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At template:Vermonter I could use a little help.
As you might know, a section of the Vermonter has been re-routed. The section between Springfield and Brattleboro is now more direct and goes west of the Connecticut River and stops in Northampton and Greenfield and no longer goes east of the river in that section nor stops at Amherst.
I'm having trouble making the entire former section shaded red. I'm particularly having trouble making the "Palmer-Springfield backup" shaded.
Ideally, the new route should be part of the straight vertical line while the old one should be a branch to the right as that would be more geographically accurate.
Thanks. -- Oakshade ( talk) 06:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
It shows the new route to me. I believe it's just a browser cacheing issue on your end. It happens a lot with commons - known bug. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 05:34, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
I've requested a peer review for the article Winschoten railway station at WikiProject Trains/Peer review. Your feedback would be very much appreciated. Thanks! – Editør ( talk) 15:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Page LGV Perpignan–Figueres needs to be updated, since the line has been extended to Barcelona and trains are now running directly from Paris to Barcelona. Unfortunately my French isn't good enough to find reliable sources myself, can someone else pick this up? Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:40, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
I recently moved a bunch of pages within this WikiProject from the suffix "(WMATA station)" to use the suffix "Station" based on another discussion, in order to standardize station titling. Please comment there if my moves were incorrect. Epicgenius ( talk) 23:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello train experts! Here's a draft that's currently up for review at AfC which may be of interest. — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:46, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
This almost identical to Carlisle Kingmoor TMD, but I had to research what a DLC was... I'm guessing that it means "Downloadable Content" (for a railway simulator package), and so it's a draft of an article to describe an addon for a computer game, and so presumably should be rejected. If someone can confirm that I'm correct, I'll happily learn the AfC review process and reject the article (and equally happy if someone goes ahead and does it themselves). Robevans123 ( talk) 14:58, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, does anyone know Howden railway station. I have been looking at File:Mind the step - geograph.org.uk - 471857.jpg, which shows the disused signal box, to try and add the correct listed building tag. Looking at the English Heritage list there are 2 entries which look almost identical apart from a slight change in the grid reference. Entry 1261514 and entry 1233349. Is there really 2 boxes at North Howden and if so which is the one shown in the image. Keith D ( talk) 18:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
A new project, Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss, lists words that occur in Wikipedia but are not mentioned in Wiktionary. The aims are to identify errors at Wikipedia or gaps in Wiktionary. Over 100 articles, mostly about US railway stations, use the word "crossunder" ( Search). The word does not exist at Wiktionary. However, the word doesn't seem to be in any major dictionary.
Do reliable sources use the word "crossunder"? If so, then the word can be added to Wiktionary. But if it is only used at Wikipedia, then I think the articles should be fixed. From context, the word seems to refer to what I'd call a "pedestrian subway" - but I speak UK English, and the articles are mostly about US stations. If the standard US term is not "crossunder", what should be used instead?
Some of the articles use the word "crossover" in the same sentence (eg Island platform). This looks odd to me, since "crossover" has a different meaning in rail contexts. I'd call that a "pedestrian footbridge" - but again, I speak UK English. What is the standard US term? -- John of Reading ( talk) 15:03, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Anyway, going back to John of Reading's point, the correct standard term across most English dialects is "underpass" (though since in some cases it's already underground, I don't know if it will get the point across to the reader that it passes under the tracks and other structures, as "crossunder" does). The closest Wikipedia article (going to Redrose64's point about subways) is Subway (underpass). Epicgenius ( talk) 02:48, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Heritage Railway magazine has posted a photo on its Facebook page showing a ford on a railway at Swandale, West Virginia, United States. I'd like to add the info to the ford (crossing) article, but does the source pass RS. If not, can any editor find a RS for this? Mjroots ( talk) 08:45, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
I tagged this article in September 2013 and I need assistance with the article in order to remove the messages. Few such elements that can be improved/removed include the schedules, equipment, and mentioning of other lines the train didn't directly ran, and/or sourcing. TheGGoose ( talk) 21:11, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
There has been a bit of discussion as to whether when stating the distance a station is from a terminus, if there is a need to explain the distance is by rail, i.e.:
Two schools of thought: one that being an article about a railway station, it can be taken as read that distances quoted are by rail, while the other is that there may be some doubt, so it should be fleshed out.
Looking at similar articles in other areas, this information tends not to be included, probably because it is already included in the infobox, so that would be an alternative.
Anybody care to offer an opinion? BarossaV ( talk) 20:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated List of MetroLink (St. Louis) stations for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. – Dream out loud ( talk) 16:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
I was just reading the NYC Hudson article, and I noticed some issues in the prose which can basically be summed up as a bit of opinion in the article. I went to see who wrote it, and might have been responsible for the text, and I discovered that Morven wrote it in 2004 from an Everything2 article he had written. I also discovered the same issue on the NYC Mohawk article. It's not a huge issue in terms of causing misdirection to the reader or anything, but I was wondering what people thought of maybe having a cleanup drive or something of these articles, because there are uncited opinions in there, and it would be good to have the articles reading the same way, or at least similar to other locomotive articles on the project. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 04:58, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
the following articles are appearing in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
the issue is the duplicate use of |title=
in the {{
s-rail}} in the infobox. could just remove all but the last one, but I wasn't sure if this was correct.
Frietjes (
talk) 16:49, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Oknazevad is 100% correct. AadaamS: I found this article which is probably worth noting for Cinnaminson. Opening dates are usually very easy to establish with citations as well. It's also worth noting that many of these stations had previous passenger service before 1963, which can be found and cited as well. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 16:30, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
To other editors, DanTD is talking about this article. I think further discussions about the side spur should be held in the Talk page of that article. This is the discussion for the notability of that station and others above which lack the sources to WP:V verify their respective notability. AadaamS ( talk) 15:16, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I have undone the close of the AFD mentioned above as it is obviously questionable. It would be improper for me to put my oar in there but the history of discussion over the years shows that notability of stations is not WP:SNOW anything. Mangoe ( talk) 03:37, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Two passenger trains collided at Rafz, Switzerland today. Latest reports are 50 injured, so probably worthy of an article. I'm going to be AFK for a while, so would someone like to start the Rafz train crash article? Mjroots ( talk) 11:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
The Category:Level crossing accidents in the United States has been proposed to be renamed. Please make your views known at the CfD discussion page. Mjroots ( talk) 09:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I've asked a question about the appropriateness of including former rail services in railway station infoboxes at Talk:Union Station (Los Angeles)#Former services in infobox (well more specifically just the Union station article). Input on the matter from more experienced editors would be appreciated. ColonialGrid ( talk) 19:17, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
A while back it was decided that articles on Germany's and Austria's central or main stations would be titled Foo Hauptbahnhof and I am not challenging that here. However, the fact remains that the most common English translation in many cases is "Foo Central Station" with "Foo Main Station" often way behind. As an example, "Berlin Central Station" gets 3,270 and 314,000 hits on google books and google respectively whilst "Berlin Main Station" gets 135 and 22,300 hits. (Interestingly the article name "Berlin Hauptbahnhof" only gets 3,090 and 539,000 hits even though those include all German articles!)
However User:Wheeltapper continues to mass delete "Foo Central Station" in the text of articles, usually leaving Hauptbahnhof with no translation/explanation, but also often replacing it with "Foo Main Station". This is clearly wrong - there is no consensus to prefer the one over the other - and it does not reflect reality. It is simply a WP:POV. Where Hauptbahnhof is used, we should, where appropriate, give the most common English translation(s).
May I propose the following guideline: (a) that both translations are acceptable; (b) that if one is at least twice as common than the other, then it may be preferred, otherwise both should be given; (c) that the station articles include the English name(s) in the lede and infobox without needing multiple references; (d) that links may use either the German article name or the English redirect as appropriate. If no consensus can be reached, then we allow both in equal measure. Bermicourt ( talk) 17:48, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
I asked the fine folks at {{
Convert}}
to add the ability to convert cents per mile to cents per kilometer, which was added today. Previously, we were only able to convert dollars per mile to dollars per km. I did a search for "cents per mile" and I found a bunch of fare sections of railroad articles. I will leave the decision to convert or not to convert cents per mile to this project, but I thought I'd let you know you could if you wanted. –
Fredddie
™ 02:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
{{convert|10|cent/mi|cent/km}}
→ 10 cents per mile (6.2 ¢/km){{convert|10|cent/mi|abbr=on}}
→ 10 ¢/mi (6.2 ¢/km){{convert|10|¢/mi|¢/km}}
→ 10 cents per mile (6.2 ¢/km){{convert|10|¢/mi|abbr=on}}
→ 10 ¢/mi (6.2 ¢/km)Hi - looking through the list of train accidents I am specifically looking for freight train accidents in the "developed" world. I decided to use OECD as a guideline for selecting countries to include. Since not all of your listings include the word passenger and/or freight, I need to check some of the references to see if it is one or the other. (I'm not familiar with all the rail companies and their services around the world). Doing this I found that the link for note #110 was "dead", so I googled the accident. I found it to be featured here: [1]
According to the article in Huffington Post, there was a third accident prior to those on th 20th and 21st of January 2012. The third one is not included in your lists.
