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Leftboot83 ( talk · contribs) is persistently and wilfully violating WP:V in their edits to List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection, and has descended to personal abuse - see User talk:Redrose64#LMS 2500. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 22:20, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
I have edited it to correct the mistake, 2500 is NOT at York, she was at Shildon (as per my first edit) and has been moved to Barrow Hill, as shown in this image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/108904076@N07/27408605993/in/dateposted/
Sadly Redrose64 ( talk · contribs) cannot accept the truth despite me informing them that I cannot work out how to place a reference but they insist they are correct in undoing correct edits. Leftboot83 ( talk) 22:35, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
There is just no reasoning with some people. Sadly they are proof of why railway enthusiasts get a bad name. Leftboot83 ( talk) 22:47, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello all. I've just been updating some stations without 2014/2015 stats and there are some missing on the Great Eastern Main Line. The stations between Liverpool Street and Shenfield now have Railexits as a parameter instead of usage1415 which renders the date differently. Also each stat has a citation attached to it - is the new way of labelling station stats then? Regards. The joy of all things ( talk) 19:55, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
{{
Infobox London station}}
by, I think,
DavidCane (
talk ·
contribs). --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:25, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
A discussion is taking place at Template talk:2015 railway accidents as to whether or not the 2015 Wootton Bassett SPAD incident should be included on that template. Input from members of this WP is requested. Mjroots ( talk) 09:46, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
The article is largely unreferenced. I've suggested an improvement drive at talk:Meon Valley Railway#Improvement drive. Any volunteers to help improve the article? Mjroots ( talk) 19:40, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
There is a new article on the Pagoda Platform Shelter favoured by the GWR. It particularly needs more links in from other articles. Mjroots ( talk) 14:03, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
The Cinque Ports Light Railway article has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots ( talk) 07:39, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
Once again, Nathan A RF ( talk · contribs) is moving pages without discussion and for the flimsiest of reasons. Today, they moved Peterborough to Lincoln Line to Redwing Line stating "Local knowledge and timetable and picture references say that this is the "Redwing Line" ( https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/1214/redwing_line_timetable.pdf)". Now, surely "Local knowledge" files in the face of WP:NOR? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 20:56, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone have any strong feelings about either merging or even deleting this article; South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company into South Yorkshire Railway? The second is far more comprehensive and the first only amounts to a couple of lines. Thanks. The joy of all things ( talk) 07:28, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
From the above discussion, I have discovered that we have articles contradicting each other. There is the Peterborough to Lincoln Line, the diagram of which matches Jowett, p85. Then there is the Lincolnshire Loop Line article, which suggests that it was possible to take the first junction north of Peterborough and get to Spalding. Jowett pp 85, 87, 72 shows this line as going to Wisbech and Sutton Bridge. The junction at Peterborough on {{ Lincolnshire Loop Line}} is all wrong, and Peterborough Crescent was not at the position shown on that RDT. Mjroots ( talk) 08:48, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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Dinmore has two single bore tunnels; one built in 1853 and the other in 1891. Shouldn't the article be Dinmore Tunnels? If everyone is happy I will sort it out. (PS _ Trackmaps and Network Rail docs state Tunnels not Tunnel) The joy of all things ( talk) 13:04, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
At Urban rail in the United Kingdom, Roscomoner ( talk · contribs) is insisting on the inclusion of this text. I left a note at User talk:Roscomoner#July 2016, subsequent to which 2A02:C7D:7A06:1000:45:3834:29F8:F8CC ( talk) (who had no edits until today) re-added exactly the same text. Neither of them seems willing to provide a source. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 09:52, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello Redrose64, I saw the message you left on my page. There are no reliable sources that state which London Tube station's are below ground. I think one would have to look at the image of a station carefully and decide weather it is below ground. Although I have provided a source on the London Underground page, it has many problems for example, it states that the Hounslow West and Paddington tube stations are above ground. There is also another image on Google stating similar information. I can clearly see on the images of Queen's Park, Wembley Central and Bow Road are below ground. Their platforms are cut at least a few metres below the surface and they are at least partially if not fully covered from the Sky anyway. It also says on other Wikipedia pages related to Metro systems in Britain that a station can be open to the sky and still be considered Sub surface.
