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Named railway lines (network rail website)

As found at "Named railway lines". National Rail Enquiries. Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC). Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2015. - beware - this page seems to run a script using Adobe Flash Player and can grind your browser...

See also List of railway lines in Great Britain in Wikipedia

Named railway line

Name of line	From	Via	To	Notes
Airedale Line	Leeds/Bradford	Keighley	Skipton	Exact match
Ayr Line	Glasgow Central	Paisley Gilmour Street	Largs/Ardrossan/Stranraer	A combination of Ayrshire Coast Line and Glasgow South Western Line
Berks & Hants	Reading		Westbury	Mostly Berks and Hants Railway with a bit of Reading to Taunton line
Bishop Line	Darlington		Bishop Auckland	Part of Tees Valley Line
Bittern Line	Norwich		Sheringham	Exact match
Borderlands Line	Wrexham		Bidston	Exact match
Caldervale Line	Leeds	Bradford	Halifax/Manchester
Cambrian Coast	Shrewsbury	Machynlleth	Aberystwyth/Pwllheli	Cambrian Coast redirects to Cambrian Line. Exact match.
Cambrian Railways	Shrewsbury	Wrexham Machynlleth	ChesterAberystwyth/Pwllheli	Quite different.
Catford Loop	London Victoria	Catford	Bromley South	Combination of Catford Loop and Chatham Main Line
Chase Line	Birmingham New Street	Walsall	Rugeley Trent Valley	Exact match
City Line (Merseyrail)	Liverpool (Lime Street)		Hunts Cross	WP much more extensive
(Cardiff) City Line	Cardiff (Central)	Danescourt	Radyr	Exact match
CityFlier	Bedford		Brighton
CityMetro	Luton		Sutton
Coastway (East)	Hastings	Eastbourne	Brighton
Coastway (West)	Brighton	Bognor Regis	Portsmouth
Conwy Valley Line	Llandudno Junction		Blaenau Ffestiniog
Cotswold Line	Oxford	Evesham	Hereford
Cross (X) City Line	Lichfield Trent Valley	Birmingham (New Street)	Redditch	Exact match (but slight difference in name)
Crouch Valley	Wickford	Battlesbridge	Southminster
Cumbrian Coast	Carlisle	Sellafield, Barrow-in-Furness	Carnforth
Dearne Valley Line	York	Pontefract Baghill/Moorthorpe	Sheffield
Derwent Valley Line	Nottingham	Derby	Matlock
Durham Coast Line	Middlesbrough	Hartlepool	Sunderland
East Coast Main Line	London Kings Cross		North East & Scotland
East Suffolk Line	Ipswich	Saxmundham	Lowestoft
Erewash Valley	Nottingham	Alfreton	Sheffield
Esk Valley Line	Middlesbrough		Whitby
Far North Line	Inverness		Thurso/Wick
Fife Circle	Edinburgh	Dunfermline/Kirkcaldy	Cardenden
Gainsborough Line	Marks Tey		Sudbury
Golden Valley Line	Cheltenham	Stroud	Swindon
Hallam Line	Leeds	Castleford	Sheffield
Harrogate Line	Leeds	Harrogate	York
Heart of Wales Line	Swansea	Llandovery	Shrewsbury
Heart of Wessex Line	Bristol Temple Meads		Weymouth
Hope Valley	Manchester		Sheffield
Huddersfield Line	Leeds/Wakefield	Huddersfield	Manchester/Liverpool Lime Street
Inverclyde	Glasgow	Paisley Gilmour St	Gourock/Wemyss Bay
Ivanhoe Line	Leicester		Loughborough
Lea Valley	Hackney Downs	Tottenham Hale	Cheshunt
Looe Valley Line	Liskeard		Looe
Maesteg Line	Cardiff	Pontyclun	Maesteg
Marches Line	Newport	Hereford	Shrewsbury
Maritime Line	Truro		Falmouth
Marshlink	Hastings	Rye	Ashford International
Marston Vale	Bedford		Bletchley
Mayflower	Manningtree		Harwich
Mid Cheshire Line	Chester	Northwich & Altrincham	Manchester
Midland Main Line	St Pancras	Leicester	Sheffield
North & West Line	Cardiff	Hereford/Shrewsbury	Manchester Liverpool
North London Line	Richmond	Gospel Oak	Stratford
Northern Line	Hunts Cross	Liverpool	Southport/ Ormskirk/Kirkby
Penistone Line	Sheffield	Penistone	Huddersfield
Pontefract Line	Leeds/Wakefield	Pontefract Monkhill	Goole
Robin Hood Line	Nottingham	Mansfield	Worksop
St Ives Line	Penzance	St Erth	St Ives
Selby Line	Leeds	Micklefield	Hull
Settle - Carlisle Line	Leeds / Settle	Kirkby Stephen	Carlisle
Severn Beach Line	Bristol Temple Meads		Severn Beach
Stour	Stafford	Birmingham	Rugby
Tamar Valley Line	Plymouth		Gunnislake
Tarka Line	Exeter		Barnstaple
Tees Valley Line	Saltburn	Darlington	Bishop Auckland
Transpennine routes	Various East coast stations	Leeds	Various West Coast Stations
Trent Valley	Stafford	Lichfield Trent Valley	Rugby
Tyne Valley Line	Newcastle	Hexham	Carlisle
Wakefield Line	Leeds	Wakefield	Doncaster / Sheffield
West Coast Main Line	London Euston		North West & Scotland
West Highland	Craigendoran		Fort William
Wharfedale Line	Leeds / Bradford		Ilkley
Wherry Lines	Norwich		Lowestoft / Great Yarmouth
Wirral Lines	Liverpool Circle		New Brighton / West Kirkby / Chester / Ellesmere Port
York Line	Leeds	Micklefield	Scarborough
Yorkshire Coast Line	Hull	Bridlington	Scarborough

