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==Platforms==
Just to quote what the page currently says:
Platforms 6 and 7 are dedicated to the Heathrow Express, and platforms 13 and 14 can only be used by the short trains used on local services. All the other platforms can be used by any of the station's train services. However in normal usage the tendency is for long distance trains to use the western platforms, and local trains (including Heathrow Connect) the eastern ones.

But this is incorrect, Platform 12 cannot be used by HST's. Platforms 1,2,13 and 14 do not have overhead wires so cannot be used by Heathrow Express or Heathrow Connect. Ta, Ollie 2/2/08 <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/88.105.194.167|88.105.194.167]] ([[User talk:88.105.194.167|talk]]) 12:41, 2 February 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
==Bear==

Someone right about the bear! -- [[User:Tzartzam|Sam]]

:If you mean "write", there's stuff on [[Paddington, London, England]] that can be moved here, including a link to [[Paddington Bear]] --[[User:Rbrwr|rbrwr]]

:: I suspect they mean the Bear statue on the Lawn. Brunel is in the taxi arch, not the Lawn. Was it ever on the Lawn? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/92.24.4.157|92.24.4.157]] ([[User talk:92.24.4.157|talk]]) 08:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

==Spans==

Paddington has four spans not three.

:As this is an unsigned comment, I cannot tell how old this comment is. But the current article doesn't say the station has three spans. It says that Brunel's original station had three spans, and that a fourth span was added later. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 17:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

== Naming lack of consensus ==

Having just had my wrist gently slapped by the National Rail journey planner for requesting a journey from 'Paddington' (it politely enquired if I really meant 'London Paddington'), I thought we needed to do something about naming of the article. However looking into this further, I found there isn't even a consensus amongst the station's key stakeholders, let alone amongst general usage. So I've left the naming alone, and added an explanatory paragraph. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 11:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
:The explanatory paragraph wasn't really necessary, and sounded a bit like a rant (especially after an anonymous editor modified it). Apply a bit of common sense to the situation. Also, the same surely applies to other London stations.

:Besides, the National Rail journey planner is nowhere near perfect, so I wouldn't treat it "as gospel". --[[User:RFBailey|RFBailey]] 13:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

::Fair points that it did sound a bit like a rant, but I do not think we can completely ignore this issue. Taking my cue from your point about other London stations, I've copied the formula that seems to have been acceptable on the [[Victoria station (London)]] article for the last 6 months. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 14:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

:::Don't want to rattle on about this. But I checked the timetable posters on Reading station on my way home. Reading has no trains to Paddington under 'P', but many to London Paddington under 'L'. I rest my case. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 17:39, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

:::: National Rail now just lets you put PAD and it will show up as London Paddington, without asking if that is what you wanted. For example you could want Reading to Paddington, and RDG to PAD will work fine.

== Tube split ==

I've split off the tube station section to its own article as it seemed too long and awkward to just be a subsection here. Other pages that still link to [[Paddington station]] need to have their links updated to either [[Paddington railway station]] or [[Paddington tube station]]. There's a list of such pages [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Paddington_station here], and obviously its too many to do all of them by myself. --[[User:Dtcdthingy|Dtcdthingy]] 15:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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== Requested move (1) ==

I don't think the 'tube split' described above makes any kind of sense. You either need to treat Paddington as a single transport interchange (1 article) or as a national rail station plus two quite separate tube stations (3 articles). Lets see what the consensus is. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 20:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Given that the consensus at present seems to be in favour of going back to one article, but the move is blocked, I'm requesting admin assistance for the move. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 12:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[[Paddington railway station]] → [[Paddington station]] – In order to revert previous split of article [[Paddington station]] into [[Paddington railway station]] and [[Paddington tube station]] without losing article history and in line with consensus developed on talk page. Three steps needed (1) This move (2) Revert moved article to revision id 74213323 (3) Revert the tube station article to revision id 16040944. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 12:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Indicate which option you support followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

