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Minor updates and code changes occur every day. Only significant or noteworthy updates are shown here. Updates shown with a gold background are (or were at the time) only available to Advanced HOPS members.
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| Update 1046 11 March 2024 | We have launched two new HOPS facilities: STOLEN ITEMS REGISTER: Services menu > Stolen Items https://www.hops.org.uk/stolen-items Intended to provide an opportunity for heritage organisations to permanently list stolen items in order that potential buyers can identify them, viewings of the items can be reported to the railway, and hopefully more items recovered. Permission 519 is required to add new listings on behalf of the organisation (which has been added to all users and groups with 015 [generally indicative of HOPS Admins] to start with). --- DISPOSALS GAZETTE: Services menu > Disposals Gazette https://www.hops.org.uk/disposals There have been a number of cases recently where historical items have been disposed of to other collections or scrap, and there has subsequently been criticism of that action. The Disposals Gazette is designed to provide organisations an opportunity to demonstrate having taken reasonable steps to advertise to advertise the assets to other preservation organisations before they are sold or scrapped. Full details of what we hope will become the 'standard' accepted disposal advertising process are shown on the page. (Feedback welcome) Permission 518 is required to add new listings on behalf of the organisation (which has been added to all users and groups with 015 [generally indicative of HOPS Admins] to start with). --- In both of the above, it is intended for use by organisations rather than individuals. We may provide a mechanism for individuals to post personal items in the future. All new listings are 'accepted' centrally before becoming public. Once accepted, the listing is public. A link will be added to the HOPS home page in due course. HOPS Users can subscribe to (and unsubscribe from) notifications from one or both systems via the 'Subscribe' tab and new entries will be emailed to subscribers, as well as posted on X etc. A mechanism for non-HOPS users to subscribe may be added in future. All users with 015 have been subscribed to both registers, feel free to offer/encourage other users to do so. It is in everyone's interest to promote the use of these tools, and definitely in railway's interest to show disposals are being managed appropriately, so when posting in your own media outlets about items for disposal or stolen items please do share a link to the item's page in the Stolen Items Register or Disposals Gazette. The lists are separate by coutnry, for each country with railways that use HOPS. Viewing the list of another country is fine, but we thought it would be more focussed to separate them out as most readers will only be interested in their own country. Thank you to the railways who have requested these features over the years, we hope they are useful. Your feedback is welcome as always! |