Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Over-track train station


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Little support for the merge suggestion, but that option (as well as improvements to the Train station article, etc.) can still be discussed elsewhere. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:03, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Over-track train station

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"train station where station building is over the platform" is a valid description of many train stations, but is that classification on its own independently notable? – Train2104 (t • c) 03:24, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 01:44, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 01:44, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   12:30, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's an architectural design topic, and it could be the location of a list of examples.  A list-article of train stations which are verifiably of this type would not be questioned.  The article was created originally as a translation from a Japanese wikipedia article apparently.  The article can be kept to cover this type of train station and be linked from all examples of its type.  Or it may be transformed into a more general article about railway station design covering other options as well, and/or continuing about other types of over-track structures in urban areas where the air rights over tracks are valuable.  Either way, it is a notable design option.  From quick searching, sources relevant include:
 * RAILWAY STATION DESIGN, discusses design options "Island Platform Station", "Elevated Station with Side Platforms", "Elevated Station with Ticket Hall Below Platforms" etc.
 * "Bridging the Tracks: Air Rights Development and the Urban Fabric", by William F. Baker and Richard F. Tomlinson II, is self-labelled as an essay but is a decent architectural article including several case studies.
 * -- do ncr  am  07:48, 19 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment. I find that the Railway station article begins to describe design options, with "main" link to a general article on the topic, however that article was deleted as outcome of Articles for deletion/Railway station layout.  That AFD outcome was a bad decision, where the consensus (expressed in the closure) was that the topic is notable.  Some of the (bad) arguments were wp:TNT.  Essay wp:TNTTNT (which i wrote) covers numerous problems with TNT.  Anyhow, it was the general article to which this more specialized topic might possibly have been merged.  So about this article, we should Keep it, although allow it to be moved to the more general topic. -- do  ncr  am  07:55, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That article was deleted because it did not discuss station layout; it was just a collection of oddities which was forked off the main article because it was overwhelming it. Mangoe (talk) 14:05, 20 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep per . I can think of several examples off the top of my head: Finsbury Park station in London, and the Times Square, Canal Street, and the Woodside station (connecting the 7 train and LIRR) in New York City. Bearian (talk) 13:53, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * merge to railway station The presenting problem in both this and the article mentioned by doncram is that the main station article doesn't discuss the matter of station layout much: there's a (too long) section on terminal stations and very little else. When we have such a section (which would include discussion of this arrangement, because it's very common) we can talk about splitting it back out again as a unit. Mangoe (talk) 14:05, 20 April 2017 (UTC)


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