Mornin' all. October 30th - almost another month gone. In fact almost another year, and another government. Or a feeble excuse for one. Cleisthenes must be spinning in his grave...

However, all of that is beyond our control. The Cardi-Bach has new lights!
The old tubes are gone, and in their place are bright LED fittings. I was there last Friday when the West Wales Modellers came to the Station for afternoon tea, and took a couple of pictures before they descended on the museum:

Also included is a picture of Ronnie Howells uniform that he kindly donated to the museum. Peter and Dawn managed to source a mannequin torso to hang it on. No legs, so the trousers stay neatly folded!

On to ChufferDuffers.
After missing a week due to Patrick venturing to the North of the Principality for a short break, we met last night at Chessboard House.
I had tasked Colin to make a couple of level crossing gates for the new layout, and as usual he came up trumps:

Made from balsa wood, all I have to now is to find some mesh, and make some gate-posts.

Colin had also finished the Hunslett Quarry style loco, and it is just left to Patrick to paint it!

It runs superbly, as can be seen in the video below:

Also captured on video is this clip that Colin and I took last week of the Railbus running around the new layout:

We settled down for the evening to watch several DVDs, accompanied by home-made pizza and home-made garlic and chili pork sausage rolls.
Yet another enjoyable Chuffer evening. No modelling done, but that's not the point...the intention was there!
Colins next week, but before then there is the Carmarthen 0 Gauge exhibition at Bronwydd Arms to visit on Saturday.

Hwyl fawr,
Shaun.