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Category:Stations with enamel panels
I noticed that you have tagged a number of stations with this category. I suspect that you mean the platforms have enamel wall cladding, but think it really needs some explanation on the category page as to what this means. Is the existence of enamel panels really something that warrants categorisation?--DavidCane (talk) 20:27, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your interest, but no, I don't mean that they simply have enamel wall cladding; I mean that they have decorative or otherwise interesting enamel panels on the walls. I think this warrants categorisation because enamel isn't often used in station decorative schemes. I will add something to the category page.Winstonsmith99 (talk) 21:49, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

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I don't understand why this file has been deleted. The person who created the file agreed to license it and a permission email was accordingly sent in the standard terms to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on 24 November 2011. This email has never been queried or even acknowledged, so I don't see why the file has been deleted. I think the file should be restored.Winstonsmith99 (talk) 19:47, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The penultimate edit summary was . Nothing else happened until it was tagged for deletion (because the OTRS was not finalised). I will now look on OTRS to see what the problem was, and if I can give you any more info.  Ron h jones (Talk) 19:53, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The e-mail was received on "05/25/2011 03:40:26" and replied to on "05/26/2011 19:47:32". I can't give too many details because of the privacy rules. All I can say is that the image source is "Jeremy Gray", but Jeremy Gray did not send the e-mail, therefore further information was asked for, and no reply was received - I can re-send that e-mail if it was not received by the recipient. Any e-mail back to the permissions queue should use in the subject to keep the ticket thread together.  Ron h jones (Talk) 20:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * But I am referring to the later email sent by Jeremy Gray and forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on 24 November 2011. I don't understand why this email has been ignored and why the file has been deleted.Winstonsmith99 (talk) 20:28, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, just found it - it's been ignored because it still was still not sent by Jeremy Gray, he just sent to X who forwarded it without the ticket number, so it looks like a new request. I'll merge the tickets and ask the original OTRS person if he want to review it.  Ron h jones (Talk) 16:30, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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London Paddington station
To answer your question about the criteria used, "Most important long-distance destinations" means the major UK towns and cities for which the terminal in question is the primary London station. This may not match "top flows" which in many cases are probably more local or shorter-distance journeys and are a different issue. It is a significant and useful piece of information because people based in the south-east traditionally know that different London terminals serve different UK cities but tend to forget which serves which if they are not people who use the railways all the time (Kings Cross for Edinburgh, St Pancras for Nottingham, etc.). The same information has been provided in the lead of several other London terminal articles and I was in the process of trying to make it standard for all of them. -- Alarics (talk) 23:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, but I think it would be better to standardise on a formula like "X is the terminus for services from A, B and C" which is factual and meets your point without raising the issue of how importance is to be judged.Winstonsmith99 (talk) 02:01, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Doesn't quite meet my point because it will provoke some editors to keeping adding to it and it will end up as an enormous list. We need to be clear that for this particular sentence we are talking only about the most significant long-distance destinations. Population size is one key criterion I think, and traffic flows another, with obviously a certain room for debate, but not all that much: for instance, it is fairly obvious that in the case of Paddington you would include Plymouth but not Weston-super-Mare, and so on. See London Waterloo station, where somebody wanted to add Poole, Weymouth and Dorchester but I cited their populations to show that these are far smaller than Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth. We ended up compromising on including Weymouth and Poole but then another editor came along and removed those, leaving the three now mentioned as unambiguously the most significant long-distance destinations (the list excludes Exeter because Waterloo is not the main London station for Exeter). As it happens, these were the three that I had put in in the first place. See these diffs:    and see this discussion at my talkpage:.
 * "Most important" seems to me a reasonable description for this approach, but if you don't approve of that, how about "Major long-distance destinations include ..." If you're not happy with that either, perhaps we had better raise the matter at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_Railways and see what others think. -- Alarics (talk) 10:14, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It seems to me that in this context even "major" is a bit questionable (though I agree "major" is better than "most important" or "most significant"). As you say, all these expressions could refer either to the population of the destination or to the size of the traffic flow. I see two slight problems with "major", to the extent that this word might refer to the population of the destination:
 * (1) the population of the area where the station is situated may not represent the importance of the station to passengers, for example Didcot Parkway is in Didcot (pop 24,500 according to its page on Wikipedia) but the flow between Didcot Parkway and Paddington is about half as much again as the flow between Cardiff Central and Paddington, even though Cardiff has a population nearly 14 times greater than that of Didcot (340,000 according to the Cardiff Wikipedia page); and
 * (2) given that we can look up the population figures of the destinations ourselves on the respective Wikipedia pages, it seems more useful if the page about a terminus focuses on the biggest passenger flows to and from that station, which will account for most of the people using the station.
