Template talk:Heritage Railway
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[edit] help with caption field
Can somebody please fix the caption field so that it is spanning two columns and centered, but not bold text? I have tried without success. Our Phellap 23:54, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
- Fixed. The problem was the ! before the style commands on the caption line, which made wiki think it was a heading cell. Changing that to {{!}} makes it work properly. Slambo (Speak) 19:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Commercial Operations, Name field
What should go here in the case of preserved railways which have been owned and run by several different commercial companies? For example, the NYMR has been run commercially as the Whitby and Pickering railway, YNMR, NER, LNER and BR. Ollie 10:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expanding the template
Following a review of my use of this template for Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, it seems that it might be useful to allow more data to be given for both the commercial and preservation stages of a line, as is possible with the gauge, for example, name, no of stations, miles. Whilst that is being considered, are there any other data fields that could be added to both sections? Motive power, for example. Regards, Lynbarn 01:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Better late than never, but I've expanded it to allow additional information in the commercial history, using parameters com-years, com-years1, com-events, com-events1 etc in the same way as the preservation history. I suggest if you use these, you don't use the originalopen, closedpassengers and closed parameters, as they have the heading in the first column and year in the second, whereas the new parameters are the other way round. Originalopen is now an optional parameter.See Talyllyn Railway for an example. — Tivedshambo (t/c) 17:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Co-ordinates in Template
I have removed the co-ordinates from the template. Many lines are quite a few miles long - i.e Great Central; Ffestiniog; Severn Valley; West Somerset; Kent and East Sussex; Swanage Railway - I could go on. Co-ordinates are pretty meaningless for this type of linear object, the point selected would be quite arbitary -- for example:
- Great Central - would you take Loughborough; Quorn; Leicester
- Ffestiniog - Porthmadog; Minffordd; Blaenau Ffestiniog (I will not consider the implications when the WHR link is closed next year)
- Severn Valley Railway - Kidderminster; Bewdley; Bridgenorth
- West Somerset - Bishops Lydeyard; Minehead
- Talyllyn - Tywyn, Abergynolwyn
- Swanage - Swanage; Corfe Castle (or even Wareham!)
I could go on, however in summary, co-ordinates do not have any part of this template. --Stewart (talk) 21:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- I put it in following a discussion for Talyllyn Railway - it isn't compulsory to use them, but they are useful for stations with one main station. — Tivedshambo (t/c) 00:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
