This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Great Western Railway article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: 1Auto-archiving period: 730 days |
Great Western Railway has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | ||||||||||
|
This article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
This page has archives. Sections older than 730 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 3 sections are present. |
The Infobox used in this article can be found at {{ Infobox GWR}}.
Quote "After 1902 G. J. Churchward developed a distinctive style of locomotive in 4-4-0 ...".
Should that be 4-4-2?
Songwriter 09:46 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
The name of the Flying Dutchman Racehorse came from an old story, and has nothing to do with Maarten Tromp, Trom was never the Flying Dutchman, that story is way older. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.80.157.6 ( talk) 03:38, 31 December 2015
At the foot of the wikitext of this article is this line:
[[cs:Isambard Kingdom Brunel#Great Western Railway]]
It does not create a wikilink on the page. Does it have any function? Can I just delete it?
-- Verbarson
talk
edits 21:56, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
As an American railfan myself, I do understand the fascination with minute details of a favorite railway's construction and operation. However, as a reader, I don't enjoy wading through minutiae to get the most basic facts. It seems to me the whole point and purpose of building the GWR was to haul goods and people between Bristol and London; but just when that was finally able to happen is *not at all clear* from this article.
As an Anglophile, I take a kindly interest from across the sea in British railways - the originals! - and it seems to me that a simple, concise sentence in the lede giving the date the road was completed to Bristol, and the date the first regular trains began running through from Paddington to Temple Meads, is not too much to expect from you fellows, with all your great expertise at the ready. So how about it, chaps? You're not going to leave such a simple question for a foreigner to answer, are you? Textorus ( talk) 18:32, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Great Western Railway/GA1 and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 8 § Great Western Railway/GA1 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Regards, SONIC 678 01:47, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Great Western Railway article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: 1Auto-archiving period: 730 days |
Great Western Railway has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | ||||||||||
|
This article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
This page has archives. Sections older than 730 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 3 sections are present. |
The Infobox used in this article can be found at {{ Infobox GWR}}.
Quote "After 1902 G. J. Churchward developed a distinctive style of locomotive in 4-4-0 ...".
Should that be 4-4-2?
Songwriter 09:46 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
The name of the Flying Dutchman Racehorse came from an old story, and has nothing to do with Maarten Tromp, Trom was never the Flying Dutchman, that story is way older. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.80.157.6 ( talk) 03:38, 31 December 2015
At the foot of the wikitext of this article is this line:
[[cs:Isambard Kingdom Brunel#Great Western Railway]]
It does not create a wikilink on the page. Does it have any function? Can I just delete it?
-- Verbarson
talk
edits 21:56, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
As an American railfan myself, I do understand the fascination with minute details of a favorite railway's construction and operation. However, as a reader, I don't enjoy wading through minutiae to get the most basic facts. It seems to me the whole point and purpose of building the GWR was to haul goods and people between Bristol and London; but just when that was finally able to happen is *not at all clear* from this article.
As an Anglophile, I take a kindly interest from across the sea in British railways - the originals! - and it seems to me that a simple, concise sentence in the lede giving the date the road was completed to Bristol, and the date the first regular trains began running through from Paddington to Temple Meads, is not too much to expect from you fellows, with all your great expertise at the ready. So how about it, chaps? You're not going to leave such a simple question for a foreigner to answer, are you? Textorus ( talk) 18:32, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Great Western Railway/GA1 and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 8 § Great Western Railway/GA1 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Regards, SONIC 678 01:47, 8 January 2023 (UTC)