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Shouldn't there be a closed station at Deeping St Nicholas on the diagram on the right? I don't understand how those diagrams are edited, or I'd have a go.
Brunnian (
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20:13, 10 August 2009 (UTC)reply
The author of this map chose to just include open stations on the current route. Sometimes there are two maps describing the same line if it is still in use, with one historic and one contemporary (such as
Barton Line and
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway. There doesn't seem to be any hard or fast rule, with lines in West Yorkshire coming in both forms (
Huddersfield Line and
Penistone Line). If you let me know where the missing disused stations should be, I'll add them. If anyone ever writes a historic article for this line, they can move to the new article map.
Scillystuff (
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21:17, 10 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the reply. So far I have traced five closed stations, in order from Peterborough: Peakirk, St James Deeping, Littlworth (at the other end of Deeping St James, transhipment from the Dennis Brother's narrow gauge Potato railway), Spalding (still open) Pinchbeck, Gosberton. I got these from the map in 'Branch lines around Spalding', Michael Back, Middleton Press, 2009.
Brunnian (
talk) 11:51, 16 August 2009 (UTC). A few more: After Gosberton the sequence goes Donnington Road, Helpringham, Sleaford (still open), Ruskington (still open), Metheringham (still open), Lincoln Central (still open). --
Brunnian (
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11:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)reply
I've added some of the closed stations based on your notes and on the route boxes for the closed station articles. Could you let me know if they are OK?
Scillystuff (
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11:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC)reply
The article text says that the line is not electrified. The infobox says that the line is electrified to the overhead 25kV standard. Both can't be correct.
83.104.249.240 (
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04:36, 20 January 2011 (UTC)reply
The line in general isn't electrified. At the southern end, the trains run over the ECML between Peterboro' and Werrington Junction (3Â miles 5Â chains (4.9Â km)), which is electrified. --
Redrose64 (
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12:09, 20 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Closure & reopening
Why did this line close, then reopen within one year? That seems strange, and I came here hoping to find the answer. If anyone knows it, please add it to the article!
217.38.190.92 (
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16:18, 15 November 2015 (UTC)reply
This is start-class on the trains project, and I think it is more than a stub by the definitions for the Lincolnshire one. How about a review?--
Brunnian (
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06:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Last edited at 06:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC).
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Name
Please can someone explain to me why this cannot be called the Redwing Line but the Grantham to Skegness Line can be called the Poacher Line?
Nathan A RF (
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09:07, 14 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Because "Poacher Line" or "Poacherline" (they're inconsistent in the spacing) is a widely used
WP:COMMONNAME which has been in consistent use for over a decade, and "Redwing Line" is a virtually ignored branding exercise of the type local authorities and TOCs engage in all the time. In the unlikely event that this name sticks, come back once you have some actual sources demonstrating that anyone other than Lincolnshire Council's press department is actually using it. âÂ
Iridescent09:56, 14 August 2016 (UTC)reply