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.

Public Running 2025.

This years public running got off to a solid start. The weather for all days this year that we have held has been fair although we were lucky as we experienced long overdue rain that evening . Hopefully it will continue as the next outing on Sunday the 25th May will also be a bank holiday weekend.

You may be aware by now of a potentially nasty incident involving another club that involves miniture trains when a child spontaneously decided to board a moving train. Here at Field Place 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

Click on this link for the Santa Run 2024 https://youtu.be/Y05QBWY142c?si=6lEtRaq-z-Vy4r2B

 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.

https://www.facebook.com/Modelengineersworthing Click on this link to get there

Charity day 2025

A little early maybe but every year we dedicate one of our public running days to our chosen charity for the year. So on Charity Day day all monies that are raised from rides the refreshments and other attractions are donated to the Charity

For 2025, our chosen charity will again be Worthing Mencap. 2024 tried to spoil it will a poor weather forecast, fortunately it went as planned. As a result, between showers, we were privileged to present a cheque for £1,450 to this worthy cause.

If you have 2025 diary to hand then note Charity Day will be on Sunday September 14th.

Times will be confirmed here and on Facebook as the day approaches

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.

Spring 25  Edition of our Newsletter.

Spring 25 has arrived! It could have fooled me though, what with frost in the garden at the start of the week. If it's officially Spring it must therefore be so and the latest edition of the News letter confirms that it is indeed the case.

Those of you who search for the odd mistake or spellling error for will be dissapointed, the majority have already been brought to the attention of the editor and corrected before this electronic version was uploaded. However I am happy to report there were some crackers within the original hard copy that was distributed previously

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