While at Larkrail Bernie delivered four ammonia tank wagons, which will make up one of the well known traffic movements seen on the Brecon and Merthyr as it approached its final years and will fit in well on Cwmcarno.
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On a very hot Friday and Saturday we took Llanastr to Larkrail in Bath. Its a small venue with not a lot of space for our worktray and wheel cleaning. So give the temperatures we moved it outside.
Here’s the day’s crew.
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No, we’re not dragging you off to Middle Earth, but showing a comparison between two water towers, both intended to portray Brecon and Merthyr prototypes. On the left is a printed resin one for Cwmcarno and on the right, the example on Llanastr, which is made up from individually carved plasticard stones (which took yonks to make).
The Newport – Brecon service was either two or three coaches, more often three. The two seen here fit into the short Cwm Carno platform better.
That’s what a pint cost when Llanastr was first exhibited. LBH has dragged it out again in anticipation of its trip to Larkrail next week.
In the meantime work progressed on Cwmcarno, landscaping and building the mount for its lighting ‘halo’.
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Monday and it was warm but not yet unpleasant. On Tuesday the workroom was bearable and the layout room hot. That day Wagonman brought along the current projects, both the result of progress outside in the sun.
By Friday the workroom was really hot, as was the layout room. Nevertheless, Luke was able to get some terra-forming done on Cwm Carno
Just two at the club tonight, Luke and LBH, and Cwmcarno was the priority Luke continued to test stock and fettle track and fiddle yards and LBH did a bit on the Glan Carno Arms.
A quietish Tuesday evening but quite productive.
With Cwmcarno’s visit to Scaleforum approaching track and stock is going through as testing my sequence.
Here we see Rob F’s Western successfully traversing all the track the layout, except under the screens where it is out of gauge anyway.
With the weeks slipping away before Cwmcarno is due to go to Scaleforum and the space now being available to erect it fully following the clear-outs most of this evening’s efforts.
Mr C was laying in the track from the colliery sidings into the fiddle yard.
Luke’s work resulted in the fist running from the layout onto a cassette and back out.
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