Talk:Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

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	Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is part of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London series, a featured topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
	This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 10, 2012.
Article milestones Date Process Result November 16, 2009 Good article nominee Listed January 10, 2010 Featured article candidate Promoted November 1, 2012 Featured topic candidate Promoted A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 13, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches? Current status: Featured article

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• I'd have expected a mention of the modern London Underground earlier in the lead
• I'm concerned that the article goes into unnecessary detail in places, which hampers readability. For example, the subsection on the failed 1898 bill is nearly 400 words long in an already-long section and this long before we get to the building of the line. It's followed by another 400 words on a mostly unsuccessful proposal. These should be distilled and summarised in my opinion.
• Some repetition, eg the Metropolitan Railway and Paddington station are introduced twice
• Precise names and dates of enabling acts feel like excess detail. In fact, there's quite a bit of redundancy and excess detail throughout. Edits like this reduce the wordiness without the loss of any necessary detail or understanding.
• A lot of the footnotes could be removed without any loss of understanding of the main subject. For example, detail about the lifts at stations feels far too in-the-weeds for an article about a railway line.
• Some duplicate links could use attention.

Overall, this is an excellent article but in places feels like a general history of the Underground system, information which would be better presented in other articles so this one can focus on its subject. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:48, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]