Talk:St Albans Branch Line

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Contents 1 Rewrite 2 Transfer to TfL 3 References 4 Map 5 Assessment

[edit] Rewrite

As explained, I have rewritten this to include some history - I know it was in the Xlink, but it should be here too - and to put it into some chronological order Peter Shearan 06:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transfer to TfL

I had to remove this nonsense.

If this were to happen the St Albans branch line could be transferred to the Bakerloo Line or Metropolitan Line once they are extended to Watford Junction.

This would require the line to cross the WCML which is simply not feasible without the construction of an expensive and un-necessary flyover.Sheepcot 22:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

• Not necessarily, they could just run a shuttle service from Watford Jn to St. Albans Abbey, a la Chalfont & Latimer to Chesham. I've reverted the deletion and amended the post to reflect this D-Notice 12:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• • I am sorry, but it still had to go. What you are proposing comes under the catergory of "original thinking" and has no reference or citation. Try again, amigo.Sheepcot 12:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

I have removed the 'unref=yes' in the TrainsWikiProject tag as I believe that this article now has a reasonable number of inline citations and references.Sheepcot 22:16, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map

I have removed the 'mapneeded=yes' in the TrainsWikiProject tag as I believe that this article now has a reasonable map.Sheepcot 22:16, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

If we can get a photograph added to this page, then do people think that can we apply for "GA" status?? If not, then what more needs to be done. Canterberry 20:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm no expert on this field but it does seam awfully short for GA article (even a "B"), the self references (point 3 on city status) probably won't go down well. IMHO the history bit could be expanded quite a bit, the line website has stuff on it and there appears to be a book on the line.... Pickle 23:51, 9 June 2007 (UTC)