Talk:Mernda line

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I have some conflicting opening dates of this line - 1889 and 1891. Does anybody know the truth? Cnwb 22:37, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

According The Whittlesea Railway by Robert Aquilina, the Reservoir to Whittlesea section was opened on December 20, 1889. Lokicarbis 11:28, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

Which is the branch?

• Why is Epping considered to be a branch off the Hurstbridge line and not the other way around? • Leon 01:31, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps because Hurstbridge is the longer line? I would usually go for the branch being the later one to open, but in this case, the first sections of both lines opened on the same day, so the choice would be arbitrary. Philip J. Rayment 02:32, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Double track

The line is now double track to Epping. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herestoree (talk • contribs) 23:47, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in South Morang railway line

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of South Morang railway line's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "railpage.com.au":

• From Proposed Melbourne rail extensions:
• From Victorian Goldfields Railway: http://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11351359-s525.htm

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:02, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

with services beyond this point to Whittlesea discontinued, and the line closed.

However, services continued on the Whittlesea line by road bus. The bus remained a Vic Rail tendered (Rather than MMBT tendered) private service until bus and rail re-organisation many years later. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.200.27.15 (talk • contribs) 09:49, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 17 July 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Sourcing appears in support of the originally proposed move. (closed by non-admin page mover) EggRoll97 ^(talk) 05:39, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

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Mernda railway line → Template:No redirect – WP:COMMONNAME swap with redirect ThylacineHunter (talk) 07:59, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Note: redirects are ineligible to be current titles in move requests, and there is no need to list the redirect, Template:No redirect, to be swapped. A title swap will happen automatically if the Mernda railway line article is moved as proposed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 19:41, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

• Comment No opinion on whether it should be moved, but it would be a good idea also to nominate similarly titled pages in Category:Railway lines in Melbourne for consistency. Also there is no need to separately list the redirect as if the move request is successful, it would automatically be swapped. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 08:36, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose, convention for Australian railway line articles where both the physical railway line and the services that operate on it are covered in one article, is to use the Foo railway line format, with the service a redirect. Bagufleat (talk) 03:53, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support Mernda line, oppose Mernda line service as per WP:COMMONNAME. Mernda line is the common name, as shown by [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. Is "Mernda line service" a name that is used anywhere? Steelkamp (talk) 04:45, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Sourcing

@ThylacineHunter could you please add references to the operators table? This has been mentioned as something needed in the GA review. HoHo3143 (talk) 08:49, 19 August 2023 (UTC)