... not intending to use it commercially. regards, Martin. posted: 8 Apr 2010 18:06 from: Jim Guthrie Brian Nicholls wrote: However, my main stumbling block is I have no track or building layout plans for the period mentioned above. I would therefore, be most grateful if anyone can help with, or perhaps point me in the direction of, such information. I'm sure there must be something hidden away in some archive someplace or other. Brian, I've just had a quick dig around and found this enticing section of a 1950 plan http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_str1310a.htm Now, if you could find the original "lnwrbns_str1310" drawing then you might have something to work from at a decent size. Maybe contacting the web site owners might give you some indicators of what you can get. There are literally hundreds of pictures of the station on this site. BTW, I proposed to my late wife on this station many years ago pre-1964, just before boarding the Glasgow sleeper. It was a dark dump ...

... with one broadband provider--Comcast. The phone company (Verizon) can't provide DSL to my home because it's too far from a substation. So I'm stuck with Comcast or slow dialup. I think I'd rather miss a few emails than go back to dialup. BTW, I have no long term contract with Comcast, so that is not the reason for not switching provders. There are no other providers of broadband in my municipality! Comcast pays each municipality for the privilege of having a monopoly, a monopoly tolerated to entice businesses like Comcast to come into a municipality and wire it with cable. Verizon is beginning to advertise a fiber optic network direct to your door, which should be available in our community in a year or two. Then everyone expects cable prices to drop from the competition. Both Comcast and Verizon offer TV, broadband internet, and telephone service. You can buy one, two or all three services. I'm not defending Comcast practices but they see a pattern from the hosting service that Martin uses that appears to be the ...

... is a group of settings followed by some info strings followed by some memo strings; I would guess the settings also have some structure within them- for example the date and time on 1010/1015 are probably both related to the same thing. However, the file sample has no structure to it- it is 'flat'. I would suggest that we adopt one of the existing file formats which have been designed for storing and transmitting data such as this. This would have the benefit of familiarity to any other developers we entice to join the project and also give us tools that we can use to process the files, for example viewers which understand the structure and can present it nicely. Although there are many such formats, I believe the requirements of representing structure and being readable narrows the list to relatively few. I have prepared a version of the example data in each of what I consider to be the main contenders. TOML (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language) The original INI file format fails to provide for structure. TOML is very similar, ...