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Dolphingstone and Wallyford diversions

I have added mention of these, which were due to mining subsidence around 1999-2002. However I only have one reference, to the New Civil Engineer. If anyone can find better references, e.g issues of some of the railway magazines of that era, please feel free to add them.

I am not sure how to add a picture such as a map, but again, if someone is willing and knows how, you can go to somewhere like https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=55.9504&lon=-2.9843&layers=10&b=7 and put the slider in the middle to overlay the old OS map transparently on the new OpenStreetMap background, which shows the diversion nicely.

Tiger99 (talk) 03:22, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of passenger volume

This section hasn't been updated in a long time. Unless someone can write a bot that can update these usage figures, we ought to remove this section as the information only covers a very short period of time. NemesisAT (talk) 15:49, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

East Coast Main Line and HS2

High Speed 2 will see big changes to services on the ECML as most fast trains from London to York, Newcastle, and Edinburgh will be diverted to HS2 and, in the case of Edinburgh, the WCML. I think this is important to mention given the section is about capacity problems. I don't want to fall foul of WP:WAR so would be good to hear others' thoughts on how to improve this section of the article. I think other parts (like platform additions) are unnecessary and have removed some of this info as it's already well documented on the individual station pages. NemesisAT (talk) 17:03, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to add, this is the "Planned or proposed developments" so I don't think uncertainty over the eastern leg of HS2, as mentioned by the other editor, is an issue here.NemesisAT (talk) 17:06, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, it's certainly important to note it in the planned or proposed developments section. Bellowhead678 (talk) 21:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'm also thinking the much of the bullets at the end would be better incorporated into the article. I'm working on it right now, personally I think it will work better to put everything which has happened already into the History section and keep the final section exclusively for future proposals that haven't happened yet. NemesisAT (talk) 22:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 February 2021

It has been proposed in this section that East Coast Main Line be renamed and moved to East Coast main line.

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East Coast Main Line → East Coast main line – WP:CAPITALISATION. 053pvr (talk) 02:01, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). 053pvr (talk) 06:42, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note This request was contested by User:buidhe at WP:RMT. 053pvr (talk) 06:43, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]