===Votes for a single article covering rail and tube (ie. 1 article)===
# The three stations (mainline, Bakerloo/Circle/District, and Hammersmith&City) are so interwined it makes better sense to cover them as a single entity. After all, interchange between the two tube stations involves walking the length of the mainline station's platform 8, and the H&C station's platforms are even numbered in the same series as the mainline station. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 20:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
# I'd have to agree that it would be better to have them all as one, being so entwined. The stations are so closely related to each other anyway that it might seem odd for any other reason to have them separate, unless they were actually physically apart. A visitor to the station, or general person searching Wikipedia for information about the station, would not usually consider them separate, and having them together saves navigating via a disambiguation page. I believe the entrance is also marked with both the National Rail logo and the Underground roundel, as at London Bridge. Perhaps if each section were so extensive that the page was overly long, it would be justified, but I think the split should wait until that time, rather than encouraging expansion of each article by splitting them now. [[User:Willkm|Willkm]] 22:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
# One artice for both tube and national rail. [[User:Jt spratt|Jt spratt]] 21:51, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
# This station probably more than all the other complex stations is better served by one article, given the H&C is integrated with the main station and totally disconnected from the Bakerloo station. The current split is a bad idea. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] 17:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
# One article makes sense, given the interlinking. If we have too much information about one part we can split that off to a separate article with a main article link from a summary-section here. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] 11:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
# This option makes the most sense. As stated by [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] above, Paddington station is a single transport interchange. There are various methods of transport available at the station, but it would be almost like having a separate article for each bus number at a bus stop... [[User:Robwingfield|Robwingfield]] <sup>([[User talk:Robwingfield|talk]])</sup> 15:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

===Votes for separate articles covering the mainline and both tube stations (ie. 3 articles)===

===Votes for an article on the mainline station and another on the tube stations (ie. 2 articles)===

===Discussion===
* The request for page move '''succeeded'''. I see Chris j wood requested some reverting to be done also, but I reckon you don't need admin priviledges for that and I don't want to revert to wrong version, so please somebody do the revert. --[[User:Dijxtra|Dijxtra]] 10:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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== Viewing issues ==

Does anyone else only seem to see the page in a box on the right hand side? I'm using firefox 2.0, by the way? [[User:Jt spratt|Jt spratt]] 09:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

:IE 7 has the same problem is this just my computer? [[User:Jt spratt|Jt spratt]] 09:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

== Brunel bridge discovery ==

The article currently says:

:''A very early construction by Brunel was recently discovered immediately to the north of the station; a cast iron bridge carrying the Bishop's Bridge Road over the railway lines was exposed during removal of the more recent brick outer covering in late 2004, in the run-up to the bridge's complete replacement.''

I'm pretty sure that this discovery was actually of Brunel's spans carrying Bishop's Bridge Road over the adjacent Paddington Arm of the [[Grand Union Canal]] on the approach to the railway bridge. His actual spans over the railway were replaced long ago by a girder bridge, which has just been replaced again. Anybody confirm that?. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] 17:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

== Metropolitan Line ==

can the [[Metropolitan Line]] stop be mentioned under "disused" tube/railway stops as paddington used to be on the [[Metropolitan Line]] [[User:82.24.175.199|82.24.175.199]] 18:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

:No. The section was merely remaned [[Hammersmith and City line]] in 1988. It's still very much there. In fact, we should probably put a picture of the original (1863) Paddington LU station in the infobox, rather than the later District 1868 one, as we have now. (Half the original LU platforms at Paddington on the H&S are used by mainline services nowadays.) [[User:ProhibitOnions|<span style="color:#800">Pro<span style="color:#a00">hib<span style="color:#b00">it'''<span style="color:#c00">O</span>ni'''</span>'''o'''</span>'''ns'''</span>]] <sup><font size="-2">[[User talk:ProhibitOnions|(T)]]</font></sup> 12:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

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==GA Sweeps review==
This article has been reviewed as part of the [[Wikipedia:GAPQ/S|GA Project quality task force]], and I'm very pleased to be able to say that as a result of the work that's been it has been confirmed as a GA.

