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Quite frankly I am not happy about them in general since I fear they raise more problems then they solve and can easily mislead. To the extent that they contain valid information, they usually repeat material already in the article. In other respects they mislead by omitting information or by encouraging a wrong interpretation of the information. In the Nantlle Railway box we find five items:
Locale: Wales Dates: 1828 - 1966? Successor Line: abandoned Track gauge: Headquarters: Penygroes
The accompanying modest article, still described as a stub, is encyclopedic compared with the box. Of the five items only the first is completely accurate. The dates are frankly less than helpful, 1862 would be a more accurate terminal date for the Nantlle Railway. Surely the successor line was the Carnarvonshire Railway et al. The track gauge is only approximately accurate in respect of the original main line when it was being used by horse drawn wagons with double flanged wheels (only until 1866 or 1872, say) and also of the remnant (and most interesting) quarry feeder stub that I wished I had photographed when I visited it in 1958 and which is usually said to have closed in 1963. As for the headquarters, Penygroes is only true until about 1862 (I haven't checked this) the latest known headquarters c1966 shall we say Marylebone Station?
I really do wonder what purpose, other than decoration, the info boxes serve. NoelWalley 15:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
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Quite frankly I am not happy about them in general since I fear they raise more problems then they solve and can easily mislead. To the extent that they contain valid information, they usually repeat material already in the article. In other respects they mislead by omitting information or by encouraging a wrong interpretation of the information. In the Nantlle Railway box we find five items:
Locale: Wales Dates: 1828 - 1966? Successor Line: abandoned Track gauge: Headquarters: Penygroes
The accompanying modest article, still described as a stub, is encyclopedic compared with the box. Of the five items only the first is completely accurate. The dates are frankly less than helpful, 1862 would be a more accurate terminal date for the Nantlle Railway. Surely the successor line was the Carnarvonshire Railway et al. The track gauge is only approximately accurate in respect of the original main line when it was being used by horse drawn wagons with double flanged wheels (only until 1866 or 1872, say) and also of the remnant (and most interesting) quarry feeder stub that I wished I had photographed when I visited it in 1958 and which is usually said to have closed in 1963. As for the headquarters, Penygroes is only true until about 1862 (I haven't checked this) the latest known headquarters c1966 shall we say Marylebone Station?
I really do wonder what purpose, other than decoration, the info boxes serve. NoelWalley 15:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC)