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.
Little Lec 2018
A great weekend of June 16/17 when LittleLEC was hosted by this club at Field Place. More info on the dedicated page but can't resist a picture taken by Geoff Bashall of the smallest locomotive seen at worthing and it successfully negociated our testing track with flying colours.
Disabled Toilets Update
Huge progress has been made in the corridor that links from the outside from where passengers leave the trains and pass into the clubhouse. A concerted effort by volunteers has installed the floor and wall units that will contain our library of model engineering magazines and documents. The blue colouring is a film for plastic protection and not a final colour scheme.
Also a work top has been cut to fit the length and width of the floor units and will undoubtedly prove essential for the storage of junk that seems to self generate whenever space offers itself.
Work started today on the climbing wall for senior citizens. I know that by co-incidence it also looks like dabs of plaster to fix plasterboard in place but I am assured that the former is true.
(It could also be our builder Lionel practicing for his Summer job of serving ice creams by the pier)
This Sunday promised to be fine and indeed it was almost too fine. OK. you shouldn't say such things but it can be very hot indeed when working with steam locomotives. Not so much the fire and steam part of actual running but the lifting, moving and getting ready to run bit and then the blowing down of the steam afterwards and finding something to do with the hot fire and ashes and finally cleaning the engine ready for the nexr time. But when the weather was like yesterday and a lot of you cme along it's all worth while.
The next outing is set for Sunday 24th June.
The latest (Winter 17) edition of our newletter is available for download from the link on the Members Page.
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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