Great Western Coffee Shop

From Rail Delivery Group (https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services/campaigns/world-cup-of-stations.html)

Would love to submit a station but I can't get the 'Submit nomination' button to do anything.

Just worked for me - follow the instructions for each box carefully

I did.

It was a very slow loading of the confirmation page without the usual progress bar. Got there in the end.

I have (members will not be amazed!) submitted Melksham Station. "Nominate a station that you believe has made a life-changing impact" says the blurb from the Rail Delivery Group." 

I don't just believe it has made a life-changing impact - I know it has.

Erm ... where's Melksham?   ::)



CfN  :P

Yes - I can spell that - M-E-L-K .... oh, wait, wrong  question

"About 100 miles  / 160 kms west of London.  Not very far from Stonehenge / near Bath"

  ;D

I have several 'personal favourite railway stations':

1. Kemble, 2. Nailsea & Backwell, 3. Melksham.

My vote has gone in for Melksham.

CfN.  ;)



For the information of any of my regular readers here (if indeed there are any), Taunton does not appear on that list. Anywhere. :-X

You can nominate Taunton right now if you wish!

Voting starts in October half-term week

The shortlist:

Abergynolwyn – Wedding Bells on the Railway
Ashington – A Station with Sporting History Returns
Bristol Temple Meads – Where Railways Shaped Time
Cambridge – For Students, Cyclists and Elephants
Chesterfield - Home to the Father of the Railways
Exeter St Davids – The Birth of Penguin Books
Liverpool Lime Street – The Oldest Grand Railway Terminus
London Marylebone – From Pop Culture to Personal Pride
Paddington – Evacuations, Kindness, and a Famous Bear
London Waterloo – A Gateway Through History
Merthyr Tydfil – A Historic Steam Engine Journey
Preston Station - WW1 Free Buffet
Ramsgate – A Journey Home from Dunkirk
Ribblehead – A Station for All Seasons
Shirley – A Station of First Dates
Skegness – Original Gateway to the Seaside
Swanage – Inspiring the Next Generation of Railway Enthusiasts
Tilbury Town – Britain’s Gateway to New Beginnings
Vauxhall – Home of LGBTQ+ Heroes
York – Home to Railway History

Took a while to work out that the voting list was greyed-out because I hadn't selected Cookie options that were on a pop-up lurking below the bottom of the screen (who designs these things?), but I've now voted.

The list ought to be offered in random order, otherwise the first on the list gets most votes everytime (this time too)

Having just been to the site and voted ,strikes me as odd that so early on one station has 45% of the votes cast !....

Yes - but the voting is going by quantity of vote(rs) and not by the quality of the impact made.

Personally, the biggest impact on me is "none of the above" and I don't just believe it has made a life changing impact - I know it has.   However, my nomination didn't make the shortlist ...

Ah yes - we've had this with the taxi drivers list in Melksham - where AAP would come at the top and Paul's Taxis at the bottom.   We cannot randomise them each time as people sometimes have to work through the list to find someone who's available and if the list is mixed up on every refresh it's a problem as people don't know who they have tried.   Our solution has been to provide the list alternately forward and backward, one day and the next ... and furthermore to start with a diferent firm each day as we cycle though.   That would not work on a short term high use site such as this World Cup vote, but it could be cycled around and reversed depending on the user's IP address.

Each time the list is displayed, a different order can easily be offered!!

Yes, but if a person is going through the list and exploring each one in turn, the last thing they want is to have the list change under them so they don't know which they have looked at.  Hence my modified suggestion posted at 15:02

Session keys are then the answer. If you can't make your choice within a single visit, well, that's tough in order to get a proper vote!

Congratulations to Ashington for their win in this competition.

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Wonderful to see how well this line has done and what a bit of investment, and care and provision of a frequent and reliable service can do

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