Talk:List of railway lines in Great Britain
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I took out the closed lines and started the newpage List of closed railway lines in Great Britain, named in line with List of closed railway stations in Britain.Supergolden 07:49, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Waterloo via Weybridge railway service
Just to note, i have put this up for WP:RM as it is not mentioned in the South Western Main Line (except for the talk page saying the same thing). I think this has merit showing it is a commuter line from London waterloo to Woking. Look also at Trent Valley Line nd Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line (ignoring the part about the engineering book, sorry). Simply south 20:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Layout and standards of these templates
Editors may be interested in the debate currently ongoing at Template talk:Railway lines in South-East England over the layout, classification and geographical scope of these templates. Pickle 16:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Heritage Railways
Whilst I appreciate that there are pages (and lists) for UK Heritage Railways, it would seem to be a nonsense to (apparently) exclude these extant and working lines from a 'List of railway lines in Great Britain' - if they are not railway lines, then what are they?
At the same time some thought needs to be given to the situation where heritage railways share stations with Network Rail and indeed operate over Network Rail. As far as I know there is only one example at the moment but who knows which other heritage railway company will follow where the NYMR leads?
XTOV 18:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
- It should be possible to include such data in the regional templates, see how {{tl:Railway lines in Central England}} succesfully incorperates the heritage, freight and disused lines. So be bold and start adding. The only problem comes if you get too good like they did in Scotland and the template becomes somewhat bloated (see {{tl:Historical Scottish railway companies}}. Pickle 18:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of redundant links
I've removed the "See also" links to templates, because all the templates are already transcluded on this page. Editors can still access them via the v . d . e links. Explicit links to template pages ought not to appear within main article space. --Dr Greg 12:14, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- Cheers, IIRC the "see alsos" were there from the time before v-d-e was added ;) Pickle 02:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Definition of regions?
I was surprised to find the Marston Vale Line (Bedford to Milton Keynes [at Bletchley]) not listed under East of England or South-east of England. Scanning down more, I find it under "Central England", which contains neither. Is this an error, or are there Railtrack regions with their own boundaries? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:25, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Unnecessary duplication
I don't see much point in lines appearing twice on this page, once in a bullet-pointed list and once inside a navigation template. One or other ought to go.--Dr Greg (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
