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GrimsbyPacer

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Other than Rail magazine in print. I use Focus Transport blogsite for national news and Humber Transport blogsite for local news.
 

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Is there a free (ie non-subscription) website that includes a round-up of news from the preservation sector - loco & stock repairs, repaints, maintenence, transfers... railway expansion projects - that kind of stuff?
 

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Hi all,

I work for this website: http://www.smartrailworld.com/ It looks more at the technology and business side of things and features interviews with those working in the industry. Would be keen to hear any feedback you have as we are a relatively new site.

Thanks, Steve
 

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Hi all,

I work for this website: http://www.smartrailworld.com/ It looks more at the technology and business side of things and features interviews with those working in the industry. Would be keen to hear any feedback you have as we are a relatively new site.

Thanks, Steve

Ir looks fine to me. I've added it to the long bookmarks list.
Only thing that might help is if story space on main page was shorter so you can ignore some and then click to enlarge one below.
A bit like Focus Transport I guess.
 

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Thanks for the feedback. We'll be launching a new redesign of the website soon so watch this space!
 

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I’ve compiled a list of news and views sites, which is where I get all my BS from, feel free to add your own

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/Travel+&+Transport/Rail

Newsnow is a general news crawler site, it just happens you can customise it to rail (or any other interest for that matter!). It updates around the clock every few seconds, from national and local newpaper feeds, websites and blogs

http://www.transportinfo.org.uk/

Transport info is manually updated every day, because its hand updated, it can pick up on things newsnow misses. They also test to post related things and hot issues in transport, especially the environment and energy.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/

The railway gazette is a good site for technical and industry news, also tends to have an international flavour

http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/

Transport briefing contains news for transport professionals and data sets for their use. As a result, tends to have much more detailed information than newspapers.

http://www.railnews.co.uk/

Rail news is the website version of the long running ‘staff newspaper’ of the railway industry, so it does tend to report things that staff might be interested in or industry developments

http://www.modern-railways.com/news/latestnews.php

The modern railways website is the online version of the magazine, which tends to focus of technical matters for the railway industry

http://www.railwaypeople.com/rail-news/index.html

Railway people is an online site, usually based around jobs and industry developments.

http://www.railpro.co.uk/

Rail professional is the magazine for rail managers, but tends to be of interest for the rest of us



Blogs

Web logs vary in quality, and the only ones that tend to be worth reading are those with inside information, or at least people who are well connected, or from a consumer point of view something connected to their issues, such as ticketing. Others tend to be ill informed (they are far too many armchair operators about!) or just tend to moan about things. I don’t read too many, so below is a limited list, but I'm sure there is far more.

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ca14/ALYCIDON%20RAIL/alycidon%20RAIL%20home.htm

Roger Fords site – the technical writer for modern railways. More of an e-zine rather than blog, but useful nevertheless: Some people criticise Roger for being too much in love with British Rail, but a useful read for those interested in economic and technical matters.

http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/

Christian Wolmars site (or Woe-mar as Chris Green ex BR/Virgin Trains called him!). It’s a good issues site, although Christian tends to be glass half empty and, well, bit left (typical ex Warwick University!). Like Roger Ford, also in love with BR and nationalisation. Christian tends to pop up on the TV any time some rail issue appears, and writes a column for Rail magazine and is the author of several books.

http://railwayeye.blogspot.com/

I have mixed feelings about the railway eye, it tends to be very short, though can be quite funny. Does tend to be over critical, but does it in a (usually) humorous way.

great article!!

well worth a read
 

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Im a bit of a techophobe and need to join the current centuary, can any of you guys directly me to the app for real time trains, is it free or do you pay?
 

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Despite what the RTT website says, the iOS app hasn't been available in the App Store for a very long time. RTT works very well in Safari I find
 

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Hello, can anyone help me with how to message other members. Etc thanks.
 
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You need to make five posts on the forum first and then it will enable the function and allow you to message other members of the forum. I see you have already made two posts so you will need to make three more posts on this forum before you can message other people on this forum. I believe it is an anti spam measure to stop spam bot accounts probably. Hope this helps.
 

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I used ABrail for rolling stock updates (MUs, Coaches etc) but the site is no longer being updated. Does any one know of a similar website for such info
 

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I'm putting a site together with annual fleet allocations for mainline locos and multiple units from 1975 to the current day. Eventually I hope to have an up-to-date list in there too. It will be fairly basic to start with but will hopefully be of use to modellers and simmers along with those trying to date photos and people like me that can look at fleet lists for hours. I'm aiming to get some of the data online by the end of the year. The long term aim is to have 1960 - current day but that's a long way off.
 
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I'm putting a site together with annual fleet allocations for mainline locos and multiple units from 1975 to the current day. Eventually I hope to have an up-to-date list in there too. It will be fairly basic to start with but will hopefully be of use to modellers and simmers along with those trying to date photos and people like me that can look at fleet lists for hours. I'm aiming to get some of the data online by the end of the year. The long term aim is to have 1960 - current day but that's a long way off.
sounds good to me hope it works good luck with it
 
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I’ve compiled a list of news and views sites, which is where I get all my BS from, feel free to add your own

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/Travel+&+Transport/Rail

Newsnow is a general news crawler site, it just happens you can customise it to rail (or any other interest for that matter!). It updates around the clock every few seconds, from national and local newpaper feeds, websites and blogs

http://www.transportinfo.org.uk/

Transport info is manually updated every day, because its hand updated, it can pick up on things newsnow misses. They also test to post related things and hot issues in transport, especially the environment and energy.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/

The railway gazette is a good site for technical and industry news, also tends to have an international flavour

http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/

Transport briefing contains news for transport professionals and data sets for their use. As a result, tends to have much more detailed information than newspapers.

http://www.railnews.co.uk/

Rail news is the website version of the long running ‘staff newspaper’ of the railway industry, so it does tend to report things that staff might be interested in or industry developments

http://www.modern-railways.com/news/latestnews.php

The modern railways website is the online version of the magazine, which tends to focus of technical matters for the railway industry

http://www.railwaypeople.com/rail-news/index.html

Railway people is an online site, usually based around jobs and industry developments.

http://www.railpro.co.uk/

Rail professional is the magazine for rail managers, but tends to be of interest for the rest of us



Blogs

Web logs vary in quality, and the only ones that tend to be worth reading are those with inside information, or at least people who are well connected, or from a consumer point of view something connected to their issues, such as ticketing. Others tend to be ill informed (they are far too many armchair operators about!) or just tend to moan about things. I don’t read too many, so below is a limited list, but I'm sure there is far more.

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ca14/ALYCIDON RAIL/alycidon RAIL home.htm

Roger Fords site – the technical writer for modern railways. More of an e-zine rather than blog, but useful nevertheless: Some people criticise Roger for being too much in love with British Rail, but a useful read for those interested in economic and technical matters.

http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/

Christian Wolmars site (or Woe-mar as Chris Green ex BR/Virgin Trains called him!). It’s a good issues site, although Christian tends to be glass half empty and, well, bit left (typical ex Warwick University!). Like Roger Ford, also in love with BR and nationalisation. Christian tends to pop up on the TV any time some rail issue appears, and writes a column for Rail magazine and is the author of several books.

http://railwayeye.blogspot.com/

I have mixed feelings about the railway eye, it tends to be very short, though can be quite funny. Does tend to be over critical, but does it in a (usually) humorous way.
@brit_railnews on Instagram is also pretty good if you're an Instagram user, the news is simple and pretty easy to digest if you don't fancy reading long articles.
 
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