Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TyneTees Express

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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 06:53, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

TyneTees Express[edit]

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This topic seems to fall short of the notability guidelines. The TyneTees Express is a proposed railway service from a no longer accesilbe policy document produced for a defunct local government organisation in the late 2000s. I've no reason to doubt the truthfulness that the idea was mooted in this report, and it is mentioned in passing here by another group. However, the initial report (were it findable!) is not an independent source, and no other coverage seems to come close being "Significant coverage [which] addresses the topic directly and in detail".

It is also worth noting that an alternative railway service between the cities involved, not running along the route described here or using the name TyneTees Express, is due to be launched in December 2019 under the Northern Connect scheme.

An alternative to deletion would be to merge and redirect it into either Northern (train operating company) who will be running the new service, or Leamside line, which is the stretch of rail that would require reopening for the TyneTees Express to run. However my hesitation behind this is that the name 'TyneTees Express' seems to refer to a perhaps more notable local bus service (see Google results and the bus service page). I'm therefore suggesting deletion. Super Nintendo Chalmers (talk) 08:46, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - It's mentioned in a few books. But one of them is a bus service with the same name. I would lean towards a keep possibly. Surely it must be recorded in some council ore local government newsletters and publications. Karl Twist (talk) 12:14, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 09:43, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 09:44, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 09:04, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This appears only ever to have been a proposal for a train route. I've searched many .gov.uk websites for details, and have found very few mentions; none that confer any notability in my view. Had I felt there was a possibility, I might have added them to the article. But they are here for tohers to check: 1; 2 p.53; 3 para 9.16; 4 p33; 5 p 84. Nothing found in Google News, though admittedly this would have been in papers c 2001 to 2006, so less likely to be findable nowadays. It's possible that Transport in Tyne and Wear could be develped with a 'failed proposals' section, in which this could be mentioned and a WP:REDIRECT created, but otherwise I see no future for this article. Nick Moyes (talk) 16:03, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - does not meet WP:GNG - no references at all - WP:NBUILD states, "commercial developments may be notable as a result of their historic, social, economic, or architectural importance, but they require significant coverage by reliable, third-party sources to establish notability" - as this proposed rail service was never activated, it lacks notability - Epinoia (talk) 20:22, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.