The Teifi Gorge Railway

[gastwo]

Hi Jeff.
Yes, he has a small (very small) lathe that can just about handle 1/2" OD brass rod. Just the job for domes and chimneys.
I believe some people use an electric drill as a make-shift lathe. Might be worth a try...

Me, I'll stick to building cardboard houses!

ATB
Shaun.

[gastwo]

Just as a matter of interest, are there any other 009 members in West Wales? (Bit daft asking that on here - seems only about a quarter of members visit the forum...)

Thought I'd ask, anyway.

Shaun.

[gastwo]

No? never mind, I'll hold an area meeting on my own!

More progress on the Teifi Gorge.
I added a coaling stage by St Dogmaels loco shed, built from coffee stirrers and real coal:



My wife Annie kindly painted the backscenes for us (being an artist by profession). Seen here is St Dogmaels and the quarry board with backscenes in place. Removeable at the moment, as work is still ongoing.



Things were looking a bit bare at the dockside, so last week I managed to scratch-build a sort of Clyde Puffer. It's very incorrect nautically, but I don't mind - I won't be posting this on RMwebb, so the number of rivets and the missing mast stays don't matter...




The turntable in the background is now operational once again, after I butchered it trying to fit it in. Colin, who built it initially came to the rescue and repaired it.
He also turned up with two more locos for the stable. A 2-6-2, seen here outside Cilgerran Station:



and an 0-6-0, again outside Cilgerran:




This puts the Teifi Gorge Motive Power stable at six. They will probably need that many if not more, as there is the prospect of continuing the line upstream to reach Newcastle Emlyn, where there is a GWR connection to the main system.
Here are the locos in what will eventually be Cilgerran engine sheds:



Four are scratch built, on second-hand commercial chassis, the other two from 009 sales (long may they continue!)

Any questions, please feel free to ask.

Shaun.

[clayliner]

Thanks for the photos, Shaun. This is coming along well. I like the coaling stage - very posh! (The barrow must be new as it's still shiny and red...) The cobble effect is pleasing, too - how did you do it?

David.

[gastwo]

Hi David - thanks for dropping in!

The cobbles... a 2mm layer of DAS pressed onto the baseboard, on top of a layer of neat PVA - then while it is still soft I impress it with paint brush ferrules that have had the bristles removed and hollow metal tube 'squared' with needle nosed pliers. I use the same technique to give a stone effect on buildings and walls. Much quicker and easier than you would think.

This warehouse I built a couple of years ago is an example:




I could do a pictured tutorial if anyone is interested.

Regards,
Shaun.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Shaun,

Nice technique on the warehouse.

Jeff

[gastwo]

My how time flies (is 'flies' grammatically correct?) Anyhow - not much done to Teifi Gorge due to a pending house move, but I do have a couple of up-dates since October.
We managed to exhibit at the Welsh Woolen Mill in November: (Patrick proudly standing by)




Colin making minor adjustments:





There was a spare area in St Dogmaels, so I made a steam driven sawmill:




and a roof to cover it (flood lighting for night work, and a flickering fire in the boiler):





Things are still incomplete, though I did make a rudimentary engine shed for Cilgerran:





Thats really as far as the layout has progressed. It's all on hold now until I see what sort of space I have when we move. Fortunately the layout was designed to move, and the four component parts have cardboard boxes to protect them!
More as and when,

Shaun.

[Doug Dickson]

Nice to know your'e here, Shaun, lots of nice textures!

Doug

[Chubber]

[gastwo]

Well, a bit of movement since i last posted - movement being the operative word. We sold and bought houses within six weeks of going on the market, so it was a feat of logistics, going from one to the other. Luckily we only moved five miles, and there is a container rental compound in Cardigan, which helped no end.
Apart from the mundane household stuff, I had three layouts to move and store - Cardigan on two six foot boards, Boncath on two four footers, and Teifi Gorge on three four footers...
We moved on April 14th, and exhibited Teifi Gorge in Carmarthen on the 15th!
Anyhow, it was all moved without too much stress, and three months down the way, things are quite settled. We now live a stones throw from the Teifi, and this is a picture of the Gorge itself:



A bit more has been done to the TGR layout, with a goods shed erected in the Cilgerran yard, and tunneling commenced for the branch line to Newcastle Emlyn:





I also came across this shot of St Dogmaels sawmill, showing the flood-lighting:




Not much more done though, as I'm trying to catch up on constructing Login Station, in 00 (one of the stations on the old Whitland to Cardigan line)

Regards,
Shaun.

[gastwo]

My how time flies (is that the right pluralisation of 'fly'?)

Since that last post The Teifi Gorge had four more outings last year. In August we were invited to show at the West Wales Modelers Expo in LLwyncelyn (outside Aberaeron) - sadly no pictures.

In early October we exhibited at the Bronwydd Arms Village Hall with the Carmarthen 0 Gauge club (to show the comparison between gauges!)




Later in October we were once again at the Drefach Felindre Woolen Mill:





(In almost the same place as the previous year!)

And finally we had a great time showing at an annual local model exhibition in nearby Hermon. Again no pictures for this event.

Thats it at the moment, though I have started building a 'Rabbit Warren' layout, as I had ordered 5 meters of track for the N gauge layout we are building, and by mistake I ordered 009... waste not want not!
I might post developments later.

Meanwhile a little taster of two locos that Colin is building:




Regards,

Shaun.

[Sioned Arrowsmith]

Are you going to be at Aberaeron again this year? It was seeing Teifi Gorge there last year that convinced me that if I were to get back into modelling then OO9 would be the way to go.