Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#The difference between commuter rail and metro\rapid transit

File:Information.svg There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway steam locomotive number 19#Requested move 28 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 12:13, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

There’s a discussion regarding the use of the BRC and RWS/Stnlink templates at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Trains. Danners430 (talk) 15:07, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Someone has proposed moving Leven station and Leven railway station (Fife). See Talk:Leven railway station (Fife). Difficultly north (talk) Time, department skies 19:18, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm intending to nominate Kirkby train crash as a WP:GA fairly soon, but I'd like to add a bit more information about the line to the Background section. I don't think it is required per se, but it would provide a bit more context on the line before it was split at Kirkby. The section originally began with "The station opened in 1848 as a through station on the Liverpool and Bury Railway between Liverpool Exchange and Wigan Wallgate." However, I removed this as I couldn't find a source for it{{Hidden ping|Voice of Clam}} (I'm guessing this has been simplified somewhat, because it looks like {{rws|Liverpool Exchange}} opened in 1850). I took a look at Liverpool and Bury Railway, but it looks quite complicated! This seems like it should be fairly easy to cite, and maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place. Is anyone aware of any sources that provide a basic history of a railway station such as Kirkby? FozzieHey (talk) 20:47, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

:{{tl|Quick-stations-5.05}} p269 gives the opening date as 20 November 1848. Nthep (talk) 21:03, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

::I've been meaning to look for some sources for the layout changes, but been rather busy of late. I've not forgotten though. — Voice of Clam (talk) 21:21, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

:::Liverpool Exchange went through a complicated history. Early in its life, it was jointly-owned by two railways, who disagreed on many matters - they couldn't even agree on what to call their shared terminus in Liverpool. So you may find it described as Tithebarn Street in some books. See if you can get hold of

:::*{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=John |authorlink=John Marshall (railway historian) |title=The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, volume 1 |year=1969 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-7153-4352-1 |chapter=Chapter 7: The LYR and ELR Reach Liverpool }}

:::which covers the early history of the Liverpool & Bury Railway. Kirkby is listed as one of the original stations. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:51, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

::::Thanks all, I'll try to get a copy of that book unless someone beats me to it. It should at least give us a short description of the history that we can add to the section. FozzieHey (talk) 11:30, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

File:Information.svg There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Leven railway station (Fife)#Requested move 19 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 04:02, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

::I already said this in the topic above this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Difficultly north (talk • contribs) 17:40, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

{{fyi|pointer=y}} Please see Talk:Mid-Kent line#Article name. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:10, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

fyi, there is proposal that these two articles be merged. See Talk:Royston and Hitchin Railway#Requested merge May 2025. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:07, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

I've recently discovered that references to the [https://www.rhrp.org.uk/ Railway Heritage Register Online] website seem to have become broken links. Many of the UK "Rolling Stock of the....." articles are heavily dependent on these. I've certainly added many of these references to the Rolling stock of the Watercress Line article, all of which are now broken and need changing. I'm willing to tackle this for that article, but before I do so, I'm wondering if any of you clever people (who are far more experienced at this sort of thing than me...) might know of a quicker way of fixing them? I haven't managed to work out whether it's just part of the URL that needs changing, or a complete replacement. Mwsmith20 (talk) 16:19, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

:If the pages are archived (e.g. on Internet Archive) or if there is a consistent new URL then you can make a request for a bot to update all the citations at WP:URLREQ. There is a backlog but it's typically only a few days. Thryduulf (talk) 16:37, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

::It looks like they have done a complete rebuild of the database that feeds their website. I just tried an example and found that

::* Old http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=6986 has become

::* New https://ws.rhrp.org.uk/WagonSurvey/displayvehicle.php?Ref=AO7JYKE2D04VN1C59QZX

::So, no easy fix that I can see. Geof Sheppard (talk) 15:51, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

:::That's what I feared. Thanks for looking, Mwsmith20 (talk) 16:18, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

::::But [https://web.archive.org/web/20241213053441/http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=6986 an archive copy] exists. Easier to automate a translation? -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 16:59, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

:::::I suggest that we update the existing links to the archived versions en-masse so the references are working, without prejudice to manually updating to the live version. It looks like restricting the bot edits to URIs with "/ws/" would prevent any duplication of effort, edit conflicts, etc. Thryduulf (talk) 17:07, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

:::::The archived copies might be out of date, so I think that it will need to be a manual job to amend to the fresh URLs. As I type this, there are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch?target=www.ws.rhrp.org.uk&limit=300 290 links] to fix. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:34, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

See Talk:Jubilee line#Merge proposal for unbuilt stations for a proposal to merge articles for four stations into Jubilee line. -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 17:13, 8 May 2025 (UTC)