Good day to both of our readers... No, I am sure there are more than two fo you. At least 30 people in the Ukraine have visited this blog!
Cardi-Bach report first.
We had an excellent night last night - Glen Johnson, he of the 'History Man' fame came along and gave an illustrated talk on the Cardi-Bach railway in Cilgerran and Cardigan. Lots of new photos and a good question and answer session.
On Monday we had a brainstorming meeting with John Ewart from PLANED regarding the setting up of our own website. Hopefully in a few months the story of the Cardi-Bach and our archive of pictures and stories will be out in the ether for everybody and his dog to read. (Thats if your dog can read. Otherwise he can just look at the pictures...)
Talking of pictures there are lots to see on the Login Station Facebook page: 

https://www.facebook.com/AfternoonTeaAtTheStation/

Just click on 'posts'  in the left hand column.

And so on to the Duffers section. We never had a gathering this week, due to last nights Society meeting. However, leading on from the above mentioned Login Station, Pete, the Station Master is also an honorary ChufferDuffer, and those of you who have been paying attention to previous posts in the blog will recall that Peter is building a layout in 009 depicting the Lynton and Barnstaple narrow gauge line.

On Monday I had the chance to catch up with Pete's kit/scratch building of the L & B buildings.

Here is Woody Bay Station:

 

 And a couple of close-ups of the firebuckets and the shed:

We omitted to include some object for scale comparison, so you have to imagine the size - Peter is building at 4mm to the foot, so those buckets are just over one quarter of an inch high...

Two more pictures that speak for themselves:

(The chimney pots are proprietary items - you have to draw the line somewhere...


And this is where it all gets constructed and painted. (more buildings to the right, and Lynton Station lurking in the background)

And there we have it for this week.
Chuffers are meeting here at Llechryd next week, as Pat is in the throes of decorating, but he has offered to provide the sustenance - I don't think we could cope with curry two meetings on the trot!

'Til next week.
Shaun. 

Cardi-Bach news first.
Next meeting is on Wednesday the 12th - thats this coming Wednesday. We are having Glen Johnson the well-known historian from Cardigan coming along to give a talk on the Branch Line's influence on Cardigan, and Cardigan Station in particular.
Should prove to be an entertaining evening. All are welcome - you don't have to be a member, just cough up £2.50 towards the evening's expenses!
Staying with the C-B for a moment, Pete Towns came up with this photo on his Loginstation Fb page:

Glogue Village with a Prairie pulling a freight train through to Cardigan. What is remarkable is that this picture had to be 1963 or before, as the last freight was '63. Remarkable also because colour film was in it's infancy back then!
I checked out the location of the cameraman, and the view now is completely obscured by trees and undergrowth.

Just in front of the loco is the Station Master/Crossing Keepers cottage, and we have a much earlier picture of Llewellyn Williams and his family standing outside...

Once again, today this is completely hidden by trees and bushes.
You can see these pictures and many more in our albums at the Cardi-Bach Heritage Centre at Login.


Now onto Chuffers!
Llechryd this week, and there was very nearly only two of us, as Patrick had to dash up to Aberystwyth with his car to have the battery seen to. Luckily his son Daniel was on hand to ferry him back, so he made it in time for our weekly get-together.

It's still too dark and chilly in the conservatory to do any work, but we did run 'Casnewydd' (at least, I think that's what we are calling the new layout) to test Pats new loco, and a new controller that Colin had made to give us slow running.

First of all my meagre offerings - not a lot... Managed to put up the crossing gates and a bit of foliage:

A noticeable lack of drivers in the vehicles - (probably both gone off to get bacon baps from Pat's mobile burger van)
Hopefully we should soon have some figures to go onto the layout, thanks to the efforts of Daniel, and Martyn Buck of Merlins Models, who are both progressing with 3D printing:

(Those figures in the foreground aren't really giants - photographic illusion...)
(and his willy is quite noticeable too🙊)



Colin is forging on with his re-build of 'Dolgoch' - shown below is the nether regions of the chassis with pick-up wires and a new cylinder block and drive motion.

Pats new loco, the building and painting of which we have been following over the last few meetings was put through it's paces, using col's new controller.

After a frustrating half of an hour cleaning track and wheels, we finally had it running smoothly!

We then watched a couple of DVDs, and repaired to the dining room. I had thrown together some chicken, ginger, garlic, lemon grass, onion and coconut and we sat down to a Thai green curry, with the usual accompaniments - unfortunately Colin was the designated driver, so he had to settle for J20...

Rātrī swạsdi

That's goodnight in Thai (I copied it from Google... Ha!)