Template talk:Waterloo–Reading Line

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To move over the discussions on the line, things that need to be added/referenced;
1 Point Pleasant: one curve in use, another disconnected - Where abouts is this? Well its where the line from Wimbledon (via Southfields) comes up. There is a connection from the Down side to this line, and it means the connection on to the Up side. Now added, but needs a tidy to show the District line (Ah, I see!)
2 Barnes curve - Added: there is some evidence of this on the map
3 Connection to Terminal platorm 3 at Richmond - I've never used Richmond station. Is this a LU or NLL platform?
4 West to south curve at Staines - Added
5 Curve at Virginia Water - Hard to trace on Google Maps but did exist
6 If one level crossing is shown, rest should be (3 between Barnes and Mortlake, N Sheen, Feltham). - All added, while all Olana North has named them and added the rest
Other issues highlighted:
7 Eurostar connections - Where?
8 Queenstown Road (Battersea) railway station - Should be here: trains to Hounslow, Brentford and Chertsey stop here
9 WLL - Connections at Clapham Junction
10 Connections at Reading - There is a disused underpass to the north side of the station
11 Junction with North Downs Line - Should be straight; the NDL is not more important - Done

Anywikiuser (talk) 17:54, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Read All About it!

It's in the news with an undermined bridge, so the River Crane has been added at Feltham but what about its other crossing of the line? and the Duke of Northumberland's River? and the Longford and every other glorious ditch? Should every stream crossed by a railway line really be shown? Despite misgivings I've linked today's hot topical insertion of the Crane to its article--SilasW (talk) 21:10, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

As an experienced editor I would have thought you to be the last that would need reminding that Wikipedia is not news!. I have reverted your ill considered edit. Bhtpbank (talk) 08:18, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Suggest that you also assess recent changes to Waterloo to Reading Line. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:19, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Who is meant to be "experienced"? That editor or me? The whole point of starting this section was to draw attention to the trivial "reason" for added one, and just one, crossing of the Crane and that it was done rather carelessly without a link to WP's article. I bet no WP railway mapper has ever thought of the poor old Wandle.  They say it's Americans who don't do irony.--SilasW (talk) 15:58, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Citations needed for chainage

Detailed chainages are given in this template, but I can't find where in the Engineer's Line Reference at RailwayCodes.org they are sourced? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:30, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Sources are the Quail/Trackmaps books, as shown on the template page. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:38, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

D'oh! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:30, 3 September 2018 (UTC)