Kind Regards Roscomoner ( talk) 15:08, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
What about Wembley Central, It looks like it has been built in a tunnel. Roscomoner ( talk) 07:54, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Appendix D of this TfL document (starts on the last line of PDF page 24) lists London Underground-managed stations that are defined as "sub-surface" for the purposes of section 12 of the Fire Precautions (Sub-Surface Railway Stations) Regulations 2009). Although the document is written for a specific purpose and may be a sub-set of stations. Thryduulf ( talk) 10:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
I was just asking a question. Surely you can't block me just for posting on this thread. The only reason why I am aware of it is because I saw it in my Notifications. Roscomoner ( talk) 11:42, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Following an IP edit at Circle line (London Underground), I attempted to come up with a list of stations which were underground so that we could, at least for that article, get an answer. The article lead says there are 21 stations below ground, of the 36 (counting Paddington twice) on the line. The routemap however shows 20 subsurface stations, and the adjacent prose states there are 35 stations on the line. Absolutely none of this is cited. Can we please come up with a list of which stations are underground and which aren't, or at least decide how many stations the Circle line actually has? - mattbuck ( Talk) 14:03, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
TfL have responded to the FOI request I sent and provided a list of all their sub-surface stations. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/section_12_stations_served_by_tf. Thryduulf ( talk) 09:46, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Please join a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Traingate about the recent incident involving Jeremy Corbyn. Absolutelypuremilk ( talk) 22:32, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
If anyone cares, I've opened an RFC on the conversion of route diagram templates to the Routemap format here. Jc86035 ( talk • contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 06:26, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
{{
Routemap}}
format, an inevitable precursor to the phasing out of {{
BS-table}}
which most of us are more comfortable with. One question which occurs to me is whether an RfC can be used to force through such a radical change.
Lamberhurst (
talk) 10:08, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
I've just created Train overcrowding in the United Kingdom, which I think was long overdue for creation. Andy Dingley has added to the talk page a set of possible directions for improving it: would anyone be interested in working on expanding it?
There are also, I think, interesting articles waiting to be written on classes of train tickets and seat reservation.
-- The Anome ( talk) 12:19, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
How much of a station do we consider when we say that such-a-station is "in" a particular county? See these four edits and these two where there is disagreement between self and Chris j wood ( talk · contribs). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:31, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
|borough=
parameter in the infobox; (ii) the navboxes; (iii) the categories. None of these is in the article prose. Indeed, the sentence "Whilst the station building is in Wiltshire, the platforms straddle the county boundary with
Hampshire." - mentioned by Tagishsimon - is completely untouched. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello
Can anyone possibly identify the rolling stock that is shown in the links at
Talk:Charlevoix tourist train#The rolling stock? It could be that it came from France rather than from England @
Slambo:
Peter Horn
User talk 21:11, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
In
this edit,
Superalbs (
talk ·
contribs) has added a row with the link [[British_Rail_Class_387|GWRElectrostar]]
which displays as
GWRElectrostar. Quite apart from the note that this is "Weekday Peaks Only" - something we've been discouraging - do we really want to specify the type of rolling stock? This is sure to vary with maintenance and availability - one train that I often get to Oxford might be formed of a
Class 165,
Class 166,
Class 180 or even a HST. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Notification of the latest round of this inanity. ‑ Iridescent 20:09, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
FYI, User talk:Amakuru#Page moves, railway stations. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 18:05, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
FYI, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport#Camden Town tube station. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 17:43, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Is there a consensus somewhere for use of upper case Branch Line in article titles? There is another rash of page moves with the justification "Capitalisation to match other UK rail lines (excluding LU)". Nthep ( talk) 21:58, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
Personally, I feel he's used up all his warnings. I cautioned him about capitalization on September 21st (although not specifically for Branch Lines). I also mention his lack of edit summaries, and in the 250+ edits he's made since then, only abut 1 in 6 have a description (and about 80% of those were page moves). Frankly, any editor who has to have the majority of his edits scrutinized doesn't belong here. Useddenim ( talk) 17:03, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Do we need to nudge
Nathan A RF with a further 24- or 48-hour block?
This edit (at line 23) doesn’t suggest a willingness to work cooperatively, and his
blanking the talk page shows a definite unwillingness to discuss things.
Useddenim (
talk) 21:08, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm sure that it was agreed that where a station has two names, an English one and a non-English name, we would use the spelling that is actually used by the railway, even if that is technically incorrect. Akerbeltz ( talk · contribs) claims otherwise. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 17:45, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Sorry but the Irish (ga) Wikipedia is hardly the source to use to prove a point about Scottish Gaelic. It's like looking at the Dutch Wiki to prove a point about English spelling. Most likely the Irish Wiki copied the error from the English one. Akerbeltz ( talk) 19:51, 9 October 2016 (UTC) That aside, the variation in Gaelic place names on signs is slowly decreasing as there is now a go-to authority for place names. So it really becomes a question of "in an argument over French spelling, do you go with the sign or the Academic Française"? Akerbeltz ( talk) 19:54, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
|other_name=
parameter of {{
Infobox GB station}}
.
