A change to a new server forced me to finally finish the implementation of yet another version of railwayhistory.org. The software is entirely new, the data format has changed yet again (hopefully, the third time is indeed a charmer).

But the most notable thing for you, dear visitor, will probably be the new design. I finally managed to find some colours. The scheme is inspired by the blue and creme scheme sported by some of the great European trains of the 1920s.

Under the hood, technology has changed quite a bit, too. Since the online editor never really materialized (mostly, because it is a hell of a lot of work), I have returned to keeping the data in text files. For the website, the data is loaded into MongoDB, one of those fancy new non-schema databases. This makes odd queries much simpler and you may see some new lists soon.

Unfortunately, this means that all data needs to be converted yet again. This is currently ongoing and once finished, I will also convert and import the data from the very old project.

In addition, lots of documentation needs to be written and added to the site.