Measurements

Examples of 5 ft conversions

Context	Notes	Implied accuracy	Range (in feet)	Range (in metres)	Suitable conversion
The room was about 5 ft wide and 10 ft long	Possibly given to the nearest foot (a rough "ball park" figure)	±0.5 feet	4.5 - 5.5	1.37 - 1.68	1.4 - 1.7 m or ≈1.5 m or approx. 1.5 m
Buna air strip is 5 ft above sea level (as mentioned above)	Given to the nearest foot? Or possibly 1/2 foot?	±0.25 feet	4.75 - 5.25	1.45 - 1.60	1.5 m
Freda Bloggs was 5 ft tall	Height usually given to the nearest 1/2 inch	±0.25 inch	4.980 - 5.021	1.518 - 1.530	1.52 m
The rail gauge was 5 ft	Usually given to nearest 1/4 inch	±0.125 inch	4.99 - 5.01	1.521 - 1.527	1.524 m

All this has reminded me of the old joke about precision used on building sites where bricklayers work to the nearest half brick, plasterers work to the nearest 1/2 inch, carpenters work to the nearest 1/8 inch, Electricians work to the nearest 1/16 inch, and labourers work to the nearest pub.

Chairmen

Frederick Campbell 1895-1905

Alfred Baldwin

Viscount Churchill 1908-1934

Viscount Horne 1937

See also List of Chairmen

General Managers

James Grierson

Henry Lambert 1887-1896 (Lt-col of Army reserve)

Joseph Wilkinson (My Draft) 1896-1903 (Lt-col of Army reserve)

James Charles Inglis 1903-1911

Frank Potter 1912-1919

Charles Aldington 1919-1921 CBE 1918 (as superintendent of line)

Felix Pole 1921-1929

James Milne 1929-1947

Sources include Wragg, David (2009). A Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles (1 ed.). Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Wharncliffe Books. ISBN 978-1-844680-47-4. OCLC 477110821. Milne 187-188, Pole 216, Inglis 129,