Talk:Fawkham Junction

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Trains Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trains, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. See also: WikiProject Trains to do list
	This article lacks sufficient references and/or adequate inline citations.
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale. (assessment comments)
Low	This article has been rated as low-importance within the Trains WikiProject.
	This article is within the scope of WikiProject UK Railways. Low Importance: low within UK Railways WikiProject.
	An editor has requested that an image be added to this article. Please work with the Images task force to add a suitable image to this article. Once the requested image is added, remove the Imageneeded parameter from the {{TrainsWikiProject}} template call on this page to remove this image request.

	Kent Portal This article is within the scope of the Kent WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the county of Kent in South East England. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the assessment scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.)
Low	This article is on a subject of low-importance for Kent-related articles.
	This article lacks sufficient references and/or adequate inline citations
Article Grading: The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need. WikiProject Kent tasks: Kent WikiProject and Portal Here are some Kent related tasks you can do: Focus (top priority) articles: Kent Refine/polish: Ashford Expand: List of Members of Parliament in Kent, Betsom's Hill .More... NPOV: .More... Citation needed: See Kent Citations needed .More... Cleanup/Copyedit: Kingdom of Kent .More... Expert attention: Merge/Split: .More... Wikify: .More... Stubs: See Kent geography stubs articles (merge?), .More... Requests: Government of Kent, Sport in Kent, Culture in Kent, List of fire stations in Kent .More... Other issues: Collaborate: .More... See also: Kent pages needing attention Note: These articles may overlap with those on other related lists. If you would like to make a change, either do so yourself, or make a suggestion. view • edit • discuss • history • watch

[edit] Future of the line

What will happen to this spur line when the Eurostars run to St Pancras and Kings Cross?

Will the line be used for the any domestic trains to Waterloo?--Screen42 23:42, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

No - the spur will be kept (possible diversion and freight usages). Passenger services haven't been outlined in the CTRL DS services that are going to happen. Also passenger services are largely impractical on this short line as CTRL phase 1 is accessed by 3 lines from the Ashford area (ie Marshlink, Kent Coast and Thannet via Canterbury). These lines already go to the existing London termini (ie London Bridge and beyond, Blackfrias and Victoria) via the other routes. the CTRL DS services are going to St Pancras so have to go on the CTRL phase 2 (and they all want to go to Ebbsfleet, just beyond the join of this short line). After Eurostar switches to St Pancras, Waterloo Int is to be abandoned, probably (its not decided yet) to the overstretched SWT services, rendering the link off the Chatham main line onto the SW main line redundant. No one (ie commuters from Kent) want to go to waterloo when the existing termi are more centrally located to where they want to go and waterloo is already massively over crowed (looks like its about to get a swath of platform extensions - i think its the fasted growing part of the commuter network. Pickle 23:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Is there a better name for this article, because currently its talking about the ex LCDR line from Fawkham junction to Gravesend as well as the Current CTRL link from the Chatham main line (at Fawkham junction) to Southfleet junction (with the CTRL) - the only "name" i can think of is its 5 letter (S04XX) code from Network Rail's rules of the route (i can't remember the exact nubmer, could find it). Ideas anyone? Pickle 15:14, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Line Diagram

Just out of interest, who designs the track diagrams? They are not always that clear! They are seem to run top to bottom, they need to be more flexible in design.--Screen42 20:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The tags are in the wrong place, Fawkham junction is in the wrong place too!!--Screen42 20:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Who - anyone!

How - WP:TRAIL

Actually it takes a bit of a knack, and the system is not perfect. I got into it when they first imported the code from germany, and new icons and more columsn have since been added, enabling a more realistic display to be made. Pickle 21:22, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I've had another go thanks to the advent of stuff like HBHF, HLUECKE, and BS5 which we didn't have beofre. It still isn't right as it dosen't show the start CTRL stage 2 correctly as there is no tunnel entranc eat 90 degrees (or 45 degrees). Pickle 21:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)