Talk:Mersey Railway

message: The article say's In 1903 it was electrified, becoming the first railway in the world to change over completely from steam to electric power. The Liverpool Overhead Railway, whilst not a conversion was all electric from it opening February 4 [[1893]. People may read this and assume that it was the first all electric railway, which it was not. TrackInspector 14:50, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
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message: lists the Mersey R. as 2nd but isn't explicit.
In Electric Railway. vol.47 (Electric Railway Society) (Doppler Press, 2003) p.61 it states, "With the Földalatti, Budapest claims to have the oldest underground railway on mainland Europe. It came after the steam worked Metropolitan (1863) and Metropolitan District (1868) in London and the Mersey Railway (February 1886) and the Glasgow City & District (Queen St LL, March 1886).." http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9DdeAAAAIAAJ which makes it second or third depending on how you count.. (or could say the "oldest outside london")
Some sources don't seem to count it as a 'railway system' or 'subway', just as a tunnel.
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=1151 is more explicit  .. Mersey Railway featured Britain's second oldest sub-aqueous railway tunnel ..
Another record is the steepest passenger line in the UK eg : http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iZmyAAAAIAAJ (Guinness) The steepest gradient in Britain over which standard-gauge passenger trains work today is the 1 in 27 (3-7 per cent) on the Mersey Railway from the bottom of the Mersey Tunnel up to James Street. or 
Oranjblud (talk) 14:28, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Oranjblud. I'm working on a re-write of the lead and will probably include "oldest outside London". Edgepedia (talk) 05:13, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The Mersey railway is the second oldest in the world for sure, making Merseyrail the second oldest network in the world. It is older than Glasgow and Budapest. The word "world" should be in the text. Are some trying to pretend this railway never existed in 1886? 78.105.8.113 (talk) 12:33, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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