Talk:Axle track

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I think this page should perhaps be called "Track (automotive)", as in the automotive field it is not referred to as "axle track" but simply "track". The only reason I have initally gone with "Axle track" is that was the term used on the Track disambiguation page. Thoughts? Erelyes (talk) 07:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Good idea - I will reply on your talk page. Trafford09 (talk) 08:20, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I dont really agree to the 'automotive' move. All vehicles, be they cars, trucks, buses, three wheeled motorbikes, tuk-tuks, mobility scooters, etc, etc, - will have an axle, and therefore an axle track! 78.32.143.113 (talk) 13:54, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Only vehicles with two wheels on the same axles can have a track, that would include tricycles, other two axle three wheeled vehicles and single axle trailers but exclude bicycles . The article Track (automobile) already exists. The merged article should perhaps be called Track (vehicle). All vehcles with at least two axles have a wheelbase. So single axle trailers do not have a wheelbase. Peter Horn User talk 22:50, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

The title is OK as is. Peter Horn User talk 23:30, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

With hindsight, I think that 'axle track' is better than 'track (automotive)'. Not all wheeled objects are automotive - e.g. push-trolleys at supermarkets - but they still have axles and hence axle track(s).

Therefore, I now think that the article's title should remain 'axle track' as it is now. Trafford09 (talk) 00:14, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah - I now see that the proposed merge is to a very similar article. The argument for merging seems good. However, it's a shame that my example of a supermarket trolley is also probably not a 'vehicle' as such. Could one think of a noun which comprises vehicles and push-trolleys .... or am I being inadvertently petty? What about calling the merged article "Track (axle)" (or indeed "Axle track" as this one's now called)? Trafford09 (talk) 00:25, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

It would apply to shopping carts, wagons, dollies, any vehicle that has either two or more wheels on an axle or a wheel on each side of the vehicle without the wheels being on the same axle. Any vehicle that either has two or more axles, one after the other, also has a wheelbase. I would sugest Track (vehicle axle) Peter Horn User talk 01:19, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

To make things more interesting there is also an article called Tracked vehicle Peter Horn User talk 01:25, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Not to "forget" continuous track and by the way, shopping carts, etc. have casters rather than wheels. Peter Horn User talk 23:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Wheel track might be more appropriate. Peter Horn User talk 02:55, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Axle track#Rail

@MSGJ:
The section Axle track#Rail merits the {{rail-stub}}
Peter Horn User talk 22:17, 6 October 2019 (UTC)