Talk:Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

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I see no reason to redirect this article to GCR - it was a company that lasted 50 years until it was renamed as such - and the latter only lasted 17 years! There must be much more to say - it covered a large area of northern England and had its own story to tell. The GCR episode brought it down if anything else!!!! Peter Shearan 09:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I am beginning to rewrite both this and the Great Central Railway so as to conatin the details of each Railway's history within that article. That way, there need be no mention in this one of the London extension, which happened after the GCR came into being, nor much mention of later closures of lines. Peter Shearan 16:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Surely the company began with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, which took over the finance of the Grimsby line, then linked it to Sheffield and then gained an Act of Parliament to merge the the two other lines into itself as the MS&LR. It was as the SA&ML that it built the first bore of the Woodhead Tunnel with provision to build the second bore as traffic built up. Chevin 10:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The MSLR and the Great Central Railway were the same company just renamed. I dont see a case for this being split. G-Man * 16:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I didn't say anything about the GCR. The SA&MR wasn't a subsidiary of the M&SLR as the article implies, it was the beginning of it. Chevin 18:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why split?

I'm sorry but I still dont quite understand the logic of splitting this from Great Central Railway. The MS&LR and the GCR were the same company just renamed when the London extension was opened. Personally I think they should be re-merged, with MS&LR redirecting to Great Central Railway. G-Man * 22:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Well seem as no-one's commented on this. I'll at some point get round to re-merging the articles. G-Man * 18:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)