195.159.126.129 ( talk) 14:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
I've just started a discussion about the rail grinding redirect (which currently points to High Speed Grinding) at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 March 13#Rail grinding. Your comments there would be welcome. Thryduulf ( talk) 16:43, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I moved Huguenot railway station to Huguenot railway station (South Africa) since further disambiguation against Huguenot (Staten Island Railway station) was needed. I've fixed incoming links except for those in the succession templates at Wellington railway station (South Africa) and Bellville railway station. I found the documentation for these templates oblique, and couldn't understand how the disambiguator for Wellington is hard-coded so I could do something similar for this one. Could someone help me out with this? Thanks, BDD ( talk) 17:56, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I feel obligated to inform the members of this WikiProject that the PRR Chronology reference links are almost all dead links. I just restored two of them on Internet Archives for the New Canaan Branch, but if anybody runs into any others, they should do the same thing. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 13:37, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
I think that the article about the entity which actually was a State Railway, should be renamed Norwegian State Railways. During the 1980s and 1990s there were State Railways which became privatized, in part because government employees are more expensive than workers in the private sector. None of the articles about these privatized companies ought to be called "... State Railways". The present-day successor is Norske Statsbaner akseselskap which is an aksjeselskap, and abbreviated in various ways including Norske Statsbaner A/S. (In Sweden one avoided the privatized railway companies having "State Railways" as part of their name.) Does anyone agree with me that an article about a non-State Railway should not be named "... State Railway"? At present the there are two articles , where at least one of the articles might need a change of name: [1]and [2]. -- Creambreek ( talk) 12:57, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Looking at some of the lines that have been partially closed in Victoria (Australia), there is some inconsistency in the naming conventions applied to articles where a line opened from Point A to Point D and was later cut back to Point C and then again to Point B.
For example, Orbost railway line reflects the name of a line opened from Melbourne that originally ran through to Orbost, but has since been cut back to Bairnsdale, while Warrnambool railway line, Victoria reflects a line that originally ran from Melbourne to Port Fairy that has since been cut back to Warrnambool.
I imagine this has probably been discussed before, although couldn't find, but has a protocol been established? I would have though the article should be named to reflect the line's name when at it greatest length (ie Point D), with redirects established for subsequent shorter terminating points (B & C). DCB1927 ( talk) 23:04, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Mission_City_Station#older.2C_original_station, I don't have time/energy to create an article on the station and am not sure about all the WP:TRAINS templates and parameters. Please have a read of this source. Skookum1 ( talk) 05:52, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Template:Infobox German railway vehicle has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox locomotive. Given that these templates are withing the scope of WikiProject Trains, you are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 01:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terminal 1 (AirTrain JFK station). -Arb. ( talk) 19:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#ACC symbols. Useddenim ( talk) 00:52, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Shivanshsinghrajpoot has been creating articles on various Indian railway stations, such as Kerakat railway station, which has been nominated for deletion. It would appear from his talk page that English is not his first language. Can we try to work with him to improve the quality of their work. I will ping WP:India for assistance. Mjroots ( talk) 07:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I've started a discussion about the start of a TFD merge of two London railway station templates. The discussion is here, I'm just dropping a note here in case anyone is interested. - X201 ( talk) 15:50, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Does anybody recognize the railroad that owns the boxcar in this 1979 image of Port Jefferson (LIRR station)? The "TrainsAreFun" website doesn't mention it. They just give the number of the locomotive. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 15:07, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Airport railway station. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 08:06, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I have been trying to improve articles related to transport in Argentina. For now, I have gotten the main article ( Rail transport in Argentina) to a much better standard and would like to request revaluation of it from this wikiproject. Also, since I am pretty new to Wikipedia, I would also appreciate any advice and suggestions on how to improve these articles or make them into a more coherent series of articles :). SegataSanshiro1 ( talk) 13:05, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
April 29, 1911 shows Photos of train wrecks said to have occurred at Martins Creek PA. I'm seeing Martins creek NJ in the article. -Wish I knew how to fix this myself. -Thanks,Newbie. Sgorry ( talk) 21:13, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Class 37 used to be dab page for various locos referred to as Class 37s. An anonymous user has turned it into a redirect to the UK loco, creating Class 37 (disambiguation) as the dab on the grounds that "97% of users are looking for the BR Class 37 article." Not sure where those stats come from and not saying it's necessarily wrong, but pretty well all others of the genre are dab pages e.g. Class 9 etc. Do we go for consistency or for statistically analysing each one and risking confusion? -- Bermicourt ( talk) 14:11, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_gauge_conversions&diff=654567618&oldid=648928516
Tobias Conradi ( talk · contribs) / TrackGauge ( talk · contribs)
Andy Dingley ( talk) 00:33, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:Potomac Avenue station. There is a RM being requested there to revert an undiscussed move from Potomac Avenue Station, against the lack of consensus at Talk:Greenbelt Station#Requested move 7 February 2015. Epic Genius ( talk) 20:12, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello train enthusiasts. Here's an old draft about a train that will soon be deleted unless someone decides to work on it.— Anne Delong ( talk) 14:41, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Category:Articles lacking sources from October 2006 are the articles that have gone the longest time unreferenced. Most of the list has been cleared and only a few hundred remain. One pool of remaining problems are train related articles:
Does anyone here have access to sources that may be able to reference some of these? Do all of these articles belong in the encyclopedia? - SimonP ( talk) 17:05, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
I am trying to edit a template which corresponds to this Wikiproject, however I have been unable to do so. The template can be found on the pages for all the Buenos Aires Underground stations such as here: Plaza de Mayo (Buenos Aires Underground) under "services" in the infobox.
The changes I want to make are: changing the line icons for all the lines with their newer versions from the commons, change the name from "Buenos Aires Metro" to "Buenos Aires Underground" to fit the naming of the main article and also add the main logo of the system to the template.
Could someone let me know where I can do this from? I am unable to find where these edits can be done. SegataSanshiro1 ( talk) 15:56, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see this post. Alakzi ( talk) 18:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
{{
Infobox station}}
is only slightly better, with 57); this page has 335. The proposals affect stations in countries which formerly used a country-specific station infobox. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 05:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)When I started editing in September 2004, I never thought that I'd still be making edits on a daily basis ten years later. I created Portal:Trains on May 16, 2005, after comments were made on this talk page earlier that month. In December 2005, I looked into Featured Portal status; the criteria was soon agreed upon and on January 4, 2006, the Trains portal became the fourth Featured Portal on Wikipedia. I've maintained the featured status for the portal since then.
For May 2015, I'll be revisiting some of the first edits made to the portal and reusing some of the content from May 2005. I invite any interested editor to participate in nominating content to appear on the portal through any of these nomination pages:
When these nomination pages are unpopulated, as they have been for the vast majority of the time, I go through content within TWP's scope to find appropriate additions for the portal. For the images, I usually browse through Category:Rail transport by country. For the selected article, I use content from FA, GA and B class article categories. For the DYK section, I look at the unassessed articles, and for the news, I look at various news sources outside of Wikipedia.
I've had a lot of fun editing articles and content to show on the portal and learned a lot more about my favorite topic over the last ten years, and I look forward to continuing for the next ten years. Slambo (Speak) 19:15, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
The Hastings Line article is now a featured article candidate. Mjroots ( talk) 07:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
A merge of the two aforementioned infoboxes has been proposed. Please offer your input at the TfD. Alakzi ( talk) 16:54, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Help_desk#Fixing_clusters_of_problems, it was suggested that I should ask here about the cluster of dash spacing problems in categories such as Category:5 ft gauge railways in Latvia and Category:Railway lines in Latvia. I have taken out a lot of spaces around dashes, but haven't moved any articles yet (since I can't even try until I've been around for 3 days, they tell me, which will be in a few more hours). I also mentioned there that I don't see why "Railway" is capitalized on these. Can someone provide help or suggestions on whether this is worth working on? Timmeredgar ( talk) 01:59, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
ps. I have no particular knowledge or interest about trains or Latvia. I just got on this by looking at random articles and finding where the observed pattern of consistency seemed to be violated. Timmeredgar ( talk) 02:05, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Compare Category:Railway_lines_in_Switzerland, where most of the "... railway" article don't have the cap Railroad. Timmeredgar ( talk) 02:40, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
I can move articles today! So I took out the extra spaces from Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway. Should I move it again to Saint Petersburg–Warsaw railway? It does not look to be a company name. Timmeredgar ( talk) 22:48, 5 May 2015 (UTC) I took care of the rest of the dashes with spaces. Still hoping to get advice on the caps. Timmeredgar ( talk) 02:55, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Copied from User talk:BL2002#Ferry links at stations. Although the conversation appears to mainly apply to ferry wharves in Sydney, the symbols that are the subject of the discussion have been also been added to railway stations in Sydney, so think this an appropriate forum to discuss.
