Talk:Train ferry

message: Are any of the ferries on the River Nile train ferries?
Tabletop 10:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  River Nile 

message: A ferry though not necessarily a train ferry links India and Sri Lanka over a narrow and shallow stretch of water.  It replaces a former railway line over a man-made causeway , which was destroyed by a cyclone. 
Is this a misunderstanding of this map? The inundated  "bridge" is a natural feature, flooded within a geological timescale. I suggest a deletion.  tag added. --Old Moonraker (talk) 17:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Further: The "bridge" to Sri Lanka may have been washed away as recently as 1500 BCE, see here, and not as I suggested above. In the 1950s the ferry service was timed to connect with rail services from Madras . Many online encyclopedias (e.g., Encarta) mistakenly call the steamer service a train ferry, presumably for this reason. This line to the terminal of the steamer service was itself washed away in 1964—see Dhanushkodi—possibly a further source of confusion. In short, it's not a train ferry and shouldn't really be in the article.  -- Old Moonraker (talk) 14:27, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now deleted. --Old Moonraker (talk) 18:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Checked the link: still works (see "Dhanushkodi Pier to Talaimannar) so removing this entry again. --Old Moonraker (talk) 15:32, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Impressive, eh? See  Rama’s bridge is only 3,500 years old. --Old Moonraker (talk) 19:01, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rail causeway from India to Sri Lanka 

message: Three are listed, without citation. Are we sure that the New York to Havana was a  train ferry, given the distance? I have changed this to Palm Beach, as per West India Fruit and Steamship Company. I will research further, but please reinstate if I am wrong. --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:36, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's now back, with a link. Thanks User:Tabletop. --Old Moonraker (talk) 06:49, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  U.S. to Cuba 

message: This train ferry service is mentioned in several Cuban sources and even used by Hershey Company
to provide direct freight cars operating from their Cuban chocolate factory to the companys
main factories in the United States. This link was in common operation at least in the 1920´s
and in 1930´s. It was said to be operated by Florida Southern Railroad.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.118.82 (talk) 07:55, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Key West - Havana Train Ferry 

message: I ran across these two sources and think they might be good to put into the article on the Pere Marquette Car Ferry.
Clarke Historical Library
Car ferry Pere Marquette 18 left Ludington for Milwaukee shortly before midnight, Sept. 8, 1910; capt. Peter Kilty. 29 loaded R.R. freight cars & 62 people ...
clarke.cmich.edu/collar_helen_beaverisland/biok.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
Clarke Historical Library - Saginaw County
The Rail Road Excursion; The Flint and Pere Marquette Rail Road. Detroit, MI: 1862. Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley. ...
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7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Car ferries in Ludington

message: I believe that this recent addition was a passenger ferry operated by a railway company, rather than a train ferry. I suggest deletion, subject of course to WP:IDONTKNOWIT.--Old Moonraker (talk) 06:24, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --Old Moonraker (talk) 22:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol and South Wales Union Railway 

message: This article is mostly just a list of train ferries around the world. I propose we create the page List of Train Ferries, move all the Examples over to that, and have a much smaller article including the intro, History, Hazards, and Portage Railway. Thoughts? -M.Nelson (talk) 19:31, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Train Ferries 

message: As it's not a train ferry, should it be here in the "Train ferry" article? Suggesting a delete. --Old Moonraker (talk) 21:53, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No defenders—implementing.--Old Moonraker (talk) 13:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Egypt:  A ferry, not a train ferry" 

message: Under United Kingdom, the article states: The Night Ferry from Dover to Dunkerque, France. Closed 31 October 1980, - replaced by the Channel Tunnel. This is wrong on several counts:
:1. The ferry ran Dover-Dunkerque; the tunnel runs Folkestone-Calais. (Pedantic, I know.).
:2. The ferry ceased in 1980 for revenue reasons.
:3. When it ceased, there was no Channel Tunnel, indeed, it was not even planned at the time. Approval was given in 1987, construction began in 1988 and the tunnel opened in 1994, 14 years after the closure of the ferry service that the article says it replaced! Emeraude (talk) 12:23, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK: Dover-Dunkerque 

message: I came across pictures that contain LST with rail deck to load train for france during WWII.
http://www.skylighters.org/wwiirr/
WWII archives
http://wwiiarchives.net/servlet/gallery/520  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nrpf22pr (talk • contribs) 05:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:   Rail-equipped LST 

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replies: text: The first change above had not been made by Cyberbot II and the replacement link did not work. Pinkbeast (talk) 15:52, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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replies: text: The photos themselves are missing from the first link and that's essentially what the useful content was. Pinkbeast (talk) 01:23, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
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message: For the avoidance of doubt, if  (or anyone else) feels that Brunel's intended train ferry just isn't worth putting in because it never happened and doesn't merit inclusion - sure, take it out, I'm not sure I agree but I don't object enough to disagree, so to speak. I've put it back in because the removal was cited to a piece of policy that doesn't suggest (let alone mandate) such removal, and hence might just be down to a misreading of policy. Pinkbeast (talk) 01:20, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: No misreading of policy. No misunderstanding of it either. We have all sorts of articles in all sorts of subjects. Plans that never saw any actual work don't belong in most if then. A car ferry that was never budgeted, no infrastructure built for, no boat commissioned for one location in one railroad does not belong in an article about car ferries in general, as it had nothing whatsoever to do with car ferries. It may be appropriate for the railroad's article, but probably not unless there is enough content to fork off a separate article on its history. John from Idegon (talk) 03:02, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You certainly have both misread and misunderstood policy if you think WP:CRYSTAL has any bearing on a proposal from 1855. You also seem a bit confused about the proposal - a car ferry would have had very limited utility 30 years before the invention of the motor car. Pinkbeast (talk) 03:45, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
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message: The ferries given with "bypasses a break of gauge" do technically so
but as one of the ports is in a territory with a different gauge
from that used on the vessel, the break of gauge is found in this very
port.
I did not see any example of, and I think there isn't, a rail ferry
bypassing a double break of gauge and thus not presenting any break
of gauge in a port.
Regards, ULF109.40.131.202 (talk) 07:39, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Break of gauge 

message: I took up on the 2009 suggestion in #List of Train Ferries to finally split the list into its own page List of train ferries. Z22 (talk) 04:26, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split the long list of ferries into a standalone list page