July 2008

There is absolutely no doubt about it: Linesiders come more frequently these days than trains to London. Furthermore, they appear to be running on time!

So, what's in the spanking new issue?

Well, not much spanking. Andy Banks natters on a bit about Corgi (not the dogs) .

Chairman of Vice and Exhibition Manager, Terry Robinson, then drones on about the DEMU show at Burton. He lists an enormous number of people who were present there (and then hurts and wounds your Webmaster by omitting the Webmaster's name from the list! This will not be forgotten. War has been declared.) and goes on to talk about Littleton.

Colin Hill has a turn chuntering about social events, Trevor Forrest natters about Narrow Gauge layout Seagone, and Mark Forrest comes up with a useful modelling tip. The most useful modelling tip currently going the rounds in Web Towers is do not try to grab hold of your heated soldering iron by the tip. The handle end tends to be cooler and will not burn you. No prizes for guessing which pratt got it wrong at Web Towers, then.

David Hughes bursts into print well into the edition. Page 6, my life, I should be so lucky. He amplifies the coverage we gave in the website to the plaques that were erected in the clubrooms to former members, and there is some good photographic coverage of the event.

Then the Gnosall Gnutter, John Wardle-Wardle (so good they named him twice) waves his stubby pencil around in the air a bit and goes on alarmingly about the dim and distant past when he used to be about forty years younger. Some of the stuff is a tad racy for Linesider, we would have thought. For example, he talks about greasing his nuts (for his motor bike, mother. Don't start flapping your pinafore), last puffs and "needed to score". The article ends with a list of recording persons who published their material on vinyl discs forty years ago. Not one mention of a musician amongst any of them.

Moving swiftly on.

The Armchair Modeller appears from out of the woodwork. Interestingly anonymous, you have find out who he is if you want to borrow the book he offers. Here's a Top Tip from your Webmaster: Think Vice and think Exhibition.

David Hughes' enormously interesting column about steam gossip comes next - complete with some great piccies. You can see three of them below reproduced in a much bigger and more colourful format. We'll be doing this each month from now on.

There's a press release from The West Coast Railway Company about the Carnforth open day, and then Mark Forrest's "What's On" trundles into the bay platform. You can see this on the website, too. Mark also provides a guide to a website - http://www.2d53.co.uk - which takes a look at the mainline railways of north Wales (Cymru Gogledd).

So, another copy to add to the bookshelf (our bookshelf is now nearly level as the number of Linesiders propping up the sagging end is nearly thick enough to counteract the slope in the floor)...

P.S. Your Webmaster was at the DEMU, you know....