train radar back on

When submitting an idea you have a character limit on the {Idea title}

The current error message is : "Whoops! The title for this idea is too long"

Update it to be : "Whoops! The title for this idea is xx characters too long.

Tim

In the email that goes out to past participants you should also

 1. post the theme of the competition in the email

 2. give a link to the winner of last month's competition

Tim

GREAT USE OF OLD TASMANIAN RAIL LINES 
RAIL RIDER

the other day when i was out near the Tanunda's old passenger station i noticed some people clearing the line that once had the limestone Penrice train ant the Barossa wine train it is broad guage and had not been used for at least 5 years could this be the start of something new

if anyone has inside information please respond ASAP.

I think you could add some of the user account shortcuts to the top navigation bar.

My suggestion would be: 
 "My recent Forum posts" which gives a drop down list of the last 10 threads posted to

 "My followed Forums"

 "Private messages" 

 "My images"

The notification for replies is excellent.   My idea is just to extend that funcitonality

Perhaps these could be customisable in the preferences or automatically set based on each users most often used items.

I think it would also encourage users to access all the features of the site.

BACKGROUND
I'm only an occasional user of Railpage and it feels that if I'm not just reading the front page news I have to go through two or three extra steps than I feel I should have to use.

I recommend a "forum post saved" feature that runs first at 30 seconds then runs every 15 seconds or so.   This is particularly important for long, considered replies.  The first save trigger time could be set to avoid saving quick replies which would just be an unwanted and unnecessary burden on your .  

I think users will also just expect this feature in the next few years as it is  standard in many websites and cloud editors.  
(The impetus for my suggestions was that 
I wrote a long post in a forum and when I clicked on post the dreaded "server connection lost" came up.  I couldn't go back and I lost the whole thing.   It wasn't "War and Peace" but I had given it some thought so it was pretty frustrating.)

Tim

Can we have a feature allowing a user to search for a train number in railpage and have returned the train number with running times?

By way of example

https://www.railpage.com.au/radar?mode=train&id=6BM4 this information would be accessible.  The train listing is great but needs to be manually entered via the URL above.

Next and at the same time have a search feature added when you search for a locomotive.  using the existing search at the top right return a location fix for the locomotive you search and if not on a train then return the last known location.

A website called BR Database has records of every single locomotive that operated on British Railways and any pre - nationalisation companies. Something like this on Railpage for each Australian State/Territory would be great, but would require lots of contributing from Railpage users. These databases would probably need to be separate websites altogether.

Currently the RSS/Atom feed (which I use to read Railpage news headlines) only shows the article title in the newsfeed.

This means I see titles such as "Premier announces $200m rail funding" which is pretty ambiguous because I have no idea for which state that applies!

Please add the news category to the article titles in the RSS/Atom feed -- I think a prefix would be best such as,

"QLD: Premier announces $200m rail funding"

which tells the readers all they need to know from a headline.