Safely back home after an exhausting but enjoyable long weekend up at Bala. More of that in a minute.
First of all, if I missed you on the mailing list, there is a meeting of the Cardi-Bach Society at the C-B Heritage Collection building at Login, 7 p.m. on Wednesday June the 5th. All are welcome, light refreshments, tea, coffee and beer available. Free, but a donation of £2.50 would be very acceptable.
Back to Bala...

Pat and Mary transported me and the Teifi Gorge layout quiet comfortably in the VW on Friday afternoon, and we were able to set up in the venue straight away - by six that evening we were settled down back in the White Lion with the Reverend James and a Merlot...

Setting -up:

The following three days were a dream - TGR ran practically faultlessly, with only a couple of minor gliches, which were quickly sorted. Points never acted up at all - something which has plagued us in the past. The star of the weekend has to be Mary, Pat's other half. She outshone all of us after only 30 minutes of handling the controller. Definitely an honoury 'ChufferDuffer'
Colin came up on Bank Holiday monday, together with Marianne, to give us a break, and to assist with the packing up.

Too many other layouts to feature here, but one outstanding one was a snow scene by Martin Hallett, a retired town crier:

Also there was our old friend from Beddgelert, Dave Roberts, who we occasionally meet when he is working on the Corris line. He had a large 009 layout, of which this is just a small section:

Back to the Teifi Gorge - a couple more images that I managed to take when there was a break in the proceedings:

And some of our fans:

Staying with the with the TGR, a video to finish:

At the close of play on Sunday, all the exhibitors were treated to a ride on the Bala Railway, from Llanuwchllyn station (and I thought Mynachlogddu was a mouthful)  to Bala and Back, a round trip of 18 miles, stopping off for a B-B Q at Llangower halt.
Enjoyable, but a bit chilly in the open carriage!

A dark and sombre Llyn Tegid on the return journey...


No matter, it was free, and a bit of fun, with a very happy crowd of people.
We were hauled there and back by the Quarry Hunslet 'Geoge B':

Safely back home on Friday evening, tired and weary, but really pleased after a great weekend. My thanks to Pat and Mary for transporting us there and back.

And to finish, I posted a couple of images a week or so ago of the motorised crane that Pat was building for 'Maes Y Gof'
Here it is on the layout:

And to finish, a short movie of it running around:

And it's goodnight from him...
Nos da.