Talk:UK railway stations – A

message: The below is pasted from Wikipedia:Votes for deletion when this article was at its original title UK Railway Stations 1 (with others at 2-5)
And numbers 2 - 5: A list of railway stations with no wikification.  Not sure if it could be made useful, but is not at present.  Certainly the postcodes should be removed. Warofdreams 16:08, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion Debate

message: There should be a general page for UK railway stations: history and design, bibliography etc (There are several of books on the subject, including London's Terminii).
Jackiespeel 17:59, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Front page for Railway Stations

message: Visting the list for the first time, it took me a good 5 minutes to work out why the UK only seemed to have railway stations starting with the letter A.
The use of show/hide options on navigation templates is normally great, but here is absolutely the wrong place to use it. The way the page is used and linked-to requires that the A-Z list is always visible on first viewing, rather than hidden away behind an obscure 'show' link. -- Starbois (talk) 14:41, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 11:40, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: fixed.  No state was defined, so it defaulted to collapsed.  Changed to plain si it is displayed without the option.  --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 18:10, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is broken, or very confusing. 

message: Does anyone know the source of the 3 letter codes and the postcodes? It would be good to be clear on this so that data could be used in projects like OpenStreetMap --LeedsTracker (talk) 14:11, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: All three letter codes and postcodes are available from National Rail's web. Simply south not SS, sorry 14:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

text: The codes arrived in this edit in 2004. As SS said, they are in use on the national rail website. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:12, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of CRS codes, postcodes, copyright status 

message: I propose that we drop the postcode column which provides links to multimap showing the approximate location, and replace it with the  template based on the coordinates in individual station articles. Per The Anome's suggestion elsewhere, coords in articles are more accurate than postcode approximations. And  links to the geohack page which enables the user to jump to the map of their choice, rather than being constrained to Bing (which has swallowed up multimap).
Any thoughts on the proposal welcome. thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:32, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Suggest we retain the post code column as useful for satnav usage where you input a postcode as a destination. Keith D (talk) 22:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Another though, would be good to as an O/S reference column to this as well and link to Geohack from that rather than have actual co-ords in the table. Keith D (talk) 23:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to go with that, unlinked postcodes & gbmapping to geohack with an OS reference.  I am neutral on lat & long. It would be even better  if there was one codebase used to populate both this list & the infoboxes on the station pages. --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 11:38, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Using the coord template instead of the multimap postcode link

message: The maps postcode links now re-direct to Bing Maps, so any mention of Multimap should be changed to Bing Maps. The multimap site itself even says "Multimap is now Bing Maps".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mphammer (talk • contribs) 10:05, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have updated the header template  that provides the table header row for this and the B stations article. It looks like someone started converting the series of articles over to using templates rather than the table code but only did A & B. May be now is an appropriate time to finish the job and convert the remaining articles for ease of maintenance in the future. Keith D (talk) 20:52, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Multimap is defunct