Talk:Golden Valley line

Map routes
I think "Cross Country Route to Birmingham" and "Cross Country Route to Bristol" are the wrong way round on the map. Can someone confirm this? (jdan (talk) 10:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC))


 * Yeah, they are. Correcting now! Tom walker (talk) 08:12, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Name and extent
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The Golden Valley line is a railway line from Swindon to Cheltenham Spa in England.

I think we need a citation for the nomenclature please. Just because a couple of blokes in a pub called it that doesn't make this an encyclopaedic fact. And I think the railway staff at Gloucester and Cheltenham would be surprised to learn that they are on the Golden Valley Line.

(The Golden Valley Railway was of course from Pontrilas to Hay.)

And who are these authors "Anonymous and Winter", and what did they write on page 0 of their publication? And if that was 1979 proposals that they hoped would happen, is that really a notable fact in 2017? Afterbrunel (talk) 15:27, 5 September 2017 (UTC)


 * It wasn't built by the C&GWUR; that company couldn't raise the money and the GWR adopted it and built it.Afterbrunel (talk) 15:37, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * should clarify the "Winter" problem. The template expects only author names (up to four) and an optional year, and distinguishes the year from the author list by the first four characters being numeric; if a season is included, it's no longer a number and so the template assumes a second author. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:33, 5 September 2017 (UTC)


 * The "Golden Valley" is actually the name given to the valley carrying the River Frome in the area between Sapperton and Stroud - the railway line follows the river down the valley and thus I believe the wider line (distinguished by the shortest services running its length, i.e. Swindon to Gloucester/Cheltenham) came to be known by the name because of this. Video125 also used the name for their drivers eye view video of the line . Edfielden (talk) 11:54, 21 July 2018 (UTC)