Talk:Folkestone Harbour railway station

Channel Tunnel Terminal
I have changed the box for next station to "Channel Ferries". Previously the box stated that the next station was "Calais Ville via Channel Tunnel". However, the English side of the Channel Tunnel is at Cheriton, to the north of Folkestone. This can be verified by going to the Ordnance Survey Site's Quick Map facility and searching for Folkestone: the tunnel can be seen diving into the ground at one end of track loops at the top of the map. The tunnel does not begin in Folkestone. Actually the French terminal is at Sangatte so it doesn't go into Calais either. Britmax 22:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

However, if the VSOE puts its passengers on a coach and takes them to the Tunnel terminal it does. Or can be said to. Whatever. The moral is either read the article properly or don't edit at this time at night!! Britmax 22:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it will be closed
Unofficial as yet, so keep an eye on the news, but the Railway Herald thinks so. 86.132.137.5 (talk) 01:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I've raise this because there is not a lot of information on the Branch page that is not on this page. Two pages increase the likelyhood that one of them will be out of date. Edgepedia (talk) 21:07, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I've raised this again, as MickMacNee merged the articles, but this has been reverted twice, although there was no comment to my previous proposal. The edit history on the Branch Page is as follows:


 * 17:02, 23 March 2009 86.162.104.20 (talk) (1,555 bytes) (and I supose you want to merge Euston station into WCML as well then?) (undo)
 * 08:31, 21 March 2009 Edgepedia (talk | contribs) (48 bytes) (rv edits by 86.138.241.46; no reason given) (undo)
 * 08:25, 21 March 2009 86.138.241.46 (talk) (1,555 bytes) (no.) (undo)
 * 08:25, 21 March 2009 86.138.241.46 (talk) (1,675 bytes) (rvv) (undo)
 * 20:19, 20 March 2009 MickMacNee (talk | contribs) (48 bytes) (merge to Folkestone Harbour railway station) (undo)

I feel that the two articles are better merged as we have a short branch with one station. Both opened and closed at about the same time, so history and services are going to be the same. There does not seem to any advantage in have two pages, and two pages increase the likelihood that one of them will be out of date. The comparison with the WCML and Euston Station is not valid. Edgepedia (talk) 19:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * This is absurd. A station does not exist in isolation from the rest of the network.  It is connected via a branch line.  So, the station is part of the branch.  The branch however is not part of the station.  Hence the merge proposal is trying to merge a parent article into its child.  Similar, equally absurd examples, are trying to merge WCML into Euston, or England into Kent. If the merger is needed, it should clearly be the other way round.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.217.238 (talk) 18:18, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


 * At the moment Folkestone Harbour Branch is a WP:FORK of Folkestone harbour railway station, which is why I suggested the merge. However, there may be sources to create an article on the Folkestone Harbour Branch, but someone now looking at the article would get more and better information from the Folkestone Harbour railway station article.
 * Stations are WP:N. They also contain the position of the station, and this is linked from the likes of goggle maps. What notability does 1 mile of railway branch line built at the same time as the main line, and closed at the same time as the only station on that line? (If you can answer this question, improve the article!).
 * The comparison with the WCML and Euston station is not valid. WCML has many stations and a varied history to Euston station. However, perhaps if a merge is to be done, perhaps it is from the branch line into the main line article.
 * I am thinking that perhaps an article is possible, for an good example see Tunnel Railway. I'm therefore removing the merge tags, and adding improvement tags to the Folkestone Harbour branch article, to see what happens. Edgepedia (talk) 17:51, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * How are stations deemed by you to be automatically notable, whereas railway lines which are larger entities often including several stations, apparently aren't? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.153.79.50 (talk) 15:47, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

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