[Talk-GB] railway Halts

[Tony Shield]

Those two NR stations are in the National Rail Enquiries website as  St 
Keyne Wishing Well Halt and Coombe Junction Halt so are the proper names 
which we should respect.

TonyS999

On 15/02/2023 17:44, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
> I instigated a discussion about substituting halts with stations & 
> adding request stops back in Feb. '20
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2020-February/thread.html#24104 
>
> My original post is in the Jan listing, but can be seen in one of the 
> Feb replies.
>
> Request stops:
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1ro0
>
> Two NR stations named as 'halts'
> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1ro4
>
> DaveF
>
>
>
> On 15/02/2023 12:54, Martin Wynne wrote:
>> On 15/02/2023 12:09, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>>> "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.
>>
>> Traditionally a Halt had no signals or signal box (unless one was 
>> provided for some other reason, such as a nearby level crossing).
>>
>> Trains stopping at the Halt would therefore be doing so within the 
>> block section between signal boxes, without the signaller at either 
>> end having sight or knowledge of them doing so.
>>
>> That has all been swept away with modern signalling methods.
>>
>> Martin.
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