Hello everybody. We are making a quick return just to update you on some progress that we are making down at the Cardi-Bach Railway Society headquarters in Login.

AS you may recall we are having a re-vamp. All the big layouts have been removed and gone on to other homes, except the static Login layout, which is now behind glass at the back of the Museum.

A quick picture of how the Museum was last year:

Our idea is to have small representational models of all the stations going around the edges of the room. Boards and shelving in place, and duly painted by myself and Chuffer Pete a couple of weeks ago.

You may remember from previous posts that I had built small models of the stations - these we placed in the appropiate positions around the perimeter to see what it looked like.

 

Cardigan to Crymmych:

We had kept the original Crymmych layout, as it was N gauge. It just had to be butchered to fit into the shelving:

and on the other side of the room Whitland to Llanglydwen: (you can't see Whitland and the Junction, the angle wasn't wide enough)

For the last two Tuesdays, Colin and I have been beavering away down at Login (no Pat, as he decided to go waltzing off down the Danube, leaving us to do the work)

Anyhow, with Col doing the wiring and me on the scenics, we are almost there.

This is the Cardigan side running up to Crymmych:

I didn't take a still picture of the other side, instead we managed to get a train to run from Whitland all the way up to login, passing through the Junction, Llanfalteg, Peclipin crossing and on to Login. It would have reached Llanglydwen, but there was an obstruction on the line (two croc clips supplying the power!)

This is obviously still work-in-progress, but with Pat hopefully back next week, it shouldn't be long before things are up and running.

Watch this space!

Toodle-pip,

Shaun.