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Just read this article after seeing it on the main page. What a thoroughly interesting read -- nice work by all involved! –
ukexpat (
talk) 02:08, 21 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Protection
Any particular reason why the article wasn't move-protected?
Fvasconcellos (
t·
c) 12:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)reply
yes, it should have been locked as soon as it was obvious an idiot was messing it up.
Liverpool-8-boy (
talk) 21:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)reply
first major railway to use electric traction
The lead sentence for this railway that opened in 1890 currently reads:
The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level underground "tube"
railway in the world, and the first major railway to use
electric traction.
What is a "tube" railway? It is new to me. It looks like something dreamed up to claim some first.—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
79.65.91.123 (
talk) 04:46, 1 February 2010 (UTC)reply
but it might be worthwhile to note that the
Berlin tram had an electric line operating by 1881 (the railway started in 1865 comprised mostly of
horse trams, but was in 1881 and is still today a major electric traction railway), the
Capital City Street Railway was an electric tram in operation in Montgomery Alabama by April 15, 1886, and the
Richmond Union Passenger Railway began regular operation in Richmond, Virginia by February 2, 1888. Perhaps the lead should be reworded to mention that it was "one of the first major railways to use electric traction" or "the first major British railway to use electric traction" instead.
67.86.75.96 (
talk) 23:33, 21 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Wasn't the first electric tramway by a Russian, in now present day Finland?
79.65.29.228 (
talk) 13:30, 6 February 2010 (UTC)reply
That would be Miller's line mentioned below.--
DavidCane (
talk) 14:54, 6 February 2010 (UTC)reply
It's certainly true that these tram systems were earlier users of electric traction, but I think the distinction does need to be made between railways and trams. I'll think about how best to deal with this - probably in a footnote.--
DavidCane (
talk) 00:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)reply
There is also a claim that
Miller's line was electrified (at least for experimental runs) as early as in 1875 by
Fyodor Pirotsky. It too was regarded as a tram and not a railway.
67.86.75.96 (
talk) 01:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Tramways and railways are different. Maybe a link from one to the other is in order.
79.65.91.123 (
talk) 05:10, 1 February 2010 (UTC)reply
The C&SLR's main achievements were to prove that extensive tunnelling was feasible for city-based transit; and furthermore that electric traction was the way to do it. The significance of this is currently stated as: The technologies of deep tube tunnelling and electric traction pioneered and proved by the C&SLR shaped the direction of subsequent underground railways built in London. (Emphasis added.) This understates the influence, which eventually extended to almost all very large cities in the industrialized world.
Oaklandguy (
talk) 18:35, 4 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Don't forget the distinction that tramways utilise single units (or propulsion unit + trailer) whereas a railway has trains.
Useddenim (
talk) 01:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Curiosity more than anything led me to take the train from London to Brighton a couple of days ago and investigate Volk's Electric Railway. According to their website
[1]],
"Opened in 1883, Volk's Electric Railway is the 'world's oldest operating electric railway'."
I wonder what editors of the CSLR article make of that. best,
Sunil060902 (
talk) 01:41, 28 September 2011 (UTC)reply
There's no doubt that Volk's line was operational before the C&SLR (that's why this article says "first major railway to use electric traction" in the lead), but Volk's line is narrow gauge and quite short, so it did not really meet the standard of a "proper" railway.--
DavidCane (
talk) 23:40, 28 September 2011 (UTC)reply
But what constitutes a "proper railway"? Just want a NOR source. Might it be better to say CSLR was "first standard gauge railway to use electric traction"? best,
Sunil060902 (
talk) 22:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)reply
He was the designer of the locomotives and electrical generating system eg
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It doesn't qualify there, since it's already linked in the phrase "... owned the rights to the
Hallidiecable-car system first invented ...", see
WP:SEEALSO 'As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body'. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 16:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)reply
Quote 'The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world'.
