Talk:List of British heritage and private railways

message: I feel that the length of this list without a break precludes ease of amendment-making. I am trying to divide it, so that the English list (and then later the others) will be broken down into Standard-gauge, narrow gauge, and miniature. That will mean that the list doesn't have to specify which gauge (and in any case it is hit-and-miss now, since only a few are so described).
I have a fairly comprehensive set of books to enable me to make these changes; there is any case some website which do help to put on the various lines' websites some basic information. I have begun to do this as I go down through the list.
I hope this will help those seeking the relev--John 17:41, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: item from 2005

message: Would this list be better in table format, e.g.
Name of LineLocationLength of lineNumber of Stations
Maybe also comments on whether they have steam and/or diesel traction?
Thryduulf 21:53, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: List or table?

message: This either does not exist, or links to the wrong place, as it points to the Network Rail line to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
John 17:41, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Conwy Valley Railway

message: Yorkshire wolds railway has been removed from the list as it is not a heritage railway, its at the discussion stage and is unlikely to go anywhere, no land has been bought.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dace83 (talk • contribs) 22:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yorkshire wolds 

message: Is this a List of British heritage and private railways? If so, should it include numerous "proposed" lines? That seems a bit of Crystal Ball gazing to include them here, unless and until there is something concrete in place (pun not intended). Following another editor's exampl, I have removed the Welsh side of the Wye Valley railway from the list, but before removing any more, I thouight I should see what others think. Regards, Lynbarn (talk) 21:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've pulled one off as it appeared to only exist on Wikipedia.  I'd certainly suggest that such fantasy-schemes be removed altogether, with active schemes being split into a proposed section?  DiverScout (talk) 11:32, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Including proposed lines?

message: I believe there is a railway  with a terminus at North Woolwich station in East London. This might be worth a mention in the article as it is the only semblance of a heritage railway in greater london Unsigned comment by User:81.132.220.172, 12:10, 28 April 2010
:I'd heard about this proposal, which would have been a temporary heritage line for the 2012 Olympics.  Last I heard this was a dead duck, having been refused permission and with North Woolwich now being asset-stripped. DiverScout (talk) 17:13, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  royal docks railway in london 

message: Several lines on this list make claims to operate branches in their entirety, when they clearly do not.  Indeed I just deleted one such claim for a line that only operates as a centre and stub out of one station.  I feel that the majority of these claims are misleading, if not simply factual nonsense.  I mean, as the Wymondham to Dereham line was built independently of the Dereham to Fakenham section, should the Mid-Norfolk Railway claim to operate one whole branch and be restoring a second? DiverScout (talk) 16:07, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spurious claims about branches operated in their entirety 

message: The sticky one.  There is a tiny stub list for railways in Northern Ireland, then an incomplete mention on this list.  How should this one go, as I don't think it would be all that politic to copy the lines here and redirect the other page.  Should we just link through to that page? DiverScout (talk) 20:26, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This page should be merged with the NI page under a new title: List of heritage and private railways in the United Kingdom or similar. Railwayfan2005 (talk) 22:34, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Northern Ireland

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message: The list is of railways in Great Britain AND Northern Ireland. Therefore UK is a better term than British.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.153.227.213 (talk • contribs) 
:Not at all. 'British', meaning of the state of the United Kingdom, not of the island of Great Britain. 5.64.137.139 (talk) 11:02, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the Crown Dependencies (and British Overseas Territories?) are not part of the UK. -- Verbarson  talkedits 12:31, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong title: should be "UK heritage and private railways" 

message: has suggested that this page should be re-structured as a table. Now I like writing complicated tables, but in this instance I believe it would be inappropriate, because:
*The list does not currently include numbers or dates (except for occasional notes)
*Re-ordering by name would not produce an order of any great significance (except to help find an item, and Ctrl-F will usually get you there)
*Items in a table take more space than items on a list, so the page would get even bigger
*To keep the information currently provided by the headers, there would have to be extra columns for Country, Area and Type, making the table both wider and more repetitive
*The item name and the location would naturally be placed in separate columns, making the table wider
*It would be harder to include the pictures without giving undue prominence to the rows they belong to
*Adding or updating items in the source editor would become more complicated and error-prone (I can't speak to the Visual Editor, I never use it)
Advantages to converting the list to a sortable table include:
*Being able to bring all the entries of one type (eg Miniature railways) together
*Possible addition of columns with sortable data such as dates for opening/closing, , mileage, or 
On the whole, and reining in my enthusiasm for multi-column monstrosities, I would rather this page remained in its current list format. -- Verbarson  talkedits 13:06, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  List or table? revisited 

message: Did  not fix the link? The section "Golden Valley Light railway stock" does not exist, but the section "Golden Valley Light Railway" seems appropriate as a wikilink from this list. -- Verbarson  talkedits 11:27, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I saw that, but as it was not the same wording I wasn't sure. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 16:30, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Valley link 

message: When I hover the cursor over the link 'Heritage railways' (pointing here) within the title of Template:Heritage railways in Scotland the following error sentence appears inside the page preview:
:wt2html: wikitext limit exceeded
ZandDev (msg) 16:13, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, noticed it too, not sure how to correct it, I assume it has something to do with the interactive map, potentially overloading something? Or it could be something else. DankJae 22:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Raised it at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#British heritage railways page preview error DankJae 22:36, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[mw:Page Previews|Page Previews]] error