Morning all.

It's been a busy week since the last posting - Last Friday Annie and I took a trip on the Heart of Wales Line from Llandovery to Shrewsbury to see a Celtic Rock Band - Skerryvore - stayed overnight and came back on Saturday. For anyone living in Wales, did you know that if you have a bus pass, the Heart of Wales Railway is free from October until March... Swansea to Shrewsbury and stops in between, for nothing!! (and we had free parking at Llandovery...)

No rest for the wicked though, as on Sunday we were exhibiting the Teifi Gorge at Rogers Modelling Show in the Hermon Community Hall. An excellent venue with a remarkable cafe - whole range of meals, sandwiches, paninnis and much more.
Pat and I had a great day there, with lots of interest shown in the layout. Good to see Pete Towns, Peter Francis, Martin, Chris, Ron, and several others.
Couple of pics taken before opening:

On to ChufferDuffer business - after all, thats what this blog is supposed to be about.
Met here at Llechryd last night, without Charles, who is still a bit under the weather, and not really up to an evening of hectic graft and socialising!
The first thing to show you is another fine effort from the Herrington Light Industrial Manufactory Co.
I bought one of those Kato chassis from Japan, like the ones that Pat had a couple of posts ago.

I gave it to Colin last week, to see if he could do anything with it. No sooner said than done!
Last night he produced this:

Loosely based on the Glyn Valley style tram loco. The skirt, which is supposedly there to protect the public from the moving parts when the line is on the roadway, also hides the fact that the chassis is 0-4-0, not 0-6-0, which was the prototype. More pics of it as work progresses.

And talking of progressive work - two hours without a break last night!
The Gandy Dancers were in fine fettle, laying track on the Crymmych Arms layout like there was no tomorrow:

The result of our efforts (I say 'our', but it was mostly Pat and Col) don't appear to be much, in the picure below, but as it's N gauge, it requires a lot more precision and care, and as you can see, removing small fishplates that get stuck in one's finger (Pats, to be precise. We heard one or two new expressions...)

Anyway, this was the state of play at the end of the evening:

You wont recognise it in the next post!

Bye-bye.