Railway Newsgroups

The following are details of Railway Newsgroups and Mailing Lists. There is a description of some, and details of how to subscribe, and how to unsubscribe. There are bare details of some more.

uk.railway Newsgroup

This newsgroup has a wide range of articles about United Kingdom and Irish railways. While the majority of posters are from Great Britain, there are some from various other parts of the world. It is a very mixed group with a generally unsympathetic outlook.

To subscribe to this newsgroup
- You should arrange for your service provider to make
  uk.railway available to you.
To unsubscribe from this newsgroup
- You should delete uk.railway
  from your list of subscribed newsgroups.

alt.binaries.pictures.rail Newsgroup

This newsgroup is for people to post binaries. It is mainly filled with pictures of North American trains. However, binaries are banned from most other newsgroups so everyone wishing to post Railway pictures should use this group.

To subscribe to this newsgroup
- You should arrange for your service provider to make
  alt.binaries.pictures.rail available to you.
To unsubscribe from this newsgroup
- You should delete alt.binaries.pictures.rail
  from your list of subscribed newsgroups.

Rail-Gen Mailing List

This mailing list is intended for up to the minute UK railway gen.

To subscribe to this mailing list
- Send an email to <listserv@listserv.webkahuna.com>
- Leave the subject line empty
- In the body of the email you include:
  subscribe rail-gen
To unsubscribe from this mailing list
- Send an email to <listserv@listserv.webkahuna.com>
- Leave the subject line empty
- In the body of the email you include:
  unsubscribe rail-gen

Other Newsgroups

Newsgroup	Area covered
.	.
alt.railroad	USA [+ New Zealand]
alt.railroad.steam	Very little traffic
alt.railroad.twofoot	No traffic
alt.railway.locomotives.uk.class37	UK
alt.railway.rail-gen.follow-up	UK
aus.rail	Australia
bit.listserv.railroad	Mainly USA
fj.rec.rail	Japan [in Japanese]
fr.misc.transport.rail	France [in French]
japan.rail	Japan [in Japanese]
misc.transport.rail.americas	USA
misc.transport.rail.australia-nz	Australia + New Zealand
misc.transport.rail.europe	Europe
misc.transport.rail.misc	Miscellaneous
misc.transport.urban-transit	Local trains, mainly USA
pl.misc.kolej	Poland
uk.transport.london	London: all sorts of transport

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