Template talk:Major railway stations in Great Britain

message: Okay, I've just archived previous discussions and it seems we've agreed on the current template. As discussions have frequently involved the same topic, I've added an FAQ list. I've you'd like to make a revision to it (including myself), we shall discuss it here first or the edit may be reverted. The same goes for a proposed addition/removal and then see what the response of other editors is. Let's keep things more civilised from now on shall we? Welshleprechaun (talk) 22:15, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am still concerned over the use of usage. Also, you must remember that figures jumped due to a change in methodology for 2006/07. Simply south not SS, sorry 18:54, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I share this concern, could we not use a British English word such as use instead of usage? Perhaps even patronage. Bare in mind Welshleprechaun mentions usage as one of the characteristics of a featured station Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 18:58, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't realise it wasn't BrE, I use that word all the time. No problem to change it to use though. Captain Scarlet, I don't understand your concern about it being one of the characteristics? Welshleprechaun (talk) 19:00, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

text: You might want to look at the discussion below #Revision time. Simply south...... coming and going for just 6 years  20:54, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: FAQ

message: Nottingham used to be there but it's not now. Was this discussed? Welshleprechaun (talk) 15:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't look like it.  Put it back if you like.  --RFBailey (talk) 19:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Will do. Welshleprechaun (talk) 23:07, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nottingham

message: Should East Croydon station be added to the London section. It's had more people enter the station than Clapham Junction not counting the tram users and is a important station on the Brighton Main Line.Likelife (talk) 10:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  East Croydon 

message: I think MKC should probably be on this template. It's bigger than several of the stations here (7 platforms, eight trains an hour and serving a settlement of a quarter of a million people) and often serves as a transfer between different operator's services (onto Virgin services for passengers from smaller places and onto the Southern service to Croydon). Tom walker (talk) 22:36, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd grudgingly agree that if we have Doncaster and Crewe, we should probably have MK as well (although my personal preference would be to lose all three). The problem is that there's quite a number of stations far above MK's size and usage (4.5 million entries/exits, 181,000 interchanges) which have a better claim to be significant interchanges – East Croydon (20 million entries-exits/year, 6 million interchanges), Wimbledon (15 million & 1.3 million), Reading (14 million & 2.6 million), Cambridge (7.5 million & 300,000), Brighton (14 million & 1.4 million)… you get the picture. The station usage statistics make interesting reading; there are some that you'd never think of as major interchanges that get amazing volumes of traffic. (Lewisham above Glasgow Central, Manchester Piccadilly and King's Cross? Surbiton a busier interchange than Euston?) – iridescent 22:53, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Milton Keynes Central]] 

message: it speaks for itself. Although having very few platforms, it is the busiest station in Liverpool and if Lime Street's there Central should be there. It also serves numerous lines, like Lime Street and links to the airport. Tez011 (talk) 13:52, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liverpool Central 

message: In light of these edits, what counts as a "major station"? bobrayner (talk) 11:47, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, , what were your grounds for adding Aberdeen; Ayr; Chester; Dundee; Haymarket; Inverness; Kirkcaldy; Motherwell; Paisley Gilmour Street; Perth; Portsmouth Harbour; Stirling? --Redrose64 (talk) 17:04, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Reopening an old conversation

message: Discussion above seems to have fizzled out before agreement was reached. Looking at the table a couple of sections up, the combination of all the criteria except the last (8 platform faces) doesn't throw up any station I'm opposed to seeing on this template. There are 16 stations that make the table only through that one criterion:
*Barking
*Blackpool North
*Brighton
*Carlisle
*Crewe
*Doncaster
*Ealing Broadway
*Inverness
*Orpington
*Perth
*Preston
*Sheffield
*Sterling
*Vauxhall
*Watford Junction
*Wimbledon
Of those, I think Crewe really should be on the list. Brighton, Watford Junction and Sheffield I'm in favour of but less strongly, Preston, Carlisle, Doncaster and Vauxhall I can go either way about. Inverness and Perth I have no opinion about. Barking, Orpington and Wimbledon I really don't think should be there. The rest I'm moderately against. This is all subjective though - what are other people's thoughts? Thryduulf (talk) 02:36, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Where did the info in the table on number of platforms in regular use come from?  I haven't checked them all, but as 2 examples, Perth and Stirling each have 7 according to their respective articles.  The table also seems to have been inconsistent about whether to include non-NR platforms (see the collapsed section "Stations that would be on the template based on the criteria suggested above"). --David Biddulph (talk) 04:49, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I compiled the information in the collapsed section, but I can't remember now how I did so. Most likely it was just reading lots of articles found categories plus whatever happened to appear in searches. Redrose64 compiled the table, perhaps he remembers more. Thryduulf (talk) 14:59, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I went by published track diagrams. Of course, we can't tell from those which ones are in regular use, but I wasn't going to sit down with the WTT and check every column on every page. Stirling has nine platform faces, of which four are through and five are bays. Perth is probably a mistake: it has only seven platform faces, but as two of the through platforms (4 & 7) are signalled for two trains at once (rather like all twelve through plats at Birmingham New Street), I may have counted them as four, giving nine in total. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:59, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

text: Back to the main point, does anyone have any thoughts on what the criteria should be? Thryduulf (talk) 12:12, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Which stations to include (continued)

message:  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.14.184.25 (talk) 22:45, 23 November 2012
*Oppose They are two distinct rail systems. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That doesn't affect my feelings on the matter ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal