Talk:List of closed railway stations in Britain

message: The title says it all really.
We currently have different styles, for example:
Kemptown (Brighton)
Aberdeen Ferryhill
The latter is easier to find, but the former is the station's actual name.
Personally I'd suggest the latter, always giving town name, is much more functional.
[Topic started by Kierant 16:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Listing by town or station name?

message: Do people want to just have a list here, or would it be worth linking to pages about the various Railway Acts such as the so-called "Grouping" and "Beeching" Acts, to explain to readers why Britain is littered with closed stations? Kierant 16:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: An introduction to the page

message: The more you look into this the more you realise that the number of closed stations is vast. If we had them all in here the list would be colossal. How about building some structure into it; by county, perhaps? Or line, railway company or region? Mucky Duck 11:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like that idea; not only to make the list more readable, but to address the problem mentioned earlier of finding stations whose names do not begin with the name of their town or city. (e.g. "Lewes Road, Brighton"). Doing it by region or line might introduce problems with stations under joint ownership/management, so I'd prefer going by county. Unless of course there were stations straddling county boundaries ;-)  – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 11:29, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size of List 

message: I've just added Shoreditch to the list, as I found there is an article about it - this is Shoreditch railway station on the Broad Street line. However the Tube station of the same name has also just closed. Should this list reflect tube stations (e.g. Aldwich, Ongar etc), or just ex-BR (or earlier) stations?  –  (Comment was added by Tivedshambo, 09:27, 10 June 2006)
: Please, no! ;)  There is already a suitable article: Closed London Underground stations – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 19:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But Ongar was part of the GER and LNER, only becoming part of LT after the Central Line extension in 1949.Romfordian 12:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tube stations 

message: You want the bad news? The stations I've added so far are just off the top of my head. I've just flicked through my copy of the book I added to the bottom of the article and think I could increase this list substantially. Oh Boy.Britmax 19:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Time to revisit the topic of organising the list then. The Closed London Underground stations article I've just mentioned, above, may be a useful example of something we might do here. Anybody got any other suggestions? – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 19:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone else think the time has come to properly re-organise the list?  Maybe into sub-categories for lines and/or regions.  I'm leaning towards the latter and any disputes/boundary problems arise I'm sure we're all civilised enough to work through them! (Stuey 182 15:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely time. The method is gonna be a minor headache. Lines seems nice, but at what point in time - construction or closure? Layouts and ownership changed in some cases, and probably some stations in the list catered for more than one line. Anyways, when we come up with a solution I'd be happy to help if there's any checking / researching needed. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 16:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well with stations serving two or more lines I suppose they'd go into both, ordering them could be a headache too in that while there were many mainline stations closed there's many more branch lines to figure, maybe separating it into two lists, one with regions (North-West, North-East, Midlands, South-West, East, London, Wales, Scotland) and one with lines.  I believe it's feasible anyway. (Stuey 182 17:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you think, perhaps, we should make a start? The actual job is going to be huge, but if we set up headings for the regions now (while leaving the exisiting alphabetic listing there too for now) we could start moving entries into them gradually and it may not look so daunting. Mucky Duck 09:25, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

text: There is a book (out of print I think) called "Clinker's Register" which lists closed stations in Britain (including date of closure). There are probably upwards of 7,000 of them - ie nearly 3 times as many as those that are open. However anyone who tries this for the USA is in for a long task - there are probably 80,000 closed stations and depots there!
Exile 20:34, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The list could be longer...

message: The stations on the closed GNR line between St Albans Abbey railway station and Hatfield are missing.
However, while looking into this, I read here - Subterranea Britannica: Lemsford Road Halt - that "Lemsford Road Halt was a late addition to the line being opened for workmen in August 1942. It was a private Halt and did not appear in public timetables and was not shown on maps."
So should it (and other private stations) be included or not? --David Edgar 11:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say yes; for one thing, they remain an interesting part of railway history. Additionally, I don't imagine there are vast numbers of them (so long as we don't start naming goods sheds as stations! ;) so it shouldn't pose much trouble here. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 12:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Private stations

message: Could i have help with this article? As indicated in it, there were not one, but two stations with the same name and in roughly the same location. However, one station was built sometime in early history when the ECML was being extended to London. It was only temporary. The second station was built on what is now the North London Line and closed many years later. Probably some clarification on dates and just general expansion of the article. Or should i split this article? Simply south 13:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm more inclined to go with Simply South's idea of renaming the article to the plural. The stations are in similar locations, opened around the same time.--Tivedshambo (talk) 05:22, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It wouldn't really work calling it North London, as both stations are in North London. Simply south 10:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm going to go ahead with the page move, although keep make suggestions Simply south 11:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Maiden Lane railway station]] 

message: What do we do when a station closes for some years and then reopens.  The example I can think of is Ardrossan Town.  When it first operated it was a large red sandstone building with four platforms.  A double line main line and a single branch to a terminating branch, as well as sidings.  When it was closed, it lay derelict for about 15 years and then reopened, albeit in a much reduced capacity, basically as a single line, with platform and glorified bus shelter.  It still operates as such. Douglasnicol 22:02, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: List it in the closed stations list as it was closed, and should be listed as such. So long as the list points to the station's article name and that the article does hold information on its closure and reopening then all's fine and dandy. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 12:03, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station reopening 

message: What is the best way of representing closed non-passenger locations?
:I note that Wenford Bridge is included as a closed station (although passenger trains never ran between Boscarne Junction and Wenford Bridge), but nearby Ruthernbridge is not listed (both had their origins in the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway). Should locations which were at the end of freight-only lines, such as those above, be handled differently to intermediate locations which were only used for freight such as Dunmere Wharf or the old clay dries on the Down side of the Liskeard - Bodmin Road line (whose name I have forgotten). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Romfordian (talk • contribs) 12:58, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-passenger locations. 

message: Is there a convention for which railway company is shown (if any) after a station's name, bearing in mind that there may have been several operators over a station's lifetime? --Dr Greg 11:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The one that built the station!!! Things are sometimes simpler than you think!! Canterberry 22:27, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If that's the agreed convention, it's worth stating it at the top of each page. I've seen some entries which don't follow it — can't remember which, now, but I'll correct any I notice in the future. --Dr Greg 11:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which railway company? 

message: could some kind person please explain the year of closure? Does it mean closure to passengers or complete closure of the station? An example of a station where these two dates are considerable years apart is Whitegate railway station, which closed to passengers in 1931 but remained open for general goods until 1963. Best Witchwooder (talk) 13:52, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closure Date