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Update 1233 15 July 2025	YouTube Videos | Purchase Orders Update | Disposals | Safety Circular YOUTUBE VIDEOS Most HOPS videos are available again on the new HOPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HOPSHeritageRailways There are videos for users, managers and admins on various topics relating to HOPS, Raildays, Retail Systems, and heritage railway management topics in general. You can subscribe in the normal way to receive notifications when new videos are published. We have nearly completed the uploading of our back catalogue of videos. --- HELP TOPICS We have reviewed and updated our Help page for new users of HOPS: https://www.hops.org.uk/help/new-user We hope this will be useful for Admins to send to new users of the system to explain the first steps. ... And our guidance on managing occurrences of two (or more!) users with the same name at the same railway: https://www.hops.org.uk/help/handling-duplicate-names --- RETAIL SYSTEMS A set of new reports has been added to Reports & Export to assist with auditing products. This will be especially useful to railways preparing their product itinerary ready for online sale. Reports: 135 Products without Names 136 Products without Descriptions 137 Products without a lead time 138 Products with a retail price of zero (free) 134 Products without URL Slugs 139 Products with a weight of zero (Method A) 140 Products with no postage volume limits (Method A) 142 Products with no postage group (Method B) 141 Products with no postage price (Method D) 143 Products that can be purchased when out of stock --- PURCHASE ORDERS The New HOPS purchase orders system will be back soon. When it launched a couple of weeks ago there was a suggestion that permissions were not being applied properly so it was taken offline. It transpired that permissions were working correctly, but there has not yet been the opportunity to re-release it without affecting the smooth-running of the existing system. It was intended that both old and new systems would run side-by-side for a period, until development work on the new system was no longer back-compatible with the old system. This point has now already come and gone, so there will now be a changeover between old and new systems when the time comes. We will give further info when that is about to take place. --- HERITAGE RAILWAY DISPOSALS GAZETTE https://www.hops.org.uk/disposals GNR Double Bolster Wagon No. TIC 1352 The East Anglian Railway Museum is looking to dispose of 1920 built GNR Double Bolster wagon number TIC 1352. The vehicle is thought to have been built by Cravens Railway C&W Co. LTD in Sheffield. The vehicle was previously known to be at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the National Railway Museum Shildon. No work has been carried out on the vehicle at Chappel and it’s offered free of charge to parties intended to restore/re-purpose the vehicle with the buyer to remove the vehicle from site at their own cost. Viewings can be arranged. The museum will prioritise any interest from other accredited museums/railways and then heritage/preservation groups/societies. Other interested parties are invited to enquire. If no interest is reached by 9th September the vehicle will be cut up on site. The Heritage Railway Disposals Gazette is available free to all heritage railways. Thank you to all the railways who have worked together to provide this facility for everyone's benefit. If you would like to subscribe directly please visit the Disposals Gazette (link above) and then the 'Subscribe' tab to subscribe. [Note we do not commit to promoting items for disposals via this System Updates system every time, this is a rare occasion to promote its existence. Please subscribe via the disposals link above if you would like to be sure of receiving notifications for new items.] --- "EXCELLENCE" IN RM3 SAFETY CIRCULAR https://www.hops.org.uk/safetycircular It has been a quiet period for Safety Circulars recently. It would be nice to think that that was due to there being no safety lessons to learn, but... perhaps that is wishful thinking. Please do remember the existence of Safety Circular, a good opportunity to show a high level of safety maturity, and RM3 "Excellence", and helping to share lessons learned, both with pain and with pride. Circulars do not have to state the railway from which they originated. ---
Update 64 24 February 2011	Spacing of telephone numbers has now been standardised throughout the system, including the area prefix and code, ie, Ashford area (01233) 123 456.