User talk:Andrewrabbott

Welcome! Hello I'm trying to ask User_talk:Andrewrabbott a question about the entry for Thomas Barker Mellor, as I'm currently researching one of his daughters-Miss Mabel J Mellor, born 1879. Doyou have any more info about the family?

Thanks David Colyer

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Thank you
Many thanks for the splendid job you have done on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Churches in Cornwall - I am hugely impressed by the work you have put in. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 22:53, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

List of Organ Scholars at British Universities and Colleges
Hi there; I see you went through and made amendments to a large number of college articles for the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, including an interwiki link to an article you've created here. However, you've incorrectly formatted these edits. If you want a 'see also' reference you should use the template. Can you go through and fix them (since you made those edits, that's only fair right?)? There are also concerns I have regarding the notability of examples you have provided on the List of Organ Scholars at British Universities and Colleges article: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and the examples you include must be notable. Coldmachine Talk 08:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Church break-out articles' talk pages and WikiProjects
Hi,

I notice you've recently created a load of break-out articles for churches on the Isle of Wight (eg: Holy Cross Church, Binstead from Binstead). Appreciate the work put in to clarify the articles. However, it would have been useful if you'd had a look at the talk pages - most of the places will have had a WikiProject Wight template at the top, which could do with being on the church's page as well. If you're doing this for churches in other areas of the country, this could affect other WikiProjects as well. Hope that's helpful. :)

Thanks! --Peeky44 (talk) 19:21, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

File:TrinityMethodistHarrogate.JPG
Hope you don't mind - I took the liberty of editing the photo you uploaded (File:TrinityMethodistHarrogate.JPG) as the original was a bit dark. I also adjusted the converging verticals. If you don't like what I did, please feel free to revert... Cheers -- Euchiasmus (talk) 07:39, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Harrington Bridge
Nice article ... if it was to grow a bit to 1500 characters of pure text (exc. bullets, titles, lists etc) in the next 2 days then we might get it on the front page. Interested? Victuallers (talk) 18:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Google street view links
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DYK nomination of Friends of Cathedral Music
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oh … life!
" ==Life== He died at 24 James Street, " … so it goes :-) If you are interested in the bit in-between, I'm expanding the article with some PD text. cygnis insignis 14:56, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Strettons
Well you seem to have three that could be used as DYKs, got any idea for how many hooks you need? Hope youre OK with my changes to Sempronius? Victuallers (talk) 20:50, 27 October 2010 (UTC) ....

I see we now have two nominations at DYK. Surprised I had no reply? Victuallers (talk) 09:05, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Are you OK with the double nom? It not then its easy to split it. Also have you considered adding more refs (DYK likes a ref per para) to Severus and William and nomming them too? Victuallers (talk) 10:35, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Sempronius Stretton
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DYK nomination of Great Recoinage of 1816
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London Pneumatic Despatch Company
Interesting article -- a definite for DYK!

Could you have another look at the lede paragraph of the article? The first sentence introduces a company, the second and third sentences discuss the railway that the company built, but do not say as such -- the subject of the two sentences is still the LPD Company.

In the quote I changed 'value' to 'valve', since the context suggests that is the correct word. (Could you double-check the original source, please?) My handwriting can make these two words look identical, so I suspect the same transcription error has occurred here too.

Incidentally, if you look at the article history you'll see that an anon editor has been making numerous changes -- was that you, not logged-in?

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DYK for Great Recoinage of 1816
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DYK for London Pneumatic Despatch Company
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L&Y Railway ships
Hi, re this edit, I created the table with ship article names per WP:MOSSHIP. I see that you've created a number of articles on these ships, which is good. I note the use of a year disambiguator in your titles. As it is quite likely that a number of ships carries the same name, then the use of a year of launch disambiguator is in compliance with MOSSHIP. However, titles should really be at SS Foo or TSS Foo.

