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What’s New?

Notable changes to the SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk website

2010 July 18: New photos added to, and revisions made to, the A60/62 Subsurface Stock page, as well as to the Underground Trains index.

2009 November 22: After half a decade being a temporary page, the LUL Programme Machine page has been brought up to scratch and is now published in the LUL section of the Railway page. Also, minor updates have been made to Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route and its alternative sections page.

2009 October 18: The useful Kingswood diversion has been surveyed for Alternative sections of route for Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route.

2009 October 7: Cats page updated.

2009 August 14: Added a photo of Humphrey Lyttelton and provided a better-quality (rescanned) version of another, to the Re-opening of Mornington Crescent tube station page.

2008 October 29: Minor updating (partly to prove that its information is still valid) to the Taking your bike on the London Underground page. Also updated one link and added a second link about square-wheeled vehicles on the page about this website.

2008 October 1: Two changes have been made to Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route page. First, its Changes to… page has been re-named Changes to the route-notes of…: only changes to the actual route-notes will now be placed there. Changes to the webpages which support the route-notes will be mentioned here. Second, several updates have been made to the route-notes.

2008 August 17: 1973 tube stock page revised, and new photos added.

2008 August 9: Devised and implemented a logo for this website. Added a page illustrating some lightning & thunder.

2008 July 16: Some fairly major revising of the pages for 1962 tube stock and 1972 MkI tube stock, together with lesser updates to the 1960 tube stock page, and correction of data & an anecdote added on the miscellaneous motor-racing photos page.

2008 July 1: Minor update to my Cambridge & Oxford cycle route, as a relied-upon water-tap is reported kaput.

2008 June 17: Slight re-casting and updating of the 1938 tube stock on the Isle of Wight page.

2008 April 3: Minor change to supporting material for Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route.

2008 March 12: Further (minor) changes to the 1992 tube stock page.

2007 December 15: Alteration to the 1992 tube stock page, as the Waterloo & City Line has migrated back under Central Line management because of LUL’s relinquishment of the East London Line.

2007 December 8: Addition of a suggested alternative section of route to Cambridge & Oxford cycle route.

2007 December 3: Belated mention of further riding of Cambridge & Oxford cycle route.

2007 September 11: Updated the Miscellaneous railway photos page, to reflect the passage of the past seven years.

2007 August 24 and 27: Further tweaks to the Cambridge & Oxford cycle route, following visits to it by me & my wife, and (separately) my brother. Also added GPS data in GPX and KML formats, allowing folk to trace my route using GPS receivers and on Google Earth.

2007 August 21: Generated PDF versions of the key and route notes for my Cambridge & Oxford cycle route, for improved printing.

2007 August 18: Now that the usual route has been re-opened, my Cambridge & Oxford cycle route page has been updated (see its own changes page).

2007 August 2: Updates to my Cambridge & Oxford cycle route page; as ever, please see its own changes page.

2007 April 23: Re-cast the Sound-effects page, to bring the text up to date; actual content-updates shouldn’t be so far off now…

2007 April 17: Some relatively minor reworking and updating to the 1992 tube stock page.

2006 December 3: Some further updates to my Cambridge & Oxford cycle route page, please see its own changes page.

2006 November 15: Minor updates/expansions to the 1938 tube stock on the Isle of Wight page. Plus changes to the Home page’s thumbnails to reflect more accurately the scope of content.

2006 September 16: The construction of a new road has resulted in some temporary diversions to my Cambridge & Oxford cycle route; see its own changes page for details.

2006 August 27: The 1996 tube stock page has been comprehensively brought up to date, and augmented with four recently-taken photos.

2006 August 23: Having ridden my Cambridge & Oxford cycle route recently, I’ve brought its page up to date. Full details of all changes made are in its own changes page.

2006 July 31: A new approach has been taken with the 1972 tube stock, resulting in significant changes and additions to the 1972 MkI tube stock and 1972 MkII tube stock pages, and a lesser addition to the 1967 tube stock page.

2006 July 23: Added a link to Hywel Williams’ Aldwych Tour at the Aldwych section of 1972 MkI tube stock page.

2006 July 12: Added a Warning to commercial entities to the Copyright page, to further discourage them from stealing my material.

2006 July 7: Added several – again, non-recent – photos to the 1972 MkII tube stock page. Funny how these things can get so out of date, I’d been waiting to add some relevant photos to this page for nearly 7 years!

2006 June 28: Added several non-recent photographs to the 1983 tube stock page.

2006 June 16: Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route has been slightly re-arranged and updated: see its own changes page.

2006 May 18: Airbus A380 made its first-ever landing in the UK, at Heathrow. I was there to see it, and duly posted a webpage with photo barely an hour after the event.

2006 April 11: Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route has been modified to reflect the temporary removal of supermarket facilities in Ampthill; see the relevant changes-section entry for details.

2006 January 23: Another change to Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route, this time an addition of an alternative section of route. See its changes section.

2006 January 18: Richard’s Cambridge & Oxford cycle route has had a couple of trivial modifications, see the page’s own changes section for details.

2006 January 8: The 1959 tube stock page now includes recent information about preserved vehicles.

2005 November 13: In a huge offline reorganisation, every page on this site has been upgraded so that it conforms fully to [XHTML 1.0], with [CSS 1] (Cascading Style Sheets) now in force throughout all pages. All pages have been modified to achieve unity of branding, style and layout, as well as various details like pop-up tooltips for all link text. All external links have been re-verified, and all pages checked for well-formedness in the [W3C Markup Validation Service]. The LU Rolling Stock section has been renamed Underground Trains. Apart from three pages hosted at Angelfire (which contain sound- and movie-clips), all content is now hosted on the SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk server; a sizeable amount of filesystem reorganisation has taken place as a result. Pages which have moved location will have a redirection page set up from the old address. New or significantly-altered pages include those within the About section, and the 1992 tube stock page which has been re-worked. The completion of these necessary organisational changes paves the way for additions and updates to the content of many parts of the SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk website.

2005 September 1: Further changes have been made to the Richard’s Cambridge-and-Oxford cycle route page, following driving the route and checking lots of things.

2005 August 18: The first alteration for over a year: Richard’s Cambridge-and-Oxford cycle route has been substantially re-written and overhauled; the route has been surveyed using a GPS receiver, and a Gradient Profile has been produced!

Older changes

Changes from before August 2005 can be found at the page for Old changes to SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk