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It's not often that a replica ends up altering the original but it's happening on the WHR right now.

The quote below is taken from Barrie Hughes' website..

The Tuesday Gang North spent the 2/8/11 completing the recovery of gateposts from Bron Hebog level crossing (Cwmcloch Top crossing).

I can now reveal the inside story of how our layout has inspired the renaming of a location on the real railway.

My sources tell me that the safety inspectors, who must be obeyed, were uncomfortable with having two level crossings called Cwmcloch. (This is the point on the S bend north of Beddgelert where the railway crosses a lane twice in the space of a few dozen yards on the road.)



The inspectors were concerned about possible problems identifying the correct location in the event of an incident on either of the crossings.

It was at this point someone remembered our layout and suggested calling the upper crossing Bron Hebog. And the name has stuck.

All of us on the team, Myself, Himself, our Artistic Director and The Guru are rather chuffed.