Long time mapper, first time poster here but today I raised a fixme request on a segment of the railway route near Fairview Park, Dublin. Essentially: why is the name applied to some of the Republic’s railway routes tagged with historic names, i.e. GNR, GMWR etc when these designations have not been used for decades? The railway route out of Dublin city heading to Belfast is name tagged GNR Main Line when it is simply the Dublin-Belfast main line.
The same happens outside Athlone where the Dublin-Westport line becomes the Mayo Line and the Dublin-Galway line becomes GMWR Main Line. This seems quirkey and ahistoric. Could we at least agree on using an alt_name or even old_name tags?