Talk:Tvärbanan

Tram vs Light Rail

The description of Tvärbanan was recently changed from light rail to tram, with the reason: Nothing parallel to the 'light rail' neologism is used in Swedish: this line is called a 'spårväg', which translates as 'tram'. That isn't entirely true. Tvärbanan was promoted as snabbspårväg, which is not a very good word, but corresponds to the term light rail. And it really doesn't matter if there is a good translation of it or not - Tvärbanan is a good example of a light rail system. -- Kildor (talk) 19:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

‘Snabbspårväg’ translates roughly as ‘fast tram’ — it doesn’t attempt to position it as an entirely different technology as ‘light rail’ does. As for matters of classification, there is no clear definition of ‘light rail’ — it’s used for everything from full metros that happen to use small trains through to ordinary tramways, so it seems to me that using the term for systems whose operators do not would count as original research. David Arthur (talk) 19:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

My point is that the word snabbspårväg actually is the Swedish word for Light rail. And it is definitely not original research. In SL annual report 2006 english edition, the name Tvärbanan isn't even mentioned once. Instead, the system is simply called Light rail (and Nockebybanan is called Nockeby light rail). VTI has written an article where Tvärbanan is said to be light rail. And in the LRTA list, Tvärbanan is classified as light rail. -- Kildor (talk) 22:39, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Very well, then, if SL are using the term — it still seems to counterproductive to me, then. David Arthur (talk) 02:34, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

(edit: Although looking through their web site, I find references to them as trams as well.) David Arthur (talk) 02:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Track gauge

What is the track gauge? Peter Horn User talk 21:26, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Map with "J"-sign

The "Geographically accurate map" is quite good itself. But, the "J"-sign is totally out of place. This is the equivalent of the "T" used for the Stockholm metro and is used for the Stockholm commuter rail system. But it is NEVER used for tramways. Please change it or the whole map has to be deleted from the article. --Muniswede (talk) 13:05, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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