Names of the lines

Tim

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Re: Names of the lines

« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2017, 17:18:04 »

I'm happy to stick with "main" and "relief". But I don't think that "slow" and "fast" are wrong in most circumstances. They are perfectly clear and accurate descriptions even if they are not the official names.

the "relief line" is the "slow line". in the same way as "Beechen Cliff Academy" is the "boys school"


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4064ReadingAbbey

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« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2017, 17:54:09 »

I'm also happy to stick with 'Main' and 'Relief'. Changing things which are so engrained can lead to confusion - and that can lead to errors. And, after all, they are just names to identify which pair of tracks are which - they are not descriptions

Anyway, if the genuine GWR^▸ called them that, who am I to disagree?


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PhilWakely

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Re: Names of the lines

« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2017, 19:21:27 »

Quote from: bignosemac on January 10, 2017, 22:17:40

Main and relief.

Purely for tradition. Acknowledging that GWR^▸ (the proper one, not the young pretender) did things differently.

hear, hear!


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Godfrey Tables

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Re: Names of the lines

« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2017, 22:31:20 »

The only alternative name I can think of for the pair is "express" and "general" - but even then it's probably not fitting for one reason or another. This very much reminds me of trying to come up with names for objects used in programming languages. No matter what you come up with it won't really fit and due to the evolving nature of things will end up being wrong or misleading in the near future Undecided

For this reason I think if I ever had pets, I'd just call them "Cat 1", "Cat 2" and "Cat 3" etc (assuming the pets in question were actually cats) Wink


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Western Pathfinder

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Re: Names of the lines

« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2017, 22:38:34 »

Cat5 would be the one with the Internet connection then ?.


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JayMac

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« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2017, 22:49:08 »

Or Cat 5 is the one who'd do most damage to your house.


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patch38

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Re: Names of the lines

« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2017, 22:50:19 »

And Cat5E would be the one with the Internet connection from Yorkshire.


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