Stations such as Rydalmere, Parramatta and Olympic Park should not contain links in Transport links to ferry wharfs which are not in the immediate proximity of the station and hence these have been deleted. Transport links should refer to services which are in the immediate proximity and I suspect the same should apply to Transport links at ferry wharfs. However I like the inclusion of the bus symbol in the Transport links which is something we should probably adopt across all stations. Fleet Lists ( talk) 07:45, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Category:Historical innovative rolling stock, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for upmerging to Category:Rolling stock.. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect ( talk) 02:02, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Just a note to page watchers that Template:Infobox T&W Metro station has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox station; the discussion is here. Jc86035 ( talk | contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 09:13, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
Since 2015 Philadelphia train derailment is currently a very high-traffic article, there are some related articles that presumably receive a significant bump in readership. While many are fine, there are some that need attention. Notably, History of rail transport in Philadelphia (prominently linked in the 'See also' section) -- which has indecipherable referencing. At any rate, the article and those linked therein could use help from the WP railroad community. —Thanks, Eric, aka: 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 02:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed the creation of a Wikiproject Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - the proposal is here, and I'm looking for people's thoughts about it! Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 19:36, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Note your input is also sought on the several proposed names and scopes, made as this proposal has been reviewed.
Your input is still sought on the proposed WikiProject Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Thank You — Lentower ( talk) 20:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello there! There's been an issue recently over the naming of the South Coast / Illawarra railway line in New South Wales. I'm looking for appropriate people to give their opinion in a discussion of the issue. You can find the discussion here. PhilipTerryGraham ⡭ ₪ ·o' ⍦ ࿂ 00:20, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Potomac Avenue station to be moved to Potomac Avenue Station. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:33, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for South Coast railway line, New South Wales to be moved to Illawarra railway line. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:47, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for University Link extension to be moved to University Link Extension. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:49, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
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A requested move discussion has been initiated for La Gazelle train to be moved to La Gazelle. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:20, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Copied from WT:FRANCE
A requested move discussion has been initiated for RER to be moved to Réseau Express Régional. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. Mjroots ( talk) 08:18, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
I've suggested three additional parameters to Template:Infobox tunnel. It's talkpage is quiet and no comments have been made since the proposal in September 2014, so I'm asking for some comments/feedback to be added to Template talk:Infobox tunnel#Number of bores (tunnels). AHeneen ( talk) 19:11, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
The 2015 Philadelphia train derailment recently highlighted the delays in implementing positive train control by the end of the year, as required by law in the U.S. I thought it would be interesting to read more about the topic in general, and I was very sad to find there is no article at rail safety. We have links for various types of train control and some articles linked from {{ Rail accidents}} (shown below) but no real overview of how death and injury statistics have progressed over time, what safety technologies are now in place around the world, what safety initiatives have been undertaken to date, what proposals remain, and how rail compares to other modes. I'm sure there are many experts floating around this project; was anyone interested in drafting an article? -- Beland ( talk) 18:44, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
I was perusing the light rail, commuter rail, and heave rail metro system lists, and found it interesting that one of the parameters in the table is ridership per mile; however, it seems to be missing a market penetration number like ridership per 100,000 residents. It seems that in comparing transit systems, one measure of effectiveness would be the density (i.e. market penetration) of how many people use the transit system regularly. -- Trödel 17:25, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
An editor has challenged the neutrality of the 2015 Wootton Bassett SPAD incident article. Discussion is ongoing at the talk page. Please join the discussion so that consensus can be formed and outstanding issues dealt with. Mjroots ( talk) 06:01, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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I've proposed merging Illini (train) and Saluki (train) into a single article. Comments welcomed at Talk:Illini (train)#Proposed_merge. Mackensen (talk) 12:27, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
We have:
(and others)
The twofold problem is that it's not clear if these are using UIC, AAR or whatever notation. "Bo-Bo" are clearly diesel-electrics with individual traction motors to each axle. Diesel-hydraulics in contrast belong under "B-B". However the current population is largely ignoring this and most of the B-B category members are US diesels.
How do we fix this?
Thoughts? Andy Dingley ( talk) 22:36, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Just less than two years ago, I was able to get a picture of this from inside the Fayetteville (Amtrak station), and found it interesting. Unfortunately, when I saw it I was looking for a National Register of Historic Places plaque at the station, because it happens to be listed. I don't really think it exists there. Plus I took two other pics inside that turned out like crap, but that's neither here nor there. What I also found was a picture of an old Fayetteville Street Railway steam-powered trolley. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 18:46, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
I have raised an issue on this subject at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sydney/Railway stations#Transport Links on which I am seeking wider opinion. Fleet Lists ( talk) 06:32, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Can I make a request for a review of recent edits by User:Robert92107 on California High-Speed Rail. This user has made multiple edits over the last week with very few supporting inline references, and I feel that the article is being slowly twisted into a POV article. I just would like a second opinion whether the editing has been anything other than NPOV. This is a contentious project, and the article may need some degree of protection. - Rhubarbs Cat ( talk) 23:25, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Help needed in addressing ambiguous links:
The Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links group of editors has been making great progress towards eliminating ambiguous links; help them out if you can! -- do ncr am 15:46, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
The usage and topic of Metro Center Station is under discussion, see talk:Metro Center station -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 07:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Came across a book about Indian railways I thought might be of interest.
More of a coffee table book with large photos, but some text that may be useful. - 220 of Borg 02:17, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
There are too many categories: Unless a major reorganization is performed (combining completed, under-construction, and proposed stations) is done, I think (RS denotes "railway stations", so that the table will fit on most computers; letter codes in the boxes:
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
RS opened in | E | Ea | a | a | Ea | a | a | Ea | a | a |
RS scheduled to open in | E | E | E | E | Eu | Eu | u | u | u | u |
Proposed RS scheduled to open in | Ea | Ea | Eu | E | E | E | E |
I'm not quite sure whether to propose
or
It's up to the project, but "opened" in a future year is speculative, at best. Whatever you (the project) decides, I'll help generate the Cfm/r templates, if you (collectively) don't have an AWB guru. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:53, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Rail_transport_modelling
The photo shown at the top right of this page is mine. I used to have photo credit shown but it has been removed.
While I don't mind the photo being used, I do insist on a credit line as I do own the copyright on this photo.
The same applies to the photo on this page: -
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Regards.
Roger Traviss — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.61.234 ( talk) 02:11, 13 August 2015
A mass nomination of between 40 and 50 railway station articles has been opened at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aviation Academy Railway Halt. Mjroots ( talk) 20:37, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Recently there have been some differing opinions on the validity of retaining hitherto unpopulated fields in infoboxes. One example is Cherrybrook railway station, an Australian station scheduled to open in 2019. There are two theories;
1) all fields should be retained [4] to allow those unpopulated to be filled as information becomes available
2) only populated fields should be included [5] and can be added as required.
