Talk:Bourne railway station

Services
Were the GNR routes really operated as two separate branches? Running a train through from Sleaford to Essendine would not have required reversal. -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:21, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, the line to Sleaford was laid to a higher standard, with bigger radii so it could have been worked differently. My copy of Bradshaws shows separate timing, as do the examples here.  Railways were very conservative organisations, not given to tearing up or rationalising services that already had an established clientelle.  Perhaps they should have done.


 * There wasn't even a through stamford-Bourne service: one had to change at Essendine.


 * Were I a billionaire I'd like to relay the whole Stamford-Sleaford route and operate it with some of these: http://www.parrypeoplemovers.com/ --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 21:03, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Station name
The infobox shows the first name as Bourne rather than Bourn. I believe that to be an error. Have a look at http://boar.org.uk/abiwxo3Bournedoc005.htm. at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?sheetid=5106&compid=55127. and http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/bourne2.htm. Or Bartholomew's Gazetteer of 1887: Bourn, par., town, and ry. junc., S. Lincolnshire, 9½ miles W. of Spalding

or even http://visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/results.jsp?xCenter=3328255.4368&yCenter=2930109.44312&scale=633600&mapLayer=nineteenth&subLayer=smith_1806&title=C.%20Smith%20New%20Map%20of%20Great%20Britain%20and%20Ireland

--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 23:16, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * This gets odd. http://boar.org.uk/abiwxo3Bournedoc006.htm is the opening timetable for the Essendine line, dated to 1860, and it has the town spelled Bourne. --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 21:51, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Red Hall
In the History paragraph opening 'The original station....', is there a confusion about the occasion of the doubts about the Red Hall's future? Was the contributor thinking of the petition at the time of the rebuilding of the station prior to the opening of the Saxby line, in 1894? See Bourne Archive. (RJPe (talk) 11:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC))

Accident in the railway station
On this week's diary from the local web site:
 * From the archives - 140 years ago: The return excursion train which was due to leave London at ten minutes before twelve on Saturday night last arrived at Bourne between three and four o'clock on Sunday morning. When near the platform at Bourne station the engine came into violent collision with two empty carriages which were standing upon the line, driving them completely through two very strong gates at the South Street crossing, one of the gates being smashed to splinters, and the carriages considerably damaged. There were nine passengers (including two ladies) in the carriage attached to the engine and we have not heard of anyone sustaining greater injury than a severe shaking. One gentleman's hat was smashed to such an extent that he has put in a claim for a new one. - news report from the Grantham Journal, Saturday 5th April 1873.

I suppose this alleged through working would have been via the Bourne and Essendine route.

Currently this is http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/diary.htm but by next week it will be archived in a page linked at the bottom. Should we put this in the text, or as an article like Wigan rail crash? I would like to have some accessible references to it - I don't suppose every wikipedian can go to Grantham to look at the microfiches. Verification is not always easy.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 07:15, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd say to put it as a section in this article to start with, it can always be spun out into a separate article later if desired. It would also be good to put a summary at List of rail accidents (before 1880). Online references are good but not required - there is no prohibition against offline ones at all. Thryduulf (talk) 09:09, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Done both of those - lets see what happens!--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 10:50, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Although, some people consider books to be unreliable sources. Beware. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:45, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing actually matters, does it? Adding the story makes the entry more interesting, but deleting only takes us back where we were last week.  And last week wasn't so bad.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 16:12, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * This doesn't seem to be an accident capable of sustaing a separate article. Placing it in the station article and list is the correct way to deal with it. May I remind all UK-based editors that a local library card is a very useful thing to have. There are many newspapers from the C19th available online via the British Library when accessed via your library's website with no subscription required. Mjroots (talk) 12:10, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

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