Talk:Vatican Railway

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Date	Process	Result
June 26, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
August 2, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that although Pope Gregory XVI condemned railroads as "the road to hell," Vatican City includes the world's shortest national railway system?

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Part of the very first line ("two 300-metre sets of rail tracks") seems to be contradicted by the "Characteristics of the line and its installations" by the Holy See, ref. #7. Can this be corrected by someone familiar with the line? Very confusing first line as it now stands Keo 07:59, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

300m is the amount of track in Vatican City, not including the viaduct, which is in Italy. Savidan 14:42, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Review[edit]

I should admit to not knowing that the Vatican City has its own railway. Nevertheless this is an example of a short, comprehensive, well sourced and well written article that deserves GA. Ruslik 11:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment[edit]

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Rail transport in Vatican City/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

Like what User:Ruslik0 said, this article is short, concise, and well-referenced. As part of the GA Sweeps, I believe that this article maintained its quality and should maintain its GA status. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 22:29, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RDT diagram back to front heads up[edit]

Useddenim et al, an edit tweaking the RDT ^{Special:Diff/819819954/821161489} had the side effect of swapping the two wagon sidings to the wrong side of the diagram (see position of [1] on OSM). Could Template:Vatican City Railway be tweaked slightly? —Sladen (talk) 15:01, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Locomotives[edit]

The current locomotives wording may require more research; this picture from 1962 [2] shows a Breuer Type V shuting "tractor" on the left-hand side of the photograph. —Sladen (talk) 12:47, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Special trains[edit]

~23 January 2002 to Assisi[3].
~22 May 2011, 60th anniversary of Caritas International 60th anniversary[4]. steam + wooden carriages
On the morning of 11 October 2011 a test train ran to Assisi.[5]
On 27 October 2011, Pope Francis travelled by train to Assisi railway station.[6]

—Sladen (talk) 10:14, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Line description[edit]

"which crosses Viale Vaticano (which it interrupts) and Via Aurelia. The Via delle Cave and the Via del Gelsomino are also interrupted by the viaduct and thus merge with the Via Aurelia."

This needs to be reworded for clarity, but it needs to be done by someone who is local and/or more knowledgeable of the reconfiguration than myself. First, "interupts" is an awkward English language term to use for this; it'd be better to say "dead-ends" or "is cut off from" or something similar. Second, only very small portions of Via del Gelsomino and Via delle Cave" exists in the vicinity of this viaduct. In fact, the stretches are so small that I initially missed them poring over local maps of the area in question. It also appears that it wasn't the viaduct for this railway that "interuppted" this two particular streets, but the viaduct for the expanded Pisa–Rome railway from Roma San Pietro railway station, and this seems to not have occurred until the 1950's or 1960's(?). Actually, it looks like what ultimately "interrupted" both of these roads was not the Vatican viaduct, but the construction of the Via di Porta Cavalleggeri-Via Gregorio Settimo highway was through the area. As far as I can tell, both of these roads still continue under/through the Vatican viaduct until then. --Criticalthinker (talk) 08:09, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]