There's not much to report on the narrow gauge front today.
I'm busily casting a batch of the full range of resin wagon kits for Light Railway Stores - which is going to take at least the rest of this week - and Himself is fully occupied servicing all the locos and ploughing his way through a long stretch of wheel cleaning on all the rolling stock ahead of Model Rail Scotland in a few weeks time.
In the meantime, it was my son's birthday at the weekend and among his presents were a couple of Metcalfe arched bridges which are part of the plan for the 'test track' so I've been having a little play with them to see if we can make them fit where we'd intended them to go.
OO in a confined space certainly challenges the kinematic envelope, and to position these bridges on one of the 2nd radius curves - spanning three standard gauge tracks and the narrow gauge circuit - inevitably mean's Ffestiniog-style clearances against the side walls.
There's a respectable amount of daylight when the Mark 1's pass through but the real test will be when I borrow a Mark 3 from Himself and see whether that will squeeze through...
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