2021 Statistics for Carriage and Wagon

Following on from our 2021 Round Up, which by the way is now the third most read posting since we began the blog in September 2020, you may be interested to read some of the statistical information for both C&W and the Blog for 2021. 

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STAFF AND WORK

Total volunteers in the Department (Works, Maintenance and Cleaners): -

• 119
  

C&W volunteers logged: -

• 3134 attendances

• 18,358 working hours 

Winter maintenance jobs identified at the end of 2021: -

• 81
  

Works arising from our November condition surveys of the three rakes: -

• 28
  

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THE BLOG 

Please note that the period for the Blog statistics actually runs from February 2021 to the first week of January 2022. They were taken on 10th January at 1700.

Links have been set up from the postings and pages below where indicated (coloured).

The blog had: -

• 200 postings

• 161,000 viewings

• 448 comments and replies
  

World viewings broken down by country: - 

• United Kingdom .................... 136,000
  
• United States ........................ 5190
  
• Australia ................................ 2520
  
• Canada ................................. 1240
  
• Netherlands .......................... 1210
  
• New Zealand ........................ 957
  
• Spain .................................... 871
  
• Belgium ................................ 740
• South Africa ......................... 444
  
• Indonesia ............................. 398
  
• Austria ................................. 321
• France ................................. 155
  
• Ireland ................................. 132
  
• Germany ............................. 117
  
• Sweden ................................100
  
• Philippines ........................... 56
  
• Romania .............................. 43
  
• Russia ................................. 40
  
• Norway ................................ 29
  
• Other countries ................... 11,000 

 

 The top ten postings - viewing totals: -

 

 

1. Saturday 11th (Sept) - Look what we found .... 863

 

 

 

 

2. 2021 Round Up  ...... 847

 

 

 

 

3. Friday 1st (Oct) - A Biiiiiig Shunt and another brake van ride .... 801 

 

 

 

 

4. Saturday 10th (Apr) - Surprise! ...... 795

 

 

5. Saturday 6th / Sunday 7th (Nov) - A really great weekend .... 772

 

  

6. Electrics on MK1 carriages for GWSR (Mar) .... 772 

 

 

7. Thursday 4th (Nov) - What we've all been waiting for .... 738 

 

 

8. Saturday 13th (Nov) - The next project .... 719

 

 

9. Thursday 2nd (Sept) - Another one on the way .... 716

 

 

10. Saturday 27th (Nov) - Walking in a winter wonderland .... 704 

 

The fixed consultation pages - viewing totals: -

The Meet The Teams pages are initially published as a normal posting so will gain their own viewing totals in the normal day-to-day stream. A copy is made and placed in the Pages section of the Blog for permanent consultation and it is the viewings when here that are recorded below. These copies are kept updated as new staff join and existing staff retire or move to a new department. There are now 19 Meet The Teams pages - still to come are Engineering, Maintenance and the Management Team.

The top ten of the pages section: -

1. Carriages .... 2300 

2. Wagons .... 1710 

3. Currently in the Works .... 1050

4. Meet the Teams (Introduction and list for selection) .... 730

5. Our Workshops .... 457 

6. FAQs .... 234

7. Meet The Teams - Painting and Preparation .... 169

8. Meet The Teams - Woodwork .... 143

9. Meet The Teams - Doors .... 66

10. Meet The Teams - Mechanical (aka "The Dirty Gang") .... 46 

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The all-time totals

To finish off this posting a brief look at the overall totals since the new Blog began in September 2020. 

• 291 posts

• 220055 viewings

• 697 comments and replies

 The top twelve postings: -

1. Exploring the Honeybourne Line in 1981 .... 1140

2. Saturday 11th (Sept) - Look what we found .... 863

3. 2021 Round up .... 855

4. Friday 1st (Oct) - A Biiiiiig Shunt and another brake van ride .... 801

5. Saturday 10th (Apr) - Surprise! ...... 795

6. A very talented lady (Penny's artwork) - 785

7. Saturday 6th / Sunday 7th (Nov) - A really great weekend .... 772

8. Electrics on MK1 carriages for GWSR (Mar) .... 772 

9. Postscript to Exploring the Honeybourne Line in 1981 .... 743 

10. Saturday 12th (Dec) - Winding down for Christmas? Not for some .... 741

11. Thursday 4th (Nov) - What we've all been waiting for .... 738 

12. Railway snow and frost scenes at Winchcombe .... 725 

 

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The Blogging Team hope you have found the above of interest. 

 

What will all these look like after 2022?

 

Stop press update:

 

On 17th January at 1630 a check was made of the viewing total for "2021 Round Up". It had achieved 879 hits, making it the second most read post since the new blog began. It will no doubt continue a bit more before stopping completely.