Steve's Railway Web Log

RailForum Discontinued

Since the rail forum was taking me more time to maintain it than it actually got used by everyone else I have decided to close it down. My apologies to anyone who has arrived here looking for it.

Not Completely Forgotten

I have been so busy with other tasks in recent months that I haven't even had time to update the featured article entry. I haven't forgotten about this site and will add more to it when time permits.

New Forum Rules

Due to the increasing number of spam messages being posted to the railway forums I will now be checking all new registrations before granting permission to post to the forums. I have just spent several hours manually checking all of the existing members details and have deleted those whose profiles or posts do not clearly indicate an interest in railways. Hopefully this will keep the spammers out while not adding too much to my workload.

Ideas Wanted

Are you just starting out in the hobby? If so is there any aspect of the hobby that you think I do not yet have adequately covered with the articles on this site? I am looking for ideas for more articles that I will hopefully find time to write later in the year.

Happy New Year

Wishing everyone all the best for 2006. May you finally finish that modelling project.

Awards

This site has recently been honoured with a couple of new railway awards. The award page on the site have been reorganised into three separate pages so that you can view the awards I have received (and offer) without having to wait too long for the page to load.

Home Page Update

The home page of Steve's Railway pages has now been updated to display the latest entry from my weblog. Now you will always be able to see the latest comment I have added to the site.

Club Membership Software

I have added a new category of pages to the site - Reviews - and to start things off have written a review of a software program that handles Club Membership. Model Railway Clubs may find this information useful.

Hi All

I haven't forgotten about this site, it is just that I have been rather busy with other things the past few months. Please don't forget about the Railway Community Forums where you can post your own information about railways.

Exhibition

The AMRA NSW branch exhibition is on at the Whitlam Centre at Liverpool this long weekend. I will be there on Monday.

New British N Gauge

There has been a fair amount of discussion on the N Gauge Modern email group regarding Dapol and Hornby commencing production of British N Gauge models. It will be interesting to see what they produce. Hopefully this additional supply of models will encourage more people to take up modelling British N.

New Page Added

I have added a newarticle today.

As I don't currently have any ideas for future topics and don't know when I will next have time to write them, I have removed the 'coming soon' section from the Recent Updates page.

Check out the Rail Forum

I guess the updates here will fairly irregular - only when I think of something railway related to say.

You are invited to check out my Railway Community Forums where everyone is invited to make their own railway related comments.

Developments in Model Railways

A friend of mine has just advised me that he intends to return to the hobby after a break of several years.

Welcome

Welcome to my new web log (blog) where you can come to find out the latest info that I think is important about what is happening in the world of railways. Of course some entries are more important than others and you can tell the importance of a particular entry by the colour of the heading - grey indicating a normal entry, magenta a slightly more significant entry, and red an important entry. You can even subscribe to be emailed the important entries to make sure that you don't miss them.