My opinion is that 2) is more cumbersome and requires a higher level of Wikipedia proficiency, thus less likely to occur making 1) more preferable. Not just specific to under construction stations, but infoboxes in general. Anyone care to offer an opinion? Turingway ( talk) 10:05, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
See talk:Visakhapatnam – New Delhi AP Express where a proposed new name for the train article uses the format "abc...xyz (new)" for the new name -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 04:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
In Sydney Australia we currently have a recently joined member who is deleting platform boxes from stations because they do not have specific references as to which platform certain routes depart from or there is only one platform. I believe this is taking the reference argument to the extreme. I and another member have been reverting his posts but he continues to do so. See User_talk:Mqst_north#A bit of free advice Examples are Berry railway station and Albion Park railway station. Any discussion please. Fleet Lists ( talk) 23:20, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Sydneysiders among you will remember the previous Sydney Metro proposal of 2008-10, which at the time spawned five separate Wikipedia articles referring to the various aspects of the project. (All were cancelled within two years; a separate program, also called Sydney Metro, is now under construction.) There's an ongoing discussion regarding whether these should be merged into a single article called Sydney Metro (2008 proposal) at Talk:Sydney Metro (2008 proposal). Any thoughts? Mqst north ( talk) 16:09, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
I am creating articles for some early Soviet diesel locomotives, e.g. ВМ and I would like to discuss names for the articles. ВМ looks like BM but it is Cyrillic script so it is likely to cause confusion. Could we please develop a naming convention for Soviet and Russian locomotives. I am currently working on shch-el-1 or Щэл1 at User:Biscuittin/sandbox2. I assume that article titles in English Wikipedia should use English characters. Biscuittin ( talk) 11:31, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
This story might be worth keeping an eye on. Could be an article if it is confirmed to ave been found. Mjroots ( talk) 05:16, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
While trying to resolve ambiguous links in WikiProject Canada articles, I came across Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway with a link to "Reo". In this edit, I wikilinked to REO Motor Car Company (a.k.a. REO or Reo), attributing manufacture of "gas-powered rail cars" for the BWNWR to that company. However, the REO / Reo article covers only manufacture of autos and trucks and buses. Does anyone know of REO railroad cars being manufactured or used anywhere else? Can any references be found to document that in the REO article? I still assume my edit was accurate, but would be happy to be corrected if it turns out there is some other Reo company that made train cars. TIA, -- do ncr am 17:29, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Good evening. I've just discovered that Oanabay04 ( talk · contribs) (currently blocked, not sure of details) copy/pasted large portions of text wholesale from George Drury's Historical Guide of North American Railroads. He used the 1994 edition; I have the 1985 edition in front of me. So far, starting from A, every article is affected except Adirondack Railway (1976–1981) (which I wrote earlier this evening; maybe it's not in the 1994 edition). I've started keeping a list at User:Mackensen/Drury copyvios and I've filed a request at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations, but cleaning this up is going to be obnoxious. Hopefully in most cases it'll be possible to just revert to the last good version, accepting that some edits may have to be reinstated. Mackensen (talk) 03:42, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
I added a navbox to the 2015 Thalys attack article. This was later removed. I initiated the D part of WP:BRD at talk:2015 Thalys attack#Navbox but so far there has been no response. I'd like some discussion to take place so that there is consensus formed, not just a difference of opinion between two editors. If the navbox is kept off the article, so be it. Mjroots ( talk) 07:09, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
At the risk of poking the bear, I noticed that some Crimea transport articles and templates have been moved from Category:Ukraine transport templates to Category:Russia transport templates. Do you know if any consensus has been reached about this? Useddenim ( talk) 12:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Feel free to comment and/or leave feedback at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Metra stations/archive1. Thanks, Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 13:10, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I am seeking confirmation of the correct way to 'render' preceding and following stations &/or stops in the s-boxes at the bottom of the pages. For example George Street tram stop... has Church Street tram stop under preceding stop whereas in fact, it is the stop that follows George St. (the trams only run one way at that point). It can be read as correct in that George St. precedes Church St. and therefore could be said to be be preceding Church St. but I would have thought that in the case of George St., the preceding stop is the one the tram leaves before reaching George St. (In this case East Croydon Station) but am wondering what the convention is for this project. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 22:54, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
WP:JCW has recently updated, and the coverage of trains and railroad publications on Wikipedia could be improved. Many of the top cited 'journals' (which include magazines and websites, etc...) will be of interest to people in this project, so I figured I would compile a list.
The above classification maybe a bit off, because I'm just basing myself off the languages and titles of those publications, so don't chew my head off if Die Bundesbahn covers more than the trains of Germany!
Any help you can give writing these articles is greatly appreciated. You can consult our writing guide at WP:JWG (journals) and WP:MWG (magazines) for some guidance on writing articles on journals and magazines. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:07, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
I've re-nominated the Hastings Line article for FAC. It failed last time due to a lack of reviews, so I'd appreciate some support this time round please. Mjroots ( talk) 18:58, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
(Hopefully this is the right place to announce it) I just finished localizing the documentation of Lua module:routemap so map created by it will load faster than map composed of the older BS series templates. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk · contri.) 06:28, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Further to the above discussion, and mass changing of RDTs without consensus, I have opened a RFC at Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#RFC Mjroots ( talk) 17:40, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
This article seems to have a great deal of white space between the first para. in the body of the article and the first sub-heading caused apparently by a "gallery" being inserted which appears after the infoboxes (3). It looks poor and one of the images is a duplication of an infobox image. Eagleash ( talk) 07:10, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
I wonder if WP:TRAINS provides any guidance on the inclusion of bus routes in station articles, like this one. I've removed them from several Shiraz Metro station articles on the reasoning that, "such information is highly transient and we also risk that Wikipedia will be used as a travel guide" - but perhaps these lists are accepted, or even acceptable? Alakzi ( talk) 12:09, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
FWIW I have requested at move at Talk:Croxley Rail Link. Simply south .... .. time, deparment skies for just 9 years 13:10, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
I am in Australia. I recollect, as a child in the 1950's that the railways had two types of signals. One was the semaphore type on a post and the other was a red/green ground level signal which indicated the setting of the "points" which was the expression for where one line joined or crossed another. When "shunting" the points signals were very important. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.122.77.188 ( talk) 10:03, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
For what its worth, I have proposed a merger of Edinburgh Crossrail with the Borders Railway. Please see Talk:Borders Railway#Merge?. Simply south .... .. time, deparment skies for just 9 years 17:36, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Would someone with some experience in route map templates help me out? I've added templates to all the Buenos Aires commuter rail lines, but two of them (on the Belgrano Sur Line and San Martin Line pages) push down all the images when expanded. I've read about how to prevent this before, but can't remember where and can't find it - and also comparing with the templates on the other pages, I can't spot any differences. Thanks. SegataSanshiro1 ( talk) 19:21, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
List of ACoRP members has been proposed for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ACoRP members. Simply south .... .. time, deparment skies for just 9 years 17:45, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
For some reason today, there's a glitch that is creating huge white spaces in every single station article. I thought it was just a defect that occurred when I created Shawmont (SEPTA station) until I realized it was system-wide. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 17:12, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
This new book discusses immigrants who worked on transportation projects such as joining the Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad: The Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West by Ryan Dearinger, 2015, University of California Press. Maybe useful for expanding history and construction sections of those and other transportation articles. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 00:43, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
There was a discussion recently about the use of bus routes in train station articles and if and when to use them, and I missed my chance to add my two cents on the issue. Here's how I deal with buses; If there's a genuine bus terminal attached to the station, such as Victor A. Moore Bus Terminal which is part of Roosevelt Avenue / 74th Street (New York City Subway), or the Jamaica Center Bus Terminal which is part of Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (Archer Avenue Lines), or Fordham Plaza Bus Terminal, which is part of Fordham (Metro-North station), or St. George Terminal, Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center, etcetera, then those clearly deserve big route numbers, and descriptions, and what not. Otherwise, I just throw them in the infoboxes. ---------- User:DanTD ( talk) 02:17, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a discussion at Template talk:Infobox GB station#Usage section about the overwhelming size of the usage figures section of the above infobox. I'm not massively involved in rail articles so I'm not sure if there are other templates that may be in a similar situation. Input and potential solutions would be appreciated over there? Jeni ( talk) 16:17, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
More consensus is needed for a minor fix to get the text to center properly on Template:Rail line under certain circumstances. Please comment at Template talk:Rail line#Using Template:Rail line in infoboxes. Thanks. Antony–22 ( talk⁄ contribs) 18:59, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Apparently, somebody decided that the categories "Wikipedia requested photographs of Foo stations" should all be renamed "Wikipedia requested images of Foo stations." If you're going to rename these things, shouldn't you take all the templates and such with them too? --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 12:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pomona (Manchester) Metrolink station#Requested move 11 December 2015 that is relevant to this WikiProject. Jeni ( talk) 15:28, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion underway regarding deletion of the newly created BR Standard 4 2-6-0 76084 article. Please join the discussion. Slambo (Speak) 16:26, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Waterhouses (County Durham) railway station is proposed for merging to Waterhouses, County Durham. Please discuss at Talk:Waterhouses, County Durham#Merger Discussion. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 23:12, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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Could someone look at this reversion and decide whether it's desirable? One editor used {{ RoutemapRouteIcon}} to add directional arrows to the list of routes, so you could tell which line referred to which one ( if it departs on the line going to the upper right, or if it's the one going to the left in the diagram, etc.). It was reverted without comment, as if it were just vandalism. Do we want arrows like that on this type of template? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 18:38, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Regular text | Station names |
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Small italic text | other railways |
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) or
(LSTR
) symbols. So
WhatamIdoing, take another look at your example diagram and concentrate carefully:
Asfordby is in Regular text, so that means it is a ... yes, Station. Very good! So the arrow in the adjacent column must be for ... follow the line ... no, not the
Old Dalby Test Track, there's no connection there ... keep going ... and you've found it, the
Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway. See, it's not that difficult to figure out, even for you.
Useddenim (
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Useddenim, your continued rude tone is completely inappropriate here. WhatamIdoing is offering legitimate criticism of the mechanics of this diagram - which I agree with - and there is no call whatsoever for you to be condescending. Not only are these standards not universal across RDTs, but it there is nothing in the diagram as it currently stands that indicates which of the two lines is the test track. I have a little bit of experience with RDTs, and I find it confusing - and these diagrams should be readable to the general public. Either arrows are needed in the text, or the diagram should be modified so that there is no possible confusion. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 06:15, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
An inexperienced editor has been adding some comments about the status of railroads in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Members of this project might be interested in producing a balanced approach. (It's usually in the subsection (now) directly before Automobiles. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 21:59, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
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At template:Vermonter I could use a little help.
