use the edit version for formatting
{{Infobox station | name = Minshull Vernon | status = Disused | image = | caption = | borough = [[Cheshire East]] | country = England | grid_name = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]] | grid_position = {{gbmappingsmall|SJ 686 622}} | coordinates = <!--{{coord|53.15575|-2.47103|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}--> | platforms = 2 | original = [[Grand Junction Railway]] | pregroup = [[London and North Western Railway]] | postgroup = [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]] | opened = {{Start date|1837|07|04|df=yes}} | closed = {{end date|1942|03|02|df=yes}} | years = {{Start date|18|||df=yes}} | events = Opened | years1 = 30 April 1962 | events1 = Closed to passengers | years2 = 28 November 1966 | events2 = Closed to goods traffic }}

adding image
| image = Image taken from page 134 of 'The Book of The Grand Junction Railway ... By T. Roscoe, assisted by the resident engineers of the line' (11223994365).jpg | caption = Preston Brook railway station in 1839


{{Infobox rail}}
Articles about rail companies, use infobox rail line when it is a line and company
use the edit version for formatting
{{Infobox rail |railroad_name = Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway |logo_filename = Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1008 National Railway Museum (2) (cropped).jpg |logo_size = 220 |image = Map_of_Lancashire_and_Yorkshire_Railway_1920.jpg |caption = 1920 map of the railway |marks = LY |locale = [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]] |start_year = 9 July 1847 |end_year = 1 January 1922 |predecessor_line = [[Manchester and Leeds Railway]] |successor_line = [[London and North Western Railway]]<br />[[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]] |gauge = {{track gauge|uksg|allk=on}} |electrification = 600 [[Volt|V]] [[Direct current|DC]] [[third rail]]<br />3.5 kV DC [[Overhead line|overhead]]<br />1,200 V DC side contact third rail | length = {{convert|601|mi|28|chain}} (1919) | tracklength = {{convert|2269|mi|36|chain}} (1919) |hq_city = [[Manchester]] }}


{{Infobox rail line}}
for boxes about the physical line, this one is best when it is a line and company
use the edit version for formatting
{{Infobox rail line | box_width = | name = Liverpool Overhead Railway | other_name = Dockers' Umbrella | native_name = | native_name_lang = | color = | logo = | logo_width = | logo_alt = | image = File:Seaforth Sands railway station 1.jpg | image_width = | image_alt = | caption = [[Seaforth Sands railway station]] | type = [[Elevated railway]] | system = | status = | locale = | start = | end = | stations = | routes = | daily_ridership = | ridership2 = | planopen = <!--{{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}--> | open = {{start date|1893|03|06|df=y}} | event1label = Closed | event1 = 30 December 1956 | event2label = Demolished | event2 = September 1957 – January 1958 | event3label = | event3 = | owner = | operator = Liverpool Overhead Railway Company | character = | depot = | stock = | linelength_km = | linelength_mi = 7 | linelength = | tracklength_km = | tracklength_mi = | tracklength = | tracks = 2 | gauge = {{track gauge|1435 mm|allk=on}} | old_gauge = | load_gauge = | minradius = | racksystem = | routenumber = | linenumber = | electrification = | speed_km/h = | speed_mph = | speed = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = | elevation = | website = | map = [[File:Liverpool Overhead Railway map.png|200px]] | map_name = Geographic map | map_state = collapsed }}


{{Disused Rail Start}}
{{Historical Rail Insert}} Put the boxes above ==See also - others are at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rail_transport_succession_templates

{{Disused Rail Start}} {{Rail line|previous={{rws|Denton}}|next={{rws|Dukinfield and Ashton}}|route=[[London and North Western Railway]]<br>Ashton branch junction line|col=000000}} {{s-end}}

{{Rail line|previous={{rws|Denton}}|next={{rws|Dukinfield and Ashton}}|route=[[London and North Western Railway]]<br>Ashton branch junction line|col=000000}} {{s-end}} colours are at Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways/Colours list


  • {{convert}} Conversion of measurements - chains can be used in convert {{convert|3|mi|73|ch|km}} {{convert|9+1/2|mi}} British cwt is -Lcwt and it shows pounds
  • {{pad}} is useful for spacing things
  • an en dash is ( – ) and this is the one to use, emdash is (—) and a hyphen is (−)
  • {{blockquote}}
  • {{nbsp}} is a deliberate space is
  • useful arrows {{rmri}} {{rmri}} {{rmri}} {{rmri}}
  • circa - use {{circa}} the first time, thereafter just c.
  • {{Not a typo}}


