Talk:Steyning Line

Title of article

The title of the artcle should be Adur Valley line as generally, lines are not named after one major location on a line. Rather they are named after significant geographical features such as valley's and rivers. In this case I believe that the geographic feature, should be given the name of the article, not one stop on the line, even if it is a major stop on the line.--Lucy-marie (talk) 00:21, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. This line is known as the "Steyning Line" and is referred to as such by all the published material on it. See for example: [1] and [2], as well as the media: [3]. There's also scope for confusion with the Arun Valley Line. Lamberhurst (talk) 20:59, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

It cannot be confused with Arun Valley Line as it refers to two different lines and just because the words are of a similar spelling dosen't mean that confusion will be caused. I think that is just a way of looking to create confusion where none exists. Also why notuse the convention created by the Arun Valley Line, which uses the geographic feature the line runs or ran along?--Lucy-marie (talk) 12:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. If the line didn't have that name during its lifetime, why should it have it now to suit its geographical location? I don't believe that a geographical convention exists - see for example the Oxted Line or the Caterham Line. If you still want to change the title, please can you raise it on WP:UKT. Lamberhurst (talk) 13:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Minister of Transport Tom Harris

This article formerly said:

The Labour victory in the 1964 General Election saw former miner Tom Harris take over as Minister of Transport. In September 1965 he gave fresh authorisation for the closure of the Steyning Line.

Unfortunately the linked Tom Harris was only 20 months old in September 1965 so this is clearly a mislink or worse. Looking at the Secretary of State for Transport page, I can see no sign of their being a Tom Harris as Minister of Transport for the period. And List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1964 shows no sign of anybody called Tom Harris being an MP at that time. So it looks like it is worse.

I've removed all reference to Tom Harris. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 15:42, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

I think you will find that it was Tom Fraser who was the Minister at that time. Aquizard 15:51, 31 August 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aquizard (talk • contribs)

Retrospective

This article discusses in depth the connections to the Guildford via Cranleigh line. This line had a infrequent service in latter years and in my opinion had little relevance to the Steyning line. This whole section should be deleted. [[Steamybrian2 (talk) 23:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)]]

Good idea. Are you going to do it?

In fact the whole article is unbalanced, spending so much effort on the "we was robbed" conspiracy at the time of closure. (It may well have been "unfair" but there is a limit to how many words are needed to convey this.) This is chiefly due to over-reliance on Buckman's book, which is 95% conspiracy, 5% objective history.

I don't normally try to improve articles with a lot of "page needed" annotations -- see the Wiki policy on not giving someone else work to do. Afterbrunel (talk) 11:59, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Short description

Does anyone know what this means? Short description|Bbc weather Afterbrunel (talk) 12:06, 16 October 2022 (UTC)