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It looks like the City Line no longer exists as part of the Merseyrail network. It does not currently appear anywhere on the Merseyrail website
Njlawley (
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18:43, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Sorry for muddling this up but I hope/trust I have corrected this page from an earlier renaming to City line (Merseytravel) by another user.
Babydoll9799 (
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23:38, 14 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Can “ Northern Rail operate the trains on this electrified section of tracks.[10]” please be looked at and changed as the link in [10] is dead and Northern Rail no longer exist.
Maurice Oly (
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19:09, 10 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Requested move 23 December 2022
The following is a closed discussion of a
requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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City Line (Merseyrail) →
City Line (Merseytravel) – Merseyrail's website carries barely any mention of the City Line because it is not operated by them. It is timetabled, managed, branded, etc. by Merseytravel. As part of fixing the confusion caused by including the City Line with the Merseyrail article, something that was pushed strongly in the past by a now-blocked editor, tidying up that article would be greatly assisted by renaming this article and then moving most of the City Line content out of Merseyrail into Merseytravel where it belongs.
10mmsocket (
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18:08, 23 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Support per nom and based on the following I mentioned at
Talk:Merseyrail:
1)
Merseytravel maps are now called "Local Rail Network" maps, with "Merseyrail Northern/Wirral line" labelled, but just "City Line". Merseyrail the operator only cover those two on the bottom table. The map used to be called the "Merseyrail Map" with the City Line shown,
such as in 2009 but
recent maps (apparently
since 2017), stopped using the term "Merseyrail Map" and class only the Northern and Wirral under "Merseyrail" (the TOC) in the operators table. If Wayback Machine can be relied on (assumning no more archives means the page was removed), Merseytravel used to have a
Merseyrail City Line page in 2018, but that no longer exists. The current website simply states "City Line".
2)
Merseyrail (the operator) clearly excludes the line and from the "Merseyrail network". The
Merseyrail article is also about the operator, therefore simple clarity. Under the assumption that article (mainly) refers to the operator.
3) Network Rail's
Liverpool City Region Strategic Rail Study 2020, The Merseyrail network is an entirely third rail Direct Current (DC) electrified network spread over the Liverpool City Region, north Cheshire and south west Lancashire. The network is split in two: the Wirral Line and the Northern Line.
Note: Although a
2022 Liverpool Echo article uses across its Wirral, City and Northern lines, Merseyrail is [...] and later Merseyrail [...] with its new lines - named the Northern Line, City Line and Wirral Line, but later states [The City Line] now are on routes operated by Northern Rail and aren’t served by Merseyrail trains[2] and The modern Northern and Wirral lines were created and linked through a number of engineering projects which took place during the 1970s [...] finished in 1977, which created the integrated Merseyrail network that we see today, with additional references to 1970s Merseyrail,
[3] therefore I believe the City Line was supposed to be a core part of Merseyrail, but is no longer considered (at least mainly) as such compared to the Northern and Wirral lines, in particular by the transport bodies, especially in relation to potential devolution.
These are most of the 'official' ones I could find, be free to add other or contradictory ones. But minimally, from a organisational standpoint, "Merseyrail" in relation to this article is merely a brand name, the company does not operate on the line, and the brand is applied by Merseytravel. Naming an article with an effective brand name which can be confused with the train operator, which is more likely associated with the name (and it takes a big chunk of the
Merseyrail article), does not give clarity to the reader, therefore support.
It's not a counter proposal, rather it's a first step towards rationalisation, part of which will be reducing the city line content to an absolute minimum in the Merseyrail article. Will the split be needed? Probably not. Whatever, due to yesterday's event I feel that we can move forward and gain consensus more easily now.
10mmsocket (
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06:30, 24 December 2022 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.