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This page is about the WikiProject regarding stations. For the essay on station notability, see Wikipedia:Notability (Railway lines and stations).

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WikiProject Stations

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This WikiProject aims to provide a standard format for articles about a train station or metro station. Naming convention is excluded. Consult Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations) instead. Consult Wikiproject trains for rail line and railway format.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this project is WikiProject Trains.

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[edit] Naming

Migrated to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations).

[edit] Structure

The lead paragraph shall include the name of the station as it appears on the system map, and not a short-hand name, but those can and should be mentioned later. It shall also mention the system, the city or area, and the line the station lies on, and, if notable, the location on that line.

The next information should be the area served by the station, and major establishments and attractions near it. A list of lesser but still notable places should be supplied later. The date service began should probably be here. Notable historic events specific to that rail station should go in the next paragraph.

A table should exist, displaying the line(s) and the next stations on that line, with a link to the appropriate line.

[edit] Article Templates

'''[[station]]''' is a [[line]] station in [[city/area]] on the [[line(s)]].  (Notable
information here, like if it's a terminus or changeover station)

It is located at (address/intersection).  (Other notable locations here, like proximity to a 
university or sports venue).  Service began [[date]].

==Notable places nearby==
*List of places that people going to this station may be interested in knowing about

The table should go below the rest, since this kind of information is more appropriately rendered horizontally on the bottom. The western or northern or counter-clockwise station should go on the left. If there is a western or eastern link, that should take precedence (as seen in the second example below), since it would make poor sense to have the eastern link on the left.

Examples of tables:

Next station north:
Friendship Heights		 Washington Metro
Red Line		 Next station south:
Van Ness-UDC
Next station west:
Court House		 Washington Metro
Orange Line		 Next station east:
Foggy Bottom-GWU
Next station south:
Arlington Cemetery		 Washington Metro
Blue Line

(If you have any comments on this table, please discuss them in the talk page. This is a draft that seems to work well)

[edit] Pages needing attention

[edit] Railroads

[edit] URGENT: expert attention needed (manually updated)

  • 2000 series (Kobe New Transit), see Talk:Kobe New Transit 2000 series for new comments. Article needs the {{unsourced}} template changed to {{nosource}} template!
  • Tram, see talk page: deletion of ISBN Book-reference by user:Fram without review. D.A. Borgdorff retired MASc E.Eng. PE = 86.83.155.44 (talk)
  • Flower Nagai Line: I realize this is may not be the correct place to post this, but I've never edited a Wikipedia page before. However, I was so shocked that information about the history of the Flower Nagai Line tours was not included--It's existence wasn't even mentioned! I wrote a small paragraph which while not terribly elegant, should suffice for information. Would someone please link the second reference with the last paragraph of the History section? Theazreal (talk) 07:49, 1 October 2008 (UTC)theazreal
  • Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad, The template needs to be fixed. ----DanTD (talk) 21:01, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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