Talk:List of railway companies

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Just confused as to whether this page is supposed to be of contemporary or historic railway companies? The current German railway is not the Bundesbahn but has been Deutsche Bahn since about 1992. Also ideally the Belgian railway should be SNCB/NMBS to reflect both languages. -- Arwel 00:30 May 7, 2003 (UTC)


 * In general I think lists of companies should include both current and past, because a) you don't have to edit every time a company goes under, and b) a reader looking for a company is going to have a hard time finding it in the list if he/she doesn't know that it disappeared or merged a couple years previously. Stan 01:04 May 7, 2003 (UTC)


 * I disagree. This has the potential to make the list impossibly large: there are hundreds and hundreds of former railway companies in Great Britain and Ireland alone. We should confine the list to currently operating railways (though there is no reason why, at the end of a country's entry, there cannot be a link to the likes of "Railway history of Xland" where such articles exist). Compare the United States solution in this list. If a former railway company is mentioned in the Wikipedia it should be directly findable in any case. -- Picapica 10:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

My source of information is a book called "railways of the world" written in the 1970s, so some of the information may be a bit dated G-Man may 7th

List of railway companies
(State Railways Administration) This link no longer works & needs to be replaced. --Peter Horn 19:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The link is operational again Peter Horn 17:50, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

List of railway companies
Re: This link "sucks" because it does not allow one to go back to List of railway companies

Peter Horn 17:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

List of railway companies
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Could any of the maps be used? Peter Horn 18:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

New Discussion
A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries. Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 13:42, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

A list of railway companies, or a list of railway acronyms?
This article is entitled List of railway companies. But for at least two countries (Germany and Switzerland) it seems to have become rather a list of railway acronyms. The actual name of the company is relegated to brackets after the acronym, as if it were just a bit of helpful explanation rather than the thing that is supposed to be being listed. Why?.

To avoid misunderstanding, I have no objection to using abbreviations where that is the genuine name of the company. But most German and Swiss railway companies have perfectly good names.

Would anybody object to me trying to rectify this situation. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 20:06, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

US Railways - Which companies should be included?
We currently have all of the Class I RRs listed, and one Class III. Should we keep this list to just the Class I's (the largest), or add in the Class II and III's? The latter choice would be a long list. I suggest keeping this listing just for Class I, and using the 'See also' template to link to other lists. Caseyjonz (talk) 01:55, 19 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I added class 2 and 3 RRs. I think this is just all of them, we also have a link to a Wikipedia page that is all Class 1 RRs 23.176.176.249 (talk) 14:07, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I also added Class Two and Class Three railroads to the list, should we add all the railroads that are sourced out of the US? Such as CP and CN they both are in the US and Canada, what should we do about those railroads? TerrellAT (talk) 16:08, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

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"Railway Unions" belongs elsewhere
Why does the listing of railway unions preface the African section? There is nothing comparable for the other continents. Railway Unions worldwide may merit a comprehensive Wiki article, and indeed there already are standalone articles on such in several different countries. Casey (talk) 18:45, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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Labeling
Should we be writing Railway or Railroad and I’ve seen some that have (Made up) “Train Railway” and then under it “Train Railroad”. This also happened with saying “Company” after it.

I also assume that these can be from the past or present seeing some railroads that don’t exist any more — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.176.176.249 (talk) 19:12, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

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