[Talk-GB] Naming of sewage treatment works and other such infrastructure

[Philip Barnes]

The term halt is not really used outside of heritage lines.

In OSM they are tagged as railway=station, request_stop=yes which is the same term used by the train operators.

Heard this so many times, "we shall be calling at the following principal stations Wem, Whitchurch, Nantwich and Crewe. Yorton, Prees and Wrenbury are request stops and you must tell the conductor on the train if you wish to alight". No mention of halt.

Phil (trigpoint)

On 15 February 2023 11:18:46 GMT, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
>On 14/02/2023 23:56, Russ Garrett wrote:
>> (Having said that, we have stations in the UK which use the suffix
>> "Halt" rather than "Station" - and in that case "Halt"*is*  included
>> in the station name.)
>> 
>
>Halts are not Stations.  The distinction is that you have to wave the train down if you want to get on, and you have to notify the staff, in advance, if you want to get off.
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