The Chuffers have been busy this week - Tuesday evening we had a Cardi-Bach meeting at Login, specifically to help Peter out with getting the new building ready for exhibiting the Cardi Bach layouts and memorabilia associated with the old line.
Peter, Roy and Eirwyn lined up the cabinets, screwed them together and fitted plywood tops, whilst Patrick, Thomas and myself put the layouts together and mounted them on the cabinets. This proved rather more difficult than we expected, as all the wiring had to be flush with the connecting boards, and would not be accessible once the baseboards were in place.
All came right in the end though, and the evening was deemed a success!
Thursday Emyr called round with the Kilgerran layout and the display boards together with the photo boards and signs. He and Pete put Kilgerran together and made a start with Crymmych Arms.
Today (Friday) Patrick and I got to Login at 9:30 a.m. and put the finishing touches to the layouts and checked them for operation. With very little fettling all the layouts ran successfully - Kilgerran will be static due to limited space, but we have all the lights working. Not so with Cardigan - movement, but no illumination... As cardigan is attached to Boncath, it is a major task to diagnose the problem, so we will leave it until after the weekend.
Pat setting up Cardigan
Boncath and Crymmych arms
Friday lunchtime, and this was the state of play. Later today or tomorrow morning pictures will be put into the frames, and Roy Harverson's collection of Cardi-Bach stock will go on the side tables.
In the foreground are boxes of railway related books that will be on sale.
On the modelling front, this week I managed to build a couple of static displays showing two more of the stations on the Cardi Bach. Glogue:
And Llanfyrnach (minus the crossing gate):
Both to scale, 2mm to the foot (roughly N gauge)
These are really just three dimensional mock-ups to show people what the stations were like, and to accompany the photographs.
All hands to the pumps tomorrow, kick-off at eleven a.m.
Hope to see you there,
Shaun.
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