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

[Richard Fairhurst]

David Woolley wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately that's not a distinction that exists consistently in the UK.

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:

	https://www.brtimes.com/!board?stn=BER&date=20230215

"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.

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.

Richard
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