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Reviewer: Ritchie333 (talk · contribs) 11:22, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Happy to take this on. I can't see any reason to quick-fail this whatsoever, so a full review will be forthcoming. I tend to copyedit as I go and raise issues as and when I find them. Specific comments will follow. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:22, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Location and layout

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Early history

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King's Cross Metropolitan

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  • "The Snow Hill tunnel, which had seen no passenger services since World War I, closed completely in the 1970s - have you got the exact date?
    Not the exact date, but I've narrowed it down to 1971.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    According to Joe Brown's London Railway Atlas, Freight services ended on 24 March 1969 and the tracks were dismantled on 3 May 1971. I've added this to the article.--DavidCane (talk) 12:46, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closure and relocation

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Essentially, I don't know what it is. Is it a report, a manual, a statement of work, a plan, or something else? If it was published by Network Rail in 2005, surely there should be a link online somewhere, even via the Wayback Machine. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:09, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I see... my bad. It was a short ref to something provided in full in the bibliography of the Thameslink Programme article. I have updated to provide the full context and link to document. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 13:47, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • "These are able to handle 12-car trains and will have sufficient capacity to serve the Thameslink Programme route ..... " - this (and the prose following it) isn't sourced and seems to be grammatically incorrect. The Thameslink route is now well established (I've used it to attend at least one London meetup) so this should all be in the past tense, I would have thought.
    The line in question seems to be redundant to the line at the beginnig of the paragraph. I've also moved the bit about links to SP and KX up, and cited it.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:54, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • What makes alwaystouchout.com a reliable source?
    Also one I found already in the article. I've replaced it with [1] which, although a blog post, is accredited to the London Transport Museum so I assume may be reliable.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:39, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's fine, it's written by Tim Dunn who is a recognised railway expert who presents on BBC4, so I would consider it to be reliable. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:11, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Summary

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Okay, I think everything's been addressed, so I'm passing the review now. Well done. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:23, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]