As you might know, a section of the Vermonter has been re-routed. The section between Springfield and Brattleboro is now more direct and goes west of the Connecticut River and stops in Northampton and Greenfield and no longer goes east of the river in that section nor stops at Amherst.
I'm having trouble making the entire former section shaded red. I'm particularly having trouble making the "Palmer-Springfield backup" shaded.
Ideally, the new route should be part of the straight vertical line while the old one should be a branch to the right as that would be more geographically accurate.
Thanks. -- Oakshade ( talk) 06:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
It shows the new route to me. I believe it's just a browser cacheing issue on your end. It happens a lot with commons - known bug. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 05:34, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
I've requested a peer review for the article Winschoten railway station at WikiProject Trains/Peer review. Your feedback would be very much appreciated. Thanks! – Editør ( talk) 15:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Page LGV Perpignan–Figueres needs to be updated, since the line has been extended to Barcelona and trains are now running directly from Paris to Barcelona. Unfortunately my French isn't good enough to find reliable sources myself, can someone else pick this up? Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:40, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
I recently moved a bunch of pages within this WikiProject from the suffix "(WMATA station)" to use the suffix "Station" based on another discussion, in order to standardize station titling. Please comment there if my moves were incorrect. Epicgenius ( talk) 23:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello train experts! Here's a draft that's currently up for review at AfC which may be of interest. — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:46, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
This almost identical to Carlisle Kingmoor TMD, but I had to research what a DLC was... I'm guessing that it means "Downloadable Content" (for a railway simulator package), and so it's a draft of an article to describe an addon for a computer game, and so presumably should be rejected. If someone can confirm that I'm correct, I'll happily learn the AfC review process and reject the article (and equally happy if someone goes ahead and does it themselves). Robevans123 ( talk) 14:58, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, does anyone know Howden railway station. I have been looking at File:Mind the step - geograph.org.uk - 471857.jpg, which shows the disused signal box, to try and add the correct listed building tag. Looking at the English Heritage list there are 2 entries which look almost identical apart from a slight change in the grid reference. Entry 1261514 and entry 1233349. Is there really 2 boxes at North Howden and if so which is the one shown in the image. Keith D ( talk) 18:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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A new project, Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss, lists words that occur in Wikipedia but are not mentioned in Wiktionary. The aims are to identify errors at Wikipedia or gaps in Wiktionary. Over 100 articles, mostly about US railway stations, use the word "crossunder" ( Search). The word does not exist at Wiktionary. However, the word doesn't seem to be in any major dictionary.
Do reliable sources use the word "crossunder"? If so, then the word can be added to Wiktionary. But if it is only used at Wikipedia, then I think the articles should be fixed. From context, the word seems to refer to what I'd call a "pedestrian subway" - but I speak UK English, and the articles are mostly about US stations. If the standard US term is not "crossunder", what should be used instead?
Some of the articles use the word "crossover" in the same sentence (eg Island platform). This looks odd to me, since "crossover" has a different meaning in rail contexts. I'd call that a "pedestrian footbridge" - but again, I speak UK English. What is the standard US term? -- John of Reading ( talk) 15:03, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Anyway, going back to John of Reading's point, the correct standard term across most English dialects is "underpass" (though since in some cases it's already underground, I don't know if it will get the point across to the reader that it passes under the tracks and other structures, as "crossunder" does). The closest Wikipedia article (going to Redrose64's point about subways) is Subway (underpass). Epicgenius ( talk) 02:48, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Heritage Railway magazine has posted a photo on its Facebook page showing a ford on a railway at Swandale, West Virginia, United States. I'd like to add the info to the ford (crossing) article, but does the source pass RS. If not, can any editor find a RS for this? Mjroots ( talk) 08:45, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
I tagged this article in September 2013 and I need assistance with the article in order to remove the messages. Few such elements that can be improved/removed include the schedules, equipment, and mentioning of other lines the train didn't directly ran, and/or sourcing. TheGGoose ( talk) 21:11, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
There has been a bit of discussion as to whether when stating the distance a station is from a terminus, if there is a need to explain the distance is by rail, i.e.:
Two schools of thought: one that being an article about a railway station, it can be taken as read that distances quoted are by rail, while the other is that there may be some doubt, so it should be fleshed out.
Looking at similar articles in other areas, this information tends not to be included, probably because it is already included in the infobox, so that would be an alternative.
Anybody care to offer an opinion? BarossaV ( talk) 20:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated List of MetroLink (St. Louis) stations for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. – Dream out loud ( talk) 16:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
I was just reading the NYC Hudson article, and I noticed some issues in the prose which can basically be summed up as a bit of opinion in the article. I went to see who wrote it, and might have been responsible for the text, and I discovered that Morven wrote it in 2004 from an Everything2 article he had written. I also discovered the same issue on the NYC Mohawk article. It's not a huge issue in terms of causing misdirection to the reader or anything, but I was wondering what people thought of maybe having a cleanup drive or something of these articles, because there are uncited opinions in there, and it would be good to have the articles reading the same way, or at least similar to other locomotive articles on the project. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 04:58, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
the following articles are appearing in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
the issue is the duplicate use of |title=
in the {{
s-rail}} in the infobox. could just remove all but the last one, but I wasn't sure if this was correct.
Frietjes (
talk) 16:49, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Oknazevad is 100% correct. AadaamS: I found this article which is probably worth noting for Cinnaminson. Opening dates are usually very easy to establish with citations as well. It's also worth noting that many of these stations had previous passenger service before 1963, which can be found and cited as well. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 16:30, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
To other editors, DanTD is talking about this article. I think further discussions about the side spur should be held in the Talk page of that article. This is the discussion for the notability of that station and others above which lack the sources to WP:V verify their respective notability. AadaamS ( talk) 15:16, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I have undone the close of the AFD mentioned above as it is obviously questionable. It would be improper for me to put my oar in there but the history of discussion over the years shows that notability of stations is not WP:SNOW anything. Mangoe ( talk) 03:37, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Two passenger trains collided at Rafz, Switzerland today. Latest reports are 50 injured, so probably worthy of an article. I'm going to be AFK for a while, so would someone like to start the Rafz train crash article? Mjroots ( talk) 11:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
The Category:Level crossing accidents in the United States has been proposed to be renamed. Please make your views known at the CfD discussion page. Mjroots ( talk) 09:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I've asked a question about the appropriateness of including former rail services in railway station infoboxes at Talk:Union Station (Los Angeles)#Former services in infobox (well more specifically just the Union station article). Input on the matter from more experienced editors would be appreciated. ColonialGrid ( talk) 19:17, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
A while back it was decided that articles on Germany's and Austria's central or main stations would be titled Foo Hauptbahnhof and I am not challenging that here. However, the fact remains that the most common English translation in many cases is "Foo Central Station" with "Foo Main Station" often way behind. As an example, "Berlin Central Station" gets 3,270 and 314,000 hits on google books and google respectively whilst "Berlin Main Station" gets 135 and 22,300 hits. (Interestingly the article name "Berlin Hauptbahnhof" only gets 3,090 and 539,000 hits even though those include all German articles!)
However User:Wheeltapper continues to mass delete "Foo Central Station" in the text of articles, usually leaving Hauptbahnhof with no translation/explanation, but also often replacing it with "Foo Main Station". This is clearly wrong - there is no consensus to prefer the one over the other - and it does not reflect reality. It is simply a WP:POV. Where Hauptbahnhof is used, we should, where appropriate, give the most common English translation(s).
May I propose the following guideline: (a) that both translations are acceptable; (b) that if one is at least twice as common than the other, then it may be preferred, otherwise both should be given; (c) that the station articles include the English name(s) in the lede and infobox without needing multiple references; (d) that links may use either the German article name or the English redirect as appropriate. If no consensus can be reached, then we allow both in equal measure. Bermicourt ( talk) 17:48, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
I asked the fine folks at {{
Convert}}
to add the ability to convert cents per mile to cents per kilometer, which was added today. Previously, we were only able to convert dollars per mile to dollars per km. I did a search for "cents per mile" and I found a bunch of fare sections of railroad articles. I will leave the decision to convert or not to convert cents per mile to this project, but I thought I'd let you know you could if you wanted. –
Fredddie
™ 02:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
{{convert|10|cent/mi|cent/km}}
→ 10 cents per mile (6.2 ¢/km){{convert|10|cent/mi|abbr=on}}
→ 10 ¢/mi (6.2 ¢/km){{convert|10|¢/mi|¢/km}}
→ 10 cents per mile (6.2 ¢/km){{convert|10|¢/mi|abbr=on}}
→ 10 ¢/mi (6.2 ¢/km)Hi - looking through the list of train accidents I am specifically looking for freight train accidents in the "developed" world. I decided to use OECD as a guideline for selecting countries to include. Since not all of your listings include the word passenger and/or freight, I need to check some of the references to see if it is one or the other. (I'm not familiar with all the rail companies and their services around the world). Doing this I found that the link for note #110 was "dead", so I googled the accident. I found it to be featured here: [1]
According to the article in Huffington Post, there was a third accident prior to those on th 20th and 21st of January 2012. The third one is not included in your lists.
