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WikiProject London Transport

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Shortcuts:	WP:TFL, WP:LT, WP:LUL
Category:	WikiProject London Transport, Transport in London
Portal:	London Transport Portal
Wikimedia Commons:	London Transport
Parent project:	Transport
Project notice template:	{{WP London Transport}}
Participant userbox:	{{Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Membership}}
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Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Task forces 4 News 5 Portal:London Transport 5.1 Vote for the selected article and selected image of the month 5.2 This month's selected article 5.3 This month's selected image 5.4 Did you know's 5.5 Update the news section 5.6 Related Portals 6 Assessment 7 Manual of style and articles to edit 8 Requests and to do list 9 Templates 10 Good content 10.1 Featured 10.2 Good 11 WikiProject London Transport Milestones 12 Project outreach 13 Project guideline 14 Useful references 15 Related projects 15.1 Parent projects 15.2 Other topic related projects 16 See also

[edit] Scope

The aim of this WikiProject is to improve the quality of all articles relating to transport in London. If you would like to participate, please go to this page. If you would like to recieve the Metro (our monthly newsletter) please go to this page. You may also like to place your image into our Image Bank.

The Project covers Transport for London and all its sectors. The project also covers:

• Crossrail
• Any other non TfL transport within London including the management of bridges, roads, cycle lanes etc.
• All aspects of transport in London including management, policing, ticketing etc.

Please join us and help us make these articles the best on wikipedia! Add your name to join WikiProject London Transport.

To review the recent changes in this project and the articles under this project: WikiProject London Transport Recent Changes.

[edit] Participants

If you want to join, please add your name to the participants page.

Also if you like, place the membership template below on your userpage. Use text: {{User WPLT}}:

Adding the userbox will automatically add you to Category:WikiProject London Transport participants.

[edit] Task forces

Many of the main categories within this project are covered by one of the following task forces:

• River services Task force
• DLR Task force
• London Underground Task force
• London Buses Task force

[edit] News

• 09:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC) A new SVG file was created recently but it is NOT recommended for use due to being of low quality and out of proportion to the original. Unisouth (talk)

• 13:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC) WP:LTs coverage of streets extended to cover Bridges and Road Signage including Legible London. Unisouth (talk)

• 17:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC) WP:LTs coverage of London Buses has been extended to cover the bus types themselves. Unisouth (talk)

• 11:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC) The Talk Page has been archived. Unisouth (talk)

• 10:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC) WP:LT coverage extended for 2008, see talk page. Unisouth (talk)

• 13:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC) WP:LTs new newsletter, The Metropolitan has launched! Unisouth (talk)

• 14:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC) A new icon to identify routes with ibus installed has launched. Unisouth (talk)

• 19:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC) The new requests section has now opened. Unisouth (talk)

• 20:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC) WikiProject London Transports new Wikipedia Advert has launched please see our discussion page to view it! UNI^|SOUTH

Archive

[edit] Portal:London Transport

This is the portal associated and linked with this project. The portal supports all of London's transport systems. The highlights of this projects output is presented in the portal. The portal is updated regularly and provides links to the latest news bulletins and London Transport maps.

[edit] Vote for the selected article and selected image of the month

Each month a selected article and image are chosen by members voting for their favourite article or image. To vote visit Portal:London Transport/Vote.

[edit] This month's selected article

The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR), also known as the Hampstead tube, was a deep-level underground "tube" railway constructed in London by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited (UERL). The company was established in 1891 but construction was much delayed while funds were found and many variations of its route were proposed before work began. Work only started after the company was taken over by American financier Charles Yerkes who raised the money needed, mainly from international investors.

When opened in 1907, the line served 16 stations and ran for a distance of 12.34 kilometres (7.67 mi) in a pair of tunnels between its southern terminus at Charing Cross and its two northern termini at Archway and Golders Green. Later extensions took the railway to Edgware and under the River Thames to Kennington, serving a total distance of 22.84 kilometres (14.19 mi) and 23 stations.