This photo, although not entirely clear, shows that the middle word is "a'", not "na". --
Redrose64 (
talk) 22:10, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Well, in this case the station name IS the location name. Connel Ferry, like a great many other place names, are so old we have no idea who "invented" them. It's like trying to nail down who invented the word "Birmingham". Akerbeltz ( talk) 18:56, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 October 11#Template:Ellis' Railway Encyclopaedia Andy Dingley ( talk) 00:31, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
I have seen how many different varieties of RDT layouts there are and I don't know which would be right. I have my own certain way of doing things and so do others. For example, I have heard from Useddenim that the Scottish RDTs have a 4 | gap and a blue arrow. Should there not be uniformity between all railway line RDTs as all of them would be simpler and (in my and two others' opinions) look nicer rather than (in the example above) not be all aligned to one side? Nathan A RF ( talk) 19:25, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
The major differences are
Most RDTs | Scotland | New York City subway (and some other Northeast lines) | |
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Title background | be2d2c ({{
BS-map}} default) or1d303c ({{
Routemap}} default)
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from WP:WikiProject UK Railways/Colours list#Scotland | line color |
Connecting lines | small italic (text2 )
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right-justified (
text3 ) (no arrow) | |
Junctions | small (text2 )
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italic (text1 )
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small (text2 )
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Non-rail features | small (text2 )
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Useddenim ( talk) 20:42, 9 October 2016 (UTC) @ Useddenim:, I understand that you are trying to put your point across but this is a question I asked to other people, not just you. I was asking about certain formats to see if there should be one in Scotland or not. You can't just reply to a question asked about you, it's like if someone drove the wrong way down a road, someone else went to ask which way it is and the first someone delivers their opinion straight away. Thank you for what you have put above though. Nathan A RF ( talk) 06:28, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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References
On the subject of RDTs, I've raised a question at
Template talk:Talyllyn Railway RDT about whether narrow gauge railways should be red or blue. Discussions there please.
Optimist on the run (
talk) 19:59, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Moved from Template talk:Talyllyn Railway RDT#Query for wider exposure
Query - should the main running line be red rather than blue, as the TR was not a light railway? Optimist on the run ( talk) 14:49, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
{{
North Staffordshire Railway RDT}}
, {{
Waterhouses branch RDT}}
, {{
Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 22:07, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Could someone who knows something about the Valley Lines (I do not) take a look at Merthyr Line? This is embarrassingly out of date, talking about forthcoming events in 2008. (On a random dip-sample, this seems to be a common problem in South Wales; Newport railway station talks about forthcoming development in 2009-12, Butetown Branch Line says electrification is due to start in 2014, Ebbw Valley Railway says "no decision on the link will now be made before March 2011"... Someone probably needs to go through them systematically.) ‑ Iridescent 18:16, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
There's a discussion going on about the definition of the West Coast Main Line and the RDT at Talk:West_Coast_Main_Line#RDT_containing_only_the_WCML if anyone is interested. G-13114 ( talk) 22:03, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
FYI, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains#Edits by Teabagishere. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 01:19, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Over the past few months, there's been a series of vandalism attacks on various railway related articles, often based on Ffestiniog rolling stock articles, by what appears to be a single user. The user makes the same changes with regular monotony - by claiming locos of a specific class are preserved when they're not, or that (for example) Festiniog Railway Princess is in operational condition, or making up new names for them. LB&SCR E2 class (the prototype for Thomas the Tank Engine) is another article to be regularly affected, which leads me to think that the perpetrator may be juvenile. They use a range of IP6 addresses which change regularly, but 2601:8C3:4000:E25B:987F:DA5C:402C:90F2 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 2601:281:C000:6DE8:C57B:A629:3B3B:EAC4 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) both have many contributions to show the range of the problem. I've done a couple of long term range blocks, I suspect the user will return once the address has changed again. The user has made no attempt to communicate on talk pages or their own user talk pages, or requested any unblocking. My policy has been to Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore, but I'm wondering if semi-protection of the most frequently affected pages would be better. Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Optimist on the run ( talk • contribs) 23:33, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
FYI, Talk:British Rail Class 45#Last Passenger Service. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:19, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Slightly off-topic, but still UK rail related - 2016 Croydon tram derailment. Mjroots ( talk) 12:25, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