Not true. The C&SLR first opened in 1890. The
Tower Subway beat it by twenty years (1870). It qualifies as a deep level tube railway because the tunnel was 50 to 60 feet below ground level and was bored in the same manner as the C&SLR using a tunnelling shield. It may have operated for less than a year, but it did operate. It was cable hauled (as the C&SLR) was intended to be. What the article can legitimately claim is, 'The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level electric underground "tube" railway in the world'. Or even, 'The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level standard gauge underground "tube" railway in the world' (the tower subway was narrow gauge). Or even a combination of both.
DocFergus (
talk) 12:15, 4 November 2018 (UTC)reply
The Tower subway was more like an elevator laid flat. Cables hauled a car from one side of the river to the other.
2A01:4B00:BB18:A600:E738:4C0D:38F4:6829 (
talk) 19:02, 11 April 2024 (UTC)reply
World's oldest - dispute
I want to clarify something regarding the opening paragraph as the central section of the
Mersey Railway is
advertised as the first 'deep-level' railway in the world and, according to its own article, opened in 1886 (although that source says 1898 - which of them is correct?). It's not a 'Tube' though as it's double-tracked in that section.
| 🔬🚆 | Telo |
TP | 22:43, 9 April 2019 (UTC)reply
@
ADTelo: The number of tracks does not determine a tube railway, it is the shape of the tunnel. This article says
... was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world,[1][note 1]
^A "tube" railway is an underground railway constructed in a cylindrical tunnel by the use of a
tunnelling shield, usually deep below ground level.
The word "tube" is the significant qualifier, and that note clarifies it. The Mersey Railway tunnels are not cylindrical. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 12:17, 10 April 2019 (UTC)reply
"tube" is insignificant. A tunnel is a tunnel. No matter what construction method is used. This is scraping the barrel to get a first. Pretty sad really. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
2a01:4c8:1095:253f:1:2:49f9:b59b (
talk) 22:53, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
The Mersey Rail tunnel was bored with a TBM in the early 1880s. It is cylindrical. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
2a01:4c8:1095:253f:1:2:49f9:b59b (
talk) 19:59, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
a) It wasn't, TBMs weren't developed until the 1950s, the "drum diggers" used for the construction of the
Victoria line being amongst the first true TBMs. Prior to then, simpler
tunnelling shields such as those designed by
Barlow or
Greathead had been used.
b) It's not,
this image shows a section through the
Mersey Railway tunnel, which clearly isn't circular, an essential qualification for being cylindrical. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 21:17, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
I suggest that you read the article that you linked. Beaumont's machine was used for driving a ventilation tunnel, which being 7 feet in diameter could not have carried the railway itself. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 23:38, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
You wrote TBMs were introduced in the 1950s, with no obvious knowledge of Beaumont's TBM. You were 70 years out. The Mersey Railway tunnel had a TBM for half of the vent shaft and also a pilot for part of the main tunnel, then expanded by hand/blast. The main tunnel is circular. The tunnel was at the leading edge of tunnelling at the time, with different approaches adopted during work progression. The design of the tunnel, drainage & ventilation tunnels and vertical shafts, was changed as work progressed. The experience gained on the Mersey Rail tunnel was used for all subsequent tunnelling.
Beaumont's TBM was enlarged then used successfully for the first abandoned Channel tunnel. The British Army stopped the construction for defence reasons.
C&SLR's only first
That was, it was the first "electric locomotive" hauled underground railway in the world. No other firsts. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
2a01:4c8:1095:253f:1:2:49f9:b59b (
talk) 20:05, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
A significant first though for 1890. And all stations were underground as well. No one took the lead from it apart from using electric traction, which was already in the planning for the 1893 Liverpool Overhead before the C&SL had to move to electric from the original cable design. The Liverpool Overhead was a trail blazer that most followed in a few ways. First to use EMUs with 3rd rail pickups and coloured signal lights.
2A01:4B00:BB18:A600:E738:4C0D:38F4:6829 (
talk) 19:23, 11 April 2024 (UTC)reply