Template talk:Great Western Main Line diagram

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[edit] Great Western Main Line diagram template

While reviewing today's TfD entries, I noticed Template:Great Western Main Line was nominated for deletion with the comment that it had been "effectively superceded by Template:Great Western Main Line diagram". However, upon checking them both, I see useful information in the former with a more complete list of stations starting from London, which is not fully duplicated in the latter. The former's textual layout seems clearer for me compared to the latter's graphical one. I have therefore copied it here in case the TfD proceeds. - Neparis (talk) 03:58, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Great Western Main Line London to Plymouth via Bristol London Paddington Slough Reading (for Reading to Taunton Line) Didcot Parkway (for Oxford and Banbury) Swindon (for Golden Valley Line and South Wales Main Line) Chippenham (for Westbury) Bath Spa Bristol Temple Meads Weston-super-Mare Highbridge and Burnham Bridgwater Taunton Exeter St Davids (for West of England Main Line, Avocet Line and Tarka Line) Newton Abbot (for Riviera Line) Totnes (for South Devon Railway Plymouth

Reading to Taunton Reading (for Basingstoke) Newbury Bedwyn Pewsey Westbury (for Wessex Main Line and Chippenham) Frome Castle Cary (for Heart of Wessex Line) Taunton

Cornish Main Line Plymouth (for Tamar Valley Line) Liskeard (for Looe Valley Line) Bodmin Parkway (for Bodmin and Wenford Railway) Lostwithiel Par (for Atlantic Coast Line St Austell Truro (for Maritime Line) Redruth Camborne St Erth (for St Ives Bay Line) Penzance

[edit] Express stations in Thames Valley

The four-platform stations in the Thames Valley which only usually see local trains (Ealing Broadway, etc.) were displayed with "xp" icons as WP:RDT/C states they are for "Express service; doesn't stop here", but Anywikiuser (talk · contribs) has reverted them to ordianry icons with the coment: "Changed icons: 'xp-' icons should only be used on route maps of express train routes". I think the previous version better represented the service on this line and propose that it is reverted. Geof Sheppard (talk) 08:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Numbers

Would someone please supplement, which kind of information those numbers ahead of each station name, are supposed to indicate: hours, miles, kilometers?? In the example in Wikipedia:Route diagram template hours are displayed, but with colon in the middle. The division of full units in quarters didn't help me either. KaPe (talk) 16:58, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

The standard agreed for British railway routes is miles (except for modern lines built to metric dimensions) as this is how offical railway documents record the distances. The template mentioned does not show hours but kilometers in the european style as it is copied from German Wikipedia. Geof Sheppard (talk) 07:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)