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Leftboot83 ( talk · contribs) is persistently and wilfully violating WP:V in their edits to List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection, and has descended to personal abuse - see User talk:Redrose64#LMS 2500. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 22:20, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
I have edited it to correct the mistake, 2500 is NOT at York, she was at Shildon (as per my first edit) and has been moved to Barrow Hill, as shown in this image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/108904076@N07/27408605993/in/dateposted/
Sadly Redrose64 ( talk · contribs) cannot accept the truth despite me informing them that I cannot work out how to place a reference but they insist they are correct in undoing correct edits. Leftboot83 ( talk) 22:35, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
There is just no reasoning with some people. Sadly they are proof of why railway enthusiasts get a bad name. Leftboot83 ( talk) 22:47, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello all. I've just been updating some stations without 2014/2015 stats and there are some missing on the Great Eastern Main Line. The stations between Liverpool Street and Shenfield now have Railexits as a parameter instead of usage1415 which renders the date differently. Also each stat has a citation attached to it - is the new way of labelling station stats then? Regards. The joy of all things ( talk) 19:55, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
{{
Infobox London station}}
by, I think,
DavidCane (
talk ·
contribs). --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:25, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
A discussion is taking place at Template talk:2015 railway accidents as to whether or not the 2015 Wootton Bassett SPAD incident should be included on that template. Input from members of this WP is requested. Mjroots ( talk) 09:46, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
The article is largely unreferenced. I've suggested an improvement drive at talk:Meon Valley Railway#Improvement drive. Any volunteers to help improve the article? Mjroots ( talk) 19:40, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
There is a new article on the Pagoda Platform Shelter favoured by the GWR. It particularly needs more links in from other articles. Mjroots ( talk) 14:03, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
The Cinque Ports Light Railway article has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots ( talk) 07:39, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
Once again, Nathan A RF ( talk · contribs) is moving pages without discussion and for the flimsiest of reasons. Today, they moved Peterborough to Lincoln Line to Redwing Line stating "Local knowledge and timetable and picture references say that this is the "Redwing Line" ( https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/1214/redwing_line_timetable.pdf)". Now, surely "Local knowledge" files in the face of WP:NOR? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 20:56, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone have any strong feelings about either merging or even deleting this article; South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company into South Yorkshire Railway? The second is far more comprehensive and the first only amounts to a couple of lines. Thanks. The joy of all things ( talk) 07:28, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
From the above discussion, I have discovered that we have articles contradicting each other. There is the Peterborough to Lincoln Line, the diagram of which matches Jowett, p85. Then there is the Lincolnshire Loop Line article, which suggests that it was possible to take the first junction north of Peterborough and get to Spalding. Jowett pp 85, 87, 72 shows this line as going to Wisbech and Sutton Bridge. The junction at Peterborough on {{ Lincolnshire Loop Line}} is all wrong, and Peterborough Crescent was not at the position shown on that RDT. Mjroots ( talk) 08:48, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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Dinmore has two single bore tunnels; one built in 1853 and the other in 1891. Shouldn't the article be Dinmore Tunnels? If everyone is happy I will sort it out. (PS _ Trackmaps and Network Rail docs state Tunnels not Tunnel) The joy of all things ( talk) 13:04, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
At Urban rail in the United Kingdom, Roscomoner ( talk · contribs) is insisting on the inclusion of this text. I left a note at User talk:Roscomoner#July 2016, subsequent to which 2A02:C7D:7A06:1000:45:3834:29F8:F8CC ( talk) (who had no edits until today) re-added exactly the same text. Neither of them seems willing to provide a source. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 09:52, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello Redrose64, I saw the message you left on my page. There are no reliable sources that state which London Tube station's are below ground. I think one would have to look at the image of a station carefully and decide weather it is below ground. Although I have provided a source on the London Underground page, it has many problems for example, it states that the Hounslow West and Paddington tube stations are above ground. There is also another image on Google stating similar information. I can clearly see on the images of Queen's Park, Wembley Central and Bow Road are below ground. Their platforms are cut at least a few metres below the surface and they are at least partially if not fully covered from the Sky anyway. It also says on other Wikipedia pages related to Metro systems in Britain that a station can be open to the sky and still be considered Sub surface.
