Template talk:Infobox rail

message: Please remove "line" from the headings "predecessor line" and "successor line". Most railroads had more than one line. --NE2 11:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: - I've changed how it is displayed while leaving how it works. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 18:34, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request 

message: Please replace  with . --NE2 14:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: . — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:36, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix 

message: Please add the following optional parameters which already exist in some form on Template:Infobox rail line and Template:BS-daten: Incline, minimum radius and Rack (if any) as well as change electrification to electrification. Peter Horn 17:22, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional parameters 

message: Why doed the electrification data not show? Peter Horn 02:03, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto. Peter Horn 02:58, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Rhaetian Railway, The | electrification   = problem is still there and in both boxes at that. Peter Horn 16:12, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the template does not support that parameter currently, along with some others, e.g. old_gauge. It doesn't seem to have supported them for a long time, if ever. Perhaps the documentation was created as a kind of wish list, rather than to reflect reality :) I'll have a go at incorporating them into the template, but it might take a few days. While we're here, are there any other parameters that would be useful? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: old_gauge is unnecessary here, since it's part of  that partially overrides the default gauge. --NE2 21:45, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

text: See Template:Infobox rail line. Peter Horn 18:20, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

text: I have just added the info box of the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railway where the electrificarion does not show up either! Peter Horn 21:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Anyone? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:24, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: . Let me know if there are any problems. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:30, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

text:  Horay!! Electrification now shows in all samples that I submitted. Thanks guys. Peter Horn 00:19, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix electrification 

message: Why does the website not show? Peter Horn 02:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix website 

message: Please remove the "s" after reporting mark; the term is singular. --NE2 23:51, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done it ... but is it not possible that two marks be specified? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's possible, but rare. It's also possible, for instance, that two predecessors are given. --NE2 17:26, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reporting mark 

message: Please add the following optional parameters which already exist in some form on Template:Infobox rail line and Template:BS-daten: Incline, minimum radius and Rack (if any) as well as change electrification to electrification. Peter Horn 16:54, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional parameters 

message: Why do we have this in the lower right corner?  It's a small convenience for an editor who might want to know about the infobox, but suggests to the average user that it offers detail and discussion about the contents of the infobox.  It also appears in the wrong infobox if one is embedded, see Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  14:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I'm inclined to get rid of it. —Mulad (talk) 19:28, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Turns out that it's a result of converting to using Template:Infobox as a higher-level template.  Standard Infoboxes have it.  Not really sure why.  I've added a query at Template_talk:Infobox. —Mulad (talk) 15:59, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears now to be gone;  it is no longer at Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, which I cited above, and IIRC, it was present in all the boxes to the right here, as well. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  12:45, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This box: view • talk 

message: Please change the link Rail gauge to Track gauge. Article has been renamed. TrackConnect (talk) 11:13, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:50, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Rail gauge]] to [[Track gauge]] 

message: Could some sort of feature be worked out to display the livery colors (i.e. the identifying paint schemes for locomotive and passenger cars) [for those railways with constant liveries], similar to the way the University infobox allows the analogous display of "school colors"? This would be particularly useful for those of us who deal with historic railroads, where such was a major part of the corporate identity.Morgan Riley (talk) 23:44, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: livery colors

message: Change Electrification to Electrification
Peter Horn User talk 21:01, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:27, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Peter Horn User talk 19:37, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Peter Horn, 17 July 2011 

message: Please add a major commodities section to the infobox between "Length" and "Headquarters". Some railways specialize in a certain item.  
Fairly OddParents Freak 02:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Could I ask you to discuss this proposal on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains to see if their is support for a new parameter? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:32, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 29 November 2011 

message: Hi folks. Could we please consider changing the fieldname "locale" to the more internationally recognised and more accurate "location" or "locality". "Country" would also work since that's what we seem to enter here. I believe "locale" is very much American vernacular for "locality", but it is rare in Europe and elsewhere. Also, according to the international Oxford Dictionary of English, "locale" is strictly "a place where something happens" or "has particular events associated with it" i.e. it's more like a "venue", whereas the other two terms are just used for the place, position or site of something. Thanks. --Bermicourt (talk) 08:57, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Change to "Locale" Field 

message: Please tag this template with:
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As I've just nominated it for discussion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:35, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 22:21, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD 

message: Could a ridership parameter identical to that on infobox rail line be added? There are a number of systems - take for example MBTA Commuter Rail or Amtrak - where daily (or as an option, annual) ridership would be reasonable to add. Ridership is not a technical parameter that should be restricted to lines; it's an important consideration for systems as a whole. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:19, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. Qed237 (talk) 21:33, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoops, didn't realize that wasn't to be added until after consensus. My bad. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:21, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add ridership to template 