 * Surely it would be better to keep the text objective. Why not a formula like "the largest cities served from Paddington include..." which would be reasonably uncontroversial - this would meet your aim of indicating in broad terms the range of places served by the terminus, to help travellers from the south-east, but it would avoid appearing to make judgements of importance or significance between say Didcot and Cardiff.Winstonsmith99 (talk) 23:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The above statement 2 - we need to be careful that wikipedia is not confused with a travel website it would be fair to say that "London Paddington originally offered a service to Taplow, this has since been expanded to the West as far as Cardiff and to the South West as far as Penzance." Clearly there is a need for principle stations to be included in the entry. Ie. Slough, Maidenhead, Reading, Didcot Parkway I could go on but the inclusion of for example Greenford is not necessary as someone wishing to travel there would I presume have got their information from the nation rail website. LongRobin79(talk) 19:59, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * We are talking here only about long-distance destinations. The stations you mention do not fall into that category. You are right that Wikipedia is not a travel website and nor is it a railway timetable or directory. The sentence under discussion was not aimed at people making their immediate travel plans. The idea is to set in context the main historic functions of the London terminal in question and to make the articles about the various major London terminals more consistent with each other, at least in the lead. -- Alarics (talk) 09:27, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Winston, I think if you want the criteria to be more objective we had better make them explicit in terms of size of city (and distance from London that qualifies for "long-distance"), so I will go away and devise some criteria and then take them them to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_Railways and see if we can establish a consensus to be applied to all the big London terminals. -- Alarics (talk) 10:14, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, although I don't see what's wrong with a formula like "the largest cities served from Paddington include...". It may be that one set of the criteria of city size and distance won't fit all situations. Also you should bear in mind that, according to the tables of passenger flows which I reproduced from Network Rail's Great Western Route Utilisation Study, Reading is a long-distance destination but Oxford, which is further away, is suburban. Although Reading is served by suburban trains from Paddington, 95% of Reading-Paddington journeys are on long-distance trains (para 3.6.14 of the RUS).Winstonsmith99 (talk) 20:03, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I know, but that is just because those trains happen to call there frequently. Reading is not a long-distance destination in real life, and will not count as one in my criteria. We do not need to follow Network Rail's silly terminology. However, it is true that the Paddington article as it currently stands does also need a sentence in the lead about suburban services and that will be the place to mention Reading and Oxford (and Slough and Newbury and Maidenhead), or perhaps we should just say parts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. -- Alarics (talk) 20:19, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * And please discuss things before you substantially rewrite an article. Simply south...... facing oncoming traffic for over 5 years 22:09, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Nothing to discuss when what was there was so obviously wrong. For example, your edit on 9 January 2012 left the article saying that the name of the planned station would be "Watford General Hospital", when it was clear from ref 4 of the article at that time (retrieved the day before your edit) that the name of the station would be "Watford Hospital". The article then included irrelevant comments about Watford West station which obviously did not belong in an article about another station.Winstonsmith99 (talk) 01:58, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Piccadilly & Met lines and non-stopping trains
Hello, you are right of course that Piccadilly line trains don't call at stations between Hammersmith and Acton Town, those being served only by District line trains (except sometimes Turnham Green which is a special case). But the difference with the Metropolitan is that the stations in question are not shown on the Piccadilly line map at all, so you can argue that the stations are not "on" the Piccadilly line. In contrast, on the Met certain trains pass through certain *Metropolitan* stations without stopping. So from the point of view of the passenger looking at the map of the line, the Met is unique in this respect, and the only one that requires explanations such as in e.g. (page 3). I am therefore not convinced that adding a mention of the Piccadilly to the Met article is helpful. What do you think? -- Alarics (talk) 08:46, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean. I was confused by the word "general". I have rephrased the earlier wording but omitting "general", and I think the text is clearer now and in line with what you are suggesting.Winstonsmith99 (talk) 18:33, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. I undid most of your edit to Bristol Parkway. The format of "Description, Services, History, Future" is fairly standard, and generally I don't see much need to split it up further, especially not at the heading level. Your addition of a "rationale for new station" section made particularly little sense - nothing in this section actually stated why it was built. I accept some of the minor changes, but by and large I don't think your edit was an improvement. -mattbuck (Talk) 10:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
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