195.159.126.129 ( talk) 14:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
I've just started a discussion about the rail grinding redirect (which currently points to High Speed Grinding) at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 March 13#Rail grinding. Your comments there would be welcome. Thryduulf ( talk) 16:43, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I moved Huguenot railway station to Huguenot railway station (South Africa) since further disambiguation against Huguenot (Staten Island Railway station) was needed. I've fixed incoming links except for those in the succession templates at Wellington railway station (South Africa) and Bellville railway station. I found the documentation for these templates oblique, and couldn't understand how the disambiguator for Wellington is hard-coded so I could do something similar for this one. Could someone help me out with this? Thanks, BDD ( talk) 17:56, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I feel obligated to inform the members of this WikiProject that the PRR Chronology reference links are almost all dead links. I just restored two of them on Internet Archives for the New Canaan Branch, but if anybody runs into any others, they should do the same thing. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 13:37, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
I think that the article about the entity which actually was a State Railway, should be renamed Norwegian State Railways. During the 1980s and 1990s there were State Railways which became privatized, in part because government employees are more expensive than workers in the private sector. None of the articles about these privatized companies ought to be called "... State Railways". The present-day successor is Norske Statsbaner akseselskap which is an aksjeselskap, and abbreviated in various ways including Norske Statsbaner A/S. (In Sweden one avoided the privatized railway companies having "State Railways" as part of their name.) Does anyone agree with me that an article about a non-State Railway should not be named "... State Railway"? At present the there are two articles , where at least one of the articles might need a change of name: [1]and [2]. -- Creambreek ( talk) 12:57, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Looking at some of the lines that have been partially closed in Victoria (Australia), there is some inconsistency in the naming conventions applied to articles where a line opened from Point A to Point D and was later cut back to Point C and then again to Point B.
For example, Orbost railway line reflects the name of a line opened from Melbourne that originally ran through to Orbost, but has since been cut back to Bairnsdale, while Warrnambool railway line, Victoria reflects a line that originally ran from Melbourne to Port Fairy that has since been cut back to Warrnambool.
I imagine this has probably been discussed before, although couldn't find, but has a protocol been established? I would have though the article should be named to reflect the line's name when at it greatest length (ie Point D), with redirects established for subsequent shorter terminating points (B & C). DCB1927 ( talk) 23:04, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Mission_City_Station#older.2C_original_station, I don't have time/energy to create an article on the station and am not sure about all the WP:TRAINS templates and parameters. Please have a read of this source. Skookum1 ( talk) 05:52, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Template:Infobox German railway vehicle has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox locomotive. Given that these templates are withing the scope of WikiProject Trains, you are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 01:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terminal 1 (AirTrain JFK station). -Arb. ( talk) 19:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#ACC symbols. Useddenim ( talk) 00:52, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Shivanshsinghrajpoot has been creating articles on various Indian railway stations, such as Kerakat railway station, which has been nominated for deletion. It would appear from his talk page that English is not his first language. Can we try to work with him to improve the quality of their work. I will ping WP:India for assistance. Mjroots ( talk) 07:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I've started a discussion about the start of a TFD merge of two London railway station templates. The discussion is here, I'm just dropping a note here in case anyone is interested. - X201 ( talk) 15:50, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Does anybody recognize the railroad that owns the boxcar in this 1979 image of Port Jefferson (LIRR station)? The "TrainsAreFun" website doesn't mention it. They just give the number of the locomotive. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 15:07, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Airport railway station. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 08:06, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I have been trying to improve articles related to transport in Argentina. For now, I have gotten the main article ( Rail transport in Argentina) to a much better standard and would like to request revaluation of it from this wikiproject. Also, since I am pretty new to Wikipedia, I would also appreciate any advice and suggestions on how to improve these articles or make them into a more coherent series of articles :). SegataSanshiro1 ( talk) 13:05, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
April 29, 1911 shows Photos of train wrecks said to have occurred at Martins Creek PA. I'm seeing Martins creek NJ in the article. -Wish I knew how to fix this myself. -Thanks,Newbie. Sgorry ( talk) 21:13, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Class 37 used to be dab page for various locos referred to as Class 37s. An anonymous user has turned it into a redirect to the UK loco, creating Class 37 (disambiguation) as the dab on the grounds that "97% of users are looking for the BR Class 37 article." Not sure where those stats come from and not saying it's necessarily wrong, but pretty well all others of the genre are dab pages e.g. Class 9 etc. Do we go for consistency or for statistically analysing each one and risking confusion? -- Bermicourt ( talk) 14:11, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_gauge_conversions&diff=654567618&oldid=648928516
Tobias Conradi ( talk · contribs) / TrackGauge ( talk · contribs)
Andy Dingley ( talk) 00:33, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:Potomac Avenue station. There is a RM being requested there to revert an undiscussed move from Potomac Avenue Station, against the lack of consensus at Talk:Greenbelt Station#Requested move 7 February 2015. Epic Genius ( talk) 20:12, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello train enthusiasts. Here's an old draft about a train that will soon be deleted unless someone decides to work on it.— Anne Delong ( talk) 14:41, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Category:Articles lacking sources from October 2006 are the articles that have gone the longest time unreferenced. Most of the list has been cleared and only a few hundred remain. One pool of remaining problems are train related articles:
Does anyone here have access to sources that may be able to reference some of these? Do all of these articles belong in the encyclopedia? - SimonP ( talk) 17:05, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
I am trying to edit a template which corresponds to this Wikiproject, however I have been unable to do so. The template can be found on the pages for all the Buenos Aires Underground stations such as here: Plaza de Mayo (Buenos Aires Underground) under "services" in the infobox.
The changes I want to make are: changing the line icons for all the lines with their newer versions from the commons, change the name from "Buenos Aires Metro" to "Buenos Aires Underground" to fit the naming of the main article and also add the main logo of the system to the template.
Could someone let me know where I can do this from? I am unable to find where these edits can be done. SegataSanshiro1 ( talk) 15:56, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see this post. Alakzi ( talk) 18:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
{{
Infobox station}}
is only slightly better, with 57); this page has 335. The proposals affect stations in countries which formerly used a country-specific station infobox. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 05:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)When I started editing in September 2004, I never thought that I'd still be making edits on a daily basis ten years later. I created Portal:Trains on May 16, 2005, after comments were made on this talk page earlier that month. In December 2005, I looked into Featured Portal status; the criteria was soon agreed upon and on January 4, 2006, the Trains portal became the fourth Featured Portal on Wikipedia. I've maintained the featured status for the portal since then.
For May 2015, I'll be revisiting some of the first edits made to the portal and reusing some of the content from May 2005. I invite any interested editor to participate in nominating content to appear on the portal through any of these nomination pages:
When these nomination pages are unpopulated, as they have been for the vast majority of the time, I go through content within TWP's scope to find appropriate additions for the portal. For the images, I usually browse through Category:Rail transport by country. For the selected article, I use content from FA, GA and B class article categories. For the DYK section, I look at the unassessed articles, and for the news, I look at various news sources outside of Wikipedia.
I've had a lot of fun editing articles and content to show on the portal and learned a lot more about my favorite topic over the last ten years, and I look forward to continuing for the next ten years. Slambo (Speak) 19:15, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
The Hastings Line article is now a featured article candidate. Mjroots ( talk) 07:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
A merge of the two aforementioned infoboxes has been proposed. Please offer your input at the TfD. Alakzi ( talk) 16:54, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Help_desk#Fixing_clusters_of_problems, it was suggested that I should ask here about the cluster of dash spacing problems in categories such as Category:5 ft gauge railways in Latvia and Category:Railway lines in Latvia. I have taken out a lot of spaces around dashes, but haven't moved any articles yet (since I can't even try until I've been around for 3 days, they tell me, which will be in a few more hours). I also mentioned there that I don't see why "Railway" is capitalized on these. Can someone provide help or suggestions on whether this is worth working on? Timmeredgar ( talk) 01:59, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
ps. I have no particular knowledge or interest about trains or Latvia. I just got on this by looking at random articles and finding where the observed pattern of consistency seemed to be violated. Timmeredgar ( talk) 02:05, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Compare Category:Railway_lines_in_Switzerland, where most of the "... railway" article don't have the cap Railroad. Timmeredgar ( talk) 02:40, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
I can move articles today! So I took out the extra spaces from Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway. Should I move it again to Saint Petersburg–Warsaw railway? It does not look to be a company name. Timmeredgar ( talk) 22:48, 5 May 2015 (UTC) I took care of the rest of the dashes with spaces. Still hoping to get advice on the caps. Timmeredgar ( talk) 02:55, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Copied from User talk:BL2002#Ferry links at stations. Although the conversation appears to mainly apply to ferry wharves in Sydney, the symbols that are the subject of the discussion have been also been added to railway stations in Sydney, so think this an appropriate forum to discuss.
