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Interesting book about South Wales Metro

@Barrymarkd may not be an experienced Wikipedia editor, but it is clear that he knows a lot about public transportation systems. He has tried a couple of times to reference his own self-published book How To Build A Metro. Yes I know it rings WP:COI and WP:SPS alarm bells, but go take a look, it's very interesting and well written. It is within the WP:SPS guideance to allow referencing to self published works by knowledgeable authors and in this case I think it's something that we could use. Thoughts? 10mmsocket (talk) 15:57, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

British Rail Class 555

There is a move discussion ongoing at British Rail Class 555 to move the article to Tyne and Wear Metro Class 555 which I would appreciate input in, as it was originally moved without discussion. Thanks. Danners430 (talk) 16:18, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Greater Anglia franchise railway stations has been nominated for discussion

Category:Greater Anglia franchise railway stations has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.. JuniperChill (talk) 17:29, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Northern franchise railway stations is also part of that discussion JuniperChill (talk) 17:29, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seven Sisters station

Some people may recall Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways/Archive 56#Engineering diversions. We now have a different username, Golden409bus (talk · contribs), insisting on adding unsourced train service content to the same article, Seven Sisters station. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers#Requested move 12 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers#Requested move 12 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. About me; Talk to me. Farewell fellow editor... 12:30, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Station page linking

Someone please tell me what the actual difference is between Purley and a plain Purley or Purley railway station in full. Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. About me; Talk to me. Farewell fellow editor... 21:24, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Between the first two, none. Which is used is just the personal preference of the editor writing that bit of content.

Between either of the first two and the latter one, it's just whichever works best in the context it's being used. Thryduulf (talk) 21:39, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My question then, if {{stnlink}} does basically nothing, why have it, if we can just use normal [[ ]] wikiliks? Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. About me; Talk to me. Farewell fellow editor... 22:07, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It exists because some editors prefer it as it is easier to type. Personally I just use plain wikilinks, but my preference is no more or less valid than any other editor's. Thryduulf (talk) 22:16, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. About me; Talk to me. Farewell fellow editor... 22:35, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mattdaviesfsic: {{stnlink|Purley}} is shorter to type than [[Purley railway station|Purley]], plus you only need to write Purley once. But Template:Stnlnk has distinct advantages when it comes to disambiguation: some stations have the parenthetical disambiguator after the words "railway station". e.g. Gillingham railway station (Dorset) and Gillingham railway station (Kent); some have it before, e.g. London Road (Brighton) railway station and London Road (Guildford) railway station. But you don't need to know which format is used - the syntax is the same:

{{stnlnk|Gillingham|Dorset}} → Gillingham
{{stnlnk|Gillingham|Kent}} → Gillingham
{{stnlnk|London Road|Brighton}} → London Road
{{stnlnk|London Road|Guildford}} → London Road

Of course, if you want the words "railway station" to be displayed, using the normal wikilink is the way to go. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:09, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aha, thx Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. About me; Talk to me. Farewell fellow editor... 23:33, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you prefer writing links out in full, you can use {{subst:stnlnk}}. For example {{subst:stnlnk|Birmingham New Street}} expands to [[Birmingham New Street|Birmingham New Street railway station]]. — Voice of Clam (talk) 08:55, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

EWR 2024-2025 consultation

The non-statutory consultation on updated proposals for East West Rail, running from Nov 2024 to Jan 2025 has been released today. See here. Difficultly north (talk) Time, department skies 11:02, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a WP:BRD debate at Talk:East West Rail#November 2024 Consultation on whether material on a non-statutory consultation should be included. Please contribute towards a consensus, as presumably the principle has wider significance. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:08, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2324 station usage

The new station usage figures from the ORR will be released on Thursday 21st November. Difficultly north (talk) Time, department skies 14:55, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]