I've been neglecting the blog a little while I was away on holiday in Wales with Himself and The Trainee.If you follow the Bron Hebog and Minffordd page on Facebook then you'll have been able to follow the narrow gauge adventures we were ge…
We've tried a lot of new things as part of the Minffordd project, such as moving to DCC control and sound, and smaller code track.It's also the first time we've tried weathering on any of our rolling stock, having always kept anything we bo…
It's been quite a few weeks since I've done any work on the NWNGR replica replacement carriage.A couple of nights ago while half the household were out for the night taking in some of the action at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow I ran ou…
I'm delighted to be able to report that Moelwyn has returned unscathed from its 800-mile round trip in the post.Our vintage Meridian-kit model of the FR's venerable Baldwin Tractor has undergone a surgical operation for a motor transplant a…
I've been swithering for many months about the best way of getting a 45XX Small Prairie tank for the Minffordd fleet.First World problems, and all that, I know...Although outshone in the popular imagination by the Manors, Duekdogs and Colle…
I never expected model railways and politics to collide in such a media spotlight, but here we are, and it's happening in, of all places, Clacton.Many years ago, before anyone beyond private school alumni and city traders had heard of Nigel…
I am not one of life's gamblers. If you needed to stick a label on me it would definitely be the one marked 'Risk Averse'.So you can probably imagine it was a 'moment' to entrust our precious Moelwyn to the care of our elite posties for a 4…
If you'd wondered about the lack of posts in the last fortnight I hope you assumed (correctly) that I was on a summer holiday - rather than having another hissy fit and ceasing blogging.While I was away there some bits and pieces being done…
I did mention a while back that there would be an exhibition date for Minffordd in England later this year, and that it would hopefully be convenient for the greatest number of people.Now the embargo has been lifted we're at liberty to say
My company is in the process of moving out of offices we've occupied for more than 40 years.It means decades of paperwork is being slung out, and with it a lot of storage devices which are increasingly a thing of the past - the humble box f…
If you've been reading this blog over the last couple of months you may recall I have started work on building a second model of the NWNGR replica carriage 24.I never did say why, and that was quite deliberate. Because I was keeping a secre…
I'm not the only one who's been having ideas about some one-off conversation pieces as part of the trains we run on Minffordd at exhibitions. As the towable Princess project has progressed so Himself has been casting wistful glances in the