Talk:Dunstable Branch Lines

Expansion

At Talk:Dunstable Town railway station there is a discussion on whether articles should exist about the individual stations, with the suggestion that the existence of the articles encourages addition of new content. I believe that all the useful information currently in the station articles is also present in this article. I think priority should be given to adding information here about Stations (short histories of Stanbridgeford, Dunstable North, and Wheathampstead), Engineering (number of tracks, gradients, etc) and Services (how often trains ran on the different sections of line). JonH (talk) 09:13, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Station information goes on the respective station pages. This page is for the line's history. Lamberhurst (talk) 22:13, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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Reduce scope?

I see why the originator of this article sued this title, but it has some problems. There is a lot of material in the page now that is mistaken, or frankly wrong. Will someone looking for Hertford station come here? If they did, by a redirect, wouldn't they just assume something had gone wrong? I mean, Dunstable Branch Lines? Hertford?

My suggestion is alter the title to Dunstable Branch Line and edit out some of the irrelevant content. Afterbrunel (talk) 17:29, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi. I was the person who created this article. At that time, Wikipedia had only a small amount of information about these lines, and that was scattered amongst articles on some of the stations. I thought the best plan was to start with the encyclopedic "big picture". I still think that picture is that for 100 years from the 1860s to 1960s there was a joined-up line from Leighton Buzzard to Welwyn, with through trains from Leighton Buzzard to Luton and from Dunstable to Hatfield with a service that overlapped between Dunstable and Luton. An overall article could then be built up to include the complicated details of what happened in the early years, the names of the various companies, what happened to the line afterwards, etc.

The name "Dunstable Branch Lines" was inspired by the book Branch Lines to Dunstable by Woodward and Woodward. [That is in fact what the title page of the book says. But whoever designed the cover, made it match all the others in the series of Branch Line to ... and the first "s" was left out.]

Other editors on Wikipedia objected when I tried to merge station articles into this article. I did not entirely agree, but I stopped editing this article, and it is not as informative as I would like it to be.

I see that you have assembled a lot of information at Hertford, Luton and Dunstable Railway and I know other people have added more information to station articles. So there is scope for rearrangement. I am not sure about the story of what happened to railways east of Welwyn, but I guess there could be a separate article about railways in the Hertford area. JonH (talk) 16:40, 18 May 2019 (UTC)