The review can be found [[Talk:London Paddington station/GA1|here]]. --[[User:Malleus Fatuorum|Malleus Fatuorum]] ([[User talk:Malleus Fatuorum|talk]]) 12:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

== Removed uncited references from Paddington station in fiction ==

In the light of the imminent GA review (see above), I have removed all the uncited references from the 'in fiction' section. I have done this because:

* The article has had a refimprove tag since March 2008.
* The article has had a declared GA review for nearly a week
* Nobody else has seen fit to work these references in that time
* I personally don't much care for long lists of 'in fiction' references, so I prefer to use my limited time to work other uncited references
* Given the above, these references are likely to cause the article to fail GA review.

If anybody else, and especially the original editors of the references, feels agrieved by this, please feel free to do the necessary research and reinsert with cites. -- [[User:Chris j wood|Chris j wood]] ([[User talk:Chris j wood|talk]]) 15:13, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

== Location: Refute "largely residential", but on what authority? ==
This section must have been hijacked by someone marketing the new office blocks! The station dominates its location, which is naturally not "residential" but grimly commercial. Whatever the marketeers might hope or achieve, at present the location is dominated by the large hospital and the usual railway red-light area, cheap hotels, cafes, shops, railway traffic; obviously not "residential", but what authority can one cite? [[User:Jezzabr|Jezza]] ([[User talk:Jezzabr|talk]]) 00:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

==Requested move==
{{movereq | multiple=yes | current1=London Paddington station | new1=Paddington station | current2=London King's Cross railway station | new2= King's Cross railway station | current3=London Waterloo station | new3= Waterloo station | current4=London Waterloo East railway station | new4=Waterloo East railway station | current5=London Victoria station | new5=Victoria station (London)}}

There are 12 London stations that for some purposes are prefixed "London" [http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/codes/] and for other purposes are not. [http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/765.aspx] Our article naming has used "London X" on five articles and "X" on seven articles. The articles text explains that two alternative names exist and give these sources. Both names are present in the infoboxes. These articles should share a common naming convention. This proposal concerns only the prefix "London". The article name suffixes (-station, -railway station) form a convention that is followed.

* [[London Paddington station]] → [[Paddington station]]
* [[London King's Cross railway station]] → [[King's Cross railway station]]
* [[London Waterloo station]] → [[Waterloo station]]
* [[London Waterloo East railway station]] → [[Waterloo East railway station]]
* [[London Victoria station]] → [[Victoria station (London)]]

This would bring them into line with these articles:

* [[Cannon Street station]]
* [[Charing Cross railway station]]
* [[Euston railway station]]
* [[Fenchurch Street railway station]]
* [[Liverpool Street station]]
* [[Marylebone station]]
* [[St Pancras railway station]]

For Victoria the "London X" naming was used for disambiguation [[Victoria station|with others outside London]]. However, there is another format currently used for this purpose and it should be moved to match:

* [[Kew Gardens station (London)]]
* [[Kingston railway station (London)]]
* [[Reedham railway station (London)]]
* [[Richmond station (London)]]
* [[Sutton railway station (London)]]
* [[Sydenham railway station (London)]]

Thanks. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 08:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

*I think that I '''Support''' most of these, except probably the "London Victoria station" article. I'll need to vet eash individually before saying that I support all of the others, though.<br/>— [[User:Ohms law|<span class="texhtml"><i>V</i> = <i>I</i> * <i>R</i></span>]] ([[User talk:Ohms law|talk]]) 09:26, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
*'''<strike>Slightly above average</strike> oppose'''<sup>(see below)</sup>, we've tried a few of these formats over time, It has turned out easier to slip [[London King's Cross railway station]] into a flowing paragraph of text than it has been to include a line about [[Victoria station (London)]] across the other side of the city. In short, the prefixing of ''London X&nbsp;Y&nbsp;Z'' has turned out to be a very effective way of solving the disambiguation issue that exists between these London railway stations and the latter ones in other countries. There is ''not'' a net benefit achieved by switching ''from'' something that works, to something (with parentheses) requiring frequent piped links for clarity (''[[WP:EGG]]''). The need to disambiguate is not ideal, but what we have, appears already to be preferable and has proven itself to ''work in practice''. —[[User:Sladen|Sladen]] ([[User talk:Sladen|talk]]) 10:11, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

