Talk:North Downs Line

message: This article gives the impression that this "Line" exists in isolation from the other services using exactly the same railway lines. In fact the name "North Downs Line" is simply a means of designating the services which use the tracks. The first part, to Wokingham, is a section of railway also used by the London Waterloo-Reading services; Southern serve Reigate; and so on.
Apart from which, the North Downs is at least another 70 miles to its end at the White Cliffs at Dover!!!
Peter Shearan 16:31, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite right, Peter. A great many of these British "passenger line" articles as they currently appear in the Wikipedia are bedevilled by an essential confusion between "the X line" as used by train operating companies' marketing departments (denoting a particular train service) and "line" as traditionally used in railway parlance to indicate a geographically defined A-to-B route as used by trains of all types. I have attempted to do some remedial work on the wording of the introduction here -- but this whole classification of British railway routes by passenger-railway marketing titles does need a full examination, I feel. -- Picapica 15:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: North Downs??

message: A tiny point, but my local knowledge tells me that there are two level crossings (unclassified roads) between Chilworth and Gomshall stations. The missing one is west of Gomshall and east of the former Shere Heath station. 
As for the name, 'North Downs Line', I admit that it's a modernish marketng name, but the line as a whole remains much as it was originally built from Redhill to Reading and it was a significant chunk of SER's route mileage in the early days. It deserves a name !
Stuartsh (talk) 17:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Line Diagram

message: An edit yesterday (see here) changed the emphasis of the 'Possibilities for electrification' paragraph for the route between Wokingham and Ash. The original suggested that the platforms had been extended, with future electrification in mind. The revised text suggests that platform lengthening would be required ('of course').
So, were these platforms extended, as originally stated, or not? This edit changes the meaning utterly.
EdJogg (talk) 10:28, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello EdJogg.  From memory the shortest platforms between Wokingham and Ash are at Sandhurst and Blackwater. The platforms at both stations would require lengthening for any rolling stock longer than the 3 car Class 166 DMUs.  Farnborough North also has a fairly short platform and might also need extending. The latest form of the section is therefore correct, although it could do with references and extra details to make it more encyclopaedic.  Mertbiol (talk) 10:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Platform extensions, Wokingham - Ash ? 

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