Kind Regards Roscomoner ( talk) 15:08, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
What about Wembley Central, It looks like it has been built in a tunnel. Roscomoner ( talk) 07:54, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Appendix D of this TfL document (starts on the last line of PDF page 24) lists London Underground-managed stations that are defined as "sub-surface" for the purposes of section 12 of the Fire Precautions (Sub-Surface Railway Stations) Regulations 2009). Although the document is written for a specific purpose and may be a sub-set of stations. Thryduulf ( talk) 10:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
I was just asking a question. Surely you can't block me just for posting on this thread. The only reason why I am aware of it is because I saw it in my Notifications. Roscomoner ( talk) 11:42, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Following an IP edit at Circle line (London Underground), I attempted to come up with a list of stations which were underground so that we could, at least for that article, get an answer. The article lead says there are 21 stations below ground, of the 36 (counting Paddington twice) on the line. The routemap however shows 20 subsurface stations, and the adjacent prose states there are 35 stations on the line. Absolutely none of this is cited. Can we please come up with a list of which stations are underground and which aren't, or at least decide how many stations the Circle line actually has? - mattbuck ( Talk) 14:03, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
TfL have responded to the FOI request I sent and provided a list of all their sub-surface stations. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/section_12_stations_served_by_tf. Thryduulf ( talk) 09:46, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Please join a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Traingate about the recent incident involving Jeremy Corbyn. Absolutelypuremilk ( talk) 22:32, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
If anyone cares, I've opened an RFC on the conversion of route diagram templates to the Routemap format here. Jc86035 ( talk • contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 06:26, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
{{
Routemap}}
format, an inevitable precursor to the phasing out of {{
BS-table}}
which most of us are more comfortable with. One question which occurs to me is whether an RfC can be used to force through such a radical change.
Lamberhurst (
talk) 10:08, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
I've just created Train overcrowding in the United Kingdom, which I think was long overdue for creation. Andy Dingley has added to the talk page a set of possible directions for improving it: would anyone be interested in working on expanding it?
There are also, I think, interesting articles waiting to be written on classes of train tickets and seat reservation.
-- The Anome ( talk) 12:19, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
How much of a station do we consider when we say that such-a-station is "in" a particular county? See these four edits and these two where there is disagreement between self and Chris j wood ( talk · contribs). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:31, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
|borough=
parameter in the infobox; (ii) the navboxes; (iii) the categories. None of these is in the article prose. Indeed, the sentence "Whilst the station building is in Wiltshire, the platforms straddle the county boundary with
Hampshire." - mentioned by Tagishsimon - is completely untouched. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello
Can anyone possibly identify the rolling stock that is shown in the links at
Talk:Charlevoix tourist train#The rolling stock? It could be that it came from France rather than from England @
Slambo:
Peter Horn
User talk 21:11, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
In
this edit,
Superalbs (
talk ·
contribs) has added a row with the link [[British_Rail_Class_387|GWRElectrostar]]
which displays as
GWRElectrostar. Quite apart from the note that this is "Weekday Peaks Only" - something we've been discouraging - do we really want to specify the type of rolling stock? This is sure to vary with maintenance and availability - one train that I often get to Oxford might be formed of a
Class 165,
Class 166,
Class 180 or even a HST. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Notification of the latest round of this inanity. ‑ Iridescent 20:09, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
FYI, User talk:Amakuru#Page moves, railway stations. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 18:05, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
FYI, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport#Camden Town tube station. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 17:43, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Is there a consensus somewhere for use of upper case Branch Line in article titles? There is another rash of page moves with the justification "Capitalisation to match other UK rail lines (excluding LU)". Nthep ( talk) 21:58, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
Personally, I feel he's used up all his warnings. I cautioned him about capitalization on September 21st (although not specifically for Branch Lines). I also mention his lack of edit summaries, and in the 250+ edits he's made since then, only abut 1 in 6 have a description (and about 80% of those were page moves). Frankly, any editor who has to have the majority of his edits scrutinized doesn't belong here. Useddenim ( talk) 17:03, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Do we need to nudge
Nathan A RF with a further 24- or 48-hour block?
This edit (at line 23) doesn’t suggest a willingness to work cooperatively, and his
blanking the talk page shows a definite unwillingness to discuss things.
