Tramlink Thread/Post area on District Dave?

But Tramlink is classed as a 'Light Rail' just like the DLR and does run on old railways and off road in some parts. It does run on rails and is in London after all. Last time I checked.

I used to belong to the Croydon Tramlink yahoo group. I don't know if it is still going - I unsubscribed about a year ago as I was getting too busy to read it properly. Perhaps this forum does not need to duplicate it.

The tramlink Yahoo group is still going, although it's not especially busy at the moment. I certainly wouldn't object to it being covered on here, and I don't think it would be overly duplicative as web and email fora have different strengths. There are yahoo groups for LU and for all London Transport (although that is almost entirely frequented by hardcore bus geeks) and the forum has coexisted with them happily for years.

I've never had cause to use Tramlink, but I was surprised to find there wasn't a section. Another yes vote here!

I suggest a NR section as well. As this is a major network of railways in London and the surrounding countryside. There more then a few ideas for this.

Also why has no one address this from District Dave?!?

#ReorganizedOfDistrictDave

No need for a poll. Dave himself laid down the rule (the rest of the admins concurring) that Tramlink runs on roads so the vehicles are road vehicles not trains. Hence, as already said by the mods "a line has to be drawn somewhere", and this is it!!! There are several other forums dealing with TfL matters as a whole - Dave even needed persuading that LO should be in: the 'swing' factor was that we had already agreed on DLR's inclusion, so the rest of TfL sort of followed as an inevitability.

And that's how it will stay FTFF

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I don't think that the thread became too much of a conflict, but I guess everyone reads things differently, and indeed some members always seem to have a more argumentative slant to their posts, but like I said, it all depends on how it is read. Also, I'd probably suggest trying to refrain from using hashtags. Not everyone here is particularly savvy with of social media (for want of a better word), so whilst it makes sense for some people, it is completely lost on others.

As I alluded to in my post above, this question has been asked before, Phil has now supplied the answer to the question from his memory banks.



Lets just be clear that when I use "New" and "Old" member I am referring to length of membership, not age. No-one is saying that it is a bad idea; if one of our old members had suggested this I'm sure the response from the Admins would have been the same. This forum was set up by Dave to discuss the UndergrounD - now he has passed on the Admins run the forum in the spirit he intende. As the red text above explains the Overground was only included because Dave included the DLR; he wasn't up for trams.



As the old members of the forum know this forum and its policy is defined by the Admins, they listen to what forum members think and want and base their decisions on that and what they think Dave would have wanted; the Forum Staff want to see this place continue in Dave's memory and thrive.

Let me be clear, the Forum Staff are open to change. The forum today is different to the forum I joined in 2008, as a result of Forum Staff listening to members. A line has to be drawn somewhere, we discuss things that run soley on Railways. Other forums discuss things that run on roads, however our niché is things that run only on Railways.

I can see good arguments for the inclusion of Tramlink, given that it is a TfL service that runs on rails. Those rails are in the road though and it's closer to a bus service than an an Underground service in terms of the TfL organisational structure so there are equally good arguments against it.

Personally I'd also be open to more NR discussion here, although focused on the London metro services, as that's where the competence of this forum lies. Particularly if TfL do secure control over the Greater Anglia and Southeastern metro services the distinction between TfL and NR will be blurred, but a line needs to be drawn somewhere. While I also have interests in say Glasgow to Manchester expresses, they not at all relevant to this forum and so on the far side of any reasonable line. There are other forums who deal with national National/Network Rail matters and do a better job of it than we could.

As for buses, personally my interest in them is peripheral but I know that we have some enthusiasts and experts here (not least Colin and deansullivan). Buses are a completely different beast to railways though with little overlap between them. There is the aforementioned London's Transport Yahoo Group that largely focuses on bus discussion, and I think there are one or more web forums as well, but I don't know details of them (as I say, it's not my interest). I don't feel that it would be a good match for this forum.

River services are a potentially interesting area too, but operationally they are essentially just specialist buses and so the same comments as above largely apply. Taxis and minicabs are less relevant still with cycle hire and the dangleway even less relevant than taxis.

A while back I did suggest the possibility of a family of forums for TfL/transport in London, where independent forums focused on their specialised area with limited cooridination between them. This didn't get very far at all, but whether that was lack of interest or something else I don't remember.

What a way to run a welcoming forum, eh? This whole thing is ridiculous. A bright red ADMIN WARNING?

Is this site run as a memorial to its founding member rather than as a changing, current, lively discussion?

*heads back to London Reconnections for informed, tram-inclusive, non-autistic absurdities*