Talk:Tramway (industrial)

Article title?
This appears to be somewhat mis-titled, in that, the tramway relates to a rail system used in mines, not to a "mineral." Stepp-Wulf 02:12, 7 April 2007 (UTC).
 * I agree. "Mineral" does not seem appropriate for many industrial tramways.  For example, the majority of tramways located in New Zealand of the variety described in this article were used to carry logs (most of the rest served coal mining).  I propose the article be renamed "tramway (industrial)". - Axver 04:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Still a mineral! Stepp-Wulf 01:47, 4 November 2007 (UTC).
 * I'm going to be bold and move it. It's been over half a year and nobody's objected to my proposed new title, so I'll take that as a mandate to make the change. - Axver 01:50, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Railway?
Someone has suggested "Where the plates span more than one supporting sleeper or stone base it its classed as a railway." Is there supporting evidence? The term was often used for plateways, and certainly for edge rail ways where fishbelly rails were used. Chevin (talk) 06:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggested Merger
In the absence of objections, I propose to merge this article with the Industrial railway article, and replace one of them with a redirect.Thewellman (talk) 19:08, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you need to be a bit careful here as it is only place in Wikipedia I know ofwhere the different kinds of tramway are discussed and not all of them are industrial tramways/railways. Chevin (talk) 06:45, 22 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose -- not all Industrial Railways are tramways, and vice versa. Don't see any need to merge them. -- EdJogg (talk) 12:26, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I concur the subject of tramways is more inclusive than the subject of industrial railways; but this article focuses on the (industrial) subset of tramways, with a relevant introductory history of tramways. Can you describe a difference between "industrial" tramways and industrial railways that is more significant than the overlap between the two?Thewellman (talk) 15:31, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Not in the time available to me currently. EdJogg (talk) 12:40, 25 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd oppose, too. Whatever an industrial tramway may have in common with an industrial railway, it has just as much in common with a public transport tramway, and just as many differences. We aren't (I hope) thinking of merging "industrial railway" with "railway", or merging all of these pages into one "things that run on rails" article, as they all have specifics that are best described separately. And in content there is no overlap at all between the two. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:19, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

"Legal" source for tramway word usage in Australia
This sentence appears in the article:
 * In Australia, most "tramways" (other than urban street trams) were in practice heavy railways, or equivalent to British light railways, but known as tramways for legal reasons.

After trying for about 4 years to find a source for this opinion (which has also appeared in other articles), I doubt it will be found; hence my addition of a "Disputed inline" tag. I'd be absolutely delighted if someone came up with a source for the assertion. Cheers, Simon – SCHolar44 🇦🇺 💬 at 05:27, 24 April 2022 (UTC)