Stock Records.

By pressing the Stock button on the Data Tab the Stock Records window appears which is in two parts. Only the left hand part of the window is shown below but the slider bar at the bottom of the window enables you to view the rest of the right hand section which contains more data on the vehicles.

This window is probably the place where you will spend most time as from it you can view details of all the stock in your database, edit it as required and prepare reports. The selection boxes at the top of the screen allow you to select the country you wish to view, the type of vehicles, the class of vehicles, the depot they are allocated to or whether they have been withdrawn, the operator and whether you have seen them or been hauled by them. Any of the selection boxes can be set to “All” so you could view every vehicle in the database on this screen if you wished.

From this screen you can choose a variety of hard copy reports like the one shown below and highlight the vehicles you have seen in green or in red for haulage if you require or simply print out an un highlighted report.

By choosing a particular country and depot you could print out a “Needed” list for a particular depot by choosing “n” in the status selection box if you required. The scope for different types of reports is immense. You can choose from A4, A5 or A6 booklet sizes. Listing by class, depot or type. Standard (shown below) or detail which also includes names, livery codes, pool codes etc. and you can turn highlighting on and off.

The screen has an editing on/off switch which will prevent you from inadvertently changing your data unless you specifically want to change it.

There are boxes on the screen which give the totals for the current selection including totals for those you have seen and been hauled by.

Full Stock Record.

By double clicking a particular vehicle or by clicking the Full Record button another window appears which shows all the data stored on a particular vehicle. You can record your own digital photographs of each vehicle if you wish and these photographs will be used in the printed report shown below.

Again an edit control switch is included and information on Date Seen, Location Seen, Times Seen, Date Hauled, Distance Hauled, Times Hauled together with your own notes can be stored and printed out if required.

New Stock.

New Stock is entered into ERD on the window shown below which can be accessed from the Stock Records screen or from the Data Tab of the control panel.

The window will only allow you to enter stock for which the Type, Class, Depot and Operator has previously been defined but you can define your own on the various windows which access the data.

There are no details of Trams in the database so if you wanted to save information on ,say, Trams in Dresden-Germany, you could define your own type of vehicle (T for trams), your own class, depot etc and store the information, provided, of course that you have upgraded ERD for storing information on Germany since countries cannot be added manually, only through an update disc.

Hardcopy Reports.

Hardcopy reports are available in a variety of formats such as the hardcopy reports shown below. 

This report is an A5 size report of German diesel locomotives which has been highlighted in green denoting seen or red to indicate haulage. The report is by type so that all operating german diesel locomotives are listed under the title "Diesel Locos". Alternative groupings are available which list the vehicles under class headings so that a seperate heading would appear for each class such as "Class 218". This sub heading would be in the same type as "Diesel Locos" is on this report and would seperate classes 217 and 218. Another alternative listing would be by depot in which case the sub heading would be the depot code and all stock allocated to that depot would be listed below the depot code. The highlighting facility can be turned on and off. By choosing "n" in the status box of the Stock Records window a listing of all vehicles needed can be obtained very easily and can be printed out by depot so that you can easily see which depot you need the most off. It is also possible to select diesel locos or electric locos only or even both only so that reports can include that type of vehicle only if you wished. A particular depot can be selected so that only data on that depot is included in the report. The system is very flexible and will enable you to develop endless combinations for customising your own reports to give you the information in the way you want to view it.

There are two other report sizes, A4 and A6 booklet. The A4 report has seven columns and the report of all operating vehicles in the full database amounts to some 101 pages and for those who do not have access to a computer is available for purchase.

Detail Reports are available and the one shown above is an A5 report which includes Livery, Pool and operator codes as well as the number, depot and vehicle name. The A4 detail report additionally includes the vehicles previous numbers, withdrawn date, times seen and times hauled by.

The above view shows the Full Stock report for a particular vehicle which in this case is class 66 nubber 66053 about to go under  the road bridge at Burton on Trent on the freight avoiding line. It shows some technical details on the locomotive and there is space for your own notes if you so require.