Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template

Hi everyone

a) loving the idea
b) seen it first implemented (for the UK anyway) on Channel Tunnel Rail Link
c) Dannyboy3 has taken up the challenge at;

• Cherwell Valley Line
• Staines to Windsor & Eton Line
• Coventry to Nuneaton Line
• Leamington to Stratford Line
• Lymington Branch Line

d) thus i've had a go at Sheerness Line
e) Britmax has done the Fawley Branch Line on his userpage

so i was wondering if people bringing it accross from the German wikipedia could point out where we're goping wrong (becasue i don't spak a lot of German!), etc - I'm not happy with how the line looks, i think i need to use BS3 (or a higher number). Pickle 20:30, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, some thought later, and i think i've cracked the Sheerness Line --Pickle 21:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Made that work, and done two more Sheppey Light Railway and Ashford via Maidstone East Line Pickle 22:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm getting the hand of this - Bromley North Line Pickle 11:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line done, still having problems rendering how the Ashford layout should be represented. Pickle 13:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

And another closed line - Canterbury and Whitstable Railway Pickle 14:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Just done Kent Coast Line, but am having problems rendering the layout at the Dover end Pickle 18:04, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

For a few more elaborate examples of this template, have a look at Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line, Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line and Niederelbebahn. --doco (☏) 22:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I like what has been done with the various German lines, but i think the problem at Dover and Ashford is different (or maybe I'm trying to be too detailed or concerned with historic track layouts), in ASCII art form, here is the rough layout i want to show (* = station)

|
* Priory
|
/\
/ * Harbour
/ \
--***---*--* Town, Marine, and Admiralty Pier

because I've already used the first column of the BS3 template, I've only got one column to play with to the right of the line.Pickle 10:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Ashford is worse (i can sort of imagine a solution to the dover issue);

|
-\ /
---Ashford---
-/ \--
\
|

I've done the line that comes down form the top right (Ashford to Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line), top left is Ashford via Maidstone East Line, the CTRL is the middle line and the SEML is below it (both going left to right), and Marshlink Line is in the bottom right. even when one works out how to show it (rotate so its vertical), but there would need to be 4 columns. Pickle 10:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, the template wasn't really designed for things like _that_, I guess. As the lines get more and more complex, either the level of detail has to be diminuished or the number of columns approaches infinity rather quickly. My best bet would be something like this:

Template:BS-headerTemplate:BS-tableTemplate:BS3Template:BS3Template:BS3Template:BS3Template:BS3Template:BS3Template:BS3

|}
Quite a mess I admit, but the best I could think of... --doco (☏) 18:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Blank ID parameters

Template:BS-headerTemplate:BS-tableTemplate:BS3

|} I've amended the BS2 and BS3 templates so that the first two (or three in the case of BS3) parameters are optional - they default to 'leer' (blank space) if omitted. {{BS3||STR||text}}, for example, will now give a straight between two spaces. – Tivedshambo (talk) 07:50, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Brillant idea, that should save some time. Cheers. Dannyboy3 15:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Icon request

If anyone has SVG editing facilities, could they consider making an equivalent to TurmBHFo and TurmBHFu for large stations please? Required for Lichfield Trent Valley on Birmingham Cross-City Line. – Tivedshambo (talk) 17:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)