Old Friends, Faraway Places

A new picture page feature for those pictures of locos that once graced WSR metals and now at work elsewhere. Also for pictures of faraway places which at the time had a topical or relevant link to the WSR. I'll have to be rather more selective than normal as I don't want this page (or my time) to be swamped by submissions of "off line" pictures (pun intended). The purpose of the website is to show the WSR to the world on the web and local content must come first. Nevertheless it is always nice to see old friends in faraway places...

Updating on the move

Although it may seem old hat to some Billy Whizz types, I was somewhat pleased to find how useful was the WiFi service on GNER the other day when I had a trip to Edinburgh for a meeting. No sooner had I turned the laptop on when, hey, I was invited to connect to "gnerwifi" and so I did. Suddenly the entire internet was open to me. I downloaded some images submitted by a couple of my faithful band of photographers, chopped 'em up into publishing formats and then updated the supporting caption files. A bit of news had also come in so I dealt with that page too. And then I thought, well, that saved me some time this evening when I get back at 9pm. Well, blow that, why not upload to the webserver - yes the FTP link hooked up OK and off the new content went via who knows where. A quick check and yes the new content is online. Emails via the browser seemed to be OK, so I did some "real" work too. Next trip on GNER, save a couple to London, is to Inverness...perhaps the website can stay up to date during that extended trip, especially as WiFi is available at the b&b too. Perhaps I'm beginning to become a Billy Whizz after all.