In the 1920s, connections were made to another of London's deep-level tube railways and services on the two lines were merged to become what was later named the Northern line. In 1933, the CCE&HR and the rest of the Underground Group was taken into public ownership. Today, the CCE&HR's tunnels and stations form the Charing Cross and Edgware branches and part of the High Barnet branch of the London Underground's Northern Line.

(More on the CCE&HR)

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Archive

[edit] This month's selected image

Watford West railway station, a disused but not formally closed station in Hertfordshire.

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Archive

[edit] Did you know's

You can also submit your interesting facts to be placed in the Did you know section of the portal at Portal:London Transport/Submit DYK.

[edit] Update the news section

Update Portal:London Transport/London Transport news with the latest London Transport news.

[edit] Related Portals

• London
• Transport

[edit] Assessment

Article assessment is the process by which Underground related articles are sorted into different qualities. Assessment is done through the assessment page.

[edit] Manual of style and articles to edit

For a guide on our article structure, a list of articles you can edit and relevant information such as recently opened stations, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Manual of style.

[edit] Requests and to do list

Please refer to the new requests page at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Requests.

Please nominate or vote for July's selected article and/or image. Thank you!

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do: Copyedit: Automatic train protection system, Waterloo station Cleanup: All London Bus route articles so they all fully comply to the template provided. Those that are not done properly may face deletion. Expand: Tube Lines, Metronet Stubs: London Transport stubs Update: All tube stations with current usage figure for 2006. See here. Also update London low emission zone Other: Complete List of bus routes in London and all routes on it that show as redlinks. The list itself appears to be pretty much complete. However, there remain many redlinked routes. Vote for the monthly selected article and selected picture here. Submit your interesting London Transport facts at Portal:London Transport/Did you know for our portal. Upload any non-copyrighted tube images to Wikimedia Commons Featured / good article candidates - Patrol recent changes Join WikiProject London Transport or encourage more members.

[edit] Templates

A list of WP:LT templates.

[edit] Good content

[edit] Featured

• City & South London Railway
• List of London Underground stations
• London congestion charge

[edit] Good

• A1 road (London)
• A215 road
• Docklands Light Railway
• London Paddington station

[edit] WikiProject London Transport Milestones

• 2006-12-08: Expanded scope from a small metro system to transportation in a city.
• 2007-9-07: Celebrating one year since WP:LT began as WikiProject Underground.
• 2007-12-08: Celebrating WP:LTs first birthday.

[edit] Project outreach

Outreach acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

[edit] Project guideline

Wikipedia is a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedia as a community. This is something which applies to all WikiProjects. The important thing is to collaborate as a project. Users should remain civil and try to prevent any major conflicts, involving the community if necessary. Project members should be bold, although any potentially controversial changes should be discussed first. The project guideline itself should be maintained and kept by the community.

No single user owns, coordinates or controls this project and so every user of Wikipedia has the freedom to edit any page including project pages, its guidelines and scope, question other user's edits to any page and revert them if necessary. Community discussions should be held if nothing can be agreed between the parties involved.

The projects aim is to improve and expand Wikipedia's coverage of encyclopedia articles related to transport in London. It should not in any way promote, endorse or advertise any organisations responsible for transport in London or its services. This includes travel information provided by such organisations. Please see What Wikipedia is not for more details.

No single user should enforce these guidelines. These guidelines are a set of guidelines which should be followed as a community and if any problems arise, be questioned by the community.

[edit] Useful references

• TfL official website.
• Always Touch Out
• Square Wheels
• Underground History
• London Transport Museum Photographic Collection
• Clive's Underground Line Guides
• A History of the London Tube Maps
• Index to London Underground History
• Trainspottingworld

[edit] Related projects

[edit] Parent projects

• Transport
• London

[edit] Other topic related projects

• UK Trams

[edit] See also

• List of London Underground stations
• List of bus routes in London
• Category:Transport in London

v • d • e WikiProject London Transport Project Main page • Discussion • Participants • Project templates • Assessment • Image Bank • The Metropolitan • Article templates • Requests • Task forces • Manual of style and articles to do list Portal Portal LT • Vote for the Portal's selected article and image Submit your Did You Knows • TfL news section