Talk:Great Central Railway

message: The Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Co viaduct in Sheffield, at the site of Sheffield Victoria Station was named the Victoria Viaduct. No entry for this can be found in Wikipeadia. In Sheffield it is almost universally referred to as the Wicker Arches and has a wiki page of that name. I am suggesting changes to Wikipeadia articles and references to this structure. Please post all comments and opinions on the Talk:Sheffield page.
--Waugh Bacon (talk) 23:27, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What are the Wicker Arches? 

message: Just wondering, should this be moved to Great Central Railway London Extension seem as its about the main line rather than the company. I have no particular opinion myself but I just wondered what anyone else thought  G-Man 22:05, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be tempted to leave it where it is. I agree that the article as it stands is about the Extension rather than the GCR company, though I think most "Great Central Railway" is a more likely title that someone will enter when looking for something about the line, than "Great Central London Extension" — to tell the truth, I wouldn't have thought of that title! It would be nice if the article could be expanded to include more on the MS&L / GCR company, though. Arwel 21:55, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: No, this should be about the railway company, it comes at a slightly different angle to the MS&LR.  Anything on the London Externsion per se should go at Great Central Main Line. Dunc|☺ 15:31, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I disagree - see below Peter Shearan 15:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Early discussion

message: An article on a specific railway needs a map!
Preferably showing the remaining bits, the closed bits, and the freight only bits in diferent colours.
: Hello,
: if you are still looking for a map, have a look at Trainspotting Bükkes. Even if you may not publish a modified version of the map under GNU FDL, he perhaps publishes it himself. --Sascha Claus ✉ 14:37, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  the problem with the map is that only shows the modern railway system and therefore not the GCR as it existed pre-grouping Peter Shearan 15:21, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I will in the near future create a map of the GCR's former network, encompassing all its network and including THE GCR's main line. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 16:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thankyou!Peter Shearan 12:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: As I work through this article it appears more and more London-extension-centric! The long "Geography" section is very POV in particular. Having said that Watkin was after greater things - even considering the Channel Tunnel link (and later when he got to the South Eastern Railway he started to build a tunnel, perhaps with his GCR in mind!!) - the writer seems to believe that, just because the railway extension was through "sparsely populated countryside" running through "small towns", "smaller communities" and even "villages" en route, that that was the reason for its downfall. But Watkin wasn't after intermediate traffic, surely - he had his sights much further. Let the Midland take those places, but let us strive for Europe was his motto. 
:::Apart from that, the article ignores much of the rest of the system - and particlar the buying out of the LD&ECR, and the interworking with many other lines. The South Yorks Joint, to take just one, was used by no fewer than five railways jointly, almost a record! and the GCR's joint working with all the major lines across the north isn't mentioned either.
:::It will be!
Peter Shearan 19:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The relatively small population centres served by the line was certainly a factor in its downfall. As most of the towns and villages served by the london extension were already served by other lines, and the remainder were mostly very small, it thus fell into the 'duplicate route' criteria, which beeching used to justify its closure. G-Man * 16:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  of course - but this nothing to do with the article, which is only about the GCR! Taking the system as a whole, which relied heavily on the transport of coal - and the inevitable losses once that started to decline earlier than the Beeching cuts - it was only a matter of time before someone started closures Peter Shearan 13:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup-rewrite

message: This article now concerns the GCR era only. There is ample space in other articles to discuss what happened after the LNER took over, what happened in the Beeching era; and what services run today. None of that should appear in this article, ao I have deleted them. I hope that the promised map emerges soon, so that the article can then make sense. Peter Shearan 13:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I disagree. Where else should this information appear? And if there is somewhere else, MOVE the information there, don't DESTROY it!
Exile 11:58, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

text: A very nice rewrite it is too! You might want to add the Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway which was also a GCRism. I have promissed a map of the GCR and so I shall make it... This weekend hopfully. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 13:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Completion of rewrite

