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<div dir="auto">David Woolley wrote:<br />
> Halts are not Stations. The distinction is that you have to wave <br />
> the train down if you want to get on, and you have to notify the <br />
> staff, in advance, if you want to get off.<br />
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Unfortunately that's not a distinction that exists consistently in the UK.<br />
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A "request stop" (which is what you're describing) is decided on a per-service basis, not a per-station basis. For example, at Bearley, the West Midlands Trains services are request stops, but the Chiltern services always stop:<br />
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<span style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.brtimes.com/!board?stn=BER&date=20230215" target="_blank">https://www.brtimes.com/!board?stn=BER&date=20230215</a><br />
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"Halt" was used as a distinct term by some of the pre-1948 railway companies, often (not always) referring to a station with no ticket-selling facilities. The GWR even had a third, more basic category of station, the "Platform". But that went out when many more stations became unstaffed, a trend that is only continuing today.<br />
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I can see how the "halt" definition makes sense for mappers in some other countries but I'm not sure there's a helpful way to apply it in the UK.<br />
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Richard</div>
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