Stations such as Rydalmere, Parramatta and Olympic Park should not contain links in Transport links to ferry wharfs which are not in the immediate proximity of the station and hence these have been deleted. Transport links should refer to services which are in the immediate proximity and I suspect the same should apply to Transport links at ferry wharfs. However I like the inclusion of the bus symbol in the Transport links which is something we should probably adopt across all stations. Fleet Lists ( talk) 07:45, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Category:Historical innovative rolling stock, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for upmerging to Category:Rolling stock.. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect ( talk) 02:02, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Just a note to page watchers that Template:Infobox T&W Metro station has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox station; the discussion is here. Jc86035 ( talk | contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 09:13, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
Since 2015 Philadelphia train derailment is currently a very high-traffic article, there are some related articles that presumably receive a significant bump in readership. While many are fine, there are some that need attention. Notably, History of rail transport in Philadelphia (prominently linked in the 'See also' section) -- which has indecipherable referencing. At any rate, the article and those linked therein could use help from the WP railroad community. —Thanks, Eric, aka: 71.20.250.51 ( talk) 02:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed the creation of a Wikiproject Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - the proposal is here, and I'm looking for people's thoughts about it! Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 19:36, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Note your input is also sought on the several proposed names and scopes, made as this proposal has been reviewed.
Your input is still sought on the proposed WikiProject Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Thank You — Lentower ( talk) 20:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello there! There's been an issue recently over the naming of the South Coast / Illawarra railway line in New South Wales. I'm looking for appropriate people to give their opinion in a discussion of the issue. You can find the discussion here. PhilipTerryGraham ⡭ ₪ ·o' ⍦ ࿂ 00:20, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Potomac Avenue station to be moved to Potomac Avenue Station. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:33, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for South Coast railway line, New South Wales to be moved to Illawarra railway line. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:47, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for University Link extension to be moved to University Link Extension. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:49, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Hunter railway line to be moved to Hunter Line. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:00, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for La Gazelle train to be moved to La Gazelle. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:20, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Copied from WT:FRANCE
A requested move discussion has been initiated for RER to be moved to Réseau Express Régional. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. Mjroots ( talk) 08:18, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
I've suggested three additional parameters to Template:Infobox tunnel. It's talkpage is quiet and no comments have been made since the proposal in September 2014, so I'm asking for some comments/feedback to be added to Template talk:Infobox tunnel#Number of bores (tunnels). AHeneen ( talk) 19:11, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
The 2015 Philadelphia train derailment recently highlighted the delays in implementing positive train control by the end of the year, as required by law in the U.S. I thought it would be interesting to read more about the topic in general, and I was very sad to find there is no article at rail safety. We have links for various types of train control and some articles linked from {{ Rail accidents}} (shown below) but no real overview of how death and injury statistics have progressed over time, what safety technologies are now in place around the world, what safety initiatives have been undertaken to date, what proposals remain, and how rail compares to other modes. I'm sure there are many experts floating around this project; was anyone interested in drafting an article? -- Beland ( talk) 18:44, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
I was perusing the light rail, commuter rail, and heave rail metro system lists, and found it interesting that one of the parameters in the table is ridership per mile; however, it seems to be missing a market penetration number like ridership per 100,000 residents. It seems that in comparing transit systems, one measure of effectiveness would be the density (i.e. market penetration) of how many people use the transit system regularly. -- Trödel 17:25, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
An editor has challenged the neutrality of the 2015 Wootton Bassett SPAD incident article. Discussion is ongoing at the talk page. Please join the discussion so that consensus can be formed and outstanding issues dealt with. Mjroots ( talk) 06:01, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest.-- Lucas559 ( talk) 22:52, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed merging Illini (train) and Saluki (train) into a single article. Comments welcomed at Talk:Illini (train)#Proposed_merge. Mackensen (talk) 12:27, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
We have:
(and others)
The twofold problem is that it's not clear if these are using UIC, AAR or whatever notation. "Bo-Bo" are clearly diesel-electrics with individual traction motors to each axle. Diesel-hydraulics in contrast belong under "B-B". However the current population is largely ignoring this and most of the B-B category members are US diesels.
How do we fix this?
Thoughts? Andy Dingley ( talk) 22:36, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Just less than two years ago, I was able to get a picture of this from inside the Fayetteville (Amtrak station), and found it interesting. Unfortunately, when I saw it I was looking for a National Register of Historic Places plaque at the station, because it happens to be listed. I don't really think it exists there. Plus I took two other pics inside that turned out like crap, but that's neither here nor there. What I also found was a picture of an old Fayetteville Street Railway steam-powered trolley. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 18:46, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
I have raised an issue on this subject at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sydney/Railway stations#Transport Links on which I am seeking wider opinion. Fleet Lists ( talk) 06:32, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Can I make a request for a review of recent edits by User:Robert92107 on California High-Speed Rail. This user has made multiple edits over the last week with very few supporting inline references, and I feel that the article is being slowly twisted into a POV article. I just would like a second opinion whether the editing has been anything other than NPOV. This is a contentious project, and the article may need some degree of protection. - Rhubarbs Cat ( talk) 23:25, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Help needed in addressing ambiguous links:
The Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links group of editors has been making great progress towards eliminating ambiguous links; help them out if you can! -- do ncr am 15:46, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
The usage and topic of Metro Center Station is under discussion, see talk:Metro Center station -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 07:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Came across a book about Indian railways I thought might be of interest.
More of a coffee table book with large photos, but some text that may be useful. - 220 of Borg 02:17, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
There are too many categories: Unless a major reorganization is performed (combining completed, under-construction, and proposed stations) is done, I think (RS denotes "railway stations", so that the table will fit on most computers; letter codes in the boxes:
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
RS opened in | E | Ea | a | a | Ea | a | a | Ea | a | a |
RS scheduled to open in | E | E | E | E | Eu | Eu | u | u | u | u |
Proposed RS scheduled to open in | Ea | Ea | Eu | E | E | E | E |
I'm not quite sure whether to propose
or
It's up to the project, but "opened" in a future year is speculative, at best. Whatever you (the project) decides, I'll help generate the Cfm/r templates, if you (collectively) don't have an AWB guru. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:53, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Rail_transport_modelling
The photo shown at the top right of this page is mine. I used to have photo credit shown but it has been removed.
While I don't mind the photo being used, I do insist on a credit line as I do own the copyright on this photo.
The same applies to the photo on this page: -
/info/en/?search=Rail_transport_modelling#/media/File:Model_rs3_bridge.jpg
Regards.
Roger Traviss — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.61.234 ( talk) 02:11, 13 August 2015
A mass nomination of between 40 and 50 railway station articles has been opened at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aviation Academy Railway Halt. Mjroots ( talk) 20:37, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Recently there have been some differing opinions on the validity of retaining hitherto unpopulated fields in infoboxes. One example is Cherrybrook railway station, an Australian station scheduled to open in 2019. There are two theories;
1) all fields should be retained [4] to allow those unpopulated to be filled as information becomes available
2) only populated fields should be included [5] and can be added as required.
