{"product_id":"5-inch-gauge-track-cleaning-wagon-stock-code-10726","title":"5 inch gauge track-cleaning wagon","description":"A 5 inch gauge track cleaning wagon, built by a prolific model engineer who had several steam, battery-electric and steam outline locomotives to his credit, along with a garden railway on which to run them all.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    He found that oil dropped by the locomotives caused problems with adhesion on the aluminium rail from time to time, hence this gloriously Heath Robinson device - disguised as a Great Western wagon - built to clean the railhead using a reservoir of white spirit, a mechanical pump and pair of rollers geared to the wheels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Not something we see every day of the week (ok, we've never seen another one, other than years ago our on our OO-gauge railway!).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    If required, it wouldn't be a big job to strip out the cleaning machinery leaving a well-made, quite nicely detailed coal wagon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010155696469,"sku":"10726","price":295.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/10726-1.webp?v=1779900665","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/5-inch-gauge-track-cleaning-wagon-stock-code-10726","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}