Template talk:Hounslow Loop Line

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The template "Hounslow Loop" in article "Hounslow Loop Line" gave rise to these thoughts:
The Hounslow Loop (Engineer's Line Reference: HOU) is the line from Barnes through Brentford to the junctions beyond Hounslow. The line through Richmond is not part of it. The connection at Richmond is not as shown. The map could have had Up at the top and Down below to match the article's text From here To there. Although "Line" is not in the En L Ref name, the WP article title "H... Loop Line" is more descriptive, not suggesting an aerobatic manoeuvre or minor medical implement or technical term from carpet making and the RTD could without detriment have had the three word name.--SilasW (talk) 16:37, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

LCs are called "Vine Lane" though maps now show the thoroughfare as "Vine Road".--SilasW (talk) 16:51, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It has come to my delight to see that the old powers that were in the locality managed to dub each of the three arcs of the junction at the foot of the diagram a 'separate junction' reminding me of a happy spell in the century before last before the scourge of postcode districts was invented. Surely whilst I have the utmost respect for such threefold nomenclature, never seen in the ugly world of roads, one cannot see a place for calling an arc a whole railway junction. Nor would they do this then; I am sure scouring the archives I could find reference to these being alternate names, never designating the limbs of each parish. It would be silly to suggest each arc has a separate name today to all and sundry running the actual railways or using them. The whole forms one coherent junction and should be branded as such Feltham/Hounslow/Whitton junction to give it its full name. In standard academic circles one would opt for the preferred name of the three and consign the alternates to footnotes. It is not mathematically elegant to call an arc a junction and it is not elegant to call each of the points of a simple three or four-point junction a separate name if that is the half-way house counter-proposal as adds lines where none should be necessary. It is not encouraging for people to go into decision mathematics modelling or infrastucture plotting if diagrams are so complex they are no longer rational or logical. I am grateful for some of the rationalisation of my own redundant additions such as the Syon Lane cutting east of Syon Lane station being consigned to just the station itself for ease of reading. Equally the bridge and elevated (viaduct we still say in my area) station at Barnes Bridge being combined. One could learn from such simple drawing.- Adam37 Talk 20:49, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hounslow   2 Hounslow Junction 1Whitton Junction   Feltham Junction   Feltham Waterloo to Reading Line to Reading

This is my understanding of the geometry of the triangle, with each of the three track Junctions labeled as such. If it is incorrect, then please educate me (minus the grandiloquent, aureate prose and gratuitous derision). Useddenim (talk) 22:56, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]