  • example sfn{{sfn|Sweeney|1996|p=7}} pp=45-48 or loc=map 9
  • its loc= in sfn but its at= in cite book
  • No date, or other reason, need to set an anchor,
    • |ref={{sfnref|Lumberjack Song|1969}}
    • |ref={{sfnref|Fenton|nd}}
    • use {{sfn}} as normal, {{sfn|Fenton|nd|p=23}}
    • use this method to use "Q" {{cite Q|Q105958849|ref={{sfnref|Fox|Hall|Pritchard|2008}}}}

or

    • {{harvid|Last name of author(s)|Year}}

  • author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->
  • {{subscription required|via=The Times Digital Archive}}
  • url-access=registration/limited (trial for limited time, subscription normally required)/subscription |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoflms0000nock

  • Money comparison{{efn|5s (£0 5s 0d) and 3s6d (£0 3s 6d) would be approximately £23.40 and £16.38 in 2019<ref name=mworth>{{cite web|title=Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1270 to Present|website=MeasuringWorth|year=2018|url=https://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/|accessdate=24 December 2018}}</ref>}}[1]}}{{efn|name=nt2}}
  • this one is better at a salary of £500 (equivalent to £57,000 in 2023[a])at a salary of £500 (equivalent to £{{inflation|UK|500|1830|fmt=c|r=-3}} in {{inflation-year|UK}}{{inflation-fn|UK|df=yes|group=lower-alpha|mode=cs2}})

  • efn with text in notes, in text is
    • {{efn|name=fn1}}[b]
    • {{efn|name=fn2}}[c]

then in notes put

{{notelist|refs= {{efn|name=fn1|Very long footnote 1}} {{efn|name=fn2|Very long footnote 2}} }} I keep getting multiple references from this so just stick with efn

If article is using <ref></ref> to make notes like:<ref group=note>Another note</ref> this can be referenced by using {{refn|group=nb|A footnote.<ref>A reference for the footnote.</ref>}}


  • Say where you read it - John Smith (2009). Name of Book I Haven't Seen, Cambridge University Press, p. 99, cited in Paul Jones (2010). Name of Encyclopedia I Have Seen, Oxford University Press, p. 29.
  • {{efn|[[Rail directions|Down]] trains usually headed away from the major conurbation, usually London, some railway companies ran 'up' to their headquarters location.}}{{cite book |chapter='up' and 'down' |last=Simmons |first=Jack |page=548 |editor1-last=Simmons |editor1-first=Jack |editor2-last=Biddle |editor2-first=Gordon |date=1997 |edition=1st |title=The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-211697-5}}{{sfn|Simmons|1997|p=548}}

*{{cite book |chapter=Grouping of 1923 |last=Aldcroft |first=Derek H. |page=197 |editor1-last=Simmons |editor1-first=Jack |editor2-last=Biddle |editor2-first=Gordon |date=1997 |edition=1st |title=The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-211697-5}}{{sfn|Aldcroft|1997|p=197}}

  • [[Arrangements between railroads#Trackage_rights|running powers]] over xxx companies line.{{cite book |chapter=running powers |last=Simmons |first=Jack |page=428 |editor1-last=Simmons |editor1-first=Jack |editor2-last=Biddle |editor2-first=Gordon |date=1997 |edition=1st |title=The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-211697-5}}{{sfn|Simmons|Biddle|1997|p=428}}
  • Railway Magazine{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Warrington Central rebuilt |journal=The Railway Magazine |date=October 1983 |issue=990 |volume=129 |issn=00338923 |ref={{sfnref|The Railway Magazine|1983}} }}

  • NLS maps using cite map {{cite map |title=Yorkshire Sheet CLXXXII |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344842 |year=1890 |scale=Six-inch |publisher=Ordnance Survey }}
  • NLS maps{{cite web|title=Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Aberdeenshire LXIII.15 (Monymusk) |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/74480441#zoom=6&lat=10296&lon=4516&layers=BT|website=National Library of Scotland |year=1866 |access-date=5 June 2021}} "Wood Green Station on OS 25 inch map Staffordshire LXIII.14 (Walsall; Wednesbury; West Bromwich)". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 26 October 2020. web address from share button on actual map (not the seemless) need to add in map number and date of publication of original map
  • Godfrey maps {{cite map|isbn=0-85054-703-2|publisher=Alan Godfrey Maps|ref=CITEREFGodfrey1994b|scale=1:4340|series=Old Ordnance Survey Maps: The Godfrey Edition|title=Berkshire Sheet 37.03: Reading 1898|year=1994b}}
  • Cassini map {{Cite map |author=Cassini |year=2007 |map=Warrington, Widnes & Runcorn |title=Past & Present Map 1842 to present day |cartography=Ordnance Survey |scale=1:50,000 |publisher=Cassini Publishing |sections=1842 & present day |isbn=978-1-84736-418-0}}

{{refn|group=act|name=Act1830|An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Borough of Wigan to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the Borough of Newton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and Collateral Branches to communicate therewith.

