Talk:Romford–Upminster line

Map

This article has a map, so I have removed the 'mapneeded=yes' from the TrainsWikiProject tag. Miner2049er 20:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

The branch is not signalled

From the article:

There were plans to link the line to the tracks from platform five (District Line) at Upminster, to the depot. This would have allowed the transfer D Stock units onto the main line to be hauled away for refurbishment.

This is badly written, and the exact meaning is unclear.

1. What is the depot referred to? Upminster depot?
2. What "main line" is referred to? The District line tracks? The Romford branch line? The National Express-operated Great Eastern Mainline (Liverpool St - Southend/Clacton/Norwich/etc)? The Fenchurch Street - Southend/Grays tracks?
3. What is a D stock unit? A District line D-stock unit?
4. Does "hauled away" mean taken to the depot (in which case it seems like the second sentence is almost redundant)?

There are two main possibilities which occur to me:

1. The connection was intended to allow the trains operating the Romford - Upminster branch line to access the Upminster depot (in which case, why does it mention D stock, why were there worries about signalling problems on the branch line, and why does it use the words "hauled away" for a transfer of a few hundred yards)
2. The connection was intended to allow District line trains to be hauled from the Upminster depot, and up the branch line so that they could join the Great Eastern main line at Romford, to be transferred to another depot.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.60.217 (talk) 21:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

• I have changed the obvious errors with cites but this article could have much more written. The Peter Kay 3 volumes, and Vol 4 still to come is the "Bible" for The LT&SR.REVUpminster (talk) 10:52, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Someone needs to update this page, the line is no longer served by 315s but by class 321s now. 317s are also used but rarely — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.63.223 (talk) 10:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

the chain

I find the use of the largely archaic measurement, the chain, in this article, very attractive. Many people reading it, however, will not realise that it doesn't refer to interlinked rings of metal, but is ¹⁄₈₀ of a mile, so I suggest that that fact is added after the first use of the term, and I'll do so unless anyone argues otherwise. 152.37.69.31 (talk) 11:19, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

linked. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:15, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Watford DC line which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 15:49, 15 February 2024 (UTC)