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Some trains take the Fairmount Line from Readville to South Station, instead of going past Hyde Park, Ruggles, and Back Bay. I couldn't find this information in the HTML schedules on the MBTA website, but if you look carefully at the PDFs for both the Franklin Line and Fairmount Line, it's there. JNW2 14:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Most MBTA commuter rail lines are named by their terminal station(s). The Franklin Line is named by its second to last stop. This may be worth mentioning in the article, and if there's some reason for this, it would be nice to have that reason noted. JNW2 14:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
The reference for the linked New Haven Railroad (predecessor owner of this line) timetable refers to a page 18. This is not fitting for timetables. In this and other cases, the pages are actually often not numbered. So, an arbitrary locating of a "page 18" will not bring the reader to the pertinent page of the timetable. But a 'Table 18' will take the reader to the pertinent trains. On a similar note sometimes there will be a few timetables on one literal "page." So, the formatting conventions of Wikipedia need to be modified to the specific nature of railroad timetables. Dogru144 ( talk) 05:42, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
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cite book}} for future timetable references that you add, rather than just a vague note of the timetable.
Pi.1415926535 (
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The Franklin Branch itself is a subset of the ex-New Haven Midland Line, which ran between Readville and Blackstone and has been abandoned west of Franklin. The Midland Line itself was assembled from the following:
Mackensen (talk) 15:39, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
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Some trains take the Fairmount Line from Readville to South Station, instead of going past Hyde Park, Ruggles, and Back Bay. I couldn't find this information in the HTML schedules on the MBTA website, but if you look carefully at the PDFs for both the Franklin Line and Fairmount Line, it's there. JNW2 14:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Most MBTA commuter rail lines are named by their terminal station(s). The Franklin Line is named by its second to last stop. This may be worth mentioning in the article, and if there's some reason for this, it would be nice to have that reason noted. JNW2 14:05, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
The reference for the linked New Haven Railroad (predecessor owner of this line) timetable refers to a page 18. This is not fitting for timetables. In this and other cases, the pages are actually often not numbered. So, an arbitrary locating of a "page 18" will not bring the reader to the pertinent page of the timetable. But a 'Table 18' will take the reader to the pertinent trains. On a similar note sometimes there will be a few timetables on one literal "page." So, the formatting conventions of Wikipedia need to be modified to the specific nature of railroad timetables. Dogru144 ( talk) 05:42, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
|chapter=
field and the page number in the |page=
field. It is also possible to use the |page=
field directly for table numbers if no page numbers are present; in that case, |nopp=yes
will suppress the p. abbreviation. Please use {{
cite book}} for future timetable references that you add, rather than just a vague note of the timetable.
Pi.1415926535 (
talk) 05:51, 26 October 2019 (UTC)Clarifying the service/line distinction:
The Franklin Branch itself is a subset of the ex-New Haven Midland Line, which ran between Readville and Blackstone and has been abandoned west of Franklin. The Midland Line itself was assembled from the following:
Mackensen (talk) 15:39, 16 April 2023 (UTC)