<div dir="ltr">On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 14:36, Stefan Tauner <<a href="mailto:stefan.tauner@gmx.at">stefan.tauner@gmx.at</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
The most important distinction to me is how the railway is embedded in<br>
the overall transport system of the area.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Define "area" and "overall transport system." If you have a very</div><div>large theme park, holiday park or whatever then it may have a</div><div>narrow gauge railway for internal transit even if there are no</div><div>direct interchange points with the wider public transit system.</div><div>So my breakpoint is if it's used to get from A to B or used</div><div>as an amusement. With modifications in some circumstances.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> If the narrow railway ever was<br>
or still is part of a bigger railway system or at least has some kind of<br>
transfer possibilities at (terminal) stations then I would rather grant<br>
them railway=narrow than a completely separate string of tracks "in the<br>
middle of nowhere"</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The narrow gauge railway with the companion miniature railway that</div><div>I'm thinking of was formerly a standard gauge line linking several</div><div>towns and hamlets and connecting to the rest of the rail network</div><div>system. What is left is isolated and has only one of its stations</div><div>in a population centre.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
That being said, I realize that the railway's history also plays a role<br>
in my thinking: if it was built initially for mainly amusement purposes<br>
it is rather a miniature_train.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd modify that and say it also has to be miniature in size.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
All of that is obviously fuzzy. I don't know how to make up a clear<br>
rule to validate tagging.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Me neither. Another thing to consider is how the operator refers to</div><div>it. But that's not decisive as I know a former farm which converted</div><div>its outbuildings to holiday cottages has just installed a miniature</div><div>railway (by your and my definitions) but calls it a light railway</div><div>(it isn't, it's a ride for children).</div><div><br></div><div>It's blurry.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>