On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:59, Tom Hughes wrote: > Peter Miller wrote: > >> On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote: >>> Incidentally, looking at that just now I see that the relation for >>> that branch has been extended all the way down to Broxbourne >>> station rather than terminating at Broxbourne Junction where it >>> joins the main line and I'm wondering if that is the best thing to >>> do? >> We took the decision to use wikipedia as a the reference for the >> extent of historic lines, so if the wikipedia article for the >> Ipswich to Ely line says that it goes all the way to Ipswich to Ely >> (even though the last section is also the Great Eastern Main Line) >> then that is what we have done. > > This isn't a historic line, it's an existing, active line: > > http://osm.cdauth.de/route-manager/relation.php?id=142019
By historic line we purely mean the historic name for the line. Network Rail has moved to Route numbers and SRS codes for sections of track for obvious reasons and these SRS sections have names, but the wikipedia articles are built around the older names for the lines and that is what we chose to follow if that makes sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertford_East_Branch_Line > As you can see the southern end extends beyond the junction with the > main line (about 1km east of my house...) down to the next station. > Sure, but the wikipedia article says it goes from Broxourne to Herford so we have used that as our source. Again - happy for a decision to tweek this and end at the junction where it joins the main line, but lets be consistent about it. > Somebody has in fact added the old Buntingford Branch line (which > came off the Hertford East Branch) which no longer exists. That does > seem to terminate where it comes off the Hertford East Branch: > > http://osm.cdauth.de/route-manager/relation.php?id=148560 > > In fact it terminates just before the Hertford East Branch, > presumably because whoever put it in didn't know how it used to > cross the Lee Navigation, though the footpath there (which I always > thought was a bit odd) looks like a good bet for the old route. > Maybe I should go out and investigate that sometime... Incidentally there is an wikipedia article for that one as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buntingford_Branch_Line Regards, Peter > > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([email protected]) > http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
