Talk:List of funicular railways
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[edit] Europe
List alphabetically by country (state ot province), City and name as is done (at least partially) for United States
--Peter Horn 17:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Globalise
Surely Pensylvania (sp?), US, doesn't have the majority of funicular railways in the world. Discuss DannyM 11:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- The separate articles for the UK and Switzerland are probably distorting this global list. Thryduulf 01:40, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- I've merged the UK entries. Will look at the much larger Swiss list once I've digested this change. -- Waterstones 11:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've merged in the UK entries, and put the entries for Japan, the UK and the US in the format used by the rest of the list. I cannot see any justification now to say that this article lacks global perspective, so I've removed the tag. I still havn't merged the Swiss list, and I'm a bit hesitant about this because of the list size; perhaps best to leave this as is. Thoughts?. -- Waterstones 13:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've merged the UK entries. Will look at the much larger Swiss list once I've digested this change. -- Waterstones 11:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Japan
The Japan sub-list was in a quite different format to most of the rest of this list. I've reformatted it into the common format. That still leaves the US list in a different format, but I have to start somewhere.
The change to the Japanese su-list has one down-side, as it loses the external links. My personal opinion is that these shouldn't have been there in the first place (WP isn't a link farm; if a subject deserves a link it deserves an article even more), but I don't want to lose the information for future editors researching individual articles on the funiculars in question. So I have transcribed the table here:
[edit] United States
See Japan above.
| State | City | Main article | Date opened | Official link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | Marble Falls | Dogpatch USA Dogpatch Funicular Tram (defunct) | 1971-1993 | -- |
| California | Los Angeles | Angels Flight | 1901 | -- |
| Los Angeles | Court Flight | -- | -- | |
| Valencia | Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Magic Mountain Incline | -- | -- | |
| Colorado | Cañon City | Royal Gorge Royal Gorge Incline | -- | -- |
| Iowa | Dubuque | Fourth Street Elevator | 1882 | Fenelon Place Elevator Company |
| Ohio | Cincinnati | Mount Adams Incline | 1874-1948 | Cincinnati Transit |
| Mount Auburn Incline | 1872-1898 | Cincinnati Transit | ||
| Bellevue Incline | 1876-1926 | Cincinnati Transit | ||
| Fairview Incline | 1892-1923 | Cincinnati Transit | ||
| Price Hill Incline | 1874-1943 | Cincinnati Transit | ||
| Pennsylvania | Altoona | Horseshoe Curve | -- | -- |
| Gallitzin | Allegheny Portage Railroad | -- | -- | |
| Johnstown | Johnstown Inclined Plane | -- | -- | |
| Pittsburgh | Bellevue Incline | 1887-1892 | -- | |
| Castle Shannon Incline | 1890-1964 | -- | ||
| Castle Shannon South Incline | 1892-1914 | -- | ||
| Clifton Incline | 1895-1905 | -- | ||
| Duquesne Incline | 1877 | Official website | ||
| Fort Pitt Incline | 1882-?? | -- | ||
| Knoxville Incline | 1890-1960 | -- | ||
| Monongahela Incline | 1870 | Port Authority of Allegheny County | ||
| Mount Oliver Incline | 1871-1951 | -- | ||
| Norwood Incline | 1901-1923 | -- | ||
| Nunnery Hill Incline | 1887-1899 | -- | ||
| Penn Incline | 1883-1953 | -- | ||
| Ridgewood Incline | 1889-1900 | -- | ||
| St. Clair Incline | 1886-1935 | -- | ||
| Tennessee | Chattanooga | Lookout Mountain Incline Railway | 1895 | [19] |
| Virginia | Fairfax County | Huntington Metro Station Funicular | 1983 | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
[edit] Reinstated template TOCright.
Peter Horn removed the TOCright template from this article. I've reinstated it, as IMHO it seems it fits better with this geographically based list article than the default TOC behaviour, in that it gives the first-time reader a flavour of what the article is about on first sight. There may be good reasons for Peter's change, but as there was no useful edit comment I cannot know this. I'm therefore reintroducing the template; if you want to re-revert please do but pray tell why. -- Chris j wood 11:33, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- Fully support !! Some editors seem particularly twitchy about using TOCright, etc, presumably as it "does not comply with the MOS". Personally I much prefer their use since this invariably avoids acres of whitespace at the top of articles -- which particularly applies to lists such as this one. For my own part, I now think twice before adding them since I am more aware of windows-size change issues and the variable layouts that can ensue from different monitor resolutions. But I still apply them, especially where the lede is short but the TOC is long (again, as here). -- EdJogg 11:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
