Talk:Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

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Lynton and Barnstaple Railway has been listed as a good article under the good-article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a review.

In-line references used in the main article ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

1. ^ John W Dorling, The Railway Magazine, November 1935
2. ^ L T Catchpole: The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway 1895–1935 published by The Oakwood Press. Eighth edition 2005. ISBN 0-85361-637-X.
3. ^ (ed.) A R Hope Moncrieffe, Black's Guide to Devonshire published by Adam and Charles Black, Sixteenth edition 1898
4. ^ (ed.) A R Hope Moncrieffe, Black's Guide to Devonshire published by A and C Black Ltd., Twentieth edition 1921
5. ^ G A Brown, J D C A Prideaux, & H G Radcliffe: The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway published by David and Charles, First Edition 1964, ISBN 0-7153-4958-9
6. ^ G A Brown, J D C A Prideaux, & H G Radcliffe: The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway published by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust, Fourth edition, 2006 with additional material by G A Brown & P J M Rawstron. ISBN 0-9552181-0-1
7. ^ Key to Rolling Stock Manufacturers:
   • ABA = Andrew Barclay
   • BLW = Baldwin Locomotive Works
   • BWC = Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works
   • CSC = Chambers, Scott & Co.
   • JFH = John F. Howard
   • LBR = Lynton & Barnstaple Railway
   • MWL = Manning Wardle
   • SAP = Shapland and Petter
   • SRY = Southern Railway
   • WGB = W. G. Bagnall

Contents 1 <G> 2 pictures off the website 3 Aiming for Featured Article standard 4 heritage rail template

[edit] <G>

86.136.173.80, I'm not sure that Wikipedia is the place for a request for information such as you have added re.Lew - it is after all an encyclopedia - to inform - and not a discussion group - to enquire - (despite this page<G>), but I would be interested to hear other views on this. Regards, Martyn (Lynbarn) 29 December 2005

fair enough lynbarn, i'll keep my contributions stictly factual in future

by the way, what page are you referring to? if this (<G>) is a link it dosent work

The <G> isn't a link, it's short for Grin - I was alluding to the fact that these talk pages - connected to each Wikipedia article - do sometimes carry enquiries relating to the subject of the article!!! Martyn 16:47, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

ohhhh Doubledgedsword 17:30, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] pictures off the website

sice you're assistant webmaster for the website, are the pictures on there available to put up on wikipedia? if they are ill put some up straight away Doubledgedsword 18:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Probably, but I don't own the copyright on any of those currently shown. Also, they are mainly modern pictures, not so applicable to an encyclopedia entry, and as they are on the web site anyway, people can see them there by following the link. I have some others available though - I'll add some more in the next few days Lynbarn 18:20, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aiming for Featured Article standard

I've been told this article is close to meeting Featured Article Status - although a few changes are necessary, some of which I have made already. It is also 33kb long, with is about 10% above ideal, so some trimming may be necessary. Will also press on with adding more citations... Lynbarn 21:51, 24 July 2006 (UTC).

You could make the article shorter by splitting off the part on locomotive/rolling stock into separate articles. Our Phellap 23:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Alternatively, there will come a time when it is natural to split the article into two, divided chronologically: one page describing the original railway (and stock); the other covering the re-born railway. Not sure how this would affect the 'featured' status! EdJogg 12:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] heritage rail template

It might be worth replacing the infobox rail template with Template:Heritage Railway as more information can be added about commercial and preservation history.

On a different note, why was the preserved L&B webiste link removed as spam? Nearly every heritage railway article has a link to the railway's official website, so why should the :&B be any different? Our Phellap 15:08, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

The link is still there, but just via another article, following some discussions with User:NigelR (see also [1]. It seemed not too bad to me, although he did point out that there were over 30 links in total in wiki, which I could see was a little extreme. Lynbarn 16:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)