I suggest the following moves are made -
 * 1) Duke of Albany (1907) to TSS Duke of Albany or TSS Duke of Albany if more than one ship with that name, with TSS Duke of Albany created as a ship index page.
 * 2) Duke of Argyll (1909) to TSS Duke of Argyll or TSS Duke of Argyll as above.
 * 3) Duke of Clarence (1892) to TSS Duke of Clarence or TSS Duke of Clarence as above.
 * 4) Duke of Connaught (1902) to TSS Duke of Connaught or TSS Duke of Connaught as above.
 * 5) Duke of Cornwall (1898) to TSS Duke of Cornwall or TSS Duke of Cornwall as above.
 * 6) Duke of Cumberland (1909) to TSS Duke of Cumberland or TSS Duke of Cumberland as above.
 * 7) Duke of Lancaster (1895) to TSS Duke of Lancaster or TSS Duke of Lancaster as above.
 * 8) Duke of York (1894) to TSS Duke of York or TSS Duke of York as above.

Let me know whether you want to make the moves, or you'd like me to do the honours. Mjroots (talk) 16:11, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like Duke of Argyll needs a shipindex page creating anyway, as does Duke of Lancaster. Mjroots (talk) 16:13, 29 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I've made the moves as you can see. PS is the preferred prefix for paddle steamers, rather that P.S. (or worse, P/S). Any questions about ship articles please ask at WT:SHIPS. Please remember that the internet can be a great source of info which can be used to supplement book sources when writing ship articles. Mjroots (talk) 13:39, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Just noticed the edits to the ship article titles. I think some of the ship names may occur on later vessels, so I'll move them if it becomes necessary. (Andrewrabbott (talk) 13:46, 31 December 2010 (UTC))
 * My personal feeling is that all ships should be dabbed by year of launch, but this is not something that is supported. If it becomes apparant that an article needs to be moved, the previous title can then be turned into a shipindex page, as I did with TSS Duke of Lancaster. Should two ships have the same name and year of launch, I dab by builder, (year). Mjroots (talk) 15:19, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello Andrew. Many of these ships are not "TSS" as marine steam turbines were not used in passenger vessels until the twentieth century.  (TS King Edward was the first.)  So the vessels which are prefixed with "TSS" but are not turbine-powered need to be moved again.  I have done that with SS Duke of Lancaster (1895).  Regards, Kablammo (talk) 21:36, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

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Drogheda Steam Packet Company
Hi, I've expanded this a bit. Do you have a page number for the book ref? Mjroots (talk) 14:38, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Ship names
Just a reminder that ship names should always be in italics per WP:MOSSHIP. Mjroots (talk) 17:50, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

LNWR ships
Have you created all the articles that you can from the book, or do you intend to write articles on the others too? Mjroots (talk) 07:47, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm hoping to add the others. I'm just a bit short of time at the moment. I'd like also to cover LMS ships, but that's a much bigger project.(Andrewrabbott (talk) 15:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC))


 * That's great! There's no rush with Wikipedia. We all do what we can when we can. Mjroots (talk) 16:36, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

A Question
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Mary Hardstaff Homes
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Cambridge Street Tramways
Would have helped if it said that in the first place. ;) Argyle 4 Life  talk  18:01, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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Ilkeston Town Hall
Hi, according to the book `History of Ilkeston` published in 1889 the Town Hall was built in 1866, if you have reference to built 1867-1868 then please revert quoting ref. Regards --palmiped | Talk  19:42, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

I've found a reference to the foundation stone being laid on 27 September 1866 - Nottinghamshire Guardian - Friday 05 October 1866. The English Heritage listing information says that the building was constructed between 1867 and 1868. I can't find any reference to an opening ceremony at the moment. Andrewrabbott (talk) 20:06, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Smith's Bank
Andrewrabbott

As you started the Smith's Bank article you may like to look at the talk page - I am proposing a major extendion of the article.

