Bank Holiday

Still no modelling to report. My long weekend off coinciding with the bank holiday weekend meant that the temptation to go away was too great.

No volunteering, just time with family and catching up with a few friends.

The footpath from Nant Gwernol station was shut for the first six months of this year following a land slip. Thankfully, now repaired and the Railway Inn at Abergynolwyn having reopened, we took a stroll through the delightful Gwernol least glade and I enjoyed a pint or two of Happy Panda Ale with lunch. 

The opportunity was also taken to walk around the village and work out where the 2’ 3” gauge lines of the village tramway would’ve run between the house backs. 

Whilst I’m mostly a 7mm scale modeller, a good mate of mine found taking up 16mm scale modelling to be a great way of dealing with the mental strain of the pandemic. The result is an exquisite rake of Spooner era Ffestiniog carriages he’s built from kits and he’d been pestering me to get my Darjeeling rake out for a steaming. Something we managed during Friday’s early evening sunshine, the best weather of the weekend. We are blessed by a very large and scenically beautiful garden railway at Llechfan by Wharf station on the Talyllyn Railway that takes away any temptation to have somewhere to run the train at home currently. 

Back home now for a while, I’ve got Elsbridge to get ready for a show next month and Wheal Ponder to a show in October so expect more modelling to be done in the coming weeks.