Mosslanda musing…

I have a Mosslanda shelf from IKEA. It supports my day dreams as well as the physical model of Wrecsam Canolog. Propping up not books, but memories past and present of those shorter journeys we all take by train… 

At just 55 x 10cm it doesn’t really justify the title model railway, yet it is completely and wholly formed as such, trains arrive, trains depart. I imagine myself stood on the parapet of the road bridge (as I have done) above, or in the car park behind the empty retail unit, below, watching and enjoying being close to to the working railway.

More than that, as I drive the model on and off the stage I am now onboard. The buzzer from the guard telling the driver they are clear to leave… on board the real train from Wrecsam or on board the Altrincham train from Chester of my youth, on board. Lost in my imagination. Finding myself.

As I turn the chair around and move back to the bench there is a second Mosslanda, now empty, that was the home for a short time of Traeth Hafren. Thoughts of more single line branch terminus are mulling around, possibly Stourbridge? Equally perhaps a nuclear flask siding? Or even 009? Day dreaming again, but of ideas and possibility. Mosslanda musing.

Until next time, more soon…

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