Talk:Rail freight transport

message: I'd suggest a disambiguation: There is also a song called "freight train" by Elizabeth Cotten. . --84.174.251.22 20:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: I couldn't find the average speed of a freight train while moving, on this page or on rail transport. 72.48.75.131 (talk) 19:11, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I found this source: , page 211, on timetable planning guidelines used by dutch railways. Goods trains are expected to use standard paths, calculated for a cruising speed of either  and reasonable acceleration and deceleration. To get some room to compensate for delays, they must be able to run a bit faster than that.  seems quite normal. PiusImpavidus (talk) 13:49, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is average speed of train when traveling? 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Not Moved  Mike Cline (talk) 15:36, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Rail freight transport →  – This article was originally under the name Freight train, before it was unilaterally moved to Freight rail transport without any discussion in 2009  and then later to the present title. I would like to gauge community consensus as to if rail freight transport is really a better title than freight train. I believe there is a strong argument in favor of the title freight train per WP:COMMONNAME. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 23:50, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is no article for freight train. It just redirects here. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 23:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Then we should write one. Thryduulf (talk) 23:21, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: To be honest, it hadn't occurred to me that articles could exist for both topics, but now that I think about it I see the merit of this idea. The only issue will be figuring out which pages that link here should actually link to freight train. I can write something up, I will start it in userspace and then have it moved over the redirect (after all, I already started Passenger train). This is a better solution than moving the title of this article. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 23:45, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

text: Now in progress at User:Trainsandotherthings/sandbox2. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 01:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Note the hatnote at the top of this page will need moving to the new article when it's published, we'll probably want to add new hatnotes to both articles pointing at the other. There are also quite a few redirects that will need updating (e.g. Goods train) but I've made sure that they're all appropriately marked. Thryduulf (talk) 12:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

text:  It depends. If you redirect "freight train" to "rail freight transport" than the latter will win in pageviews (it already does). People are lazy to type and always search the shortest string. Pageviews do "hugely favor" the "natural" Putin compared to longer "President Putin" plus "Tsar Putin" together. The argument with "pageviews will hugely favor the natural" is inherently invalid. Taylor 49 (talk) 21:40, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I guess I should clarify.  That sentence was just a side thought for what the situation likely would be if there were two separate articles, not a direct argument about this move.  If you believe that the "transport" aspect is important and the article is split, then I was arguing that it should still be covered at the shorter title, is all.  SnowFire (talk) 22:15, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 23 February 2022