PaulT

EEK! Well spotted. We used to clean track with a fibre glass brush. Tall signals were unplugged for safety but ground sigs often got swiped off so are mostly blue-tacked. Clearly this one got reversed when photographed by me some time ago. Just checked it is now the right way round so Chris' piccies will be cosher, phew! Now I have banned fibre glass brush cleaning, I really ought to de-blutack them as it shows occasionally. As an aside but possibly of interest, I have tried many track cleaning regimes since 2008 when the ban was decided on. 1. Cotton bud or rag soaked in solvent, effective but as bad as fibre-glass brush for detail damage. Dead tedious too. 1. CMX tank waggon ( sic - shows my Broad Gauge inclination ) ....a pig to convert to P4, works Ok but needs a diesel-adhesion to tow it up my 1:40 and sticks like s£$% to my Plasticard cobbled level-crossing. Struggles to traverse a double-slip, too many rails, too much friction. 2. Lanarkshire Models modified brake van with drum roller....roller too narrow for P4...needs large mod. 3. Pendon-style hardboard dragger.....quite a lot of work to make but working well here.

Chris came and went with a great deal of effort from him in between! He tells me that ModelRail mag is running with a 9 month backlog so even if I write the words this week (unlikely) and Editor-boss likes them you will have to wait until next year. Anyway here is a couple made earlier (not by Chris) to whet your appetite.

This 4mm model was built by the late Alexander Grey. He was an architect who lived in the Highbridge area. He had measured and drawn all the buildings and wanted to preserve the architecture. The model is accurate and well executed but never ran trains, it was only ever intended to be a diorama. Alex was very helpful to me in the late '70s and gave me copies of all his drawings which were invaluable in enabling me to model Highbridge as by then all S&D had disappeared except for the gas works; the B&E buildings were demolished soon after. My P4 model has been 35 years in the making and continues alive and well but is not exhibitable. It happens that tomorrow Chris Nevard is visiting to photograph it for Model Rail. I will write the required words soon and the editor may choose to publish an article.

Yes please

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