Module talk:Adjacent stations/Reading Company

Main line and related issues

The modeling of lines/services here raises some issues (disclaimer: I was very much involved in creating those issues). Here are a few:

• We show the Reading "main line" from Pottsville to Philadelphia (Reading Terminal). I think by that we mean the Pottsville-Reading-Pottstown-Philadelphia services. These were unnamed for the most part, Reading timetables don't call them Main Line services, and the Reading main line itself didn't go via Norristown; it continued along the west bank of the Schuylkill and crossed at the Columbia Bridge, connecting with the City Branch. I don't know when passenger service south of Bridgeport ends, but probably not that long after the new bridge gets built at Norristown around 1903.
• The New York Short Line, administratively, was Newtown Junction to Neshaminy. It had no online stations beyond those it gained from the Newtown Branch in 1906, and it did not, so far as I know, host any local passenger trains. Should we show this?
• The Newtown Branch in the module is Philadelphia to Newtown. That's accurate for Newtown Branch passenger services. The physical line itself, of course, was (at various points during its history) Erie Avenue–Fox Chase, Erie Avenue–Newtown, Newtown Junction–Newtown, and Cheltenham Junction–Newtown.
• We don't show the Ninth Street Branch. It's an important physical connector, but has no services to call its own.

I guess what I'm asking is this: are we modeling lines, or services? Mackensen (talk) 13:18, 20 June 2022 (UTC)