Category talk:Railway lines in France
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Railway v Line[edit]
Why are the lines in this section called 'railways'?
In English parlance a 'railway' is usually used to refer to a railway company, e.g. 'Great Western Railway' while a line is used to refer to a particular railway line linking two (or more) termini e.g. WCML, the Brighton Line, and the
I therefore propose to rename all the 'railway's in this article 'line's
French uses the word 'ligne', German 'Strecke', not 'chemin de fer' or 'Eisenbahn' in this context
Oldboltonian (talk) 22:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
- I started a new discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains, I hope it draws more attention there. Markussep Talk 18:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)