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Thanks for the welcome Duncan! David Bailey 20:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] SDJR Diagram

Fine work with the above - the new version is much clearer. However I seem to have lengthened it again by putting a spacer in to move the Gartell Light Railway away from the Exeter line. This is something that's been on my mind for a while and nothing to do with anything you've done. If you don't think it a good idea just say. Britmax 16:25, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, that's a good idea. It is some distance from the Exeter line. David Bailey 17:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SDJR Diagram: Motorway

The SDJR branch line to Bridgwater North was not bridged by the M5 Motorway, the path of the railway was severed. I will check on the Highbridge branch.Pyrotec 18:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

The problem is that I wanted to add a geographical reference, but there wasn't an icon that I could use except the motorway bridge one. I'll change it to use the interruption icon instead (like we do for Gartel Light Railway). David Bailey (talk) 14:47, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, I see that you have done it. The previous way looked better, apart from my pedantic concerns. Two thoughts, we could make a new icon, by say removing the two parapets from the existing motorway bridge symbol and rename it; work is underway on floating icons Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#Composite icons, so it might to possible float a motorway over a railway and not use a bridge.Pyrotec (talk) 15:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
This is a tricky one isn't it! A new icon would be useful, but I'm not currently involved in the project to create railway icons for Wikipedia. In order to edit the bridge icon, you'd need the to go back to the original SVG file, so that any adjoining icons matched up perfectly. The floating icons system sounds like a good idea but could add a level of complexity to the BS templates that would make them difficult for average Wikipedia users to edit. If you feel the original bridge icons work better than the interruption icons, feel free to roll back. David Bailey (talk) 16:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SDJR Distances

The 1910 Bradshaw gives distances only in quarter miles. I don't know whether you converted the other distances on the diagram from these units, or found somewhere where distances were given in km. Anyway, on the basis that I'm now away for a couple of days and you're the one likely to bring some consistency to this, here are the distances as given:

  • Burnham to Highbridge 1.75 mi (2.816352 km)
  • Edington to Cossington 2.75 mi (4.425696 km)
  • Cossington to Bridgwater North 4.25 mi (6.839712 km)
  • Glastonbury to Polsham 3 mi (4.828032 km)
  • Polsham to Wells 2.5 mi (4.02336 km)
  • Bailey Gate to Wimborne 5 mi (8.04672 km)

BTW, the 1910 timetable suggests that the Bridgwater line rather than the Highbridge was regarded as the mainline at Edington at the time, though I don't think this was the case earlier or later. Johnlp 21:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Johnlp. I'll pop them on the article soon. David Bailey 16:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avon Riverside

In case you're not watching the page, please see Talk:Avon_Riverside_railway_station. Cheers miag (talk) 04:32, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I have replied on the page. David Bailey (talk) 14:44, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line

Thank you for creating this "missing link": it's the line I grew up next to, and I still have the Weston signalbox nameplate in my loft (bought for £1 in about 1968!). I've added a little bit, plus a picture of Weston I took a couple of months ago.

I noticed on the diagram that you had the distance between Mangotsfield and Bath as 18.35km, and I think that's a bit far. My 1910 Bradshaw puts it at 10 miles and has the other distances in miles as follows:

  • Mangotsfield to Warmley 1.25 mi (2.01168 km)
  • Warmley to Bitton 2.25 mi (3.621024 km)
  • Bitton to Kelston 2.25 mi (3.621024 km)
  • Kelston to Weston 3.25 mi (5.230368 km)
  • Weston to Bath QS 1.0 mi (1.609344 km)

It also has train times, typically, for a stopping train (several didn't bother with Kelston and Weston) as:

  • Mangotsfield to Warmley 4 min
  • Warmley to Bitton 5 min
  • Bitton to Kelston 5 min
  • Kelston to Weston 6 min
  • Weston to Bath QS 4 min

Oldland Common wasn't open at this stage: somewhere I have a 1948 Bradshaw and I'll see if I can find it today to see what difference that made. Johnlp (talk) 08:48, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

You caught me! I was using the distances of nearby roads for reference, not the line itself <slaps own wrist!>. Thanks for the new distances and timings. I have added them to the diagram, giving us a total journey of 16.09 km in 23 minutes. I live just behind Green Park Station and have loved steam railways since my first trip on the North Norfolk Railway when I was 8. I wish steam was still running on our local line today. David Bailey (talk) 15:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Well done. I'm not sure enough of my maths to do the diagram job myself... though I do make the total journey time 24 minutes, not 23 (six between Kelston and Weston, not five)! Can't see the 1948 Bradshaw anywhere and suspect it may have perished in one of the periodic purges of clutter that I'm prone to. BTW, I hope you don't mind but I did a small amend to one of your other diagrams to add the third station at Wells (the original East Somerset one). Now that was a daft arrangement! Johnlp (talk) 15:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, but I couldn't do it with you and your collection of railway books! The diagrams aren't really mine, they're everyone's! ...after all, Wikipedia is open to all. I saw the new station you added, but am wondering if we should label it "Wells (East Somerset)", rather than the unbracketed version? It might add some consistency to other named stations with similar geographical markers. What do you think? David Bailey (talk) 15:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Not sure about that: the "East Somerset" bit isn't really a geographical marker in the same way that Priory Road and Tucker Street are. At the time the station was open, it would have been called just "Wells", as would the other two stations on their respective lines. And it closed at the point when the three were joined up (the building becoming a cheese depot, which is rather nice).
Anyway, I have now found a 1965 BR Western Region timetable which gives some new timings for the Mangotsfield-Bath line. There's quite a bit of wobble in the timings, in that Mangotsfield to Warmley takes anything from two to five minutes. Oldland Common is then consistently four minutes on from Warmley, and then it's usually three minutes (but sometimes four) on to Bitton. Bitton to Bath is regularly 10 minutes (Kelston and Weston being shut by this time). So the whole journey in 1965 is at best 19 and at worst 21 minutes (the early morning train that took five minutes to get from Mangotsfield to Warmley then caught up a bit of time by not stopping at Bitton!) Not sure this helps! Johnlp (talk) 16:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Why can't things be simple with British Rail timetables??? I think the best way to do this is to imagine a train that stops at every single station on the line (not counting Avon Riverside, as that only opened in 2004), and to work out how long it takes to get between each station, accelerating, braking and stopping included. You might have to build this information up from multiple timetables, but it will give a good idea of journey times to the average Wikipedia reader (Just like the SDJR article). You could then note the faster direct services and their journey times in the article itself. David Bailey (talk) 16:19, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hanako Oku

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I am not removing anything. I'm in the middle of writing this article from scratch. David Bailey (talk) 15:21, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

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