There was a good attendance on Monday with Rob F building a tank wagon, The Wizard fettling Usk, Andrew J weighing up options for scenic buildings on Lyne Road, LBH fettling some wagons that didn’t perform well at Thornbury and Paul completing the Fiddle Yard legs one Cwm Carno.
Tuesday saw a Zoom meeting with a fiendish Quiz from Stephen B and discussions on possible layouts from Mr C and Luke.
A quiet Monday so just another picture to start the year. The stock intended for Cwmcarno will need autocouplers and we have decided to keep with our standard of 4mm scale Dinghams. As existing supplies are low Mr C has started to make up another batch from an etch kindly donated by club friend Phil Harries.
The Christmas/New Year quiz featured in Tuesday’s Zoom session. The questions were set by Luke and ranged over a varied selection of train related topics, but I never expected the ability to read sheet music to be an advantage in a railway quiz. For next month SteveB has an alternative quiz in preparation – he has no music skills.
Also during the evening we had a selection of pictures. One weird photo posed the question AI or not? Then there were early shots of Festiniog and Talyllyn, Barry with a long train of unidentifiable coaches around WW1 and a selection of Wrexham tanks from a CD SteveB unearthed when tidying his workroom.
Tuesday was a regular Zoom session which featured the second Quiz of the festive season. Quizmaster StephenB teased us with Welsh based questions requiring a bit of in-depth knowledge of minor railway locomotives – which I sadly lacked. The final question – current TfW stations with a k in them – was also taxing. (there are 18 of them).