Ferrybridge station-West Yorkshire-help!

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

Does anybody have a pic of Ferrybridge station?Pictures of our station,as was,seem very hard to come by.Some people who live here refuse to believe that we had one!A local councillor has spoken of trying to have it re-instated,but whether that would happen,i really doubt.Any info would be gratefully received.Does anybody know whether any services actually started or terminated here,or was it just a thru station?

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

C'mon folks,there must be some kind of nugget out there!The only photo i've seen shows a couple of wooden platforms,but one neighbour thinks there was a building too.Can anyone confirm?

[Bill Bedford]

C'mon folks,there must be some kind of nugget out there!The only photo i've seen shows a couple of wooden platforms,but one neighbour thinks there was a building too.Can anyone confirm?

Google is your friend

try http://www.mulehouse.demon.co.uk/stations/index.htm

[Malcolm]

Ferrybridge Dude, you've got to learn how to use search engines.

Malcolm

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

Thanks for the replies.Sorry if i seem a bit slow computer-wise,but we haven't had one all that long,and the missus and myself are self-taught.Getting better as time goes on.Now using more than one finger!

[Malcolm]

Ferrybridge Dude,

Okay, to get you started and give you some help:

The Key to Successful Searching:
Remember, you are smarter than a computer. Use your intelligence. Search engines are fast, but dumb. A search engine's ability to understand what you want is very limited. It will obediently look for occurrences of your keywords all over the Web, but it doesn't understand what your keywords mean or why they're important to you. To a search engine, a keyword is just a string of characters. It doesn't know the difference between cancer the crab and cancer the disease...and it doesn't care. However, you know what your query means (at least, I hope you do!). Therefore, you must supply the brains. The search engine will supply the raw computing power.

Smart Searching:
1. Know Where To Look First
Are you looking for information about a person? A company? A software product? A health-related problem? Do you want to find a job? Get a date? Plan a vacation? Do you need to research a term paper? Document a news story? Size up your company's competition?
There are various databases containing specific information that might be more useful to you than a general search engine.

2. Fine-tune your keywords
If you're searching on a noun (the name of a person, place or thing), remember that most nouns are subsets of other nouns. Enter the smallest possible subset that describes what you want. Be specific. Try to meet the search engine halfway by refining your search before you begin. Example: If you want to buy a car, don't enter the keyword "car" if you can enter the keyword "Toyota." Better still, enter the phrase "Toyota Dealerships" AND the name of the city where you live.

3. Be Refined
Read the help files and take advantage of the available search refining options. Use phrases, if possible. Use the Boolean AND (or the character +) to include other keywords that you would expect to find in relevant documents.
Also learn to EXCLUDE with the Boolean NOT. Excluding is particularly important as the Web grows and more documents are posted. Run your initial query over again several times, each time adding further refinements to narrow down your list of relevant hits. Example: If you want to find out how medical details about your grandmother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, try entering "Alzheimer's" AND "symptoms" AND "prognosis." If you want to find out about Alzheimer's care and community resources, query on "Alzheimer's" AND "support groups" AND "resources" AND NOT "symptoms."

4. Query by example
Take advantage of the option that many search engine sites are now offering: you can "query by example," or "find similar sites," to the ones that come up on your initial hit list. Essentially what you're doing is telling the search engine, "yes, this looks promising, give me more like this one."

5. Anticipate the answers
Before searching, try to imagine what the ideal page you would like to access would look like. Think about the words its title would contain. Think about what words would be in the first couple of sentences of a webpage that you would consider useful. Use those words, or that phrase, when you enter your query.

Here are some useful search engines. Bookmark them and practice using them. They are really useful.

http://www.alltheweb.com/
http://www.ask.com/
http://www.google.co.uk/
http://www.search.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.altavista.com/

Hope this helps.

Malcolm

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

Thankyou very much for this Malcolm,i really appreciate it.This just proves what i've said all along.Ferro-equinologists are top people!From Ferrybridge to wherever you are(are you really in Japan?) thankyou!!

[Malcolm]

You're welcome. And yes, I really do live in Japan.
One small favour, though. On behalf of myself and others, could you please refrain from using the term: "ferro-equinologist"?
(Ferro- meaning iron plus equine meaning horse give one who studies iron horses, i.e., a railfan).

Aside from the fact that it doesn't really exist in the English language, it sounds foolish and pretentious.

Malcolm

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

Consider my knuckles rapped!!

[John B]

One small favour, though. On behalf of myself and others, could you please refrain from using the term: "ferro-equinologist"?
(Ferro- meaning iron plus equine meaning horse give one who studies iron horses, i.e., a railfan).

Aside from the fact that it doesn't really exist in the English language, it sounds foolish and pretentious.

Malcolm, apart from being imaginative, I consider it rather droll and redolent of railwayman's humour, overlaid as it is with self deprecation

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

Hope i haven't started an argument here.I promise not to use it again.

[Malcolm]

Nah, don't worry about it Ferrybridge. We're all like that on here. We don't argue...we sometimes disagree, but we never argue. It's all in good spirit. Just harmless banter.

Malcolm

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

Okey-dokey.Thanks for the info about search engines.

[Malcolm]

Anytime Ferrybridge.

Here's another good one for you. Includes weekly downloadable magazine (free).

http://www.railwayherald.co.uk/

Malcolm

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

Thankyou,very interesting.This could keep me out of WH Smiths!!