Talk:Railway electric traction

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Railway electric traction is about the traction units that operate on a railway electrification system. A railway electrification system is the infrastructure that allow electric traction to operate. IMHO, they are quite different, and both merit separate articles. Any cross-over of content between the two should be avoided. ALECTRIC451 21:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

A further point, an electric locomotive is a subset of railway electric traction, another being electric multiple units. The article railway electric traction is meant to pull together all the different forms of railway traction that uses electricity as the power source for propulsion. ALECTRIC451 21:49, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

If any merging is needed then it should be between this article and Traction power network ALECTRIC451 23:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Continuing merger discussion

I can somewhat understand some of this, though Googling tends to show to me that the present term is used for discussion of the field as a whole, and that railway electrification system tends to be used for the power distribution aspect.

It seems to me that we should merge traction power network into railway electrification system. Mangoe 14:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I concur.Sheepcot 22:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

It could be a subsection (railway electrification system) in until its gets expanded to be split (again) as we haven't hit page length limits. Pickle 15:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Considering this is about electric motive power, how about a merge into a subsection of Railway_electrification_system, as well as the subets that are Electric_locomotive, Electric_Multiple_Unit and Electro-diesel locomotive? Wongm (talk) 13:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC)