Talk:Bletchley Flyover

Fiennes's quote
We have a difference of view on the value of this quote: "The Bletchley flyover remains as a memorial to those who failed to see that railways must live by concentration and not dispersal."

It seem to me to be highly relevant that, a very short time after it was built, the Chief Operating Officer of BR declared it to have been a waste of money and a monumental white elephant. Subsequent history proved him right. How is that not encyclopaedic? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 07:55, 30 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I think it's mainly a question of presentation. Quotes are easy to misuse, and the purpose of Wikipedia should be to provide factual information, and it is easy to use a quote in a way that fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE and/or WP:UNDUE. If you present it in the right way, it shouldn't be a problem. WT79 (speak to me &#124; [//xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia/WT79 editing patterns] &#124; [//xtools.wmflabs.org/globalcontribs/WT79 what I been doing]) 08:44, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, a side box would be much better (which is how I did it originally) but it just looked silly for such a short article. I used that technique at Milton Keynes, where I think [well, I would!] it works well. I can put it back in its box if that is preferred? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:43, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅Reinstated. Does that work? WT79 (speak to me &#124; [//xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia/WT79 editing patterns] &#124; [//xtools.wmflabs.org/globalcontribs/WT79 what I been doing]) 09:08, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * That works for me. I'm happy.
 * Does anybody care that the citation is for the second edition (1973) – where the relevant page is accessible via Google Books –  rather than the first edition (1967), which isn't. (The first edition citation is available under Bibliography at the Gerry Fiennes article, if anyone wants it). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 09:42, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

'for engineering use'
I have no idea what reopened for engineering use' means. Please somebody simplify/clarify/explain, in the article. jw (talk) 22:28, 27 February 2024 (UTC)


 * It means that it is only open for trains carrying materials needed down the line to construct the railway, such as carrying ballast. Maybe someone can propose a nice way of saying that. One of the (originally quarterly) EWR2 Project Newsletters has a citation. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 00:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)