Last week Brighton Toy and Model Museum proudly hosted another
of our famous Running Days. These days are a rare treat, and one that you won’t
see in most museums, for it is on running days that we take down the Perspex screens
that come between our visitors and our exhibits and actually set the toys and models
in motion, just as they were made to be.
A lot of museums, quite naturally, don’t do this kind of
thing. After all, every moment’s use adds a little more to the wear of the
trains that we have on display, and eventually that wear mounts up. So we only
run our model trains for a few hours per year, and to let our visitors view
them in their glory, the screens have to come down.
You wouldn’t think that the Perspex would make so much
difference! While it never impedes the view of the model trains, buildings and
bridges we have on display, it does reflect light and get in the way of leaning
right up close to the trains. So, as long as you don’t touch, we don’t mind if
you lean in to get a better look, or even take photos (without flash of
course).
However, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand
words, so please enjoy our photoblog of Markiln, Hornby, Minic, Bing, Bassett-Lowke
trains, buildings and bridges, some of which, such as the Marklin railway
bridge, we believe to be the only surviving examples.
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