Talk:Dearne Valley line

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The Dearne Valley Line (DVL) is one example of an article which has no historic input. The National Rail (NL) website here shows that - as a PR job I suspect - they have named certain sections/lengths of line. The named one was on the stub list. As a start it was necessary to rename the article from xxxx line to xxxx Line, since that is the full title. Secondly, the article carries no historic base for the naming of the line, which I have now included: it was, and still is, a main artery joining two places (Sheffild and York) by means of a joint working arrangement.

I then discovered that, for some reason, the stations on the line were divided as to their location - odd, since the whole thing is an entity. The further problem was that other lines, also named like the DVL had been treated in exactly the same way - only the modern existence is covered with no historical background whatsoever. A glance at the NL list will show that there are quite a few of those lines, and it is obvious that many are named as they are because of their history. I shall try to find out how many of them are articled, but this will take some time. Peter Shearan 13:11, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I have now had an intensive period of amending the articles in question; they all needed clarification as to what they were (not railways but services over stretches of modern lines). Peter Shearan 08:06, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I started editing this because it is on the stub list. However I note:
 * If one looks at list of named lines it is obvious that National Rail have done a PR job and named lines all over the country - hence my reason for changing the title to Dearne Valley Line and not simply xxxx line. Unfortunately when I changed it discovered all the others had been written as a Wikipedia article in similar vein!
 * I don't think it's obvious at all! That list (now here) is a handy reference to some of the names currently knocking about (frequently of recent commercial invention, and not guaranteed to survive franchise changes), but "National Rail" (the marketing name of ATOC) does not have any lines to name, and nor do the TOCs. What they do have ownership of are passenger services and the companies' marketing departments are fond of "branding" these services with a name which often ends in "Line" -- but these are "lines" more in the sense of a shipping line than a railway line (a physical route which may carry far more than just a passenger service), and do not necessarily correspond to the real, physical lines, owned by Network Rail. The National Rail list is, in any case, a jumble of historic all-traffic route names (the North & West Line) and passenger-service marketing names (ATW's Marches Line), but doesn't mention Wikipedia's "Welsh Marches Line"! -- Picapica 12:29, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Each one of them is a standalone entity and therefore I cannot see why there has to be the division between where the stations are located.
 * this Line has a historical significance, since a great part of it was the result of a joint agreement between the NER and the Midland.I haven't checked my reference books to see whether the same would apply to other named railways, but I am sure that they often were the result of similar circumstances. That of course is why the lines still exist today in the form that National Rail have produced them - they are arteries within the system. The manner in which they are written in these articles only suggest the modern circumstances and completely ignores their significance Peter Shearan 11:00, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does have an historical significance. It's just historically this was the Swinton and Knottingley Joint, whilst the Dearne Valley Line was a completely different line! the Solipsistic Snallygaster warns you not to click on this link 10:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Historical data
I've entered the opening dates of the different sections of the route, as well as giving a basic description of the services which use bits of the route today. I don't have books at hand to talk about the significance of the route or its operational history; the dates and constructing companies will have to do for now!

Eborbuses 02:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 13:04, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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