my mis spent youth, I was the dock messenger at King's wharf cold store and called into CDM's offices at West Bute Street on a daily basis. My one regret was that I didn't see much of Clarence Road, which was only a few hundred yards away. The road outside Clarence Road station was served by tramcar in the period prior to trolleybuses, which was route number 9 from Gabalfa to Pier Head. The Greenwood and Batley Locomotive was stabled in a wooden shed and was plugged into the mains each night to charge the batteries. An identical locomotive was at one time in the Canal Museum at Leeds and I understand that it is now at the Heritage Railway in Preston. Whilst it was at Leeds, I measured it and produced a kit in 7mm scale and later a batch in Gauge one. In the recent past, I built and exhibited a 7mm model of Clarence Road. Its last outing in my ownership was at the Cardiff Model Railway exhibition in 2012. It was bought by a Gentleman from Portishead and has been exhibited at the Gauge 0 show at Bristol, last year.