An interesting ChufferDuffers meeting last night - instead of congregating at one of our houses, we ventured into the depths of Carmarthenshire to visit Pencader, where the O gauge Club had invited us to drop in on one of their test track meetings:

Three of us went along, Colin, Pat and myself. Charles is still recuperating from his cardiac treatment, although he has been busy on the electronic front, making an operating system for the level crossing gates on 'Dyffryn y Tyllau'
Close to twenty members at Pencader, including some from the Aeron Valley club in Aberaeron. What was noticable was the fact that everybody seemed to be over sixty, and nearly all sported grey hair!
The test track evenings are for members and guests to have a chance test run their '0' guage engines on an extensive track, which they may be unable to do at home. Patrick brought along four from his collection, and all ran very well except for bit of a stutter over points.
Here he is watching the Coast Express about to go through its paces (as soon as Bill stops messing about)

I videoed the other locos running, but I'm still not able to post movies on here... Sorry!

The West Wales 0 Gauge Group held an exhibition last Saturday at Bronwydd Arms village hall, to which Pat, Colin and I took Crymmych arms and Maes y Gof.
Excellent day was had, with lots of interest in both the layouts. Mike turned up to see how we were getting on:

Whilst Colin tended to Crymmych Arms:

An overall shot of the venue, with the Pencader boys and their test track brought all the way from the village in a big transit van, and set up in the middle of Bronwydd hall:

Remember a short while back I mentioned that Pat and I had been scanned and 3D modelled? here we are on the footplate!

Both dilligently watching out for lineside obstructions...

Toodle pip,
Shaun.