Talk:Mersey Ferry

message: Huge masses of text, unsuitable for online reading. Very few Wikilinks. A heap of unsorted facts at the end. And worst of all, no mention at all in the History section of the ferry service's close escape from complete withdrawal in the 1970s! 86.143.55.162 15:27, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cleaned up article. Broken up text with headings & paragraphs, added wikilinks, removed Trivia section (as per WP:TRIVIA), expanded History section to include mention of 1970s considered closure. Hopefully the article now has a better structure to it. Snowy 1973 20:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Further revised and expanded, April 2008.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reads like a guidebook 

message: Moving the comment below from article page to here: ...There was, however, a major design fault with Leasowe and Egremont. In order to reach the bows of the ship when casting off etc, crew members were required to either push through the hoards of commuters and climb down a ladder from the forward promenade deck or walk along the rubbing strake and climb over. In flat calm conditions this was not a problem, but in a force 8 gale with the vessel bobbing around wildly, it could be considerably dangerous. The simple reason for such problems was because there was no door leading from the main saloon to the bow area of the ships!   
Whoever posted this last comment does not seem to know his door positions!  Yes there was a ladder leading from the top deck to the bow but there was a door in the front windows of the lower saloon for the use of the staff.  Take a trip to the Egremont at Salcombe (the Island Cruising Club are most welcoming and love people going to see the boat, especially people from Wallasey) and take a look at the door.  It is still there and useable. 
Above comment by 82.24.36.157, moved to this page by Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:50, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Egremont" 

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message: The article covers the entire history of the ferry service, but the infobox only relates to the current operators.  Should this be changed?  Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:48, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Splitting the article would make sense, IMO. The current article discusses two related but distinct topics and there's easily enough content to make two articles. LicenceToCrenellate (talk) 10:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There is not much in the article about the current operators.  Thinking about it some more, I would favour a renaming of this article (to "History of....") and, essentially, a redirect to Merseytravel to cover the Mersey Ferries operation - with any additional material about the current services there.   Would you agree with that approach?   Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:05, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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