August 2008
Whilst your Webmaster was taking a week off, slumming around Devonshire, they sneaked out a copy of Linesider. This was a very unkind thing to do, because we were unable to give an early warning on the web site and afford SRC members the opportunity to don tin hats, flee the country or, at the very least, stay away from the clubrooms where there was a risk of having a copy shoved into your hands (with menaces), even if you were a conscientious objector.

Not only that, but they send the darned thing out as an email too these days. The Webmaster has the thing recorded as a triple spam (with knobs on) but it still gets through his Norton and his firewall, and just about everything else you can think of.

Anyway, it opens innocently enough with an address from the Chairman, Andy Banks. The Webmaster can not speak too highly of the literary merit of this piece (mainly because the Chairman, in his professional capacity, is about to provide the Webmaster with services which could go horribly wrong if he was upset about anything).

There's some social stuff from Colin Hill (but it has prettier graphics than we gave it on the website - damn them).

Terry Robinson provides some text and piccies which are news to us here at Web Towers, and arise out of a trip he made recently to the far east (of England).

There's a useful book review from the Armchair Modeller. We've tried modelling armchairs here at Web Towers, but it's a bit boring and we prefer to stick to trains.

Then there are a couple of longish articles from David Hughes. The first is about the new railway company, the Wrexham, Shropshire and Marylebone Railway Co. Then there's his usual Steam Gossip column which, as always, makes you wonder when he ever gets any time to do anything except to go on trains and then to write about it.

Mark Forrest's "What's On" (same as the website page) follows, and the buffers are reached with a look at Kidderminster Railway Museum's website by Andy Banks.