My opinion is that 2) is more cumbersome and requires a higher level of Wikipedia proficiency, thus less likely to occur making 1) more preferable. Not just specific to under construction stations, but infoboxes in general. Anyone care to offer an opinion? Turingway ( talk) 10:05, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
See talk:Visakhapatnam – New Delhi AP Express where a proposed new name for the train article uses the format "abc...xyz (new)" for the new name -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 04:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
In Sydney Australia we currently have a recently joined member who is deleting platform boxes from stations because they do not have specific references as to which platform certain routes depart from or there is only one platform. I believe this is taking the reference argument to the extreme. I and another member have been reverting his posts but he continues to do so. See User_talk:Mqst_north#A bit of free advice Examples are Berry railway station and Albion Park railway station. Any discussion please. Fleet Lists ( talk) 23:20, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Sydneysiders among you will remember the previous Sydney Metro proposal of 2008-10, which at the time spawned five separate Wikipedia articles referring to the various aspects of the project. (All were cancelled within two years; a separate program, also called Sydney Metro, is now under construction.) There's an ongoing discussion regarding whether these should be merged into a single article called Sydney Metro (2008 proposal) at Talk:Sydney Metro (2008 proposal). Any thoughts? Mqst north ( talk) 16:09, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
I am creating articles for some early Soviet diesel locomotives, e.g. ВМ and I would like to discuss names for the articles. ВМ looks like BM but it is Cyrillic script so it is likely to cause confusion. Could we please develop a naming convention for Soviet and Russian locomotives. I am currently working on shch-el-1 or Щэл1 at User:Biscuittin/sandbox2. I assume that article titles in English Wikipedia should use English characters. Biscuittin ( talk) 11:31, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
This story might be worth keeping an eye on. Could be an article if it is confirmed to ave been found. Mjroots ( talk) 05:16, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
While trying to resolve ambiguous links in WikiProject Canada articles, I came across Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway with a link to "Reo". In this edit, I wikilinked to REO Motor Car Company (a.k.a. REO or Reo), attributing manufacture of "gas-powered rail cars" for the BWNWR to that company. However, the REO / Reo article covers only manufacture of autos and trucks and buses. Does anyone know of REO railroad cars being manufactured or used anywhere else? Can any references be found to document that in the REO article? I still assume my edit was accurate, but would be happy to be corrected if it turns out there is some other Reo company that made train cars. TIA, -- do ncr am 17:29, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Good evening. I've just discovered that Oanabay04 ( talk · contribs) (currently blocked, not sure of details) copy/pasted large portions of text wholesale from George Drury's Historical Guide of North American Railroads. He used the 1994 edition; I have the 1985 edition in front of me. So far, starting from A, every article is affected except Adirondack Railway (1976–1981) (which I wrote earlier this evening; maybe it's not in the 1994 edition). I've started keeping a list at User:Mackensen/Drury copyvios and I've filed a request at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations, but cleaning this up is going to be obnoxious. Hopefully in most cases it'll be possible to just revert to the last good version, accepting that some edits may have to be reinstated. Mackensen (talk) 03:42, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
I added a navbox to the 2015 Thalys attack article. This was later removed. I initiated the D part of WP:BRD at talk:2015 Thalys attack#Navbox but so far there has been no response. I'd like some discussion to take place so that there is consensus formed, not just a difference of opinion between two editors. If the navbox is kept off the article, so be it. Mjroots ( talk) 07:09, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
At the risk of poking the bear, I noticed that some Crimea transport articles and templates have been moved from Category:Ukraine transport templates to Category:Russia transport templates. Do you know if any consensus has been reached about this? Useddenim ( talk) 12:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Feel free to comment and/or leave feedback at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Metra stations/archive1. Thanks, Sportsguy17 ( T • C) 13:10, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I am seeking confirmation of the correct way to 'render' preceding and following stations &/or stops in the s-boxes at the bottom of the pages. For example George Street tram stop... has Church Street tram stop under preceding stop whereas in fact, it is the stop that follows George St. (the trams only run one way at that point). It can be read as correct in that George St. precedes Church St. and therefore could be said to be be preceding Church St. but I would have thought that in the case of George St., the preceding stop is the one the tram leaves before reaching George St. (In this case East Croydon Station) but am wondering what the convention is for this project. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 22:54, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
WP:JCW has recently updated, and the coverage of trains and railroad publications on Wikipedia could be improved. Many of the top cited 'journals' (which include magazines and websites, etc...) will be of interest to people in this project, so I figured I would compile a list.
The above classification maybe a bit off, because I'm just basing myself off the languages and titles of those publications, so don't chew my head off if Die Bundesbahn covers more than the trains of Germany!
Any help you can give writing these articles is greatly appreciated. You can consult our writing guide at WP:JWG (journals) and WP:MWG (magazines) for some guidance on writing articles on journals and magazines. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:07, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
I've re-nominated the Hastings Line article for FAC. It failed last time due to a lack of reviews, so I'd appreciate some support this time round please. Mjroots ( talk) 18:58, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
(Hopefully this is the right place to announce it) I just finished localizing the documentation of Lua module:routemap so map created by it will load faster than map composed of the older BS series templates. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk · contri.) 06:28, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Further to the above discussion, and mass changing of RDTs without consensus, I have opened a RFC at Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#RFC Mjroots ( talk) 17:40, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
This article seems to have a great deal of white space between the first para. in the body of the article and the first sub-heading caused apparently by a "gallery" being inserted which appears after the infoboxes (3). It looks poor and one of the images is a duplication of an infobox image. Eagleash ( talk) 07:10, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
I wonder if WP:TRAINS provides any guidance on the inclusion of bus routes in station articles, like this one. I've removed them from several Shiraz Metro station articles on the reasoning that, "such information is highly transient and we also risk that Wikipedia will be used as a travel guide" - but perhaps these lists are accepted, or even acceptable? Alakzi ( talk) 12:09, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
FWIW I have requested at move at Talk:Croxley Rail Link. Simply south .... .. time, deparment skies for just 9 years 13:10, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
I am in Australia. I recollect, as a child in the 1950's that the railways had two types of signals. One was the semaphore type on a post and the other was a red/green ground level signal which indicated the setting of the "points" which was the expression for where one line joined or crossed another. When "shunting" the points signals were very important. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.122.77.188 ( talk) 10:03, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
For what its worth, I have proposed a merger of Edinburgh Crossrail with the Borders Railway. Please see Talk:Borders Railway#Merge?. Simply south .... .. time, deparment skies for just 9 years 17:36, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Would someone with some experience in route map templates help me out? I've added templates to all the Buenos Aires commuter rail lines, but two of them (on the Belgrano Sur Line and San Martin Line pages) push down all the images when expanded. I've read about how to prevent this before, but can't remember where and can't find it - and also comparing with the templates on the other pages, I can't spot any differences. Thanks. SegataSanshiro1 ( talk) 19:21, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
List of ACoRP members has been proposed for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ACoRP members. Simply south .... .. time, deparment skies for just 9 years 17:45, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
For some reason today, there's a glitch that is creating huge white spaces in every single station article. I thought it was just a defect that occurred when I created Shawmont (SEPTA station) until I realized it was system-wide. --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 17:12, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
This new book discusses immigrants who worked on transportation projects such as joining the Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad: The Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West by Ryan Dearinger, 2015, University of California Press. Maybe useful for expanding history and construction sections of those and other transportation articles. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 00:43, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
There was a discussion recently about the use of bus routes in train station articles and if and when to use them, and I missed my chance to add my two cents on the issue. Here's how I deal with buses; If there's a genuine bus terminal attached to the station, such as Victor A. Moore Bus Terminal which is part of Roosevelt Avenue / 74th Street (New York City Subway), or the Jamaica Center Bus Terminal which is part of Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer (Archer Avenue Lines), or Fordham Plaza Bus Terminal, which is part of Fordham (Metro-North station), or St. George Terminal, Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center, etcetera, then those clearly deserve big route numbers, and descriptions, and what not. Otherwise, I just throw them in the infoboxes. ---------- User:DanTD ( talk) 02:17, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a discussion at Template talk:Infobox GB station#Usage section about the overwhelming size of the usage figures section of the above infobox. I'm not massively involved in rail articles so I'm not sure if there are other templates that may be in a similar situation. Input and potential solutions would be appreciated over there? Jeni ( talk) 16:17, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
More consensus is needed for a minor fix to get the text to center properly on Template:Rail line under certain circumstances. Please comment at Template talk:Rail line#Using Template:Rail line in infoboxes. Thanks. Antony–22 ( talk⁄ contribs) 18:59, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Apparently, somebody decided that the categories "Wikipedia requested photographs of Foo stations" should all be renamed "Wikipedia requested images of Foo stations." If you're going to rename these things, shouldn't you take all the templates and such with them too? --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 12:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pomona (Manchester) Metrolink station#Requested move 11 December 2015 that is relevant to this WikiProject. Jeni ( talk) 15:28, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion underway regarding deletion of the newly created BR Standard 4 2-6-0 76084 article. Please join the discussion. Slambo (Speak) 16:26, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Waterhouses (County Durham) railway station is proposed for merging to Waterhouses, County Durham. Please discuss at Talk:Waterhouses, County Durham#Merger Discussion. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 23:12, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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Could someone look at this reversion and decide whether it's desirable? One editor used {{ RoutemapRouteIcon}} to add directional arrows to the list of routes, so you could tell which line referred to which one ( if it departs on the line going to the upper right, or if it's the one going to the left in the diagram, etc.). It was reverted without comment, as if it were just vandalism. Do we want arrows like that on this type of template? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 18:38, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
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WhatamIdoing, take another look at your example diagram and concentrate carefully:
Asfordby is in Regular text, so that means it is a ... yes, Station. Very good! So the arrow in the adjacent column must be for ... follow the line ... no, not the
Old Dalby Test Track, there's no connection there ... keep going ... and you've found it, the
Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway. See, it's not that difficult to figure out, even for you.
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Useddenim, your continued rude tone is completely inappropriate here. WhatamIdoing is offering legitimate criticism of the mechanics of this diagram - which I agree with - and there is no call whatsoever for you to be condescending. Not only are these standards not universal across RDTs, but it there is nothing in the diagram as it currently stands that indicates which of the two lines is the test track. I have a little bit of experience with RDTs, and I find it confusing - and these diagrams should be readable to the general public. Either arrows are needed in the text, or the diagram should be modified so that there is no possible confusion. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 06:15, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
An inexperienced editor has been adding some comments about the status of railroads in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Members of this project might be interested in producing a balanced approach. (It's usually in the subsection (now) directly before Automobiles. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 21:59, 30 December 2015 (UTC)