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Norra Hälsinglands Järnväg

I have started Norra Hälsinglands Järnväg, importing and translating the Swedish content, primarily to address the ambiguity of the TLA "NHJ". I'm not a trains person, so anyone who knows how to format such an article, please help. Thanks! BD2412 T 19:55, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Railways on the Isle of Wight

This article was nominated for GA and has been reviewed (see comments here), but there has been no response by the nominator since it was put on hold on 13 June 2020. The article will fail on 21 June unless the issues I raised are fully addressed. Can anyone help here? if I know someone is willing to pick this up, I'm willing to extend by a week. Amitchell125 (talk) 08:07, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

• I can't commit to the whole article, but I've cleaned up some of the referencing. Mackensen (talk) 12:47, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

RfC for Railway lines in Indonesia

A proposal for renaming is at Talk:Duri–Tangerang railway#Requested move 26 June 2020. Comments are invited. (Pinging Amakuru, Cuchullain, Dicklyon, Mackensen, SMcCandlish who who have participated in similar discussions before.). AlgaeGraphix (talk) 17:15, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

It's not a WP:RFC, it's a WP:RM. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Abidjan-Ouagadougou Railway

I just created an article entitled Abidjan-Ouagadougou Railway prompted by the Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics, only to find when I'd finished that a much fuller version already exists here. The title of the existing article is in French, which is inappropriate in an English Wikipedia and can easily lead to this kind of reduplication. Also it is misleading because the word "régie" refers to state control, whereas the railway has been in the private sector for the past 25 years. I therefore recommend that the two articles be merged and the English title retained. Gnangbade (talk) 09:18, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Gnangbade: Abidjan-Ouagadougou Railway doesn't exist; presumably you mean Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway. What is the exact name of the "much fuller version" to which you refer? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:18, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. See this discussion: Talk:Abidjan-Ouagadougou_railway Gnangbade (talk) 19:26, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Régie du Chemin de Fer Abidjan-Niger, then. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:38, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Definitions

Are these correct?

line	a section of track between A and B, or a service between two or more destinations
Railway or Railroad (Capitalized)	a company involved in rail transport
railway or railroad (lower case)	a section of track, or a service
route	a service that follows part of, or one, or more lines or railways
network or system	a group of routes or services

AlgaeGraphix (talk) 23:48, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Bangkok rapid transit lines

There's an RM discussion over some future Bangkok rapid transit lines at Talk:MRTA Yellow Line#Requested move 1 July 2020. --Paul_012 (talk) 16:29, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Donetsk Railway, or Donets Railway

The Donets Railway was at WP:PNTCU until yesterday, when I did some translation cleanup of the running text. This railway is in a part of the Ukraine whose sovereignty is disputed between Russia and Ukraine. I've listed a page move at Talk:Donets_Railway#Requested_move_5_July_2020 to which, I can imagine, editors here may wish to contribute. I've no particular stake either way, there are good arguments on both sides for retaining the existing name or moving it, since the more modern spelling seems to lean towards "Donetsk" but the historical spelling to "Donets".

To keep the discussion in one place, I suggest editors' comments are placed over at RM (the link above), rather than here: I'll cross-ref that to back to here once I've saved this post. 185.62.130.241 (talk) 07:34, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Locomotive hoax edits

I've come across a bunch of unsourced edits to locomotive articles from new accounts with locomotive-based usernames, ranging from extraordinary claims [1] to minor tweaks of infobox data [2]. So far I've found and reverted the following accounts:

PRR 2846 (talk · contribs) PRR H10s 7688 (talk · contribs) PRR L1S 2-10-0 (talk · contribs) PRR E6s 460 (talk · contribs) PRR GG1 4800 (talk · contribs) PRR 4483 (talk · contribs) PRR L1S 2-10-0 (talk · contribs) Erie RR L1 2600 (talk · contribs) PRR E2A 7002 (talk · contribs)

I'm not sure if there's a systematic way to track these down aside from searching for usernames starting with "PRR". Keep your eyes open for random changes from redlinked locos. –dlthewave ☎ 04:48, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

As some of those editors have checkuser blocks, the experts at SPI may have good advice. Someone could also keep an eye on Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives. Beware that we have a few good editors called PRRsomething. Certes (talk) 09:14, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Problem with the UK ORR station usage data

According to the ORR website, there was an error with the source data which has affected a number of stations, mainly in Wales and the north of England and resulted in an overestimation of usage. Both the 2018/19 and 2017/18 data has been affected so someone (or multiple people) will need to go over all 2000+ stations to check if data is correct. It is hard to tell how many stations were affected or which stations they were so it may be best to unfortunately go over the whole lot. see here. I have started now going through A. Difficultly north (talk) Simply south alt. 16:13, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Infobox change

Requesting feedback on a change to Template:Infobox locomotive to aid with a merge of Template:Infobox German railway vehicle. Change will modify the "cylindersize" parameter. I don't really know much about trains, so input is appreciated. Discussion at Template talk:Infobox locomotive.

Also, as a sidenote, help is needed mapping parameters from the German infobox to the English infobox. Since I don't know much about trains, I'm confused on a couple. Discussion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Holding_cell#Transport, help with the remaining params appreciated. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:58, 14 July 2020 (UTC)