For clarity, those not supporting the move please indicate if they have a preference for the status quo of random/mixed article naming or if they would prefer to see Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Euston, Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street etc. moved to the "London X" format. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 10:56, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
:My recollection is/was that the naming was on the basis of:
:#Generally mainline stations are called ''Something railway station''. Often Metro stations are ''Something metro station'' and Tramway stations are ''Something tram stop''
:#When a station (eg. Euston, or Victoria) is a combined major interchange, it tends to have become ''Something station'' because it's multi-modal.
:#When a station has multiple possibilities (eg. Kings Cross railway stations in Sydney and in London) then the choices are ''Something railway station, London'' or ''London Something railway station'' and with the choice between two bad options, the latter was deemed preferable.
:#Where a station has multiple possibly names (St Pancras ...Lowlevel/Domestic/International/Thameslink/Midland Road) the common-name/shortest is chosen, so ''St Pancras railway station''—as it is <u>not</u> a tube station!
:Would it just be a case of more-formally codifying this? —[[User:Sladen|Sladen]] ([[User talk:Sladen|talk]]) 11:17, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
::Sorry I should have made it clearer, this proposal concerns only the prefix "London" applied to five articles. The use of suffixes (-station, -railway station) have been followed as you described and this proposal does not seek to change that. It only concerns five stations that we have added "London" to the start of, despite there being twelve stations where this is sometimes done in practice. Of these five stations only one (Victoria) has the prefix "London" for disambiguation. The other four (Paddington, King's Cross, Waterloo, Waterloo East) it has been applied randomly. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 11:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
:::Is there an actual MoS which deals specifically with this topic, somewhere?<br/>— [[User:Ohms law|<span class="texhtml"><i>V</i> = <i>I</i> * <i>R</i></span>]] ([[User talk:Ohms law|talk]]) 11:38, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

::::The naming was agreed years ago by [[WP:London]], but didn't deal specifically with the "London" prefix, it was only concerned with the suffixes which relate to the transport modes at the station. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 13:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

:::Okay, going through them again:
{| class="wikitable"
| [[London Waterloo East railway station]] || → [[Waterloo East railway station]] || '''Strong&nbsp;support''' || a fairly minor station...
|-
| [[London Waterloo station]] || → [[Waterloo station]] || '''Support''' || scans better
|-
| [[London Paddington station]] || → [[Paddington station]] || '''...''' || no preference
|-
| [[London King's Cross railway station]] || → [[King's Cross railway station]] || '''Oppose''' || disambig @ [[King's Cross station]]
|-
| [[London Victoria station]] || → [[Victoria station (London)]] || '''Strong&nbsp;oppose''' || unnatural (brackets); disambig @ [[Victoria station]]
|}
:::In addition, I'd be interesting in recommendations for getting rid of the awkward "Richmond (London)" naming—although these are of significantly lower visibilty/importance. —[[User:Sladen|Sladen]] ([[User talk:Sladen|talk]]) 12:03, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

