Talk:Looe Valley Line

Level of services
This is now out of date, as it references the winter 2006/07 timetable. The summer 2007 timetable gives (on Mon-Fri) 9 trains in each direction, plus another 3 running until 7 September. 81.158.0.185 00:57, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Change from "Community railway" to Community rail"
The official term remains "Community Railway". Any particular reason for the change? --Old Moonraker (talk) 10:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)


 * That linked page is rather out of date - it only lists nine lines! :Although it is entitled "community railway", it continually refers to "community rail" in the text below.  Similarly, the DfT and ACoRP both use the term "community rail" much more often than "community railway".  Persoanally, I prefer "community railway"; it seems better grammar.


 * Thanks for setting up the redirect page. I have been meditating on which to use for a couple of weeks and you have saved me the trouble of changing all the links that I had started to set up beofre I decided to go with the majority. Geof Sheppard (talk) 13:37, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the update. Community rail it is! --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:53, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Line length
It's nice if the distances in the infobox and the text agree, but they don't at present. I don't know enough to adjudicate. Is our figure measured between the two passenger stations, the junction with the main line and Looe, or Moorswater and Looe? --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:51, 10 February 2011 (UTC)


 * This is quite a complicated problem for this line. Not only does it now start 19 chains from the zero point at Looe, but it is measured via the platform at Coombe Junction. The junction itself therefore has two different mileages.


 * I think the best present day source is Jacobs which gives the mileage at Liskeard as 8m 72ch. Take off the 19ch and that leaves you with 8m 53ch, or 8.66mi. An older source is Cooke  which puts Liskeard at 8m 67ch, which comes out at 8m 48ch (8.60mi) - this could be read as either 8½ or 8¾ depending on viewpoint. A little more scratching around found 8¾ in the public timetable (although for many years it appears as just 8 in one direction only) while a 1982 working timetable gives 8m 48ch - the same as Cooke! Geof Sheppard (talk) 14:19, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the research, and to User:Salix alba for the fix. --Old Moonraker (talk) 14:45, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

On-train staff
One use of "conductor" in the article was deleted because "there's no such person". Here's a current recruiting poster from the operator seeking to hire "confident and … focused conductors" for their operations, so I reverted the deletion. Now some second thoughts: everywhere else in the piece it's "guard", so perhaps it should go back after all; do we use the modern term, or the term which everyone understands but seems no longer to be correct? Views? --Old Moonraker (talk) 20:21, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

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Signalling Sectional Appendix
The Western and Wales Sectional Appendix shows a slightly different operation of the signalling. The Coombe to Looe Staff stays with the driver except when needed to turn the No. 1 points. The Liskeard to Coombe token is left behind at the token box. Techie3 (talk) 06:18, 18 June 2020 (UTC)


 * The train cannot pass from the Looe branch to the Liskeard branch without changing the points so that token cannot remain with the driver as it has the ground frame key attached to it. The Liskeard token is only placed in the Coombe machine if a train is expected to move from Moorswater to Liskeard (which as the branch is now closed never happens). The token otherwise remains with the guard when travelling to Looe because he can only give it to the driver once the route is set up for Liskeard as the driver's authority to enter that branch. 2A00:23C8:9883:2601:8B0:E34:323C:B0FC (talk) 12:14, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @2A00:23C8:9883:2601:8B0:E34:323C:B0FC The token withdrawal is required to suppress the TPWS at the Looe points. Techie3 (talk) 17:20, 3 December 2023 (UTC)