Talk:North Downs Line
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Is the line electrified ? (if so i assume as 3rd rail circa 750 volts DC) --84.68.63.54 19:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- Turns out it is (3rd rail) between Reigate and Redhill - see p9 South West Main Line Route Utilisation Statergy (Netwrok Rail) Nov 2005 (PDF) [1] Pickle 17:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
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)
- 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)
