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Merseyrail was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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August 24, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
August 1, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Past incident to possibly be added to "accidents and incidents"

Latest comment: 10 months ago4 comments3 people in discussion

I remembered this incident earlier today (I was one of the passengers stranded in the tunnel) and while I don't have access to edit the page myself, I'd like to offer the news article as a source in case anyone with access thinks it's worth adding to the "accidents and incidents" section. The incident was a fire in 2006 that led to a power cut, leaving the train stranded in the tunnel between Hamilton Square and James Street. We were eventually evacuated and led down the tunnel back to Hamilton Square station. RaniTheCyborg (talk) 20:10, 3 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

This incident was no doubt distressing for those involved, but is it really notable in Wikipedia terms? In fact, the same would apply to some of the other incidents listed in this section of the article. After all, there must have been thousands of cases of stranded trains, fires on trains, minor collisions, derailments, trains overrunning buffers, etc. on British railways over the years. Is it right that Wikipedia should document all of them? Mike Marchmont (talk) 13:28, 4 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

I agree with you Mike. 10mmsocket (talk) 13:46, 4 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

That's fair. I wasn't sure about the notability of this (mostly it seemed important due to its proximity to Network Rail refusing to let Merseytravel take over Merseyrail's maintenance according to the article) but I guess it is a lot more common than I realised. The line for what should be documented does like a very difficult one to figure out. RaniTheCyborg (talk) 14:49, 4 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Past incident to possibly be added to "accidents and incidents"