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RDT- Error[edit]

On the RDT the position of Norton and Runcorn East stations need to be reversed as they are in the wrong order. Steamybrian2 (talk) 16:55, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is this article justified?[edit]

This railway company only existed under this name for five months in 1859. It was a renaming of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway prior to being taken over jointly by the LNWR and the GWR and becoming the Joint Line or Joint Railway.

The rather thin content of the article is already better handled in other articles. Afterbrunel (talk) 17:52, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Afterbrunel: It was jointly owned indeed, but remained a legal entity right down to nationalisation, since it is named in the Third Schedule of the Transport Act 1947, page 146 as "The Birkenhead Railway Company". --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:02, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that is so; it was (only) a legal entity. After 1860 the Birkenhead Railway Company didn't operate any trains, nor did it own any railway. It was just a financial entity that distributed share dividends from lease income.

The trouble with having this article in existence is that the casual reader may stumble across it and assume from the title that it was a railway, as opposed to a financial entity. I suggest it merits a mention in other articles, but not an article in its own right. There is no benefit to readers in giving every company in Awdry its own article, however insignificant. Afterbrunel (talk) 08:26, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]