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« on: September 22, 2024, 13:09:48 »

Another thread on forum updating and modernisation.   And please complete the two polls to let me know the sort of devices I should be concentrating on for the work I am doing - they are at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29190 asking about what you use at present, and http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29191 asking about what you expect or would like to use in the future. 

Screen size and input devices are just one consideration on the updating; they are the one on which I and the others on the team perhaps need most guidance.  Lots of things are "well known" as aspirations / desires / needs and many of them interact, so I am (feeling slightly arrogant) not offering you another poll to choose what you want.  This decision to go with what I and the moderator / admin team are coming up with is also to avoid raising false hopes, and to be letting the work proceed without a stream of late suggestions which cause a change of thought / course and cost time.  I appreciate the irony here, having got involved in public campaigning for a decent train service to me home town AFTER the SRA» (Strategic Rail Authority - about) / DfT» (Department for Transport - about) consultation had been closed, and the many years we then had go work to get back on track.

Next summer (2025) it will be 20 years since the formation of "Save the Train", and it will be 200 years since the first passenger trains in the UK (United Kingdom).   That looks like a good target date (yes, I know such targets are dangerous!) to have the modernisation broadly completed.  Behind the scenes, a lot has been done already, some of it checking out technology but in a rather clunky way, without the user friendly paintwork and polish on top, and without the checking out with a variety of data circumstances.   In the areas of our board that are open only to members, I will be going into more detail. I am aware of areas that are in need of attention, but feel they are best explained and comments made "in-house" rather than shouting about where we are archaic in public!
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