2013 Seventh Annual Model Railways On-Line Wishlist Poll Options

[Graham Plowman]

It is polling time of year again!

The 2013 Seventh Annual Model Railways On-Line Wishlist Poll is now live and open for voting - place your votes to let the manufacturers know what models you would like to see manufactured.
The poll will close at midnight GMT on 28 February 2013.


To access the poll: http://www.wishlistpoll.co.uk

In case of any confusion may we clarify that our poll is completely independent of the MREMag/RMWeb Wishlist Poll.

Last year a number of people indicated their intention not to vote in our poll but to wait for the RMWeb poll. However, the two polls have completely different objectives. Last year the organisers of the RMWeb poll were seeking to identify suitable model subjects that would justify the development by the manufacturers of new tooling. Alternatively the purpose of the MROL poll is two-fold: Firstly to give modellers the opportunity to tell the manufacturers what models they would like to see in the shops and secondly to help the manufacturers find business opportunities whether by producing new tooling, upgrading existing models or just providing more of existing models currently out of stock.

If railway modellers wish to acquire a model, be it new or existing, which is currently not available in the shops then the MROL poll gives them the opportunity to vote for it.

There is a place for both polls in the hobby and I would ask readers to support both.

This year the MROL poll is using completely new software into which we have incorporated a number of changes:

- The poll is now separated into multiple pages instead of one big one, making selection easier and faster due to smaller page loads
- A new introduction/instructions page has been included
- For those who wish to take time to make their selection a facility to save choices and to return later has been added
- An additional question to enable voters to indicate their country of residence has been added. Manufacturers' sales figures are being distorted by online ordering through UK retailers from overseas. We seek to provide them with better information about the distribution of their markets worldwide
- Voters may now indicate multiple interests. This question is no longer restricted to primary and secondary interests
- The voting pages are now implemented like a 'shopping cart' with full database search capability, adding and deleting multiple items from the cart
- Information is now attached to most items in the database including thumbnail images and links to information websites
- One of the biggest problems with previous polls has been to establish the popularity of locomotive sub-classes within an overall group e.g. the GWR large praires. We have now implemented grouping of items so that it is now possible to vote for a group of locos or for individual sub-classes. The new software enables us to report both the overall popularity of a group and individual types
- Wheel standards are now a single question rather than attached to every model
- Voters can choose multiple liveries for rolling stock items. Previously, they could only choose one. Voters could also choose liveries for non-rolling stock items which wasn't appropriate and is now removed
- Some items have specific livery lists attached whereas others have a generic list. Identifying specific liveries for items of rolling stock is a huge task and we welcome your feedback. It is very easy for us to make mistakes and omissions

The system will retain e-mail addresses partly for preventing multiple voting and partly to enable voters to return to their selections later. E-mail addresses will not be retained after the poll has closed unless you tick the box which we have provided to indicate your permission for us to contact you in 2014.

The results of our poll will be published on our MROL website and on Model Rail Forum as soon as possible after 1 March 2013.

Please tell your friends about our poll.

Please use the 'Contact Us' facility on every page of the poll for all support, questions item and livery requests. Before contacting us, we recommend that you use the 'Save' facility so that you can come back later, re-load your choices and continue with your voting selections.

We are unable to respond to postings in RMWeb or MREMAG.

Paul Plowman

On behalf of the MROL team

[Graham Plowman]

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[george mcdonnell]

hi graham
i just tried to vote and nohting came up i would like to see a hunslet 0-8-0dh shunter any ideas
george

[Grifter_Guru]

Keep getting this Error from the website when executing "next" on "pollpage4.aspx". Even the "contact us & load" links call the error..


Server Error in '/' Application.

Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.]
System.Web.HttpValueCollection.ThrowIfMaxHttpCollectionKeysExceeded() +2692482
System.Web.HttpValueCollection.FillFromEncodedBytes(Byte[] bytes, Encoding encoding) +61
System.Web.HttpRequest.FillInFormCollection() +148

[HttpException (0x80004005): The URL-encoded form data is not valid.]
System.Web.HttpRequest.FillInFormCollection() +206
System.Web.HttpRequest.get_Form() +68
System.Web.HttpRequest.get_Item(String key) +39
Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression.IsAjaxRequest() +31
Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression.Compress(HttpApplication application) +384
Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression.PreRequestHandlerExecute(Object sender, EventArgs e) +43
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Exec
ute() +68
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +75

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.5466; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.5456

[Graham Plowman]

Can you please use the 'contact us' feature and contact me directly so that we can fix this for you ?

Thanks

Keep getting this Error from the website when executing "next" on "pollpage4.aspx". Even the "contact us & load" links call the error..


Server Error in '/' Application.

[Grifter_Guru]

Keep getting this Error from the website when executing "next" on "pollpage4.aspx". Even the "contact us & load" links call the error..

I did try on the poll website, but as above, got errors...... Or did you mean through this forum?

[Graham Plowman]

Grif,

What I really meant was PM me - I need to know your name/email so that I can check the database.