Summer Holiday Traffic

Realism on a model railway is a funny thing.

Sometimes it is possible for things to be too accurate, as strange as that may seen.

When looked at in miniature form they just seem wrong.

I was thinking about that this evening as I was placing the loose vehicles as we set up Minffordd for the Model Rail Scotland show which opens tomorrow (Friday 27th March to Sunday 29th).

In the back left hand corner of our scene is a short section of the main road into Porthmadog.

After setting out two or three of them, plus our Crosville bus heading for Blaenau, I wondered whether I'd crowded the scene a little?

And then I thought again and added as many as I could until they were nose to tail.

Because I'd remembered the hours I'd spent in a baking hot car as a child sat in traffic jam to pay the toll for crossing the Cob which often stretched all the way back to Penrhyndeudraeth - in my memory, at least.

So if visitors at the SEC this weekend engage us in conversation and feel moved to comment that there are 'too many cars on that road,' I shall feel free to contradict them.