Our "Great Western Coffee Shop" Forum opened in 2007 as an 18 month project. It is still running 18 years later.

We're delighted but that's never what we had planned.  The old site is just as relevant today as it was a decade ago - indeed more relevant as we have a database of thousands of subjects you can search But the software is old and the content frightens security packages. We do not hold or transmit any personal data and believe our site remains safe under "http" protocol as well as "https" and we invite you to visit the old site, accepting any warnings you may get, via http://www.firstgreatwestern.info to the insecure version of https://gwr.passenger.chat/

As we upgrade and modernise the protocols, we'll be making a number of other changes too. You'll start to see it looking better on smaller screens such as you have on a phone, and you'll be asked for cookie consent (that's under test)- when we have that we'll be able to do other things too!