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Severn Beach line was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 11, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Infobox

Not very pretty. But it doesn't appear any other railway line has this type of info box. Should it be removed? Bjrobinson 14:09, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to remove this then. Feel free to put back, if there is a specific reason it should be there. Bjrobinson 14:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Line diagram

I've added a basic diagram, feel free to add any additions, such as freight sidings at St Andrews Road or better layout of junctions

I don't know who made the above remark or when (please use the signature button) but I've just done a fairly major overhaul of both the article content (for the new enhanced timetable) and the line diagram. It might be a bit over the top now, I got slightly carried away! --Peeky44 (talk) 16:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Might it be worth using this method for things like minor road bridges (eg Whiteladies Rd and anything smaller)? The diagram is,as I hinted above, a bit huge for such a short line! --Peeky44 (talk) 07:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added the diagram ages ago, Peeky44. Other short lines don't have the name for every road they cross, I think rivers & Motorways are OK and maybe A Roads, but I think the others are rather large! Mojo (talk) 10:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Class rating

I reckon with the recent improvements to this article, it's due for an upgrade to B-class. However, as I made many of these changes, perhaps that's not a Neutral Point of View, so I won't change it myself, at least not now. I'm also nominating it for Good Article status as I think it might well be up to that as well. Obviously if the GA status is approved by the appropriate reviewer(s) then B-class is no longer an issue... Any comments? --Peeky44 (talk) 10:55, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Easily 'B' class, so I made that change. I'll leave the more regular GA people to look into that, as I'm not sufficiently separated from Bristol to do the job properly, but I think at the least, it is better than your average 'B' class article. Splash - tk 12:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'Good Article' resubmission

I really think this is a 'Good Article' so I will go through it today and add required references. I'll keep my progress noted here. Martin H. Heron (talk) 10:37, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Repeated and irrelevant(?) info.

Large sections of text (many thousands of bytes) on this page is repeated verbatim on the pages of other stations on the line (e.g. line history). Also some large amounts of other info that could be irrelevant (e.g. bus info that can be quickly out of date and perhaps best on bus route pages, wider rail franchise and other issues) are here and also repeated verbatim on each of the pages for the stations on the line. I think some of this text could be better placed on a more relevant page, and other parts (e.g. history of the line) be listed only here - with perhaps a link to the this page on the station pages. After all that is the beauty of links in pages - save repetition and storage and means any updates only have to be made once! :-) I'm unsure if this suboptimal trend has (is?) being repeated elsewhere by the same author(s).

I started to correct for some of the above (including some minor errors) but after finding the scale of the repetition (I have not exhaustively checked each page) feel it may be better to discuss and get some consensus rather than trying to update these many pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.150.152.232 (talk) 21:46, 4 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Two route maps?

Is there any need for two route maps? I know people have gone to the trouble of making them but they basically show the same thing. Both are nice but they are providing the same info. And it's cluttering up the page in my view.81.131.106.210 (talk) 17:29, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

We don't need the second one; it has more road bridges than any rail features. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Severnside Community Rail Partnership

I note that this Department for Transport Accredited Community Rail Partnership is only mentioned once in passing, and not in relation to the statement that the line has been designated a Community Railway. With the good (even national prizewinning) work in Community Rail that this CRP does for the Severn Beach line since formed in 2006 it really should have more of a mention. Andywebby (talk) 18:50, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Four (!) years later I have given them a link and a mention by the statement about community rail. Still need some good sources on what they actually do. rbrwr ^± 12:21, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]