User talk:AmosWolfe/Wolfe's WikiWeek

This is the talk page for Wolfe's WikiWeek. Any unrelated Questions, Requests and Comments should be left on my regular Talk page.

Photograph Requests

Please add any photograph requests below, in the relevant sub-section (feel free to create your own sub-section if a relevant one doesn't exist).

Railway stations

• Astley railway station - general views, perhaps a pic of the long Waiting Room. ← EXAMPLE

• User:Edward/National Rail stations without a photograph might be useful. Edward (talk) 22:00, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Locomotives and Trains

• British Rail Class 93 in the glow-in-the-dark livery - especially shots of this crossing the Severn Railway Bridge. ← EXAMPLE

Other railway stuff

• Several close-ups of those little plates screwed to the underneaths of platforms, you know, the ones with the little red slider bits on them. ← EXAMPLE

Anything else

• Places in towns and cities near railway routes, other transport (buses, trams etc), famous landmarks. ← EXAMPLE

Other requests

Not sure what you would like to request but feel free to ask anyway.

Comments, suggestions and questions

I'm not going to suggest any specific location, but here's some suggestions:

1. Take photos of any stations you get to. Try changing or breaking your journey at some smaller stations. Consider going to the less impressive lines, such as some of the Glasgow suburban routes, as well as popular routes like the Kyle Line. Also, the termini of lines tend to get more photographed than intermediate stations, as enthusiasts tend to want to get the whole line, so unless you're a dedicated route basher, try going to (for example), Hawkhead rather than Paisley Canal
2. If you can do so discretely, and the lighting is good enough, try taking some internal photos of trains as well as external shots. A photograph of a sleeper berth, for example, would be useful in Caledonian Sleeper.
3. Once you've planned your route, look at the relevant Wikipedia articles, and see if there are any buildings or other locations that you can photograph. Otherwise, for example, you'll get back with photos of the Cathedral, which probably has several photos on Wikipedia already, and you'll miss the Town Hall, which has none.
4. Don't be too ambitious - it's easy to work out a timetable that gives maximum mileage by leaving early in the morning, and arriving late at night, but this will just tire you out, and one missed connection can be disastrous.
5. Above all, have fun! Good luck.

Some of the above is pretty obvious stuff and has probably occurred to you anyway, but hopefully there's some advice there you can use. All the best. —  Tivedshambo  _(t/c) 21:39, 31 July 2008 (UTC)