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[edit] Headings

What is this supposed to be? I see only headings -- where is the beef? --mav

See talk:Central Line. Looks like Fonzy is just puting in the headers to begin with. Fonzy, I really htink the East Lonodn line needs its own page. -- Tarquin
Agreed. It's now the ELL and it's both confusing and inaccurate to disclose it by any other name. -- Nairobiny
Look. On this kind of book where i am getting the info from. The line is cloured purple because it was part of the metropolitain line. You can defently nto argyue about thsi with the central line. As The central line was built as a service! RUNNING ON THE METROPOLITAIN and district railways tracks. So in a sence teh east london line is a service. - fonzy
Chill! The ELon line is a seperate line since the 1980s and a distinc colour to boot. Its history should be mentioned, but on a page to itself. -- Tarquin
OK how about both?
i think it should go in here for now. - fonzy
I am worried about all these branches do you want me to draw a you a diagram to show you the problem? - fonzy
ITS NOT IDF YOU INCLUDE ALL THE OLD STATIONS ETC. - FONZY
Nah, the Met is easy. It's:
  • Aldgate (peak hours only)
  • Baker Street (usual terminus)
  • Harrow on the hill
    • One branch to Uxbridge
  • rest through to Moor Park
    • branch to watford
  • Chalfont & Latimer
    • Chesham
  • terminus at Amersham
no! look i am doing a diagram. ok?
Image:Vroughmetro.png
pink old branches. purple still existing lines. grey that part or line was used for the jubilee line service. - fonzy
what's the little pink bit near Euston Square? Also, the grey bit went to Bakerloo before it went to Jubilee. -- Tarquin
your right about baekrloo thingy. the little pink bit was the end of the line. fARRINGDON STREET they then extended the line off the track further down. so it became a brancnh in a sence. then it closed when the replacement opened on the new line. :-s did that make secne.
Ah. Yup, I know what you mean. That piece of track is used by Thameslink now, right? -- Tarquin
ermm no. Well maybe thames link does use it maybe i will reowrd it. The station was known as Farringdon street. they decided to extended the line. they coudl not extended it from taht sattion so they extended the track furthurt down the line. Once it was finished they closed farringdon ste=reet and opened the sattion replacement on the new line. :_s

[edit] Circle Line

District was a rival company but AFAIK there came a point where their tracks joined and services intermingled. Circle Line may be just a "service" but on the map and to the average passenger it's a line. -- Tarquin

Well the pint about the circel line is that it has no tracks of its own. it just used the companies tracks. and it stopped at the cdomapny sations. - fonzy
But i am more worried about how to make this thing not look a mess.
But now they are all just lines in a network. I think it would be clearer to consider the lines as they are now, and mention history later. The Met and District intermingled at a point -- the East London branch has been served by trains fo both lines. If there is a lot of complicated history to cover, then maybe pages on the current lines should point to a page on the history of the Low-Level network as a whole. -- Tarquin
I dont know why you kee sying they intermengaled the district and metropolitain were completely seprate it was ajoint effort for just a part of the track and sattions and that was it. - fonzy
But As we are not doing this for tourists we would be doing it for someone who has intrest in the subject. It should cotain All stations that has come under that line. OK as i have suggetsed for the east london line. You can put it on a seprate page and put it on this page too. - fonzy


[edit] Swiss Cottage (Metropolitan Line) tube station

Gets no mention in the article. Could someone more knowledgable verify it and maybe include it? --Tagishsimon (talk)

Though the route goes past swiss cottage, it is not a stop on the met line, only the jubliee line. It should be removed from the map. However I don't know how to neatly remove it from the map. I suspect it's just there to indicate that's the point the track bends at Borgs8472 02:58, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] History

I can see no justification for the move from Metropolitan Railway (MetR) to Metropolitan Line insofar as the HISTORY is concerned. The present-day Line covers very little of the original Railway; and the complicated way in which it was built up then, which includes the fact that the MetrR and the Met District Railway were originally set up to complete the "Inner Circle", has not been shown. The two railways can only only be considered together; their history as separate concerns needs fuller consideration. There are then arguments right at the start with the GWR; the personality clash in the 1870s; use of steam until 1905; the electricification and the arguments that ensued; closures: all need proper telling as part of the history. I have moved the heading "History" to the beginning of the article, as can be seen, and have amended the opening sentences to make it more of a Wiki article. Peter Shearan 06:18, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] H & C

Although Hammersmith and City trains run over the original line, it is bizarre to suggest that the track somehow belongs (implicitly exclusively) to the H&C. The Metropolitan line continues to run over much of the 1863 line, though no longer over all of it.

I quite agree - have edited that sentence a bit to make it clearer. --Mpk 23:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)