Talk:Brill railway station

Train times

Can someone clarify:

In the first paragraph it says journeys to the City of London took over two hours, and in the next paragraph that the Brill-Quainton Road section took 1 hour 45 minutes. On the QR station page it says the station was 44 miles/71 km from London - so how fast did the London-QR trains travel? Jackiespeel (talk) 16:19, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jackiespeel: It appears that the "1 hour 45 minutes to traverse the six miles (10 km)" refers to the line as opened in 1872, and the "over two hours travelling time" refers to the line at the time of the formation of the LPTB in 1933. It's expanded on at Brill railway station#Passenger services and Brill railway station#Closure. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Can the intro text be clarified for 'the casual curious passing through' having seen the article on the main page (not knowing how fast steam trains could travel back then). Adding the word 'initially' would probably clarify the matter for those of us who skim the rest of the text. Jackiespeel (talk) 22:59, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the change - 'absence of technical knowledge/Michael Portillo's Bradshaw' or I would have done it myself. Jackiespeel (talk) 10:55, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Featured article status

Without wishing to be derogatory, this article is somewhat repetitive. The first paragraphs are repeated later on in the main article. It is at best of average quality and also of little significance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.167.214.206 (talk) 03:04, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

The introductory section is supposed to summarise the main part of the article (see MOS:INTRO). This means that it should not contain anything that is not more fully described later on; it is therefore inevitable that there will be some repetition. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:47, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Map

The map should definitely point North. It would also be great if some context were given, like a thumbnail showing Brill, London and Oxford, with perhaps today's circle line. 105.249.103.51 (talk) 16:05, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

You're right that this map isn't orientated with north at the top; it is rotated by approximately 50 degrees clockwise - if it did have north at the top, it would be considerably wider. It does show the circle line, but in the same colour as the Metropolitan; presumably because at the time that the map was prepared (1903), the Circle didn't have a distinctive colour - the yellow was only used from 1949, by which time the Brill branch was long gone. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:57, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

What Redrose64 said. I'm not sure you appreciate the scale of the area you're talking about here—a north-oriented rectangle taking in Oxford, the present-day Circle line and the pre-1935 extremities of the Metropolitan line would cover an area 52 miles by 33 miles, and take in a substantial chunk of southern England. (The corners of said rectangle would be roughly at Sandford St Martin, Buntingford, Bermondsey and Newbury, if you want to recreate it for yourself). At that level, if one only showed the Metropolitan Railway and the three named places, it would look like a huge blank rectangle with a single diagonal line across it; if one showed other railway lines, it would look like a plate of spaghetti. – iridescent 17:32, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

The two Brills

How were this station and Brill and Ludgershall railway station geographically related? Jackiespeel (talk) 18:15, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

see File:Brill tramway system diagram.png for the comparative locations.--DavidCane (talk) 20:21, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Does it have a scale? Perhaps a distance could be included in the italic section. Jackiespeel (talk) 09:46, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

By road, they were about 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) apart. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:53, 12 October 2017 (UTC)