Talk:Passenger train

Improvements and expansion checklist

Here is a non-exhaustive list of tasks to improve this article (I will work through these myself gradually, but of course anyone is welcome to help):

• A history section
• More detail on types of trains (locomotive hauled vs multiple units), as well as local vs. express trains
• Rapid transit may need to be condensed or entirely removed, depending on what we decide the scope of this article is (most of this article was split from Train)
• More information on passenger train scheduling
• Changes in passenger trains over time (streamliners, wood vs. steel passenger cars, etc)
• Information on passenger train operations, such as employees and equipment
• Potentially a section about cultural impact
• Benefits and drawbacks of passenger trains as opposed to other modes of transport
• A section giving an overview of passenger trains in different parts of the world
• In general, more references throughout the article Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:59, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

A lot of these topics are already covered in Passenger rail terminology, so maybe this article will need to summarize that article. Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 13:14, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

I concur, this article should cover the aspects of passenger rail in summary style, while Passenger rail terminology goes more in-depth. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:01, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

"Light train" content fork

I am strongly opposed to the inclusion of the massive content fork that was recently dumped into this article by User:KatVanHuis. It is not in the slightest bit integrated with the rest of the article, is from an article that was deleted with near unanimous consensus that the term is a neologism, and above all reflects one editor's dogged insistence on keeping their pet project in mainspace. My revert of the content was promptly undone, so even though the other editor is ignoring WP:BRD, I am initiating a discussion about removing this content from the article in its entirety. This is a clear evasion of the AfD result by simply copy-pasting the entire deleted article into this one. This hijacking should be undone at once. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 21:33, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, the entire list of "light trains" is just a list of Multiple units. A short section on multiple units would be appropriate for this article. This hijacking, however, is wildly inappropriate. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 21:37, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello Trainsandotherthings, despite your claim: I did not simply copy-pasting the entire deleted article, but I've trimmed sections and altered some texts. And again: this is the only article where this content was available, so it can not be a content fork.

More importantly: the AfD process suggested to include the content in other articles, so I followed this advice. Deleting the content here, is against that advice.

Lastly, the fact that the listed "light-weight engineered trains" happen to be "multiple units", doesn't mean that all "multiple units" are "light-weight engineered trains". KatVanHuis (talk) 06:22, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

The content should be included where context-appropriate. The article here is a broad-level overview of passenger trains, with most content in linked main articles; the content from the deleted "Light train" article is far less general and doesn't fit in. The content about 1930s-era "light-weight" coaches is covered to some extent in Passenger railroad car (which has its fair share of issues of its own!); allusion to "lightweight train" as a coherent category of modern trains isn't supported by source material and shouldn't come back unless it can be. Neither topic seems to belong in this particular article. Sub31k (talk) 17:32, 10 April 2025 (UTC)