Talk:Gospel Oak to Barking Line

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Contents 1 Should the map show historic parts of the line? 2 Forest Gate/Wanstead Park interchange 3 Diagram modification 4 St Ann's Road

[edit] Should the map show historic parts of the line?

I was wondering whether the map should show stations like Kentish Town and East Ham, which are no longer connected to the line? Do we regard these as relevant to the article? There are separate articles for the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway and Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway which already cover these historic branches. --DanielRigal 12:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I suggest that a separate article should cover the closed stations. If you take a look at Disused railway stations (Exeter to Plymouth Line) and Disused railway stations (Bristol to Exeter Line), for example, you'll see the approach that Geof Sheppard is taking with regard to the West of England GWR lines, which seems to be developing nicely. -- EdJogg 23:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

The link to the Midland Main Line helps a bit ... except that it does not show Kentish Town. I guess we need a link to Thameslink ... but I can see that going down like a lead balloon. Canterberry 12:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forest Gate/Wanstead Park interchange

Please see Talk:Forest Gate railway station#Official interchange for a query about differences between articles. Timrollpickering 09:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diagram modification

Currently the diagram shows the option for GOBLIN trains to run on beyond Gospel Oak to the North London Line. This is slightly inaccuarate - the platform arrangement at Gospel Oak is such that the GOBLIN terminates in a bay with no possibility for onward running. The through line doesn't have a platform at Gospel Oak (which will be a major problem if and when the line is better integrated into the wider network).

Is anyone skilled enough to modify the diagram to show this? The North London Line diagram handles this better. Timrollpickering 14:42, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I have modified the diagram to reflect this although I had to do it in a much simpler way than the NLL diagram as I find the diagrams far from easy to manipulate. --DanielRigal 19:49, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks. Timrollpickering 19:52, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St Ann's Road

Shouldn't this station be marked on the diagram? According to it's wikipedia page it was located on the old line before it was amalgamated into the GOBLIN. It closed in the Second World War, but so did Junction Road and that is marked on the map. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.195.96 (talk) 02:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

If we are going to have some of them then all disused stations should be shown. My view is that the GOBLIN started in 1981 and hence the stations from before that time are not relevant. They are listed on the articles for the two predecessor lines. That said, I don't object too much if we have them listed here, so long as we have them all for consitency. At the moment East Ham is also missing. --DanielRigal (talk) 13:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)