message: I've added the clean-up tag to this, even though I see from here that it has already supposedly been cleaned up.  IMHO, there's too much use of headings and not enough historical narrative in the article.  The structure is also rather disjointed. BaseTurnComplete 11:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I'm sorry but I still dont quite understand the logic of splitting this from Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. The MS&LR and the GCR were the same company just renamed when the London extension was opened. Personally I think they should be re-merged, with MS&LR redirecting to Great Central Railway. I already said this on the MS&LR talk page but no one has taken any notice. G-Man * 18:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well seem as no-one's commented on this. I'll at some point get round to re-merging the articles. G-Man * 18:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Merge 'em back together and redirect Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway to Great Central Railway adding a chapter/section on the company's renaming. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 10:39, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why split?

message: While it's strictly correct to say the MS&LR and GCR were the same company just renamed, that does rather miss the point that the ethos of the company and the public's perception of it changed with the inception of the London Extension. So it's quite reasonable to have these in separate articles, including as they do clear links to each other. The later history of the GCR should be expanded in its own article. The London Extension subsection does rather repeat information which is available in the separate article of the Great Central Main Line, but should probably be left as a summary.
As for the London Extension itself, again I think this is an enterprise sufficiently historic to deserve an article of its own. I have plans to expand the coverage of the building and technical features of the line. Also there are proposals to reopen parts of the main line
* as part of a dedicated international goods line (Central Railway)
* as one branch of the western section of the East West Rail Consortium 
Neither of these proposals have anything to do with the historical railway company, and would sit badly there, but are natural links from a The Future section.
Ivanberti 10:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Support for the current split

message: From the article, the Great Central Railway was "...one of the shortest-lived intercity railway lines. Expresses from London to destinations beyond Nottingham were withdrawn in 1960, and the line was completely closed to passenger trains between Aylesbury and Rugby on 3 September 1966, leaving villages such as Woodford Halse without a railway. A diesel multiple unit service ran between Rugby Central and Nottingham (Arkwright Street) until it was also withdrawn on 5 May 1969."
Why did it close? This is not made clear. Was it lack of demand / lack of investment / increasing competition from the M1 motorway? It would be nice to have clarification in the article. 91.84.208.36 (talk) 11:40, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was the line closed? 

message: The engineering drawings of the London Extension clearly show that it was not built to a continental loading gauge. (The gauge was in fact smaller than the GNR loading gauge.) The continental gauge myth had its origins only in 1965. See Anthony West, 'A gauge of opinion', Forward no. 108 (Sep 1996) pp. 8-12 and Grahame Boyes, 'The origins of a modern myth', Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society vol.35 no. 10 (Dec. 2007) pp. 780-2.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grahame38 (talk • contribs) 21:53, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loading gauge of the London Extension 

message: Robinson designed no 2-6-2Ts, surely?   The L1/3 (LNER classification) was a freight 2-6-4T, apparently for the pre-World War I Hull coal traffic, which fell off with the war, which lasted until the 1950s and the A5 (LNER classification) was a 4-6-2T, originally for the Marylebone suburban traffic, which also cascaded to, among other places, the Manchester-Hayfield line in the mid 1950s.  Correction seems in order.Delahays (talk) 12:19, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: True, so . Please use the "New section" tab to start a new topic, rather than appending to an existing unrelated thread (more at WP:TALKNEW). --Redrose64 (talk) 17:03, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Robinson 2-6-2T

message: I have removed a section that was hastily added today that included half-baked assertions like "the GCR could be reopened at a fraction of the current price of HS2", without citing any sources or evidence whatsoever. Don't use Wikipedia to further your narrow-minded anti-HS2 agenda, stick to the facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.146.10.101 (talk) 13:14, 27 October 2013‎
:I removed the rest, since this article is about the pre-1923 company, not the Great Central Main Line, where similar information has also been added. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:33, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased anti-HS2 rubbish 

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