[Tagging] How to tag monumental railcars

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Wed May 17 21:00:27 UTC 2017


On 16-05-17 00:22, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 15 May 2017 at 22:04, Mark Bradley <ethnicfoodisgreat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have mapped several cabooses (UK brake vans), a type of non-revenue
>> car, and technically these don't fall under the categories of rolling stock,
>> freight cars, or passenger cars/coaches.
>
> As an en-GB native, and having spent ten years working at a railway
> museum in England, I would say brake vans are definitely "rolling
> stock" (as indeed is anything on wheels that moves on railway rails).
>
> Both en.Wikipedia's categories (see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_van ) and Wikidata agree with
> that.
>
I have added a little clarification in the introduction:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Drailway_car

Mark, please try to reply within the thread next time.



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