Following that, the next meeting will revert to our original plan of holding meetings on the second Wednesday of the month - so we will meet on
Unfortunately a family bereavement means she will be unable to meet us next week.
Correction to this post - April's meeting will now be WEDNESDAY APRIL 15TH
On to the Chuffers report.
As the annex at Chessboard House is in use at the moment, we met again here at Llechryd, with Pat kindly providing the food for the evening instead of me having to cook... two curries in succession would be gilding the lily.
Our task for the evening was to get the Teifi Gorge layout up and running after its winter storage, to check that everything was working in readiness for the Pembroke Dock Exhibition.
Hopefully this will still take place, despite the current health issues that the country seems to be experiencing.
We set up in the garage, as the 7mm narrow gauge layout is occupying the conservatory at the moment.
Here is a shot of Pat and Colin, suitably clad for the chilly venue cleaning track and generally titivating:
Despite having been stored in the cold garage for the past six months, the layout has survived very well. Minimal cleaning was required, and only a couple of spiders had to be ousted from the undergrowth.
We left the quarry section in it's box, together with all the bits and pieces, as this was just an operation exercise. 30 minutes to unpack and erect, which was pretty good.
All locos ran extremely well, and both turntables behaved as they should.
Colin had brought along two new engines to test run - both scratch built, the first a L & B look-alike, complete with hand coach lining done with a bow pen.
Seen here languishing alongside the platform at Cilgerran:
The second loco, 'Parrog' we may have seen before, but it didn't feature much as the pony truck was giving a bit of trouble. It has since been in the Workshop at Herrington Light Industries for sprung pick-ups to be fitted to the bogie, and on test ran impecably.
Having established that everything was operational, it was movie time!!
Here is 'Parrog' on its test run:
And for the second video, we put the Lynton and Barnstaple look alike through it's paces(we did have problems with an over enthusiastic turn-table operator...)
Back into the house for an hour or two to warm-up, watch a couple of DVDs and tuck into Pats chicken pasta (and the obligatory glass or two) (which seems to have affected the focus somewhat...)
Also this last week I had a visit from Mike, our Chuffer-Duffer from woolly back country, with a box full of railway books and assorted DVDs. We have shared these out, and when read and digested will be available to Card-Bach members at the Heritage Centre.
No Chuffs next Tuesday, as we will be at Login for the Society meeting.
Regards to all,
Shaun.
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