Talk:List of closed railway stations in London
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[edit] Table mess
(Copied over from Talk:List of London railway stations where the table used to be.)
The table looks very confused:
1). Most stations closed well before the introduction of the travelcard farezones. The table just leaves an ugly blank there - maybe a N/A would work best?
2). Some of the "replaced by" entries are weird. Saying that Holborn Viaduct was replaced by City Thameslink is clear - one closed and the other opened almost overnight. Saying that a railway line closed in the 1940s was "replaced" because a DLR service opened in the neighbourhood fifty years later is a very different thing. Also often a station is shut down because improvements to a neighbouring existing station have enhanced its capacity - not really a "this station replaced that one" scenario. Can we limited "replaced by" to explicit replacement stations?
[edit] Addiscombe and Bingham Road
The situation here is confusing and not correctly represented. Addiscombe station closed on closure of the railway line. The site is now block of flats.
Bingham Road closed a few years earlier on the closure of the line between Woodside and Sanderstead. When Tramlink was built the site was flattened and lowered and a Tramlink stop build at road level. It was this station that was replaced by a tramlink stop that is called Addiscombe. This is where Addiscombe is. Calling the former railway station Addiscombe was a bit of marketing license.--Pedantic of Purley 00:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Local Authority
Timrollpickering 15:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Also the "local authority" section is meaningless - a lot of stations closed before the 1965 reorganisation and some before the late 1880s. A placename for the area should suffice. Timrollpickering 15:23, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Croydon Tramlink
For some years the correct title (and the one used by Wikipedia) is simply "Tramlink"--Pedantic of Purley 00:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Southwark Park railway station
seams to have been missed, "Southwark Park railway station" was closed by the SECR in 1915, between New Cross and London Bridge somehwere. Pickle 23:05, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:East_london_railway_1915.jpg Pickle 23:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
