[Talk-GB] Tourist railway stations are not public transport

[Peter Neale]

The Dartmouth Steam Railway, whilst a heritage rail line, also has a regular timetable and sells single and return tickets, so is not reserved to tourists.

Indeed, they now have an agreement with Great Western Rail (GWR) to offer through ticketing from stations on the main rail network to Dartmouth.
So, my vote is for the Dartmouth Steam Railway to be classified as "public transport".  It is currently tagged as " railway:preserved=yes", which is also true.  Do "preserved/heritage" and "public transport" have   to be mutually exclusive?   (Sorry; I am new to this topic - how would it be tagged to make it "public transport"; does it just have to lose the "heritage" tag?)
Regards,Peter
(PeterPan99)
 

    On Monday, 19 February 2024 at 15:44:21 GMT, Paul Berry <pmberry2007 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I think the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway can make a serious claim to be a regular passenger private railway, run as a public service, even if it relies heavily on tourism. I'm sure there are others.
Regards,
Paul
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 15:06, Dave F via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

Hi

Tourist railway stations are not public transport.

Due to the iD editor, many railway=station entities tagged with either 
usage-tourism and/or tourism=* have public_transport tags added by 
default or recommendation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport

I believe this to be incorrect tagging, but before I remove them & log 
it as an iD editor issue on Github, I thought I'd check to see if it's 
known if there are any tourist railway companies running a year round, 
timetabled schedule that's regulated in a similar way to those running 
as part of National Rail.

DaveF

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