Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by ChrisB at 15:53, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Session keys are then the answer. If you can't make your choice within a single visit, well, that's tough in order to get a proper vote!
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by grahame at 15:48, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Each time the list is displayed, a different order can easily be offered!!
Yes, but if a person is going through the list and exploring each one in turn, the last thing they want is to have the list change under them so they don't know which they have looked at. Hence my modified suggestion posted at 15:02
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by ChrisB at 15:20, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Each time the list is displayed, a different order can easily be offered!!
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by grahame at 15:02, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The list ought to be offered in random order, otherwise the first on the list gets most votes everytime (this time too)
Ah yes - we've had this with the taxi drivers list in Melksham - where AAP would come at the top and Paul's Taxis at the bottom. We cannot randomise them each time as people sometimes have to work through the list to find someone who's available and if the list is mixed up on every refresh it's a problem as people don't know who they have tried. Our solution has been to provide the list alternately forward and backward, one day and the next ... and furthermore to start with a diferent firm each day as we cycle though. That would not work on a short term high use site such as this World Cup vote, but it could be cycled around and reversed depending on the user's IP address.
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by grahame at 13:10, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I have (members will not be amazed!) submitted Melksham Station. "Nominate a station that you believe has made a life-changing impact" says the blurb from the Rail Delivery Group."
Having just been to the site and voted ,strikes me as odd that so early on one station has 45% of the votes cast !....
Yes - but the voting is going by quantity of vote(rs) and not by the quality of the impact made.
Personally, the biggest impact on me is "none of the above" and I don't just believe it has made a life changing impact - I know it has. However, my nomination didn't make the shortlist ...
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by Western Pathfinder at 12:52, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Having just been to the site and voted ,strikes me as odd that so early on one station has 45% of the votes cast !....
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by ChrisB at 11:39, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The list ought to be offered in random order, otherwise the first on the list gets most votes everytime (this time too)
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by Ralph Ayres at 11:33, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Took a while to work out that the voting list was greyed-out because I hadn't selected Cookie options that were on a pop-up lurking below the bottom of the screen (who designs these things?), but I've now voted.
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by grahame at 10:10, 13th October 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Voting starts in October half-term week
The shortlist:
Abergynolwyn – Wedding Bells on the Railway
Ashington – A Station with Sporting History Returns
Bristol Temple Meads – Where Railways Shaped Time
Cambridge – For Students, Cyclists and Elephants
Chesterfield - Home to the Father of the Railways
Exeter St Davids – The Birth of Penguin Books
Liverpool Lime Street – The Oldest Grand Railway Terminus
London Marylebone – From Pop Culture to Personal Pride
Paddington – Evacuations, Kindness, and a Famous Bear
London Waterloo – A Gateway Through History
Merthyr Tydfil – A Historic Steam Engine Journey
Preston Station - WW1 Free Buffet
Ramsgate – A Journey Home from Dunkirk
Ribblehead – A Station for All Seasons
Shirley – A Station of First Dates
Skegness – Original Gateway to the Seaside
Swanage – Inspiring the Next Generation of Railway Enthusiasts
Tilbury Town – Britain’s Gateway to New Beginnings
Vauxhall – Home of LGBTQ+ Heroes
York – Home to Railway History
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by ChrisB at 16:49, 22nd August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
You can nominate Taunton right now if you wish!
Voting starts in October half-term week
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:05, 22nd August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |

I have several 'personal favourite railway stations':
1. Kemble, 2. Nailsea & Backwell, 3. Melksham.
My vote has gone in for Melksham.
CfN.

For the information of any of my regular readers here (if indeed there are any), Taunton does not appear on that list. Anywhere.

Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by grahame at 12:44, 22nd August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Erm ... where's Melksham? 
CfN

CfN

Yes - I can spell that - M-E-L-K .... oh, wait, wrong question
"About 100 miles / 160 kms west of London. Not very far from Stonehenge / near Bath"
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 12:38, 22nd August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Erm ... where's Melksham?

CfN

Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by grahame at 09:09, 22nd August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I have (members will not be amazed!) submitted Melksham Station. "Nominate a station that you believe has made a life-changing impact" says the blurb from the Rail Delivery Group."
I don't just believe it has made a life-changing impact - I know it has.
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by JayMac at 17:03, 20th August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I did.
It was a very slow loading of the confirmation page without the usual progress bar. Got there in the end.
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by ChrisB at 09:28, 20th August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Just worked for me - follow the instructions for each box carefully
Re: World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by JayMac at 22:26, 19th August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Would love to submit a station but I can't get the 'Submit nomination' button to do anything.
World Cup of Stations, 2025 Posted by grahame at 13:05, 19th August 2025 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
From Rail Delivery Group
Welcome to our annual World Cup of Stations Competition where a group of shortlisted stations in Britain battle it out head-to-head in a public vote.
With 2025 marking 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, this year’s World Cup of Stations will see us celebrate the most life-changing station of the last 200 years. This theme will spotlight the many stations that have touched lives in unforgettable ways, from moments of hope and heroism to new beginnings.
There will be two phases to the competition:
Nomination phase (1 to 22 August) - Nominate a station that you believe has made a life-changing impact.
Public voting phase (13 to 17 October) - Cast your vote for your favourite shortlisted station, with the station with most votes to be crowned the winner.
With 2025 marking 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, this year’s World Cup of Stations will see us celebrate the most life-changing station of the last 200 years. This theme will spotlight the many stations that have touched lives in unforgettable ways, from moments of hope and heroism to new beginnings.
There will be two phases to the competition:
Nomination phase (1 to 22 August) - Nominate a station that you believe has made a life-changing impact.
Public voting phase (13 to 17 October) - Cast your vote for your favourite shortlisted station, with the station with most votes to be crowned the winner.