Good evening everyone. Almost a week behind with this ChufferDuffer edition - behind because I seem to have been extra busy this past week, and come evening time it's a glass of wine and collapse in front of Netflix...
Anyroad. Pats last Tuesday, and he showed us the progress thats been made on the Railway Hearse.
You may recall we showed you the start in the previous post.
Here is where Pat is up to at the moment:

As you can see, the roof support struts are in place, and the rear doors hinged and the start of door fastenings are being fabricated.
In the next picture we are looking into the inside, with the coffin rollers in place, but yet to be painted.

The hearse will take its place on the 'Maes Y Gof' 7mm NG layout initially, as we still haven't got around to building a new one!
Just to remind you, here are a few random pictures of the Gorsaf:

I mentioned at the start of this post that I had a busy week - two of those days were taken up with the West Wales Modellers exhibition at Drefach Felindre Woolen Mill, where we were invited to show our old faithfull, 'Teifi Gorge Railway'

This was our fifth year at the woolen mill! Pat and I set up on Thursday, and Colin did duty with Pat on Friday, as I had a prior engagement (hosp.) Our good friend Mike turned up on Thursday to wish us well.
Two stress free days, with everything performing faultlessly, in particular Colins electric Turntables!

Couple of pics of  'The Gorge' catching the early sun:

Couple of impressive models spotted at the exhibition:

All hand-built from scratch, and operational, apart from the bottom right steam driver, which was in 'bits'.
An excellent show, though the foot-fall was down on previous years. We still enjoyed ourselves though!
Here in Llechryd tomorrow night - report to follow (sometime...)

Diolch,
Shaun.

Bit late this week, but not too late...
Not a lot of news on the Cardi-Bach scene, though I did do duty at the 'Museum' on Tuesday, when Peter and Dawn had two separate  coach parties calling in for afternoon tea, as part of a 'mystery tour'.
Forty passengers on each coach!
Fortunately one followed the other, with half an hour between, which gave the teashop ladies time to clear the tables in the marquee in readiness.
After tea, each party descended on the Heritage Centre before driving off. Several sales resulted, so a good afternoon all round.

That was Tuesday afternoon. - After giving a hand to clear up after the second coach had departed, I just made it back to Cilgerran in time to pick Pat up and make our way along to Colins, for the weekly ChufferDuffer meeting.

Making one of its rare appearances was Colins N guage layoutout, which he had set up for us to play with operate...

This a view toward the station:

And looking the other way:

Close-up of the station building:

Colin has promised that he will endeavour to get it ready to exhibit, maybe sometime next season.

Patrick did a sterling job with the controller - here we have a loco running down to the turntable and then coasting up to the coaling facility. Note the exquisitely made buildings that it goes past.

The video would have been longer, but I had to crop it down to keep under the 100mb limit. Sorry!


One other event that occurred last week was the CADAMM show held at the shire horse centre. Too much going on to show everything, so we will just make do with a shot of C-B's Chair, Emyr Philips doing his MC bit on the microphone....

See you all next week.

Good evening to all our followers (both of you).
Once again a mixed bag of Duffers activity and Cardi-Bach stuff.
To kick off, the Chufferduffers met here at Llechryd last Tuesday, when we put the Teifi Gorge together and checked that the new turntable did the biz... Which to our great relief it did, impeccably!
No pictures of it - we'll save that for it's next outing at the Woolen Mill on July 26/27.

What we do have pictures of are a railway hearse(!) that Pat is making in 7mm NG.
based on the Ffestiniog van, shown below:

This is the start of Pats version:

This is in it's very early stages, but knowing Pats productivity rate, in a week or two will we be showing you the finished wagon!

On to Cardi-Bach...

As you may or may not be aware, this past weekend has seen the 2019 Login Extravaganza, this year with an extended marquee, and the addition of the C-B Heritage collection, in its own building.
We had a great time over the two days showing off the layouts and talking about the history of the old Whitland to Cardigan Railway.
Everything in the collection generated loads of interest and questions, and the running layouts, Cardigan and Boncath proved quite a magnet for both young and old.
Thomas was a great asset on Saturday spending nearly all his time operating Cardigan, ably assisted by Colin and Pat:

An interesting artefact was donated on Saturday by an ex member of the railway - a most unusual rail chair - we have yet to determine what section of rail/line it was used for; possibly some part of a point working? It's most unlike any chair that we have seen so far.

Seen here in front of a signal post finial and a railway lamp.

Large crowds were in attendance on both days with the weather holding fair for the whole weekend.

So fair in fact that both Pat and Emyr were able to bring their open topped sports car to show off to appreciative punters

Thanks must go to Peter and Dawn for hosting the event, which was free to all, including lots of stall holders - admission being by way donation.
Refreshments were available, both outside and in the tearoom, served by a bevy of most obliging ladies.
And finally on behalf of the ChufferDuffers, we heartily commend to the house Dawns new addition to the menu of Fresh Fruit Muffins . Try them next time you visit!

Hwyl fawr,

the Chuffers.