Talk:Dublin and Kingstown Railway

What's a 'Public car'

It may be worth mentioning what a 'public car' is. The meaning back in the first half of the 19th century is likely to be rather different to what someone in the 21st century might take it to mean. Pma jones (talk) 07:10, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

You are right. I was looking at this article in the last few days for improvement for things like that. I'll see what I can find and thankfully, someone was so kind as to state their references clearly. I must take a look at that book. --DubhEire (talk) 11:55, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Gauge conversion?

What was the maximum length of track using the original gauge before conversion to 5' 3"? Tabletop (talk) 08:46, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

• 7-3/4 miles approx, Westland Row to Dalkey Athmospheric station. Suckindiesel (talk) 12:20, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Sea Level rise and storm damage

in October 2017 the seawall at Salthill station was damaged with a further damage to the sloping seawall appearing shortly after the storm. Given the low lying aspect of parts of the railway I would like to great a photo gallery of old and recent images around the Salthill area. 1 KM of track was covered in sea water during the October 2017 storm, from Salthill to Seapoint station. The historical aspect of lea level at construction gives a real life example of how the 8-10" of sea level increase (approx estimate from NASA data, late 1800's to 2015) currently impacts on the railway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadowtree25 (talk • contribs) 11:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Referencing

Murray 1981 is used as a general source but has not been used for inline citations.I now have a copy of the book and will try to inline cites as some information can be challenged. For my own cross checking I need to keep track of pages and will be using Template:rp though it can look a tad ugly. While some prefer Havard referencing I can't get on with it; but if someone wants to convert after I've stopped doing changes I've happy with that. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 22:50, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

• Update. I have since become more familiar with Harvard Referencing and intend to move towards that with WP:SFN. Djm-leighpark (talk) 16:44, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Dublin Historical Record

The spring 2019 issue contains an article on the DK, also includes the Works, including early photo, and origins of the Landsdown Rd workshop. Available in local library periodicals section.Suckindiesel (talk) 23:15, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

September 2019

I've hopefully improved the article over the last 10 days and may perform some cross checks over the next three before removing the under construction. I am aware further enhancement is possible:

• The lede is a little ugly with excessive company names defined there, and I may provide a list of associated companies, their abbreviations, and their relevant association as the first section.
• I am thinking of a section on infrastructure (Brief on workshops, stations, bridges ?
• I am thinking of a section of incidents
• I am thinking of a section on people.
• The section on locomotives need improvement from Murray.

These would not need to be under with an under construction, certainly not at article level. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 10:00, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

citation breakage

With these edits, Editor Djm-leighpark halted Monkbot/task 16 claiming that the bot broke the referencing in this article. If you look at the article before the the bot's edit, you will see that Grierson 1887 is using a deprecated parameter: |dead-url=. The bot's edit changed only that citation so that Grierson 1887 rendered with out the error message.

Editor Djm-leighpark: Please show how Monkbot broke this article.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:03, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Sorry ... wrong edit.

[1] broke it. There were a couple of issues but removal of the year= broke the referencing. @Brainulator9 would you like to review. Thankyou.Djm-leighpark (talk) 22:23, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

@Djm-leighpark and Trappist the monk: Sorry about that! I was doing cleaning and forgot what the letters were for. I might have broken a few more pages doing that, but I might most of them were already caught. At least the changes I would have made anyway were kept. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 23:04, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Sources

Unusal run-round procedure

Not original to D&KR/DW&WR (Taken from London&Greenwich Haugton Sept 1849) Murray, 1981, p=168 mentions run round was achieve by engine detaching from carriages on station approach, running into a siding, train rolling into station braked by guard, the engine detaching on the rear. Needed uncoupling apparatus, and semi automatic points.

Other

This online reference has a couple of interesting points: about a "brakesman"? riding in the front carriage and about the Dalkey pipe: [2].

Djm-leighpark (talk) 12:20, 19 January 2020 (UTC)