Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hampton Branch (disambiguation)

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The result was keep‎. It has also been noted that this page is at the wrong title, as there is no article at Hampton Branch. signed, Rosguill talk 13:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hampton Branch (disambiguation)

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Unnecessary dab page. No evidence that the Warren Railroad was also known as "The Hampton Branch", and apparently was only used to name an abandoned section of this railroad. CycloneYoris talk! 19:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! As far as I know, the Warren Railroad south of Washington actually was called the Hampton Branch. This is because the section north of Washington (in fact the whole route from Port Morris to Slateford) was the DL&W's main line, and hence was simply called this. After the Lackawanna Cutoff was built, this route took the name of the Lackawanna Old Road. However, this didn't include the section south of Washington, which as the article says, was constructed as part of a failed merger between the DL&W and the CNJ, and hence called the Hampton Branch. Also, to be clear, the entire line is abandoned, as is the Cutoff and the CNJ Main Line past High Bridge. As far as I know, the name "Warren Railroad" was rarely used, and was mainly just a technical term. As for why I made the disambiguation page, it was because there was a railroad in Virginia with the same name, and I thought this was the best way to minimize confusion! This is all a long way to say that I think that the page should stay, or at the very least, be converted into an {{About}} template on one of the two pages! Thank you for bringing this to my attention, and sorry for the admittedly long response! Best, MTATransitFanChat! 20:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Let me expand on what MTATransitFan wrote. The Warren Railroad, a company, built a railway line from Hampton, New Jersey, to near Portland, Pennsylvania. The company is leased in 1857 and merged into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1945. Under the DL&W the line is administratively split: north of Washington, New Jersey, it's part of the main line (known as the Lackawanna Old Road after the cutoff opens). South of Washington it's known as the Hampton Branch until its abandonment in 1958. This can and should be cited to Taber. Mackensen (talk) 00:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Update: Hampton Branch (New Jersey) is a now a real article. Mackensen (talk) 01:45, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A hatnote should be added to this new article and the dab page scrapped per
WP:ONEOTHER, since it's unnecessary and can be perfectly replaced with a hatnote on both articles. CycloneYoris talk! 20:11, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply
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