LNER section on my site

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:49 am

I am currently in the process of adding a LNER section to my site and woundered if anyone had any suggestions.
Take a look at my site Rails North West (groups.msn.com/RailsNorthWest)
News is updated every 3 to 5 days, railtour updates each week and new photos are being processed at the moment (that reminds me must post those photos of 60009).
I have a few ideas oready.
-A direct link to this site (if thats ok richard)
-A list of all mainline LNER locos
-Lists of RTR LNER models in 00 and N guages
-A message board devoted to the LNER

Wandering1500 · Post by **Wandering1500** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:48 am

Is there a point in all this, considering everything you mention is already adequtely covered by this forum and site?

David

LNERandBR · Post by **LNERandBR** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:04 pm

The message board wont work because most of the pople interested in the LNER will come here and not their.

What can your site/forum offer which this site/forum cannot.

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:04 pm

My idea was more toward show LNER in preservation and giving publisity to this site which is more developed than my own

Wandering1500 · Post by **Wandering1500** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:07 pm

My idea was more toward show LNER in preservation

Again, thats already covered here.

David

LNERandBR · Post by **LNERandBR** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:08 pm

I beleve that there is allready a site concentrated on Peserved LNER Locomotives which has a list of Peserved LNER locos.

Maby just a link will suffice.

If you want to see what a dead forum looks like look HERE thats My foum. A bit dead isnt it.

And My site is HERE I could have included more information but included a link to this site instead cus I would be repeating what is allready here.

Post by **richard** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:41 pm

Tom - yes sure add a link - most people don't usually ask! lol

There are a couple more sites, eg. Wikipedia, and

http://www.bulleid.force9.co.uk/lneeg/

(active listserver, but preserved loco list not updated since 2000).

Forums are very difficult to get going as LNERandBR says. Did you know that the National Preservation site had print adverts to get going?

I had a set of forums for commercial work, and you could see the tumbleweeds. I took it down a few months back. I added these forums because my mailbox would fill with LNER queries! I didn't know the answers, or it would have been almost a full time job looking them all up and quoting books. It struck me that a lot of the people who emailed me had a lot of LNER knowledge spread out amongst them, and it would be of benefit to them, the site, and my sanity, if I could get them all talking to each other. Hence the forums!

Even with steady traffic flowing through the site, it has taken a few months for these forums to get up to speed.

Richard

LNERandBR · Post by **LNERandBR** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:27 am

Yeah their really starting to take off.

Just wait until they get as big as this

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:48 pm

That would cuase a few headache wouldn't it richard lol

LNERandBR · Post by **LNERandBR** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:39 am

When it gets that big you will need more then 3 Moderators. lol

Post by **richard** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:06 pm

yes probably a few more.

When I first added a couple of railway pages to my winwaed.com pages, I actually had a MS Train Simulator page. Alas, I lost interest and it never grew into more pages - unlike the N gauge pages which morphed into the LNER Encyclopedia.

Richard

LNERandBR · Post by **LNERandBR** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:19 pm

I'm well addicted to MSTS.

Its alot better when you download some British routes and rolling stock form UKTrainSim.