Regards

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Birmingham Gazette
Nice work on the Birmingham organists. May I ask where you have access to the Gazette - is it electronic? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:04, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes - British Library website Andrewrabbott (talk) 20:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Splendid, thank you - I shall have a look. Do you think, in that case, you could include URLs in your references, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:34, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

St John's Church, Wolverhampton
You should add this new article in the St. John's Church disambiguation list page. I would do it myself, but don't know to which part of England it belongs. Regards, Gilliam (talk) 19:55, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

newark church organ
Hi, your recent edits to this do not make sense...please check this:

"It was and placed on the west gallery. In 1814 the organ was re-located on the chancel screen and the choir, which had led services from the organ gallery, returned to the chancel."

What does it mean? It needs some rewording, thanks Peter morrell 18:27, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Adding info on Douglas-Hamilton
Hi there - thanks indeed for the added info and pic re H.A. Douglas-Hamilton. He was known to my great grandparents when he was vicar at St Cyprian's Kimberley. All the best Blarcrean (talk) 08:07, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Dates of St Alban's vicar
Nice work, as usual, on St Alban the Martyr, Birmingham. In the list of vicars, you had:


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I've assumed the later should be 1897, and changed it, but can you check your source, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:13, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Theodore Stephen Tearne
Hi. I wonder whether you could please help me, regarding the meaning of the letters FSSc after the above man's name? Your article contains the only mention of FSSc after a name that I can find. I'm researching a late 19th century priest who was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and he also had those same letters after his name (besides FRGS). However, although there are plenty of mentions of the "Science Society, London" on the internet, there is no source (that I can find) to say exactly what it was. My 19th century priest was not a member of the Royal Society (their historical membership list is online) and they use the letters FRS anyway. Any ideas? --Storye book (talk) 11:13, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Update: Just letting you know that, since posting the above question, I have managed to answer it myself. See Society of Science, Letters and Art. --Storye book (talk) 17:45, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Andrewrabbott (talk) 10:53, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

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Kirkby Stephen
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CfD nomination of Category:William Bidlake
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Renaming
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James Woolley (clockmaker)
Hi Andrew. What made you write this article? Asking because I think I descend from one of his nephews. Eddaido (talk) 00:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC) He's someone of local interest, and I saw one of his clocks at Nottingham Industrial Museum in Wollaton Park. Andrewrabbott (talk) 14:42, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Birmingham churches; template
I'm enjoying your new Birmingham church articles. It's good to learn new things abut my home city. Thank you.

I made National Pipe Organ Register, which may ease your workload; see of it in use. It will also save problems later, if the register changes its URL structure. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:47, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Cheers. I'll use it in subsequent articles Andrewrabbott (talk) 21:13, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

St Mark's Church, Great Wyrley
I would be grateful if you would kindly apply your skills - and the sources to which you have access - at St Mark's Church, Great Wyrley. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

I've made some amendments. Is that the kind of thing you were hoping for? Andrewrabbott (talk) 20:11, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Exactly so; many thanks. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:31, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

NHLE
Hi Andrew. I'm enjoying your work on listed churches. Just one suggestion: you tend to cite the British Listed Buildings website but (although useful) this is an unofficial record, uses obsolete reference numbers, and is not automatically updated as the listings change. The official list, which contains mostly the same information but, unlike BLB, is maintained and uses a current index, is the National Heritage List England (NHLE), which has its own template for referencing (see Template:NHLE). When I can be bothered, I cite both. Just a thought – keep up the good work. Dave.Dunford (talk) 14:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information. I'll use the template in future articles. Andrewrabbott (talk) 09:44, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Just FYI: I think will still work, but the template has recently been renamed Template:National Heritage List for England entry. Dave.Dunford (talk) 13:42, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Newspaper archive references
Hi, ideally you need to add template to the references. Regard --palmiped | Talk  11:39, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

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Laurence Charles Liddell


Hi,

Knowing your inerest in church organs and organists, I thought you might be inertested in this clock (pictures above), in the collection of Birmingham Museums Trust, which caries a plate with the inscription:

