Great Western Coffee Shop

We now have over 1,900 documents in our archive of which 1,075 searchable indexed documents. Most of these are available to members only, but just under 150 are available in public where we are clear there's public interest and no copyright concerns. We also have 25,000 threads with over 335,000 individual posted contributions - and the vast majority of those ARE public.

Just this morning I have added three documents:

http://www.passenger.chat/NN_at_announcement.pdf - "Network North" as it was announced by the Prime Minister on 3rd October

http://www.passenger.chat/NN_20231008.pdf - "Network North" as it was updated on 4th October

http://www.passenger.chat/hs2program_20231001.pdf - A recent (but pre-changes) description of HS2 and the various phases from "HS2" themselves.

Anyone can access the public (white list) documents via http://www.passenger.chat/whitelist.html ; they are categorised by importance though and it's not always easy to find what you want.  Indeed a great deal of work could usefully be done to make the entire archive easier to use.

If you want to search for something, the "deep search" box and button at the top of forum pages is a good place to start, as is http://www.passenger.chat/research.html - if you are a member, log in first and you'll then be able to view the documents you find.

Note that some resources are left out of default searches.  If you want to go back to forum threads prior to 2019, the "Dated" option lets you add in a seach right back to our foundation in 2007, and if you want to look in the documents in our archives but not yet indexed, use the "Report on" option and select "All Resources".

Coverage in our archive is patchy as documents need to be added when they crop up, and it's something of a personal project. However, I try to make it useful by adding things as I see them crop up. Many are never accessed at all - but at least we have backup copies should the original resource get lost or changed.

* Please let me know / send me a copy or link of documents you feel are missing - even if I have them, you might be helping me with poor indexing

* Some documents we have are locked .pdf files and that has made it impractical for us to extract the textual content to search

can previous copies of the Nathional rail timetable be published/shown/downloaded?

We have some

May 2019 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nr_timetables
December 2019 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nrtt20
May 2020 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nrtt20summer
May 2021 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nrtt21summer
December 2021 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nrt_dec21
December 2022 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nrtt1222
May 2023 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nrtt_may23


Edited to add these other places you could try:
https://timetableworld.com
https://www.railtables.co.uk/all-services/
https://britishrailwaybooks.co.uk/wtt/wtt.php
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13103
https://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/timetables.html

An update from my blog - http://grahamellis.uk/blog1052.html - "Melksham needs appropiate "Siftware"" ... looking at the issues managing and finding data in the town.  I have include Coffee Shop stats ...


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Added
December 2023 - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/nrtt_202312/