Talk:Railways in Ely

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Passenger traffic over Ely West curve

This certainly did not cease in 1966 as stated. Birmingham to Norwich trains used it during the 1980's, and there is currently one passenger train a week which uses it, a Sunday afternoon East Midlands service from Norwich to Nottingham (I think - it could be to Manchester). I'm too much of a newbie around here to know how to fix this, but someone should. References should be fairly easy to find.

OK. Revisiting this sometime later: someone has added the Sunday afternoon train, although it's now East Midlands Railway, not East Midlands Trains, and I don't know if it's still running in these Covid times. Thank you. However, the statement that regular passenger services over the curve ceased in 1966 has been left in. This is simply not true, whatever Gordon (1968) says. If they did cease, which I don't think they did, then they started again. Norwich to Birmingham trains used the curve, at least in the early 1980's. Regularly. Several times a day. I know because I used them. Ok, that's original research, but there must be references somewhere to confirm it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.236.239 (talk) 21:01, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gordon was published in 1968, and cannot have known about (let alone described) events that occurred in the 1980s. So as far as he is concerned, they did cease in 1966. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:18, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, of course. But that does not alter the fact that the page is misleading, if not downright incorrect. The history of Ely west curve did not end in 1968 with the publication of Gordon's book. There were regular passenger trains using the curve after 1968, and there still are, if you regard one train a week as regular. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.236.239 (talk) 19:15, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]