"Presented to Laurence Charles Liddell on his retirement by the parishioners of Tardebigge and Bentley in grateful appreciation of his 19 years service as organist at St. Bartholomew's Church"

Can you shed any light on him? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:29, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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York's churches
Hi Andrew, I've just noticed and been impressed by your recent edits to articles on York's churches. I'm based at York Museums Trust as part of the Yorkshire GLAMwiki Network Project and may be able to help you find more resources on these churches. There's also St Mary's, Castlegate which currently lacks an article and is now a de-consecrated contemporary art space used by York Museums Trust (website here). Perhaps it should get an article? There's a little on its history here and here. What do you think? Cheers, PatHadley (talk) 14:30, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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AfD deletion nomination: CofE deanery articles
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Category:Churches by height
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St Nicholas, Moreton
Can you add anything to St Nicholas, Moreton, which I just started, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:17, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I've not been able to find anything on the National Pipe Organ Register for this church, and also the newspapers have very little. I tend to see details of church restorations if they took place after 1840 or so, but there isn't anything I can find for this church. I'll keep looking Andrewrabbott (talk) 17:44, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Blisland Parish Church
Hello, You have been making many new separate articles for churches in Cornwall in the last few weeks. Blisland Parish Church is one that you have not yet improved and it is one of the more interesting of the restored parish churches. I included a basic account of it in the Blisland article long ago and now feel that a separate and fuller article is needed.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 08:36, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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St Andrew's, Croydon
You might find St Andrew's, Croydon of interest; there's an interesting story relating to its organ. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:45, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Edit summaries, please
Once again: Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric talk 14:55, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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Joseph Harris (organist)
There seems to be some incorrect information regarding this person's date of birth. I have been working on some family history and this Joseph Harris is my fourth great grandfather: http://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Harris/6000000024103789199?through=6000000024104048913#/tab/source

If you click on the Google Books link in the Overview to the relevant page in A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660-1800 Vol. 7 - the date of birth cited, 8 September 1743, accords with his baptism record here: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N1W8-LZN ,son of John and Mary, born in Bristol and christened on 08 Oct 1743.

I don't want to change anything myself on this page as I'm not an experienced and confident Wikipedian, but would like to see the information corrected if possible, please.

Chelseawoman1 (talk) 11:04, 27 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Are you sure this is the same person as article has different place of birth and father is also different ? --palmiped | Talk  11:37, 27 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Sorry, have only just seen your post after doing quite a bit of editing, palmiped (not sure why I wasn't notified before?) - but yes, I am sure that all of the other information matches my ancestor. It has been quite a while since I've done any editing on Wikipedia or used these talk pages, and I'm not experienced with html, so please feel free to pass on any basic advice! Chelseawoman1 p.s. I have a jpg of his face sourced from a cousin who has been involved in creating the Harris family tree - but I will have to check with her details of its origin and whether it's okay to put it up on Wikipedia.

Yellow fever and Capt. Kelly
In this edit You appended the statement about deaths of crew duty yellow fever with "including Capt. Kelly". However, our article on Capt. Kelly Benedictus Marwood Kelly Indicates he lived till 1867.

This source Suggests he did not die of yellow fever although it indicates that some websites made this claim. Unless you disagree, one of us should make the change.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  17:34, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

I must have copied the death from Yellow Fever from a source but I can't recall which one. I agree that he lived until 1867, so I'm happy for the edit to be made. Andrewrabbott (talk) 17:39, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Category:William Neville Ashbee railway stations
I see you have recently created this category; I created the original article about W. N. Ashbee. In the interests of consistency, should the category also use his initials, rather than full name? This is how he is generally referred to in sources. Ultimately, there might be a case for renaming both as "Neville Ashbee" as I formed the impression from one source that this is how he was known in his life, but as yet I haven't found enough evidence to justify a change. In the meantime I think we should have consistency between article and category. The Sage of Stamford (talk) 18:19, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I wonder whether it should be left as it is. All of the other categories under Railway station architects use the full name of the architect? Andrewrabbott (talk) 16:11, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

