Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of British towns with no railway station


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW The Bushranger One ping only 16:23, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

List of British towns with no railway station

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Unsourced. "No railway station" doesn't seem easy to verify. What purpose does a list of things that don't exist serve? The list can't even make up its own mind, as seen by text such as "On the other hand, it may be argued that inclusion in a list of non-rail linked towns should be based not on a technical or administrative link but on the town's being an identifiable distinct community lacking proximity or practical accessibility to a railway station." It seems there's no specific definition, thus making the list inherently flawed. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:55, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete it's an indiscriminate list and there's no demonstration of notability. MountainMan11 (talk) 20:08, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete If it was something specific such as a list of closed stations then I may have been tempted to vote keep, but as an arbitrary list of towns which may or may not warrant inclusion it serves no purpose. Periglio (talk) 22:56, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete, unless significantly cleaned up and sourced. During the silly season, there are often claims that such-a-town is "the largest town without a railway station", but I've never seen lists of more than three to five. The inclusion criteria are vague, anyway: Leigh for example, has no station, but there are several within the same local authority, just in different towns. So newspaper X lists Leigh, but newspaper Y doesn't, because they only check to local authority level. The article has this list of Non Rail Towns, but again, the criteria are curious: under W, for example, we find that Warley, Essex is 0.5 miles from Brentwood railway station, yet is a "non rail town". -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:22, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - it is an indiscriminate list of information. This also does not have any sources, and possibly fails to meet the general notability guidelines. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:34, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * • Gene93k (talk) 00:45, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per the aove commenters.--VikÞor |  Talk 02:41, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - I see Oldham Mumps Metrolink station is included in the list. Ning-ning (talk) 08:32, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete We don't list articles on qualities they don't have. Why not List of British towns that do not have an airport or List of American actors who have never won an Oscar.  Lugnuts  (talk) 08:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - as I have noted on the talk page, the inclusion criteria is vague. "No railway station". London Underground, Metrolink (although tram) and the Epping Ongar Railway are all types of railways, for example, and many of the places are served by them. Simply south...... flapping wings into buildings for just 6 years 12:33, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
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