Talk:Brighton and Chichester Railway

Extend scope?
I am thinking this article needs to have its scope extended. There is consensus that "history of physical routes" and "modern train services" are two quite separate topics, that may or may not overlap geographically. There is a West Coastway article, which includes trains between Brighton and Southampton, taking it way beyond the LBSCR route. The Brighton and Chichester Railway built from Shoreham to Chichester only. The excellent LBSCR article is already pretty large and couldn't take a lot of detail about individual routes like this. Somehow we have to get Chichester to Portsmouth into an article. It would be crazy to start a separate one for Chichester to Portsmouth (or to Portcreek Junction?).

I therefore propose extending the scope of this article to "The Brighton to Portsmouth Line of the LBSCR". Obviously it would summarise later developments from 1923 to date, but the "LBSCR" part emphasises that this is a history article. It ought to include the Littlehampton and Bognor branches, which otherwise would be pretty thin independent articles. (Weirdly there is a Bognor Regis branch line article as well as a Bognor Regis station article.) Afterbrunel (talk) 15:26, 2 October 2022 (UTC)