Category talk:Railway lines in France

Railway v Line
Why are the lines in this section called 'railways'?

In English parlance a 'railway' is usually used to refer to a railway company, e.g. 'Great Western Railway' while a line is used to refer to a particular railway line linking two (or more) termini e.g. WCML, the Brighton Line, and the

I therefore propose to rename all the 'railway's in this article 'line's

French uses the word 'ligne', German 'Strecke', not 'chemin de fer' or 'Eisenbahn' in this context Oldboltonian (talk) 22:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I started a new discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains, I hope it draws more attention there. Markussep Talk 18:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)