::::Yes. I can see the logic (and a pattern we can stick to) if the "London" prefix is only used for central London stations that require disambiguation. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 13:36, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
:::::According to [[WP:DAB]], we shouldn't disambiguate unless absolutely required to do so anyway.<br/>— [[User:Ohms law|<span class="texhtml"><i>V</i> = <i>I</i> * <i>R</i></span>]] ([[User talk:Ohms law|talk]]) 21:26, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
::::::Exactly. That would tie in to our policies and would work in practice. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 06:23, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
*My strong opinion is that in encyclopedic articles official names should be used for names of articles. WP [[List of London railway stations]] has a reference to an NR list of official names (although at the moment the article needs to be changed to reflect NR's more recent distinguishing St P (Dom) from St P (Int). Table tennis is mainly in [[Table Tennis]] and not in [[Ping Pong]]. Although the rule of WP is "Do as you fancy" this sort of unpublicised "poll" with a serve-chosen electorate in no way improves the encyclpedia. WP is meant for information not for the indulgence of fancies. Disambiguating seems to be not particularly relevant for even with say "London Wloo" as the article, an minor article to guide the seeker after truth would be needed to get to London stations and not Liverpool or closed one way Welsh ones--[[User:SilasW|SilasW]] ([[User talk:SilasW|talk]]) 21:38, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
*:We're decidedly ''not'' supposed to "Do as you fancy". Official naming policies, however, are quite often controversial (not so much in Europe or North America, but the rest of the world) and replying on them would violate [[WP:PRIMARY]] anyway. Regardless, see [[WP:COMMONNAME]] for our guidelines oh how we are ''supposed'' to primarily resolve naming disputes (hint: it's all about the third party references).<br/>— [[User:Ohms law|<span class="texhtml"><i>V</i> = <i>I</i> * <i>R</i></span>]] ([[User talk:Ohms law|talk]]) 22:13, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
*::OK, the Shield of Irony has not kept me from crying "Touché". Most railway articles fail the reference test because even "A is between B and C" is unsourced. Some strong reason needs to be adduced for not following the reference given above.--[[User:SilasW|SilasW]] ([[User talk:SilasW|talk]]) 14:03, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
*:::I should point out that I'm very willing to bend. All I'm attempting to do here is state what I see is the position we should follow based on current policy/guidelines (If I'm missing something though, ''please'' point it out to me!). I can clearly see your point, and even personally agree with it, but until and unless it is actually crafted as a guideline (either into the existing guidelines or as something new) then we shouldn't be performing "one-off" page moves that will seem inconsistent to the wider project. I think that what you articulated there, a narrow exception which would specifically recognize official names of railroad stations, has a very good chance of being adopted; it simply needs to be done. If and when it is done, this then should become an uncontroversial move.<br/>— [[User:Ohms law|<span class="texhtml"><i>V</i> = <i>I</i> * <i>R</i></span>]] ([[User talk:Ohms law|talk]]) 14:19, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

I would note there are actually two published sources for the station names. National Rail use "London" [http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/codes/] and Network Rail (the owners of the stations) do not. [http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/765.aspx] [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 15:13, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

{|class="wikitable"
! Link || Network Rail<br>managed stations [http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/765.aspx] || National Rail<br>station codes [http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/codes/] || Station signage
|-
| [[Blackfriars station|1]] || n/a || London Blackfriars || London Blackfriars [[:File:Blackfriars railway station signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[Cannon Street station|2]] || Cannon Street || London Cannon Street || London Cannon Street [[:File:Cannon Street mainline stn signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[Charing Cross railway station|3]] || Charing Cross || London Charing Cross || London Charing Cross [[:File:Charing Cross main line stn platform 1 look south.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[City Thameslink railway station|4]] || n/a || City Thameslink || City Thameslink [[:File:City Thameslink stn signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[Euston railway station|5]] || Euston || London Euston || London Euston [[:File:Euston station signage.jpg|>image<]]
|-
| [[Fenchurch Street railway station|6]] || Fenchurch Street || London Fenchurch Street || Fenchurch Street [[:File:Fenchurch Street stn signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[London King's Cross railway station|7]] || King's Cross || London Kings Cross || London Kings Cross [[:File:London King's Cross sign.jpg|>image<]]
|-
| [[Liverpool Street station|8]] || Liverpool Street || London Liverpool Street || London Liverpool Street [[:File:Liverpool Street railway station platform signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[London Bridge station|9]] || London Bridge || London Bridge || London Bridge [[:File:London Bridge mainline stn signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[Marylebone station|10]] || n/a || London Marylebone || London Marylebone [[:File:Marylebone station signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[Moorgate station|11]] || n/a || Moorgate || Moorgate [[:File:Moorgate station Great Northern tunnel signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[London Paddington station|12]] || Paddington || London Paddington || London Paddington [[:File:Paddington Station 02.jpg|>image<]]
|-
| [[St Pancras railway station|13]] || St Pancras || London St Pancras || St Pancras [[:File:St Pancras International low level signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[London Victoria station|14]] || Victoria || London Victoria || London Victoria [[:File:Londres 512..jpg|>image<]]
|-
| [[London Waterloo station|15]] || Waterloo || London Waterloo || London Waterloo [[:File:London Waterloo stn signage.JPG|>image<]]
|-
| [[London Waterloo East railway station|16]] || n/a || London Waterloo East || Waterloo East [[:File:Waterloo East stn signage.JPG|>image<]]
|}

