Talk:Great Eastern Main Line

message: Just wondering - why is Norwich Victoria shown on the diagram? I wasn't even aware that the station existed any more. --saxsux (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Its to show it used to exist. Simply south (talk) 22:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norwich Victoria? 

message: Only the parts of the route with limited clearance were electrified at 6.25Kv, most of it was 25Kv from as soon as it was converted from DC. The units used had dual voltage equipment fitted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dagworth (talk • contribs) 01:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct; there is a description of the dual voltage changeover method, and the voltage change points, in  I'll try to fit it into a suitable article at some point. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electrification 

message: Where does this term come from? I've never heard of it, it's not mentioned in the reference cited, and neither is it mentioned in National Rail Table 5 London → Shenfield, Southminster and Southend Victoria; and the route isn't a metro (ie light rail) system in the accepted sense - full-scale EMUs have been used for sixty years. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Metro" does not imply light rail. It implies high frequency urban service. As for the name, it is not in current use but I am pretty sure that I remember One calling it a "metro" service but I don't think I ever heard it officially called "Shenfield Metro". Maybe that is an even older name. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:58, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure I can recall its use (and it's used in this House of Commons Select Committee report on Crossrail). The equivalent services on Southern were branded as "Metro" at one point in their recent history to encourage greater use and FGE/"one"/NX may have done the same here. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Shenfield Metro

message: According to a former senior manager on the GEML, the correct name for the carriage sidings closed in 2008 was Thornton's Field, not Thornton Fields, Thornton being the name of the man who originally donated the field for use as a football pitch. True or apocryphal? PC188.39.80.26 (talk) 15:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thornton's Field 

message: The link to reference 2 no longer works. Can anyone replace it with a suitable one that does? Mark126 15:20, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 2 

message: Seeing as the current image for the GEML shows a unit operated by NXEA (two franchises ago), is it not time for the image to be replaced?
I propose replacing it with this image:
as it shows the main intercity services on the line. It also shows the new white intercity livery and the current (although not for long) logo.
GammaRadiator (talk) 22:29, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a couple of locos, at what could be any OHLE-electrified station in the country; there's very little else of interest apart from that blue sky. Nice if you're a trainspotter, but that's not what Wikipedia is about. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:52, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Could the same not be said of the current image, then? GammaRadiator (talk) 00:42, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's barely noticeable that the current image is in National Express livery. It's a better quality image than the one proposed in my opinion, and actually shows more of the subject of the article, ie the line! --TBM10 (talk) 06:52, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title image 

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