message: Hi there. I was hoping to request that a map field is added to this template, so that maps or route diagram templates can bee added. For example, I have created , and I wish to display it inline with the infobox instead of a standalone navbox on the CG Railway article. A similar edit was made to , the edit which you can see here, and the result you can ee at Beltline Trail. Thanks! --Natural RX 15:53, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do this in Template:Infobox rail/sandbox and test it in Template:Infobox rail/testcases then re-enable the  after ensure it works properly.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  05:28, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm a bit stuck, I managed to add what is already in  but it is duplicating the template, as can be seen in Template:Infobox rail/testcases. Anyone know what's going on? --Natural RX 13:52, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Which bit is duplicated? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:03, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The routemap I am trying to insert (). If you look on Template:Infobox rail/testcases, it is displaying as it should at the bottom of the infobox. But it is also inserting at the top of the infobox for some reason, and it's doing it for the current state of the infobox, and the sandbox version. So I figure it's either something to do with the language in  or the current infobox. Either way it's beyond my abilities to figure out. But It seems fixable to me if it can be done in similar infoboxes. One thing to point out:  does use Lua and that's where I stole the code from, so that may have something to do with it as well. --Natural RX 20:27, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I see. In , you added code for a  parameter - it's the  - but the template already had some code as follows: |image2   =  This means that there are two different uses for the  parameter, so you need to pick something else that does not duplicate parameters already in use. Since the template is not written in Lua, it's easy to do - just search for all occurrences of triple opening braces {{{ and whatever comes after those, up to (but not including) the next pipe or triple closing braces, is a parameter name. This is not at all easy to do for templates written in Lua. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:02, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I changed it to  per the code in CG Railway and since  was already taken.  or, we could use  per . or, we could change all the articles using  to use a different parameter name for map images?  Frietjes (talk) 15:50, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

text:  after the tracking category filled up, I found zero articles using  correctly: (1) Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway was using both  and , and (2) Edinburgh and Northern Railway is passing a route map.  so, I think we can safely repurpose this parameter for route maps.  I have put some code in the sandbox.  comments?  problems? objections? Frietjes (talk) 16:14, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  okay, now updated to allow  or  for compatibility with  and . Frietjes (talk) 16:56, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 27 September 2017 

message: Please add , per a nomination by .  ery (talk) 15:45, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: added. Frietjes (talk) 15:50, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 4 March 2018 

message: Please remove the  per the TfD outcome. Thanks. Nihlus 07:33, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:38, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 12 March 2018 

message: Thanks  for fixing the parameter checking.  Could you or  do something with . It appears that this para is displayed under both the logo and image. See Heathrow Express for an example. Infobox company solved this by using image_caption and logo_caption. I'm not sure if it is best to assume  is most likely for the image, but probably so. Probably would need some interim tracking to get to a final resolution of this conflict. MB 20:46, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed (with a workaround until someone wants to take on a giant cleanup task on 2,400 pages). – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption problem 

message: Why was support for  removed? This was previously present in Template:Infobox rail company and is now leading to edits like  by , that should not be necessary. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:05, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, , as with  by ; and some other parameters. I can see that I may need to go through the merge and review all of the removals. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , I was cleaning up errors in :Category:Pages using infobox rail with unknown parameters. There were only dozens and they are all gone now, so I see no need to support alternates for image_size or logo_size.  No comment on other_name. MB 17:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

text: I'll be honest, I missed it. If I had to guess it's because I didn't notice there was a param under the , but now I've re-added it. Primefac (talk) 17:38, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I also merged  just now (and have tidied up after my duplicated edit with Primefac), though it does not appear to have any uses. I think I "fixed" two of them that I will now revert if I can find them. Hold on a sec... Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:42, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  other_name no longer supported 

message: Would it be possible to add the field "| minradius  =" which appears in Template:Infobox rail line  to cover the minimum railway curve radius ? It would be useful for the Yakima Valley Transportation Company Peter Horn User talk 21:47, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello every one. Nobody choose to answer this. Peter Horn User talk 22:52, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's a niche use-case and wouldn't be relevant in most cases. Mackensen (talk) 23:00, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This relevant information is almost consistently available from Jane's World Railways as is grade. Peter Horn User talk 23:17, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minimum radius 

message: Is there a standardized place in the Infobox to put the railroad's "class" (i.e., for USA RR as defined by STB)? Casey (talk) 16:06, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA RR Class listing Suggestion 

message: Display of the previous_gauge parameter should not be bolded.
Ponydepression (talk) 22:14, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bold 

message: In this version, the template had  and . The parameter checking did not display any error, yet the article was in :Category:Pages using infobox rail with unknown parameters - even though there were no unknown parameters. Fixed now by removing logo_filename=, but it would have been a lot easier to find with better checks/errors.  ? MB 02:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the code in Template:Infobox rail:  It's designed to detect the presence of certain combinations of mutually-exclusive parameter pairs. Of the six tests here, the first two are violated since we have  with  and  with , even though the second one is blank in both cases. If we substitute in the values from the old version, we find  and the ifeq tests then reduce to  and so the page is categorised as you describe. The important thng to remember here is that code like  tests as the blank value because  is blank: the enclosed  is ignored. Blank values are still values. The fix is to remove the unused  and  from NI Railways. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:32, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, but this is difficult to fix. Other templates have better handling of conflicting parameters. See infobox person for an example. It gives: "Preview warning: Using more than one of the following parameters in Infobox person: birth_name, birthname" for example which eliminates hunting for the problem. MB 15:36, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Then we need something like this instead:  --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:22, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Frietjes has added the clobbered para check to several high-use templates. It really helps. This template only has ~2800 transclusions, which is reasonable large but not among the biggest ones. If you or someone adds it here, it may eventually save more work in fixing articles that it takes to update the template. MB 18:30, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I , including several other pairs not previously tested. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:06, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  nice work, now added to the main template. Frietjes (talk) 15:14, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parameter error checking 

message: Please change link to Railway electrification system to be a link to Railway electrification (per WP:DOFIXIT), as I've recently moved that page via WP:RMT.  --- Tbf69 P • T 19:07, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: . P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 02:24, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 18 February 2023 

message: Where either  or  contains a space, the dash separating them should be spaced; e.g. at Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway we should see " – ". See MOS:DATERANGE. Really the parameters should be called  and . Hairy Dude (talk) 12:47, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date range spacing