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Why did they cease operations?

Could someone expand on the article and tell us why they were stopped? There's no explanation at all as to why they were all closed down. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.30.153.188 (talk) 16:08, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

♦

Several entries in the list are marked with a ♦ symbol. However there is no key or other explanation of what this signifies. Thryduulf (talk) 19:20, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Five and a half years later, and I would like to ask the same question!

The symbol also may be seen in a few other, related lists, but it's not explained there either.

After posting that, I decided to try following-up the article's original author. Unfortunately, he has long since been blocked.

Scarily, I found that I had posted on his talk page in 2007. (Eek! Nine years ago!)

Maybe someone from Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_Trams can shed some light on the reason for this symbol?

EdJogg (talk) 18:10, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On the other lists of trolleybus systems, this symbol appears to denote suburban or interurban systems, as opposed to urban ones. I'm not sure whether that's strictly true of the systems on this list that are marked with the symbol, but, eg, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Oldham are at least sort-of suburbs of Manchester, and Walsall is sort of a suburb of both Birmingham and Wolverhampton. I'll look into it a bit further and make any necessary amendments. Bahnfrend (talk) 03:03, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed these symbols. Verbcatcher (talk) 16:49, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Home Nations and Regions of England. List of Contents needs to be changed. Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland listed as regions of England.

This article claims to be " a list of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom by Home Nation and by regions of England". The Home Nations, therefore, should be listed in the contents list in four separate whole sections, one each for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England. This is not the case: they are all in one whole section in the contents list: section 1, entitled 'England'! Effectively, the contents list, section 1, has Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland listed in subsections as regions of England. I'm sure the author does not intend to offend the inhabitants of these three nations. The list of contents needs, therefore, to be changed, so that all four Home Nations are given their own separate, whole section, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland removed from the section entitled 'England' and listed as sections 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Accuracy and sensitivity, please. I would edit this, but I do not know how to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.49.0 (talk) 14:13, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've now fixed this problem. Bahnfrend (talk) 15:27, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.49.0 (talk) 01:33, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation of headings

Headings - including table headings - should be written in normal sentence case, not 'title case'. See MOS:HEADCAPS for more details. Mauls (talk) 10:46, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]