The above has been taken from our community news magazine Your Steyning Bramber and Beeding, if the weather is fine it should be an interesting afternoon.  See you there?

An overall view of my latest occupant in the loft.  Hursley Next The Sea has at last had rails, wires, and power added to all of the chalk doodleing from the last couple of months

One of the Hursley Light's Terriers arrives in the goods/run round loop with the first freight train to Hursley.   Meanwhile the line's latest acquisition, in the real and model sense, sits in tha bay with a train for Chapelfield.  The throttle cable is not long enouggh for that yet, so it will have to wait for a charged phone and the Blue Tooth throttle!

Some pictures of the March 12 2023 Steyning Exhibition.
Builder and photograph credits shown.  Thanks to all the exhibitors and behind the scenes team for a great show.
                                           Andrew Knights

Layout by Alan Marlowe

Layout by Alan Monk

Layout Charlie Fox-Wilson

HO Stock Display Ian Simpson

Layout by Chris Ford, picture Andrew Knights

Above two layouts by Les Coleman

Layout and rolling stock by Syd Bunker

Layout by Tony Dean

It took almost a day of fan heater assistance.  But eventually the second coat of varnish progressed past the Fly-paper stage.  Not hard but at least dry and non-sticky to the touch.  The next four coats will have to wait until we have some warm weather and nights!

A picture of the painted creek bed and the two island linked bridges across it.  Still thinking about the name of the creek itself!

Not so very long ago a train belonging to the Hursley Light Railway (HLR) actually managed to complete a circuit of the loft.  Eerie like this seems to have been my prime residence over the last few months. At least when not organising our recent exhibition.

A final rearrangement of the two halls.  Good news is that we have over sixteen layouts.  The slightly less good news is that Wandleford Junction will not be at this event.  As organiser and general dogsbody I would be far too over committed to transporting and erecting the layout as well as tending to other exhibition needs. For this I appologize to all the Railway Modeller readers hoping to see the layout.

By Thomas lloyd

An occasional series of Doodle Plans inspred by the railways of Cornwall

New WRG NEWS?  This will, in all probabilty become the format for our information stream, or in other words what will replace the 30 year old Newsletter format. Contributions can still be sent to my WRG email address as before. They will then appear on this stream. 

There are several reasons I feel it is time to change.  The change in postage stamp procurement and possible longevity there of being one.  The other following from this is that if the Newsletter is no longer to be a paper, or page, based format, then it is better suited to a Blog/Web style.  Most members read the Newsletter online, I hope that there will still be the facility to print out as required, or desired. 

In this new guise there may be more issues in a month or fewer, they will not have to be "n" number of pages ("n" equalling an even number).
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Although there will no longer be the need for a password to reach a Member's area, I hope you will still allow yourselves to be counted as members or "subscribers".  The e mail list will then be used to produce a round robin as before, this to let you know when something of note has been placed on the site, or there is a "subscriber" oriented event (Kitland's Light Running Day or such).

Andrew Knights 

Free? Well mostly.  I was looking through the potential stock box for the British HO ready for the Longfield show in January 2023.  I pulled out a new Athearn  (well an unused Blue Box Athearn F7) loco and in the box a spare LIMA class33 body.  In the store there were also two “working” LIMA 33’s, HO of course.

Looking at the two 33’s I saw that they both were devoid of traction tyres, so it only needs the retaining rim on the outside of the driven wheels to be turned down and there should be no probable derailment opportunities.  I cleaned the wheels and put them on the track.  Both ran.  Down to the kitchen and strip the two locomotive down.  I cut one chassis just behind the motor bogie.  The other just behind the idle truck. Adding some plastic strip to brace the rejoined cuts, I taped the two locomotives ballast weights together.  These were placed back in the newly joined chassis, and the body clipped back atop the chassis.  This to ensure that all set straight and true.

The same was done with the now un-powered chassis.  Both ends rejoined and braced as before.  As I need a free rolling Class 27 for the Mk2a train set, this will be the ideal subject for chopping.  The twin power bogied 33 will become a class 26.  It will be interesting to see how this one compares to the rest of the fleet, they are all running on Atheran F7 chassis.

The next step on the twin powered chassis is to add extra pick ups on what were the traction tyres wheelsets.  LIMA with eight wheel drive and eight wheel pick ups, plus a free and free running class 27.

The body work is needed on both of these. End cab doors, plated over and the body side holes for the single line token equipment need adding to both bodies.  The Class 27 will need route indicator boxes adding to the cab tops.  I think I used MilliPut for this last time around, when I did this a quite few years ago.