The station signage adds another layer of complexity as "London" is not applied to agree with either source. With this, the notion of an "official name" becomes harder to grasp hold of. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 15:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
:Annnnd... there's the '''''other''''' excellent reason not to rely on "official names". It would be nice if this were easier, wouldn't it? I personally tend to dislike multiple movereq's, because I've noticed that they invariably tend to turn into quagmires like this. My suggestion is to de-list this, and either re-list some of these individually gather an interested group together and modify the requites guidelines in some appropriate fashion. The articles aren't going anywhere, so my suggestion is to go with the discuss and modify guidelines route, but that's just me.<br/>— [[User:Ohms law|<span class="texhtml"><i>V</i> = <i>I</i> * <i>R</i></span>]] ([[User talk:Ohms law|talk]]) 15:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

::We've already had preliminary talk at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport|WikiProject London Transport]], but that brought us here to get wider discussion. So rather than go round in circles, I suggest we delist the group nomination and relist only Paddington, Waterloo and Waterloo East separately. There appears to be some support for continuing London Victoria and London Kings Cross as they require disambiguation and that sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Can you do the de-/re-listing? I am not that familiar with WP:RM admin. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 16:09, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

:::This afternoon I noticed that the displays in the SWTrain I was on showed "London Waterloo".--[[User:SilasW|SilasW]] ([[User talk:SilasW|talk]]) 17:13, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
::::I see he conversation you occurred at [[WT:LT#London station article naming]], now. The best move is to update your [[Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Manual of style|Manual of style]], and then add an exception to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#United Kingdom]] by pointing to the section on the MOS. If you do that, then this can be re-listed with a simpler "rename in order to comply with [[WP:NCGN]]" statement. Much less controversy or questions, that way. I could certainly re-list this, but I'd rather just wait for the changes and then change my !vote. There no real rush, since the movereq has 6 days to run befomre being in the backlog.<br/>— [[User:Ohms law|<span class="texhtml"><i>V</i> = <i>I</i> * <i>R</i></span>]] ([[User talk:Ohms law|talk]]) 23:02, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
:::::Thanks. This is updated now. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 07:31, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

*'''Strong oppose'''. A better solution would be to rename [[St Pancras railway station]] as [[London St Pancras station]]. Have you any idea how many railway stations in Europe are called ''Waterloo''? The answer is eleven. The railway time table site I use is [[http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml www.die-bahn.de]] always requires disambiguation on this question. If there is going to be an article entitled [[Waterloo Station]], it should be about the one south of Brussels. If you use the die-bahn.de website, you will understand the logic behind this.--[[User:Toddy1|Toddy1]] ([[User talk:Toddy1|talk]]) 17:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
::(FWIW ''station'' is used for multi-modal, ''railway station'' is used for mainline railway only and STP is not a tube station). —[[User:Sladen|Sladen]] ([[User talk:Sladen|talk]]) 07:46, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

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