Talk:Swindon and Cricklade Railway

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Overhaul

This article is unreferenced and contains multiple references to "currently", "expected in 2007" and "to be completed in 2008". It reads as though much has been lifted from a website or leaflet somewhere. The internal links need updating (I suspect that Hunslet Engine Company is meant, not Hunslet), for example, and the external link is broken. The diagram of the track contains more "proposed" and "conjectural" track than "actually used". Unreferenced factoids and phone numbers periodically need removing from the article. Most of the article is templates and lists.

I originally intended to tidy it up but, after puzzling over it, I think an editor is needed who can, for example, assess how important it is to list every engine ever owned in an article (including those which are now listed as having left the railway). I confess I fail to see the importance of such detail, but perhaps this is normal for railways..

Telsa (talk) 15:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

External link now fixed.

'expected in 2007' - such comments are rather common on the pages of UK preserved railways. Whether it is the work of a single editor, I could not say, but the locomotive lists for these pages tend to be full of trivial restoration detail (that belongs on the railway's own website) and lazy linking (as here to Hunslet).

Listing every locomotive is not unreasonable, and whether it is working/not, restored/not etc. Someone looking up this page before visiting the railway might be interested in seeing which engines are there, or else, someone researching an engine type might be interested to know where 'real' examples may be found.

The track diagram is accurate. The fact that sections are proposed/conjectural is just a reflection on what the railway is planning to do.

EdJogg 23:10, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed some of the material in the overview section since so much of the material was unverified, and I could find little information on the railway's website. I've also trimmed the route diagram. Hertzsprung (talk) 21:40, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. Nothing of significance was lost from the text -- it was mostly repetition anyway. EdJogg (talk) 01:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Picture Reference

This photo of Blunsdon station (site of) in 1961 has been uploaded to the Geograph project, if someone cares to upload it to Commons?

-- EdJogg (talk) 09:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]