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email sightings and news, please read before emailing The Class 47 List website:
The standard email address for The Class 47 List website:
I welcome all news related to class 47's, or anything that may affect any class 47 workings in future.
Information for sightings should include the date it was seen, the loco, the LOCATION seen, a vague idea of the working it was on (not too important) or where the loco was stabled, and also please include either the name you wish the news to be credited to, or an 'alias'.
Questions are welcome, but if I don't know the answer then I may not reply.
If you want to email photographs PLEASE READ BELOW.
Corrections are welcome to, especially to spelling errors or date errors, mistakes on my part are quite rare (apart from grammar!) but sources of information can somtimes be conflicting from more than one source, so any help in alterations to these is also appreciated for historical note.
I often do not reply to sightings and news received by email, this may be because I haven't got around to reading the email, or that the email simply requires a 'thankyou' in return. All information is gratefully received and I thank each and every one of you in advance here: THANK YOU!
email photographs
Due to a deterioration in news quantity (mostly due to my part in the time taken to download photographs, or time away from the internet at times) I now request the following from those of you who send photographs:
I do appreicate photographs, and attempt to use every single one, BUT due to the time it takes to download them, and to then edit them to a correct size and upload them to the website this sometimes is not possible, or not until a later date.
Most contributors these days (due to the increased usage of digital cameras) send me photographs with sightings of loco's at the same time. This might make perfect sense to you, the contributor, but if I see a large email with a photo attached when I am on a tight schedule to update the website, I move the email to a folder within my email inbox that contains emails with photo's contained, which may not be viewed for a few days or up to several weeks.
Therefore it would be an advantage to both you - the contributor, and me - the editor, if you could also send your sightings on a seperate email which I will go through before downloading the photo and use to update the daily workings lists.
Photographs should be resized where possible in Microsoft Photo Editor to a photo width of either 600 or 640 pixels, whichever looks better. These are the two sizes that I resize the images to before using them on the website.
comments and suggestions
If you have any of these then please email, if I don't know what's wrong I can't change it, similarly if I don't know what you'd like to see online then I can't put it on...
The internet explosion since I started here in 2000 means that there was a viewing explosion as the end of Virgin Cross Country and First Great Western 47 workings happened, since that the viewing figures have gone down and then stayed at an average figure - mainly due to less 47's on the mainline but this can also be blamed on the ease of gen finding from other sources, new websites and rival email groups, cranks passing gen between each other and often not finding its way to me (obviously some things are with-held by sources due to being commercially sensitive), or simply because I don't update the site enough.
I have very few official sources, members of some companies who own(ed) 47's have emailed in the past but very rarely do so nowadays, so if you know something I have stated is wrong or would like something mentioning then please let me know.
Being away from the class 47 scene for large periods of time means that I do miss out on 'hot' news, so all I can say to people who do moan is that please do not presume that I know what is happening, the more emails the better!
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for emailing news, photographs, and corrections.
other website information
Answers to Frequently Asked Question can be found by clicking here. That page also includes some information on the website beginnings, some of the general info is also included above on this page.
photo 47316 July 2005, copyright Steve Goodrum.
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