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FYI, Talk:Sutton (Cambridgeshire) railway station#Name. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains -mattbuck (Talk) 06:16, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 18, 2016

FAC has been averaging fewer than 7 promotions per week for a while now, so the Today's Featured Article selections have to go further and further back. Brian has scheduled this one for May 18 ... but I see that the lead ends with "as of 2011 is operational", so this one hasn't been updated in a while. Could someone have a look please? - Dank (push to talk) 01:17, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have time to edit it properly at the moment, but the loco seems to be currently operational on the Swanage Railway [1]. Optimist on the run (talk) 12:05, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that helps. - Dank (push to talk) 12:57, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the post at WT:TWP and have updated the article. Mjroots (talk)

Has anyone else seen this BBC news story about David Brewer, a former railway worker who has now photographed every station in the UK? Is there some way we could reach out to him to ask if he would be willing to donate his images? -- Markshale (talk) 13:59, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Template talk:Major railway stations in Great Britain#It's that time of year again. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:40, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here are two stations which I haven't been able to identify with certainty. The first could be Southampton Central but it would be good to have confirmation. The second is less clear; possibly on a Cornish branch line? Any ideas? Lamberhurst (talk) 22:00, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that the headcode in File:34004 at Tonbridge railway station (1960s).jpg is right for Southampton, I think that it's Victoria-Dover via Tonbridge or London Bridge-Ramsgate or Dover via Chislehurst Loop and Chatham. So we're looking for a station in Kent with four tracks but two platforms, such as Folkestone West, Headcorn, Newington, Paddock Wood, or Tonbridge.

The unit in File:Unidentified dmu at unidentified station.JPG is a Class 114, so Cornwall is extremely unlikely - the 114s were based at Lincoln for pretty much their whole lives (a few were at Darnall (Sheffield) for a couple of years), so didn't work much further to the south-west than Nottingham. Why a 114 and not a Class 108? Because there are four and a half windows in the centre section between the two passenger doors, the 108s had three and a half. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:22, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The first is Tonbridge. Peter James (talk) 22:38, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Second that! Mjroots (talk) 20:19, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot to both. I will see if I can track down the station in the second image based on Redrose64's useful indications. Lamberhurst (talk) 23:25, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new article, Preston-Liverpool Line, has been created by NeB rolyaT (talk · contribs), who also claims to be the owner. I fear that its scope largely duplicates other articles, such as Liverpool to Wigan Line and Blackpool to Liverpool Line - do we really need all these? --Redrose64 (talk) 19:39, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, all; fully aware that the boxes have been described on the talk pages before, but when I have glanced through the archives, I haven't found the answer to the following question;

Does it bother no-one else that they do not run in a linear format? EG; you click on the next box to the left and instead of displaying the station you have just hyperlinked from on the right, it displays it on the left. Example here at Wokingham Station - it shows Reading on the Left for the North Downs line but in the same box shows Reading on the right for the Waterloo to Reading line, even though both lines approach from the south east and east respectively, merge and continue westwards from Wokingham.

I am just being pedantic, or does this bother other people too? Best wishesThe joy of all things (talk) 21:34, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]