Great Western Coffee Shop

A very useful website - well worth a browse or three if you have a few minutes

http://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/news


I am astounded when I look at this site (and certain others such as http://www.disused-stations.org.uk ) at the astonishing work that goes into some areas of information provision - the love of data, and of the things that data's about.

To aid his picture quiz knowledge, perhaps CfN should have a browse or three at the site, but then again....  ;D

The Cornwall Railway Society website is another excellent source of information; not just in Cornwall but for Devon, Somerset and Dorset.

Hmm.  Someone else has just got themselves crossed off my Christmas card list.  :-X

Thank your Grahame for your post regarding www.tauntontrains.co.uk.
During our recent upgrade we also installed some analytics software which is showing a large amount of traffic coming from the Fgw Coffeeshop forum so I thought I would come an and say thanks for this!!

The website in one form or another has existed for around 15 years now, and it had reached it technological limit, however after much hard work and effort over the last six months from a dedicated few we've revamped it and have some big plans to further enhance the website over the coming year.
Easier use with mobile phones, tablets is one area we will be developing as well as a big push on the expansion of our historic images through early Diesel back into the earliest Steam images. We will also be going back over existing images and re-scanning with better quality equipment to bring the best out in each of the existing images from the old website. The development continues, so please do keep popping in to look round.
The purpose of the site is to preserve history of the railways in the Taunton area for future generations to remember and enjoy, and we have been very lucky this week to gain access to another collection of images from the 1970's taken a well known railway photographer which will be uploaded to the site in the coming week!

www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk is also another website with a wealth of information and another website well worth a look at!
They have been a great help to Taunton Trains over the years and we always pass information back to their site to help keep their records up to date.

Thank you again for your kind comments
Taunton Trains




Edit note: With many thanks for your post, Taunton Trains, I've just taken the liberty of correcting a minor typo in your first link, which was broken. CfN.

Oops! isn't embarrassing when you spell the URL of your own web site wrong ...

But welcome to the forum, anyway.

Welcome to our forum.  It is indeed a challenge as a site and software running it pushes the technological limits - and indeed as software upgrades with 99% rather that 100% compatibility in underlying systems.  Do please come back and announce further enhancements.  In fact please come back before that and keep us informed as to general passenger at Taunton ... and indeed elsewhere.


Our pleasure ... I sometimes try and work out why the Coffee Shop is so busy - and I suspect that much of it is because we're a switchboard of information.  Delighted to post / have posted associated links; we run analytics too and can see some incoming trends, though such systems don't tell us which of the links on our site away to other sources people are following.

2018 on the Coffee Shop has started with the busiest few days we've seen for many years; not been like this since the sea wall washed away at Dawlish in February 2014 ... quite amazing success for something that started off as a little try-out.  But then the TransWilts extra trains started out as seven extra services each way in the year 2011 and there are now seven extra services each way per day!