Talk:City and South London Railway

message: Just read this article after seeing it on the main page. What a thoroughly interesting read -- nice work by all involved! – ukexpat (talk) 02:08, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great stuff! 

message: Any particular reason why the article wasn't move-protected? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 12:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: yes, it should have been locked as soon as it was obvious an idiot was messing it up.Liverpool-8-boy (talk) 21:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 

message: The lead sentence for this railway that opened in 1890 currently reads:
:The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction. 
::What is a "tube" railway?  It is new to me. It looks like something dreamed up to claim some first.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.65.91.123 (talk) 04:46, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wasn't the first electric tramway by a Russian, in now present day Finland?79.65.29.228 (talk) 13:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be Miller's line mentioned below.--DavidCane (talk) 14:54, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

text: It's certainly true that these tram systems were earlier users of electric traction, but I think the distinction does need to be made between railways and trams. I'll think about how best to deal with this - probably in a footnote.--DavidCane (talk) 00:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is also a claim that Miller's line was electrified (at least for experimental runs) as early as in 1875 by Fyodor Pirotsky.  It too was regarded as a tram and not a railway. 67.86.75.96 (talk) 01:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Tramways and railways are different.  Maybe a link from one to the other is in order.79.65.91.123 (talk) 05:10, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

text: The C&SLR's main achievements were to prove that extensive tunnelling was feasible for city-based transit; and furthermore that electric traction was the way to do it. The significance of this is currently stated as:  (Emphasis added.) This understates the influence, which eventually extended to almost all very large cities in the industrialized world. Oaklandguy (talk) 18:35, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget the distinction that tramways utilise single units (or propulsion unit + trailer) whereas a railway has trains. Useddenim (talk) 01:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  first major railway to use electric traction 

message: Curiosity more than anything led me to take the train from London to Brighton a couple of days ago and investigate Volk's Electric Railway. According to their website ],
:"Opened in 1883, Volk's Electric Railway is the 'world's oldest operating electric railway'." 
I wonder what editors of the CSLR article make of that. best, Sunil060902 (talk) 01:41, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no doubt that Volk's line was operational before the C&SLR (that's why this article says "first major railway to use electric traction" in the lead), but Volk's line is narrow gauge and quite short, so it did not really meet the standard of a "proper" railway.--DavidCane (talk) 23:40, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: But what constitutes a "proper railway"? Just want a NOR source. Might it be better to say CSLR was "first standard gauge railway to use electric traction"? best, Sunil060902 (talk) 22:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Volk's Electric Railway]]

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message: City and South London Railway#Haulage and infrastructure. Cable car (railway) was meant to be added at City and South London Railway#See also. Peter Horn User talk 15:17, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't qualify there, since it's already linked in the phrase "... owned the rights to the Hallidie cable-car system first invented ...", see WP:SEEALSO 'As a general rule, the "See also" section should  repeat links that appear in the article's body'. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed. Peter Horn User talk 17:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accidental addition 

message: Quote 'The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world'. 
Not true. The C&SLR first opened in 1890. The Tower Subway beat it by twenty years (1870). It qualifies as a deep level tube railway because the tunnel was 50 to 60 feet below ground level and was bored in the same manner as the C&SLR using a tunnelling shield. It may have operated for less than a year, but it did operate. It was cable hauled (as the C&SLR) was intended to be. What the article can legitimately claim is, 'The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level electric underground "tube" railway in the world'. Or even, 'The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level standard gauge underground "tube" railway in the world' (the tower subway was narrow gauge). Or even a combination of both.  DocFergus (talk) 12:15, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The Tower subway was more like an elevator laid flat. Cables hauled a car from one side of the river to the other. 2A01:4B00:BB18:A600:E738:4C0D:38F4:6829 (talk) 19:02, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is incorrect. 

message: That was, it was the first "electric locomotive" hauled underground railway in the world. No other firsts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a01:4c8:1095:253f:1:2:49f9:b59b (talk) 20:05, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: A significant first though for 1890. And all stations were underground as well. No one took the lead from it apart from using electric traction, which was already in the planning for the 1893 Liverpool Overhead before the C&SL had to move to electric from the original cable design. The Liverpool Overhead was a trail blazer that most followed in a few ways. First to use EMUs with 3rd rail pickups and coloured signal lights. 2A01:4B00:BB18:A600:E738:4C0D:38F4:6829 (talk) 19:23, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  C&SLR's only first