The Worthing and District Society of Model Engineers
Welcome to the website of the Worthing and District Society of Model Engineers. Whether you are an existing member of the Society, someone interested in model engineering or a member of the public looking for information on our next running day for the trains, we hope that you will find this site interesting.
If you are interested in joining us please call into Field Place on one of our Thursday meeting evenings or on a Wednesday or on some Saturday mornings. Alternatively you may use our Contact Us page to send an email or download and complete an application form. There is more information on the About us page.
A Great Loss
We were given notice this week of a great loss to our club.
A long term member of ours, Dereck Langridge, passed away this last Friday. He will be sadly misssed.
A previous club Chairman he was also instrumental in the implementation of our current signalling system and many subsequent inprovements over times and equally importantly, responsable for our quarterly News Letter. Dereck was always able to give wise council to our committee on matters that concerned our club and able to freely offer advice to any member on engineering matters.
He will be sadly missed by us all, is irreplaceable and we will be poorer without him.
Public Running 2025.
Last Sunday 12th October was a lovely Autumn day and the final one of this Summer's season. It was well attended and apart from from a couple of unexpected breakdowns all went well. Thank you all who came along to both then and throughout the year. Dont forget there will be the Santa Run on Sunday December 7th starting at 11:00 and ending at 2:30 due to the shorter daylight hours that time of yead
Ouir visitors safety is our primary concern here at Field Place so we have many members present on running days always on the look out for any potential hazards around or near the track. These members are not child minders, far from it and I would respectfully ask that all parents, grandparemts or responsable adults remain fully aware of what their charges are doing at all times and to keep them away from the moving trains. No racing alongside the trains or playing chicken please. We are all here to have a great time. Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome too but they do find the trains interesting, especially if family members are on board and are having fun.
Charity Day 2025
You might remember that one of the few days that we were rained off this year was September 14th, Charity Day. We therefore combined it with Green Park Day a fortnight later.
As a result we were able to to present Worthing Mencap with a presentaion of £1,300.
The picture was taken this morning the 5th Nov when again the weather was not that promising but did behave for us and friends from Mencap who came down for the occasion.
Many thanks to out Vice Chairman Geoff Bashall who took the picture
Our Facebook page carries any last minute changes such as bad weather updates can be found at by searching for Modelengineersworthing on the facebook site or using the link below.
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To all our visitors, all payments to us are cash only. We have neither the fascilities to accept cards nor can we afford the costs associated with such transactions. Cash helps us to keep our prices away from the cost of living increases that are rampant at the moment.
Autumn 25 Edition of our Newsletter.
Autumn has arrived! It arrived with the official start of Autumn on the first of September, quite why it's shifted from the day of equinox in 3 weeks time is beyond me. As usual there are those who know best and force these things on us. The Summer now just gone is officially the hottest one on record, I won't argue with that, it certainly was without doubt and the least rainfall too. So here we are and Christmas just around the corner.
Apologies there's only 14 pages this time, our editor has run out of items to print and would love additional entries else there might be further reductions next time.
Click on the link below to be the recipient of this edition complete with afore mentioned corrections.
We are in the North West corner of Field |Place, beyond the Tennis Courts. I suggest that you use the first Car Park entrance on the Right after enetering Field Place having gone past the indoor bowling club on your left. Go through to the second part of the car park and from there there's a fairly direct footpath by the bowling greens on your left up to the footbridge access to the club house as ground level access to the track and clubhouse is closed off on public running days. However, there is a buggy park by our entrance and disabled acccess is provided should it be needed.
Our full postal address is
Worthing & District Society of Model Engineers
Field Place
Durrington,
Worthing
BN13 1NP
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