Talk:Bridport West Bay railway station

Operating licence?
At present the text says

"In 1879, the Great Western Railway, who held the operating license for the original Bridport Railway ... "

The English word is "licence" but that is not my point; in what sense did a railway company "hold an operating licence" ... ? I have never come across this before. Afterbrunel (talk) 20:02, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I rather think that it should read "working agreement". Small railway companies often found that they had spent all their money on building the line and stations, and so being financially unable to also provide trains, they would enlist the assistance of a larger neighbour. In somewhat generalised terms, there were three levels of assistance, which may be described thus: (i) working agreement, under which the larger company would provide locomotives and rolling stock, also the staff to operate these, in return for a proportion of the receipts collected by the smaller company; (ii) lease, under which the larger company would carry out all the duties of the working agreement and in addition would operate the stations and maintain the track - but by contrast the larger company would pay a proportion of the receipts to the smaller company, as a form of rent; (iii) takeover (by absorption or amalgamation). I'll put this page on my list of things to check after Easter: it'll be in MacDermot (volume 1). -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:47, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * MacDermot (1927) p. 417 says that "the Bridport Railway was worked by the Great Western from the opening and afterwards leased to them". On p. 416 we find that the Bridport Railway was absorbed by the GWR in 1901. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:41, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

West Bay, Bridport
Suggest the title of this page be changed to West Bay, Bridport as per the station namenboard in the photograph illustrated in the articleSteamybrian2 (talk) 15:01, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Is that nameboard genuine? It looks rather recent for a station closed in 1930. WP:NCUKSTATIONS says to use the name at closure; and according to Butt (1995) p. 44 that was Bridport West Bay. Butt doesn't list any "West Bay Bridport". -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:34, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it was a later addition, put in at some point since the 1980's when the place was the office for a boatyard. I would personally look for a more reliable source rather than make changes based solely on this. Britmax (talk) 18:41, 10 July 2016 (UTC)