Talk:List of railway stations in Wales

Things to do

The aim is to bring this article up to a similar standard to List of West Midlands railway stations, which should hopefully achieve Featured List status very soon. Heres a to-do list of what needs to be done - it will be updated as time goes on.

• Change station names from all caps to plain text, eg RHYL ==> Rhyl. Y done
• Check spellings of both English and Welsh names.
• Check missing Welsh names - where they are exactly the same as English spelling they can be left out.
• Add opening dates for each station, and provide refs.
• Provide footnotes for stations which have closed and reopened, and for stations which have changed name since opening, with refs.
• Add footnotes to Vale of Glamorgan line stations which opened in 2005 to explain no usage stats for 04-05
• populate operator column. Y Done
• Expand lead.
• Add images - necessary for any WP:FL nomination later.
• the list needs to be sorted in order A-Z - currently sorts by pax usage by default. Y done

Thats it for now - please feel free to add to this list if there's anything major I've missed. --TicketMan - Talk - contribs 02:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Stations on preserved lines

Should stations on preserved lines be included on the list? A number of stations on the Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways have inividual articles. Tivedshambo (talk) 13:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I had thought of that, although if they are included I think they should be in a separate table, as different columns would be needed, for example usage stats and served by columns would be redundant, and closure/reopen dates would possibly be needed. Bearing that in mind, perhaps a separate article should be the way forward? --TicketMan - Talk - contribs 19:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

More things to consider

• Expand the lead - at least two full paragraphs.
• Station user stats - we're now 2008, can't you do better than 05-06?
• Complete the wikilinks.
• Go with WP:HEAD - "External Links" should be "External links"...
• What in the heck is a unitary authority (I know....... explain for the benefit of others...!) - and provide context for the whole article (like, where's Wales?!).

It is not the job of this article to explain what a unitary authority is or where Wales is. Wikilinks shall be sufficient Welshleprechaun (talk) 00:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• If you're placing the Welsh in italics then make sure you do it consistently for the whole article. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

To answer to your second comment, the figures for 05/06 are the latest to have been released at present - see Office of Rail Regulation website. Tivedshambo (talk) 22:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Slow down :-D

Currently working on populating new fields in table. Opening date and refs are going to be most dificult by the looks of it - Google is all but useless. Time to dust off some books methinks. Regarding the 06-07 stats, I have contacted the ORR to enquire when they are likely to be available - no reply as yet. --TicketMan - Talk - contribs 22:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

New stations

The following are scheduled to open sometime soon ,after driver training on the Ebbw Vale route:

• Ebbw Vale parkway
• Newbridge
• Risca & Pontymister
• Rogerstone

Scheduled to open on 8th May (also on the Ebbw Vale line)

• Llanhilleth
• Crosskeys —Preceding unsigned comment added by TicketMan (talk • contribs) 18:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

list really complete?

I was just looking on this site:

http://www.arrivatrainswales.co.uk/AdoptedStations/

it only lists stations adopted, but already there seem to be more than 160 in Wales. The list here only lists only 121 according to my Excel table I fed with it... Best regards --62.157.36.138 (talk) 15:20, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not history: As the lede says, only currently timetabled stations are listed. |||| — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.188.233.56 (talk) 12:42, 26 April 2018 (UTC)