Talk:Scottish Midland Junction Railway

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I did a considerable amount of work to improve this page and now it has all been removed. WHY?Alanyoung2154 (talk) 16:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Alanyoung2154 (talk) 16:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, surely the thing to do was to put this to the person who undid your work ... ?

There are a number of areas for improvement in the article at present; these are not your fault, but there are several inappropriate images, including of a locomotive near Birmingham. (See my earlier comment.) The locomotive was built by BR about 1951 and has only the most tenuous connection with this line. While a summary of trains and rolling stock on the Glasgow to Aberdeen line is significant, the SMJR disappeared in 1856 and only built from Perth to Forfar, a quite small part of the route. There is an article Glasgow to Aberdeen Line which is surely a more appropriate home for this material?

The section "Using" could be better written; at present it reads "The line was very well used. On a weekday in 1910 153 passenger trains were moving on the main line and its branches.[4] As well as this there were very many freight trains transporting goods to and from Aberdeen and the north east to the central belt of Scotland and destinations in England."

And the section "Track gauge" could be made more helpoful to readers. At present it reads "Some of the incorporated lines were built to a track gauge of 4 ft 6 1⁄2 in (1,384 mm) but were converted to standard gauge." Afterbrunel (talk) 19:25, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Irrelevant images

There are a couple of images on this page showing steam engines at Durham and Birmingham. Not sure what the relevance of these is to a company history. The locomotives in question were constructed long, long after the end of the independent existence of the SMJR.

I'm not really sure that a picture of a trackbed of a dismantled railway really adds much to the understanding of visitors to this page either. Afterbrunel (talk) 07:21, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Newtyle, Eassie and Glamiss Railway

There are a few awkward assertions in this article. The line diagram contains some "inconsistencies" too. I don't like putting a "dubious" marker in the face of the article, so I'll have a go at improving it.

The Glammiss railway was called the Newtyle and Glamiss Railway, wasn't it? I can't find any authoritative support for it being called the Newtyle, Eassie and Glamiss Railway, although obviously it did go through Eassie and some reports referred to it informally by that title. Can anyone provide a link to an authoritative source stating that it was officially called the Newtyle, Eassie and Glamiss Railway? Afterbrunel (talk) 09:14, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]