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The problem with the story of the railways of Carlisle is the fragmentation; a newcomer interested to understand the development is unlikely to take much interest (at first) in The Maryport and Carlisle Railway, for example, until that person understands the broader picture. At that stage the individual histories with more detail, will become important. Afterbrunel ( talk) 20:45, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Two or three nit-picks occur fairly immediately:
Don't let those niggles spoil your Christmas though. I agree whole-heartedly with the point that single-company articles can't do justice to the interactions between the various routes. The problem is even worse/more fun for West Cumbria, where all the lines were local, nearly all the key players wore more than one hat, there was a healthy dose of non-railway local politics involved, and there don't seem to be any convenient previous authors to provide referenceable explanations of the interactions. So far, I have taken the last point as a warning that any overarching ' Railways of West Cumberland' article would be at considerable risk of OR (and OR which gets it wrong, at that). Can't see that as being a problem for Carlisle, though Rjccumbria ( talk) 01:05, 21 December 2016 (UTC)