<ref name="Actof1830">{{cite web |title=Local and Personal Act, 11 George IV & 1 William IV, c. lvi |url=https://digitalarchive.parliament.uk/HL/PO/PB/1/1830/11G4&1W4n90 |format=PDF |website=UK Parliament Parliamentary Archives |publisher=UK Parliament |date=29 May 1830 |accessdate=6 April 2020}}</ref> }}

===Acts of Parliament===

{{reflist|group=act}}


  • ProQuest<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Manchester Free School |work=The Manchester Guardian (1828-1900) |date=18 November 1840 |page=3|id={{ProQuest|473480989}}}}</ref> or
  • JSTOR reference number; for example: |jstor=3793107
  • Times Archive<ref>{{cite news |title=Railway Accident |newspaper=The Times Digital Archive |date=12 August 1883 |page=10 }}{{subscription required|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref>Can't link direct to article anymore
  • BNA British Newspaper Archive<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Railway Departures |newspaper=The Liverpool Mercury |date=5 March 1847 |page=3 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000081/18470305/052/0011 |accessdate=13 August 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
  • Archive.org{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801101852/http://example.com |date=August 1, 2016 |title=Page title}}
  • Canmore (Scotland){{Canmore |num=111971 |desc=Sauchie, Coal Mines |access-date=23 July 2020}}
  • {{ cite patent | country =GB | number =951330 | status = | title = Improvement in aeroplanes | pubdate = 4 March 1964 | gdate = | fdate = | pridate = | inventor =Brennan, Maurice Joseph | invent1 = | invent2 = | assign1 = Vickers Armstrong Aircraft Ltd | assign2 = | class = }}
  • Oxford companion {{cite book |chapter=block working |last=Foster |first=Richard D. |pages=34-35 |editor1-last=Simmons |editor1-first=Jack |editor2-last=Biddle |editor2-first=Gordon |date=1997 |edition=1st |title=The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-211697-5}}
  • {{efn|Railways in the United Kingdom are, for historical reasons, measured in [[Chain (unit)|miles and chains]]{{sfn|Jacobs|2009|p=11}}. A chain is {{convert|22|yards|metres}} long, there are 80 chains to the mile.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Weights and Measures Act 1985 |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/72/schedule/1/part/VI |website=Legislation.gov.uk |access-date=25 September 2014 |at=Sch 1, Part VI }}</ref>}}
    • then add this to citations {{cite book |last=Jacobs |first=Gerald |chapter=Railway Mileages |editor-last=Bridge |editor-first=Mike |title=TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain |publisher=Trackmaps |year=2009 |location=Bradford on Avon |isbn=978-0-9549866-5-0}}
  • {{cite journal|title=London and North Western Railway — Bolton and Kenyon Branch to Liverpool|journal=Herapath's Railway and Commercial Journal|volume=8|issue=378|page=1127|date=5 September 1846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VE5CAQAAIAAJ}}
  • http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk{{cite web |url=http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/elrs/_mileages/c/cgj5.shtm |title=Engineer's Line Reference CGJ5 Carlisle Grand Junction Line (WCML Crewe to Carlisle) including Golborne station |website=Railway Codes |date=27 February 2020 |accessdate= 9 September 2020}}


{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=|url=|first=|last=|volume=|pages=}} noicon=1 removes the symbol It is at [[1]] Encyclopædia Britannica to find the title

  • the following works to separate Acts into separate footnotes
  • {{refn}} allows the use of a reference within the footnote
  • {{refn|group=act|name=Act1830|An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Borough of Wigan to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the Borough of Newton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and Collateral Branches to communicate therewith.<ref name="Actof1830">{{cite web |title=Local and Personal Act, 11 George IV & 1 William IV, c. lvi |url=https://digitalarchive.parliament.uk/HL/PO/PB/1/1830/11G4&1W4n90 |format=PDF |website=UK Parliament Parliamentary Archives |publisher=UK Parliament |date=29 May 1830 |accessdate=6 April 2020}}</ref>}}

to re-use the note [act 1]

  • __NOTOC__no Table of contents
  • {{toc right|limit=3}}non standard ToC, limit is how many levels
  • {{toc limit}}is stay on the left and only two levels
  • {{toc limit|2}} is normal but only one level of content

  • If you wish to delete your own page, tag the top of the page with {{db-u1}}{{Db-userreq}}

==See also==
==References== ===Acts of Parliament=== {{reflist|group=act}} ===Notes=== {{notelist|notes=}} ===Citations=== {{reflist}} ===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} {{refend}} ===Further reading=== {{refbegin}} {{refend}} ==External links== {{refbegin}} {{refend}}


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Notes

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  1. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", MeasuringWorth, retrieved 7 May 2024
  2. ^ Very long footnote 1
  3. ^ Very long footnote 2

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  1. ^ "Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a UK Pound Amount, 1270 to Present". MeasuringWorth. 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.

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