Weekends are when railways repair the track and so it is with models.
At recent shows a short section of the track on The Hellingly Hospital Railway has been giving problems. Locos and wagons lump a bit as they pass over it. Nothing bad but on the list "to do something about it one day".
Today, that day arrived, many shows after we had spotted the problem. A little investigation showed that on the tight curve into the engine shed, the track gauge was a little tight. In OO you can get away with a lot but this was pushing it.
PCB-based trackwork is easy to tweak so a few minutes with a soldering iron and a roller gauge solved the problem. One less thing to be embarrased about when the public are looking.
I took the chance to tighten the overhead wires slightly as well. Only a couple of mm but this should stop the unrealistic wobbly wires that have gradually been developing since they were first strung a few years ago,
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