Right then. Time for another episode in the adventures of the ChufferDuffers...

First of all, a bit of movement in the Cardi-Bach den. The dragon stirs!

There was a 'Zoom' meeting about the feasibility study regarding making the old line a foot/cycle path.

First step would be for the three Councils (Pembs/Carms/Ceredigion) to agree to the project, and allow funds to be made available...

(Don't call me cynical).

Next step would be to get in touch with the landowners (93 of them) with the possibility of acquiring the trackbed in question.

Did I mention cynical?

The aforementioned funds needed are quoted as £5.25 million. Yes, I'm afraid I'm cynical. Sorry.

I won't whomp on anymore - let's move on to Chuffers!

Off to Emyr's first of all - not a lot of progress with the Landy, as his family were at last able to visit, and after several months without seeing the grandchildren, vehicle renovation took a back seat.

Anyway, here is a quick shot of how it looks at the moment:

After a quick visit to Emyr, it was along the village to Pat and Mary for coffee and scones. My friend Alun had made some fresh raspberry and blackberry jam, so with some clotted cream from Aldi, the coffee went down well.

Pat is going to put up a permanent three rail 0 gauge layout in the new railway room. In the meantime, he had laid out the track roughly and had a 'Battle Class' loco running around.

We have an unedited video...

We paid another visit to Pat's railway room last night, and he and Mary have already started on the framework for the baseboards and layout (we do not know who was labouring and who was supervising. Tactfully Colin and I refrained from asking...)

Here are a couple of shots of the framework:

This being a ChufferDuffers night, we went into the annex for DVDs, homemade pizza and the usual French red laughing water.

In the annex was Pat's heritage layout, so I took a couple of pictures:

The AA van:

The convertibles:

And the hotel:

We also managed a noisy (I don't have time to edit it at the moment) video of the layout:

This layout is, I think purely for Pat's enjoyment, as nothing is stuck down. (as I found to my cost when I accidentally nudged it!)

Colin, (he of Herrington Light Industries fame) presented us with another of his exquisite 009 locos for the Teifi Gorge. This time a kit-built engine rather than scratch built.

Which segues nicely on to the closing pictures, where we go back to Llechryd, and the latest progress on the Teifi Gorge extension. I scratch built a small ground frame type signal box:

And an engine shed plus a loco servicing area:

There we are folks, the Chuffers antics to date so far...

Cherrio,

Shaun.