Wikipedia talk:Pages needing attention/Transport

message: Analog Robots could use more factual information.
====Template:Britishmainlines====
I do not understand the title of this template: if it is meant to be main lines, then why does it include all those small branch lines under the so-called "secondary lines"?   Why are lines included which do not have an article to their name: none of them can be classed as main lines; nor can, for example, any of the small branch lines in Cornwall such as the Maritime, Riviera, St Ives Bay lines. Many of these are the result of a PR job to sell the lines on the part of National Rail and its predecessors: it does not follow that they have any importance to warrant inclusion here. 
In addition (and I'm using this article as evidence):
* The Aire Valley Line appears now to be called the Airedale Line
* The Ayrshire Coast Line = Ayr Line
* Lymington is not a line - the article leads to a train called the Lymington Flyer
* Gospel Oak - Barking; Tattenham Corner; West London are simply London suburban lines
* Honeybourne only apparently exists as a station, long since bereft of much of its traffic
I think that this whole Template needs a firm hand as to what it intends to be! Peter Shearan 19:47, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of mainline may be that the template has outgrown the original intentions, or it could be using the term to distinguish these railways from private/heritage lines and metro, light rail and underground networks. Thryduulf 22:01, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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message: I do not understand the title of this template: if it is meant to be main lines, then why does it include all those small branch lines under the so-called "secondary lines"?   Why are lines included which do not have an article to their name: none of them can be classed as main lines; nor can, for example, any of the small branch lines in Cornwall such as the Maritime, Riviera, St Ives Bay lines. Many of these are the result of a PR job to sell the lines on the part of National Rail and its predecessors: it does not follow that they have any importance to warrant inclusion here. 
In addition (and I'm using this article as evidence):
* The Aire Valley Line appears now to be called the Airedale Line
* The Ayrshire Coast Line = Ayr Line
* Lymington is not a line - the article leads to a train called the Lymington Flyer
* Gospel Oak - Barking; Tattenham Corner; West London are simply London suburban lines
* Honeybourne only apparently exists as a station, long since bereft of much of its traffic
I think that this whole Template needs a firm hand as to what it intends to be! Peter Shearan 19:47, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of mainline may be that the template has outgrown the original intentions, or it could be using the term to distinguish these railways from private/heritage lines and metro, light rail and underground networks. Thryduulf 22:01, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Template:Britishmainlines]]

message: This title is completely misleading, since it leads into the services which are operated by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority (see Metro (West Yorkshire) which I have recently written. OK so a lot of them begin/pass through Leeds, but they travel much further afield. I believe I cannot on my own change the title of a Category (correct? it says I cannot when I try anyway) but I think the title would be much better as West Yorkshire railways; and does it need to be a separate category: there is one called :Category: Rail transport in Great Britain for instance. My recent article then covers what is now on the Leeds railways category: ie the Lines serving the area under the Metro banner. Surely a list is all that is required? (last part rewritten) Peter Shearan 15:50, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Leeds Railways]]