SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk
Old changes

Notes

The What's New? page lists recent changes. These become less and less important as time goes by, so rather than clutter up a quick-glance-type page with an interminable list of older changes, I've put them on their own little page here.

This page is not retrospectively updated. So if a page has moved since an entry that refers to it was cascaded onto this archive page, then the link won't work. This is a historical quirk.

What was new, pre August 2005?

2004 June 19: Some long-awaited minor corrections and improvements made to the Cambridge-and-Oxford cycle route. Also made a small update to the page about this site’s creator.

2004 June 7: 1959 tube stock page updated, as Mike Kelly’s preserved carriage is on the move.

2004 March 21: Various minor updates to General LU photos page, including confirmation that The Shouty Man is indeed Peter Lodge.

2004 February 1: Generated a Site map, partly for the better understanding of visitors who may be a little lost, but also for the avoidance of doubt when defining This website, and to assist the maintainer in keeping track of pages.

2004 January 23: Made a select alteration & addition to the 1972 MkI tube stock page, on hearing reports that the cars at Hainault have gone for scrap.

2004 January 2: Included newly-arisen information and a link on the 1959 tube stock page, relating to the preservation of car 1305.

2003 December 15: The season of goodwill leaves Squarewheels early this year, as Richard finds himself forced to re-jig the Copyright notice to make it even clearer yet that unauthorized re-use of my material is unacceptable. You know who you are! (Note that, under the Berne Convention, Copyright is claimed on creative materials regardless of the presence or absence of any Copyright notice.)

2003 November 18: moved the Railways and Underground Trains pages to this server at SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk, as part of the move to rid my site of the hideous pop-up advertising which still blights part of it at present.

2003 November 12: Further new material added to the Concorde page: another take-off with its sound and movie recordings.

2003 November 2: New material has been added to the Concorde page—namely a video-clip and two versions of a sound-recording. Further tweaking has also been taking place to the style-sheet as I learn more by repeated messing around (oh, and reading [Dave Raggett’s Introduction to CSS] amongst other things)!

2003 October 30-31: In a rash moment (okay, day) I began the process of upgrading the site to XHTML and CSS, with the Concorde page being the first to be done.

2003 October 29: Added to the Concorde page, to refer to the Captain of one of the planes I photographed.

2003 October 23: New page created, for Concorde whose final service leaves Heathrow today. A new format involving thumbnails is being tried on that page.

2003 September 21: Having moved the tag and nameservers of my SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk domain to a decent ISP ([UKShells]), I have now been able to move much of my site so that it appears “seamlessly” with URLs containing my domain name. Therefore, most every page throughout the site has been altered to reflect the new URLs which, in some cases, need never change again! I have taken this opportunity to include the Squarewheels name in the titles and headings of some pages, and to reorganise some directory structures.

2003 July 27: Made several alterations to the route-notes and added ten recent photographs to the Cambridge-and-Oxford Cycle Route page.

2003 June 15: Some tidying-up, reorganisation, and the addition of a little new material have been made to the 1962 tube stock page, in addition to a minor change to the layout of all webpages on the site.

2003 April 9: I've moved all the LU Rolling Stock pages (but not their index) to a new location, because the Tripod server keeps denying access to http://metadyne.tripod.com/ (Richard's Railway Page) due to bandwidth allowance exceeded. I hope that moving the bulk of the popular content will solve this problem. I also uploaded an update of the 1962 tube stock page, made a correction to the Engineering & Heritage stock page, and moved another years'-worth of these "What's new?" changes onto the Old changes page.

2002 December 9: a teeny bit of updating on the A subsurface stock page, following additional information provided by Duncan Fenton. Also a bit of flippancy on my photography page, regarding my photos of the front of Mornington Crescent station.

2002 October 10: a further update for my LT Buses page, following additional information from Kevin McGowan.

2002 October 7: updated the LT Buses page to incorporate a correction, and the Island Line page to bring the text up to date and say that the line's franchise has been extended.

2002 September 23: created a new page, I felt it! The UK earthquake of 22/23 September 2002. The title says it all really. ;-)

2002 September 8: modified the Cambridge/Oxford route-notes pages to reflect a couple of changes which needed to be reflected in the route-notes to keep them up-to-date and accurate.

2002 June 28: Updated the 1959 tube stock page and the related `Heritage' 1959-stock page, adding up-to-date information about the final days of operation of these old trains, and their prospects for preservation.

2002 May 5: altered all pages on the site to remove references to my email address. Instead they point to a new page which contains all the required information.

2002 April 28: Copied all parts of the site that lived at www.geocities.com/rgriffin231/ over to a new location, under the new domain-name of http://www.squarewheels.org.uk/. My email address has also changed.

24th March 2002: added text-only pages containing just the text of the notation-key and route notes for my Oxford-Cambridge cycle route notes page, so that folk can print out just the bit they want to be printing!

