Talk:Frankfurt U-Bahn

Is this system a "premetro"?
The premetro article contained a great deal of original research, and characterized a large number of light-rail or streetcar routes as "premetro" systems for questionable reasons -- like that the light-rail or streetcar system had a short tunneled section. More recently the premetro article has been scaled back, to only include systems that verifiable authoritative sources have called "premetro" systems.

Unfortunately dozens of questionable incoming links were made to the premetro article, from articles like this one, that didn't supply any references that verified systems like this one had ever been called premetro systems.

I am going to place a dubious tag next to all questionable claims that provide questionable incoming links to premetro.

If no authoritative references ever called this a "premetro" system that phrase should be removed from this article, link and all. Geo Swan (talk) 18:03, 16 July 2014 (UTC)


 * This is the interesting one – the Frankfurt U-Bahn is probably the one system that can definitely be pointed to as a "premetro" system in the "textbook definition" of the term. IOW, Frankfurt's system really does seem to be a Stadtbahn system that has been rather systematically "up-converted" into more of a rapid transit "heavy rail" type of system. (Vienna might be another example of this...) Despite all that, I doubt there's a reference that explicitly refers to Frankfurt's system as a "premetro system". So I find this one to be a tough one, and I don't have any clear suggested course of action on the matter... [shrug] --IJBall (talk) 21:10, 16 July 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅. Removed any reference to "premetro" from the article – upon further reflection, I agree that we would really need a reference characterizing Frankfurt's U-Bahn, specifically, as a "premetro" in order for that to stay in the article. --IJBall (talk) 02:43, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Poorly translated addition to the article from Oct. 2015
I have removed the following section from the article:

This section was obviously quick internet translation from the German article, but it is such a poor translation that it isn't ready for inclusion in the article. If someone wants to try to tackle a better translation here, in order to put this back into the article, feel free. (I may look into that on my end, but I'm in no hurry on it...) --IJBall (contribs • talk) 23:47, 4 January 2016 (UTC)