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

[Martin Ellis]

In that case Kent & East Sussex Railway probably doesn't count as public
transport as it only seems to offer day tickets (https://kesr.org.uk/), I
do wonder if that would change when they finally get re-connected to the
main line to the west.

cheers,
Martin.

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 16:22, Peter Neale via Talk-GB <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> 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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