Talk:Stevenage railway station

Class

Having checked the guidelines, I'd say this might qualify for C-Class status now. Just wondering if anyone had any objections to that? Sgreen93 (talk) 23:15, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, let's consider the requirements for the suggested C-class and the present Start-class (with a few irrelevant criteria like BLP and Fiction removed):

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience
C	The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup. The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research.	Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study.
Start	An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources. The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas, usually in referencing. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability, and provide enough sources to establish verifiability.	Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more.

There are just four references, all of which concern the present services and facilities. These are in danger of being removed, see WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTTRAVEL. There is very little historical information - the infobox has a few dates, but these are unreferenced and there is no context other than the single paragraph in the lede concerning the New Town. All in all, considering also "Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more", I think this should stay as Start-class. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

For examples of open railway stations in Britain which have been rated C-class (not by me, and not necessarily correctly), see Aylesbury railway station; Crewe railway station; Harringay Green Lanes railway station; Skegness railway station. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

I'd say those references should be fine, think they're just outside the border of the NotDirectory. As for the History, I'm going to try and find out a lot of history about the stations on the core FCC GN route, at present I've not really added much to that particular section and only really added to the current-day areas, hence the lack of references for the History areas, as whoever wrote it didn't source their work sadly. Sgreen93 (talk) 01:58, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Chains

Whilst it may be that chain as a unit of measurement survive on railways, no-one bar a tiny minority know what it means. It's unhelpful and confusing and unnecessary. Use yards, 86.176.158.132 (talk) 23:41, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Sources give the distance in miles and chains, since this is how the distances on the railway are surveyed. I linked it. --Redrose64 (talk) 00:01, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Key date: Platform 5 opening

Would the opening date of Platform 5 be considered a key date for this station? I.e. does it belong in the sidebar.

DAB (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:55, 13 August 2020 (UTC)