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There are a few cases in Britain where an up line suddenly becomes a down, and vice versa. This is usually the site of a former junction, where two routes have been spliced together, but can also be an end-on junction, the most noteable probably being Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station, where the North British and North Eastern met end-on. The reference point may well not be London, but the point of origin of the line, which in the Berwick case is Newcastle from the south and Edinburgh from the north. Mileposts go down in number when travelling in the up direction, and up in number when travelling down. Sources, Rail Atlas of Great Britain and Quail Railway Track Diagrams. LE Greys 86.163.211.160 ( talk) 00:04, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
I think we should rearrange the section based on types of rail direction systems they used instead of listing by countries as it is now.
We can have it in 3 main sections, "City center directions", "Geographical directions", and "Circle line directions". The "City center directions" section can have "Up and down", "Even and odd", "Inbound and outbound", "Downtown and uptown" subsections. In those subsections we can give details of all those countries that use those direction systems. Then we can talk about north-, south-, east-, and westbound. In the "Circle line directions" section we can talk about what are called for train running clockwise and counterclockwise.
If nobody has any objection to the above, I can make the change. Z22 ( talk) 15:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
The article currently makes this unreferenced claim (and has done since 2007):
According to an extract from the 1899 Midland Railway Appendix published by the Midland Railway Study Centre, up was from Derby towards London (St. Pancras), as you would expect in general. I don't know whether the statement above was true of the MR as a whole at some other time or whether it was intended to refer particularly to the MR routes to the south-west, on which up is, somewhat counter-intuitively, towards Derby. Any ideas? rbrwr ± 11:09, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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There are a few cases in Britain where an up line suddenly becomes a down, and vice versa. This is usually the site of a former junction, where two routes have been spliced together, but can also be an end-on junction, the most noteable probably being Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station, where the North British and North Eastern met end-on. The reference point may well not be London, but the point of origin of the line, which in the Berwick case is Newcastle from the south and Edinburgh from the north. Mileposts go down in number when travelling in the up direction, and up in number when travelling down. Sources, Rail Atlas of Great Britain and Quail Railway Track Diagrams. LE Greys 86.163.211.160 ( talk) 00:04, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
I think we should rearrange the section based on types of rail direction systems they used instead of listing by countries as it is now.
We can have it in 3 main sections, "City center directions", "Geographical directions", and "Circle line directions". The "City center directions" section can have "Up and down", "Even and odd", "Inbound and outbound", "Downtown and uptown" subsections. In those subsections we can give details of all those countries that use those direction systems. Then we can talk about north-, south-, east-, and westbound. In the "Circle line directions" section we can talk about what are called for train running clockwise and counterclockwise.
If nobody has any objection to the above, I can make the change. Z22 ( talk) 15:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
The article currently makes this unreferenced claim (and has done since 2007):
According to an extract from the 1899 Midland Railway Appendix published by the Midland Railway Study Centre, up was from Derby towards London (St. Pancras), as you would expect in general. I don't know whether the statement above was true of the MR as a whole at some other time or whether it was intended to refer particularly to the MR routes to the south-west, on which up is, somewhat counter-intuitively, towards Derby. Any ideas? rbrwr ± 11:09, 15 July 2023 (UTC)