Talk:Pelgorskoye peat railway
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edit@NGREU: The second sentence in this article is garbled, possibly because of cut-and-paste errors:
- The peat railway was opened in 1950, and has a total length of 20 kilometres (12 mi) is currently operational, the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in).
Showing the apparent structure:
- The peat railway
- was opened in 1950, and
- has a total length of 20 kilometres (12 mi)
- is currently operational
- the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
What is currently operational? The whole railway? A part of it? "The peat railway" is the subject of "was" and "has", but "is" has no subject.
In a list-like sentence like this one, the reader would expect something like, perhaps
- ... and has a total length of 20 kilometres (12 mi), of which 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) is currently operational,
One possible form of rewrite would be
- The peat railway was opened in 1950
, and. It has a total length of 20 kilometres (12 mi), of which 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) is currently operational,theand a track gaugeisof 750 millimetres (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).
- The peat railway was opened in 1950