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

[Chris Hodges]

Of course services change so a station that was request for some trains but a normal stop for others could lose the latter - would it turn into a halt? I reckon it wouldn't. 

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On 15 Feb 2023, 12:16, at 12:16, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>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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