19th March 2002: some small updates to the cats page. Also recently updated was the 1992 tube stock page, as ATO is now in use throughout the Central Line. The Taking your bike on the London Underground page's fundamental content hasn't changed, but I altered something and updated the "correct as at" date. A few other pages altered in a minor fashion, and my account of the 1999 OxCam 400 Audax updated with a post-postscript and some link-additions and revisions to the text. Moved the more-than-a-year-old bit of this change list onto its own page, Old changes to this website

20th February 2002: updated my Usenet threads page because Google Groups has now reinstated on-line access to all the Usenet archives formerly owned by Dejanews. While I was addressing the updating of that page, I decided to "tear out and keep" a posting I made about how I set my own personal land speed record: hence this new page, 56.8 mph - on my bike!. Revised the D stock page as it had an error and some material that was beyond its use-by date. About me page updated to incorporate a link to the "56.8 mph" page described above, and likewise the cycling page.

19th February 2002: updated the 1992 tube stock page to reflect the fact that Woodford's No. 21 siding is now passed for ATO, leaving just the approach to Ealing Broadway as the only non-ATO section of the Central Line. Also that the Waterloo & City Line has been transferred to Bakerloo Line management. Belatedly updated the 1973 tube stock page as its refurbishment programme finished many moons ago.

20th January 2002: updated the 1962 tube stock page, as the Epping-Ongar Railway has taken delivery of another old tube train. Will it fare any better than the last one they got? [No! -Ed.] Also very belatedly updated the "Fair notice" disclaimer page (linked off my Railway Page) to reflect my transport-related job.

7th August 2001: updated the About me page, somewhat belatedly, to reflect the new variant of work I'm now doing.

13th May 2001: updated the links on the "Taking your bike on the London Underground" page, and instated a previously-omitted link to it from the cycling page.

3rd March 2001: Added Mike Kelly's photo of his tube-train-car-in-garden to the 1959 tube stock page.

25th February 2001: Some pages within the Underground Trains section overhauled and brought up-to-date.

20th December 2000: about me page updated to reflect new job and qualification.

2nd November 2000: unofficial Hastings DEMU page changed to reflect the fact that the [official Hastings Diesels Limited webpage, http://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/], is now working. Railway page also altered for the same reason.

29th October 2000: I know it's been a while... I've been doing other things instead. The only real change is that I've swapped a "tired" link on the Railway page for a newly-discovered one, to Hywel Williams' [Disused Underground Stations] pages.

31st August 2000: Various updates in the cycling section, and a couple of quotes added in the Formula 1 area. General minor updates to a few pages in the Underground stock pages.

13th August 2000: Cycle route: Oxford and Cambridge is long-awaited and now finally available for the trying...

14th July 2000: Miscellany page added, to give somewhere to place a new but unimportant page entitled The mystery of the regular explosions.

1st July 2000: I've gone through the whole site, changing my email address since I'm moving ISP. A brand-new page about my participation in the 1999 OxCam 400 Audax 260-mile cycle-ride is now linked into the cycling pages. It looks as if I'm also going to be streamlining the URL for the home page, and making a copy of [it] at "~/index.html" for ease of use.

23rd May 2000: A new picture for the frontispiece of the 1992 tube stock page; added photo of Sandite car, '62 stock. Added a completely new page for with eight photos, entitled Engineering & Heritage stock; teeny updates elsewhere. Cats page updated to reflect their new age.

7th May 2000: Further braces of new pictures and information in the Underground Stock section, this time on the A-stock and C-stock sections.

6th May 2000: Lots of new pictures and accompanying text to two of the London Underground tube train pages, namely 1973 stock (Piccadilly Line trains) and 1996 stock (new Jubilee Line).

5th May 2000: Charing Cross/Strand/Embankment conundrum page updated to remove a glitch on certain browsers — please let me know if it doesn't display properly on yours! A little addition about a unique tube train added.

4th April 2000: new page for the Torbay DEMU railtour; a raft of minor factual updates/alterations in the Railway section. Lots of new pictures and text on the 1962 tube stock page.

16th March 2000: all parts of the site now revamped. Every active page conforms as far as possible to the HTML 4.0 Transitional specification as given below; all links checked, and in particular the Usenet threads page greatly improved.

10th March 2000: a gentle revamp of the whole site in progress, particularly aimed at upgrading all active pages to conform to [HTML 4.0] "Transitional" specification. Pages thus treated carry the “HTML 4.0 correct” label at their foot. Some problems experienced when dealing with pages hosted on Geocities, see this note for details.

20th February 2000: brand new page for the 1983 tube stock (at long last!).

29th January 2000: I was present at the last-ever run of the old Northern Line trains. I took some photos, "fast-tracked" them through developing, scanning and processing, and wrote a webpage around them. The result is here: The last day of the 1959 Tube Stock.

4th January 2000: Some substantial changes to almost all parts of the LU Rolling Stock pages. The Hastings DEMU page has been re-vamped to some extent, and three new pages for forthcoming HDL railtours were created.

There is no record kept of changes prior to January 2000.