Useddenim (
talk) 21:08, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm sure that it was agreed that where a station has two names, an English one and a non-English name, we would use the spelling that is actually used by the railway, even if that is technically incorrect. Akerbeltz ( talk · contribs) claims otherwise. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 17:45, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Sorry but the Irish (ga) Wikipedia is hardly the source to use to prove a point about Scottish Gaelic. It's like looking at the Dutch Wiki to prove a point about English spelling. Most likely the Irish Wiki copied the error from the English one. Akerbeltz ( talk) 19:51, 9 October 2016 (UTC) That aside, the variation in Gaelic place names on signs is slowly decreasing as there is now a go-to authority for place names. So it really becomes a question of "in an argument over French spelling, do you go with the sign or the Academic Française"? Akerbeltz ( talk) 19:54, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
|other_name=
parameter of {{
Infobox GB station}}
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This photo, although not entirely clear, shows that the middle word is "a'", not "na". --
Redrose64 (
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Well, in this case the station name IS the location name. Connel Ferry, like a great many other place names, are so old we have no idea who "invented" them. It's like trying to nail down who invented the word "Birmingham". Akerbeltz ( talk) 18:56, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 October 11#Template:Ellis' Railway Encyclopaedia Andy Dingley ( talk) 00:31, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
I have seen how many different varieties of RDT layouts there are and I don't know which would be right. I have my own certain way of doing things and so do others. For example, I have heard from Useddenim that the Scottish RDTs have a 4 | gap and a blue arrow. Should there not be uniformity between all railway line RDTs as all of them would be simpler and (in my and two others' opinions) look nicer rather than (in the example above) not be all aligned to one side? Nathan A RF ( talk) 19:25, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
The major differences are
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Useddenim ( talk) 20:42, 9 October 2016 (UTC) @ Useddenim:, I understand that you are trying to put your point across but this is a question I asked to other people, not just you. I was asking about certain formats to see if there should be one in Scotland or not. You can't just reply to a question asked about you, it's like if someone drove the wrong way down a road, someone else went to ask which way it is and the first someone delivers their opinion straight away. Thank you for what you have put above though. Nathan A RF ( talk) 06:28, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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References
On the subject of RDTs, I've raised a question at
Template talk:Talyllyn Railway RDT about whether narrow gauge railways should be red or blue. Discussions there please.
Optimist on the run (
talk) 19:59, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Moved from Template talk:Talyllyn Railway RDT#Query for wider exposure
Query - should the main running line be red rather than blue, as the TR was not a light railway? Optimist on the run ( talk) 14:49, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
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North Staffordshire Railway RDT}}
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Waterhouses branch RDT}}
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Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway}}
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Redrose64 (
talk) 22:07, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Could someone who knows something about the Valley Lines (I do not) take a look at Merthyr Line? This is embarrassingly out of date, talking about forthcoming events in 2008. (On a random dip-sample, this seems to be a common problem in South Wales; Newport railway station talks about forthcoming development in 2009-12, Butetown Branch Line says electrification is due to start in 2014, Ebbw Valley Railway says "no decision on the link will now be made before March 2011"... Someone probably needs to go through them systematically.) ‑ Iridescent 18:16, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
There's a discussion going on about the definition of the West Coast Main Line and the RDT at Talk:West_Coast_Main_Line#RDT_containing_only_the_WCML if anyone is interested. G-13114 ( talk) 22:03, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
FYI, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains#Edits by Teabagishere. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 01:19, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Over the past few months, there's been a series of vandalism attacks on various railway related articles, often based on Ffestiniog rolling stock articles, by what appears to be a single user. The user makes the same changes with regular monotony - by claiming locos of a specific class are preserved when they're not, or that (for example) Festiniog Railway Princess is in operational condition, or making up new names for them. LB&SCR E2 class (the prototype for Thomas the Tank Engine) is another article to be regularly affected, which leads me to think that the perpetrator may be juvenile. They use a range of IP6 addresses which change regularly, but 2601:8C3:4000:E25B:987F:DA5C:402C:90F2 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 2601:281:C000:6DE8:C57B:A629:3B3B:EAC4 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) both have many contributions to show the range of the problem. I've done a couple of long term range blocks, I suspect the user will return once the address has changed again. The user has made no attempt to communicate on talk pages or their own user talk pages, or requested any unblocking. My policy has been to Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore, but I'm wondering if semi-protection of the most frequently affected pages would be better. Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Optimist on the run ( talk • contribs) 23:33, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
FYI, Talk:British Rail Class 45#Last Passenger Service. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:19, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Slightly off-topic, but still UK rail related - 2016 Croydon tram derailment. Mjroots ( talk) 12:25, 9 November 2016 (UTC)