Category talk:London and North Eastern Railway constituents

Watch out - there's a (railway) thief about

Someone is trying to increase the territory of the L&Y and thus the LMS by listing railway companies that belong here under L&Y, specifically the Leeds and Selby Railway, the Hull and Selby Railway and the York and North Midland Railway.

Was it done out of ignorance or is it an LMS plot?

XTOV 21:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I finally decided I could go ahead and create 'Category:North Eastern Railway (UK)' and transferred the H&S, L&S and Y&NM to that category (as well as some other NER constituents).

XTOV 23:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

What constitutes an LNER (or LMS, SR or GWR) 'Constituent' Company

I would suggest that strictly speaking the only constituents of the LNER are those pre-grouping railway companies that were combined to form the LNER in 1923.

Earlier railway companies that combined to form those companies (such as the Y&NM, YN&B, LN and M&D which combined to form the NER are strictly constituents of the NER not the LNER.

Similar arguments apply to the LMS, SR and GWR.

However in order to avoid having a plethora of constituent pages it should not be beyond the wit of more experienced Wikipedians than myself to devise a format that allowed the true tree-structure of railway constituents to be represented. In that case it would also be helpful if the dates of combination could be given (and possibly either the original forming of the company, Act of Parliament or opening of the first section of line).

XTOV 21:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

See my later attempts at doing something like this on the North Eastern Railway page.

XTOV 00:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)