Talk:North Downs Line

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Is the line electrified ? (if so i assume as 3rd rail circa 750 volts DC) --84.68.63.54 19:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out it is (3rd rail) between Reigate and Redhill - see p9 South West Main Line Route Utilisation Statergy (Netwrok Rail) Nov 2005 (PDF) [1] Pickle 17:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article gives the impression that this "Line" exists in isolation from the other services using exactly the same railway lines. In fact the name "North Downs Line" is simply a means of designating the services which use the tracks. The first part, to Wokingham, is a section of railway also used by the London Waterloo-Reading services; Southern serve Reigate; and so on.

Apart from which, the North Downs is at least another 70 miles to its end at the White Cliffs at Dover!!!

Peter Shearan 16:31, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are quite right, Peter. A great many of these British "passenger line" articles as they currently appear in the Wikipedia are bedevilled by an essential confusion between "the X line" as used by train operating companies' marketing departments (denoting a particular train service) and "line" as traditionally used in railway parlance to indicate a geographically defined A-to-B route as used by trains of all types. I have attempted to do some remedial work on the wording of the introduction here -- but this whole classification of British railway routes by passenger-railway marketing titles does need a full examination, I feel. -- Picapica 15:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mole-valley line

Map is wrong. Line crosses Mole Valley line after Dorking Deepdene, not before.