Tuesday 24th February at Colin's - a convivial evening where we failed to put the world to rights, failed to get Pats engine to run, and failed to get a DVD to play on't telly. But we had good food, good company, and good craic. That's what it's all about really, isn't it.
DVD was my fault, Pats engine was a magnet fault, and righting the world is quite frankly beyond us. (two bottles of red laughing water did however give it a rosy hue...)

Wednesday I put the fledgling 'Teifi Gorge Railway' together whilst the garage was empty.
10 minutes to assemble, and again 10 to take apart, which I thought was pretty good. Pictures below:
The layout overall:

St Dogmaels end looking down to Cilgerran:

 The two pictures below show the track joins. Perfect line-up, just a bit more ballast for concealment:

At the beginning of November 2013 The Welsh National Woolen Museum ( a museum about the woolen industry, not a museum made of wool...) asked Patrick if he would be interested in us showing our layout at their modelling day.
We duly trundled along to Drefach Felindre and set up Cardigan and Kilgerran. James travelled up from the Gower to assist with the operations. It was an unqualified success, with over 500 people through the doors.

View of the layout from above:

Colin, Patrick and James on the right :

Joining Cardigan and Boncath seemed to work quite well, so we were ready for our first outing.
This was at Peter Towns home,  which was the old Login Station. The occasion was an invite only  'Cardi-Bach' exhibition following the celebration of Peter and Dawns wedding.
Held in a marquee in front of Login Station, there was room for our long layout, and we even managed to get Kilgerran layout in as a stand alone.
Pictures below.

Boncath layout was more or less completed, so we had a trial run joining Boncath up with Cardigan - total length with the middle fiddle yard came to 24 feet. Colin seen here overseeing Cardigan:

 And Charles supervising Patrick and Colin:

We first exhibited our joint Cardigan/Kilgerran layout in Cilgerran village hall in September 2012 to mark the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Cardi-Bach.
Patrick is seen here in a rather pensive mood...

At the other end is Kilgerran station (spelt with a K in the 1930's)
Mike, a good friend of the Chuffer-Duffers, also looking somewhat apprehensive...

Our Cardi-Bach layouts second outing was once again in Cilgerran village hall. We were a bit more sophisticated this time with a decent curtain skirt, courtesy of Pat's wife Mary.

Next picture is a shot of Cardigan station, taken at the same time as the one above.
Unfortunately it was using only natural light, so there is a bit of shadow at the far end.

Tuesday 17th February we met at my place, and did a bit of work (well, Pat and Colin did. I just faffed about) on the 009 layout - more about this later.
Charles sent a note to teacher excusing him from attending due to health problems.




This is the center or connecting board together with the board that is going to have the Cilgerran station and quarry on.
(Since Tuesday I have rough painted and ballasted the track)




The picture below is the St Dogmaels end, again roughly painted and some of the cobbled quayside added.









I'll try and join all three in a day or two when the ballast has dried.