On 2 July 2012 15:00, Peter Miller <peter.mil...@itoworld.com> wrote:
> Responding to comments below. Use of railway=abandoned for lines across > housing estates is definitely wrong. Some suggest railway=dismantled, some > remove them. Leaving aside other issues; these terms are confusing, and seem to cover more than two situations. Once trains stop running lines can go through various stages: * No trains run, but everything else remains as was (possibly railway=disused ?) * The tracks are physically disconnected from the network, at one or both ends, and/ or intermediate junctions * The rails are removed, leaving the sleepers * The sleepers are removed, leaving the ballast * At any of the above stages, ancillary equipment such as signals can be disconnected, or removed. * The route is overgrown and wild, but is still discernible * The route is reused, as, say a footway or cycleway, but is still discernible * The route is built over and is no longer discernible Additionally, sometimes disused lines are interrupted by the demolition of bridges or viaducts; and more than one of the above can be the case in different parts of the same line. At any point (but usually not the last) the railway can be reinstated and trains resume running. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