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Bernard Kaukas
Hi, I saw you made a page for Bernard Kaukas, I know his family well and they are delighted that there is a page about him. They would love to know what prompted you to make this page? Thanks, Flynntoff (talk) 21:08, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I was just interested in architects who worked for railway companies. It would be great if a member of the family wanted to expand the article with more information on the buildings which Bernard designed. Andrewrabbott (talk) 20:09, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Stealing my article
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Weirs on the River Trent
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Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw
You might remember that you very kindly sent me a barnstar for my article on the above, five years ago. As a consequence of the research, I got the building listed on the grounds of it being a pristine and almost unchanged example of the architect's work. However, I've recently learned that the vicar and churchwardens have now gained permission to gut the place on the grounds of modern community needs. This is a small village, not an inner-city church with massive amounts of parochial and social work to do. They are going to remove the pews (designed by the architect) to clear the floor entirely, and punch a hole in the side for a kitchen and lavatory. Other churches in the area have been adapted far more discreetly. They are going to put in a lot of lighting too. All this will completely destroy the type of theatre for storytelling, in an atmosphere of natural light and shade, that Barber went in for. No longer a peaceful otherworld for sacredness and mystery, but now a secular area for a secular approach. The sad thing is that future generations may well want this building, which is a work of art, to go back the way it was, but the pews and maybe other stuff will be gone forever. I have no religion myself, but even I can see that the place had atmosphere. Storye book (talk) 08:19, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

PS Baron Osy
PS Baron Osy (1851), which you created seems to have some inaccuracies. You state that she was renamed Malakhoff in 1856, but she was still named Baron Osy in April 1857 when she ran down and sank HMRC Curlew. At the time, she was a Belgian registered ship. Mjroots (talk) 09:31, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe that the Baron Osy of 1851 was renamed Malakhoff because a new ship taking the name Baron Osy was built in 1855. There is an article on it on the Dutch Wikipedia site here https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Osy_(schip,_1855) Andrewrabbott (talk) 12:37, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
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All Saint's Yafforth - which Pritchett?
Hi Andrew,

I've recently created a page for James Pigott Pritchett Jr of Darlington, son of James Pigott Pritchett of York, and have been trying to work out which of Wikipedia's references to the father actually mean the son.

The page for All Saints' Church, Yafforth which you created a few years ago, says:

"The church dates from the twelfth century but was almost completely rebuilt in 1870 to designs by the architect James Pigott Pritchett of Darlington. Pritchett died in 1868 before the church was completed."

There must be an error here - the JP Pritchett who died in 1868 did not practice in Darlington - but I don't know which part is wrong. The listed building register just says "Virtually rebuilt in 1870 by J P Pritchett".

It seems more likely to me that the rebuilding was the work of JP Pritchett of Darlington, who was still alive in 1870 to do the work; but I didn't know if there was a specific source saying that the Pritchett in question had died in 1868 (so was JP Pritchett of York). The answer may be in the York Herald article you cited, but I don't have a login to read that.

Thanks for any help you can offer! TSP (talk) 19:00, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi TSP, I'm afraid I don't know. The article only mentions JP Pritchett but doesn't specify which one. Andrewrabbott (talk) 20:30, 17 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks Andrew - if the source doesn't specifically mention the Pritchett in question dying in 1868, then I think that will be Pritchett Jr. TSP (talk) 17:26, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

File:Sandweid.JPG
Do you have any more information about Sandweid railway station? I've looked in the usual places, and I can't find any evidence of it existing aside from your photograph of the departure board. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 13:01, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

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Station masters
Could you check your recent edit for Lostwithiel railway station. That date can't be correct! Geof Sheppard (talk) 16:50, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing that out. Just a typing error. Andrewrabbott (talk) 17:00, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

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