Tuesday evening had us gathered at Pats, where he gave us a guided tour of his 7mm narrow guage exhibition layout, 'Gorsaf Maes Y Gof' - hard to translate, but roughly means 'Blacksmiths field station'. As it has a station, a blacksmith, and bits of field we are happy!

The blacksmith in question is one 'Dylan Evans'. At the moment he is inside busy at the forge - usually at exhibitions he can be seen outside the smithy shoeing a horse.
Gareth Jones is currently repairing the smithy roof, after a recent storm damaged some of the ridge tiles and loosened some slates.

 
He's seen here having a quick word with Dylan before tackling the ladders.


Below is a birds eye view of the layout, with the latest edition to the motive power - a small diesel just about to pass through the station with a coal delivery destined for the next stop up the line




Another edition to the ever growing fleet of assorted rolling stock is this unique livestock van.
William Mathias, one of the guards is in the process of painting warning signs on to the van, in an endeavour to keep young fingers away at exhibitions (the van is transporting Myfanwy the dragon to the Eisteddfod at Llwyncelyn, and she doesn't travel well))


Preparing to shunt Myfanwy out of the siding, we have Pat driving the quarry hunslet loco with yours truly stoking the boiler




After all that tiring work we retired to the lounge and settled down to serious imbibing, together with sausage rolls and home-made pizza.
Colin then showed us his latest locomotive construction, which will be related in more detail in a forthcoming edition of the 009 News. First is a little 0-6-0 Pecket:



Followed by this 'work-in-progress' 0-4-0 saddle tank, 9and I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten what the prototype was...):



Thats it for this episode - we are off to Login tomorrow to do more work on the Heritage building.

Don't forget you can see Pats 'Gorsaf Maes y Gof' and even get to play with operate it at the Gala Exhibition at Bala lake during the May bank holiday  - 25th, 26th and 27th.

Nos da, Shaun.

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