Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway

Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests. 
 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 13, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 13:05, 7 March 2014‎ (UTC)



The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) was a railway company that constructed the deep-level underground railway that is now the central section of London's Northern line. Established in 1891, the company became a subsidiary of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) in 1901. Various routes were planned, but a number were rejected by Parliament. Tunnels under Hampstead Heath were authorised, despite opposition by local residents who believed the tunnels would drain the heath of water and train vibrations would cause trees to collapse. When it opened in 1907, the CCE&HR's line served 16 stations (Tufnell Park pictured) and ran for 7.67 mi in a pair of tunnels between its southern terminus at Charing Cross and two northern termini at Archway and Golders Green. Within a year of opening, it became apparent to the management and investors that the estimates of passenger numbers had been over-optimistic and the CCE&HR struggled financially for many years despite four extensions and connections to the City and South London Railway. In 1933 the CCE&HR and the rest of the UERL's operations were taken into public ownership.


 * I believe this gets 3 points: 2 as it is more than two years since it became FA (promoted in September 2008) and 1 for nothing similar in the last three months (last similar article was Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 18 October 2013). --DavidCane (talk) 01:04, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 *  Comment: SUPPORT Blurb looks good - I count 187 words, 1,182 characters with spaces as proposed. Will read forthwith.--ColonelHenry (talk) 15:55, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, high quality page, promoted in 2012. Educational and encyclopedic. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:56, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually the article was promoted in 2008, but it was elevated to featured topic status in 2012. I guess it's worth having a check that the current version is up to scratch given the time since featurehood. But in itself a very good topic choice for TFA. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay, thanks for the correction. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Support nice change. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:09, 23 February 2014 (UTC)