"My Grandfather Went To Work On That!"

The best part of exhibiting a layout a real place near that place is hearing the comments and stories from the people who have a connection with it.That's one of the reasons we were so much looking forward to bringing Minffordd to Porthmadog this weekend, as well as the chance to catch up with old friends on the FR.One of the people watching today pointed at the Wickham trolley and told us his us his grandfather from Talsarnau use to be a ganger on the Cambrian Coast Line in around the time we have modelled it and says he used to tell stories about travelling out to work sites on the trolley kept at Porthmadog.Another visitor told us how he was once a loco fireman based at Pwllheli and recalled how tricky it was to re-start trains from Minffordd on a wet day with the tricky combination of a steep gradient and sharp curve on the line.Someone very local, who lives right in a house right beside the FR there, was hugely complimentary about the layout, along with many current and former FR…