Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains/Operations task force

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[edit] Sorting everything out!

A lot of discussion has gone on in many different article talk pages about how to sort and talk about various railroad methods of operation/signalling practices/safeworking.

Here are the articles I see that have the potential for significant overlap:

Here are other articles that are related to the subject:

In addition, here are the category pages related to this subject (it seems there is overlap even within the categories!). (In order to display the links instead of adding this page to the categories themselves, I had to link to the talk pages--once there, click the "Category" tab at the top to see the list of articles in the category.)

Maybe this is the place to bring our discussion. And feel free to join the Operations task force! cluth 05:45, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Another article with considerable subject overlap is the confusingly-titled "Railway switching networks". Signalhead 16:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

(Aside) - There are two simple ways to link to category pages: put a colon before the namespace like [[:Category:Rail transport operations]], or use the {{cl}} template like {{cl|Rail transport operations}}.

(back on topic) - The Category:Operations task force articles is the generic article list category that is used by the {{TrainsWikiProject}} template when operations=yes is included in the template call. So this category should conceivably hold all of the articles, categories, templates, images and whatever else that is within this task force's scope. Slambo (Speak) 18:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

The general article on railway signalling will be visited by uninformed beginners who want a basic overview. As it is at present it will only scare them away. I agree with other contributors that it should be thinned down substantially and confine itself to principles. The detail of individual signalling systems, and individual countries' systems to implement them, should be on separate pages because there is too much detail difference.

Remember these pages are not for us (who already know about this) but for some less informed person. Too much detail early on will merely confuse them, and will do us no credit. Afterbrunel 13:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Excellent resource

While looking to improve track circuit I came across this:

King, Everett Edgar (1921). Railway Signaling. McGraw-Hill. 

As one can see, the entire text of this is available through Google books. Like most technical material of the area it is a little too focused on the details of the various specific products, but it's all PD, every bit of it, and surely we can mine it for material. Mangoe (talk) 17:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)