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Proposed merge of Midland Junction railway station into Midland railway station, Perth[edit]

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No consensus. Steelkamp (talk) 03:27, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Midland Junction railway station was located less than half a kilometre from the present Midland railway station. The new Midland railway station will be built pretty much on top of the Midland Junction railway station.^[1] The two articles are on the same topic. There is no need for separate articles and it only serves to fragment the history of the topic of railway stations in Midland. Steelkamp (talk) 08:26, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As creator of the midland junction railway station article this is all a bit mind boggling - the new station, the midland station and the historical junction railway station are three quite separate entities, historically, and contextually - one has only to have a close look at Lindsay Watson's book (I am not referring to anything online for good purpose) and the understanding of the dynamics of railway operations in midland junction - junction - the potential likelihood of the PTA public relations people doing a historically inaccurate rendition for the new structure only reinforces the potential for a mess to occur about the subject. The creation of the midland station west of the midland junction station was part of the 'modernising' the metro network. The existence of the separate articles was for good reason, if required I can offer a lengthy explanation. I do not agree with 'same topic' - Midland Junction historically was a very different place from the current Midland, and the operations of the two stations - if actually adequately mapped in time with the appropriate offline sources can easily explain the different contexts. Anyone with a good understanding of Midland history would appreciate that it was a townsite where a shoe shop 'Ezywalkin' could co-exist with another retail shop literally adjacent with the name 'Freecorns'. I think the tongue in cheek nature of the 'junction' was reinforced by the Midland Railway Company yard requiring shunting locomotives to actually cross the Great Eastern Highway at the post office when in action. To merge into one article is, what in the Australian project is regularly a serious issue - swallowing forks. There are three separate issues and contexts, and if required I can offer a more comprehensive reply with links and components of an argument of keeping forks out of the swallowing tricks. Sigh... https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-90&pages=Talk:Midland_railway_station,_Perth

JarrahTree 08:57, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

References

^ "New Midland Station Summary Project Definition Plan" (PDF). Metronet. November 2020. p. 11. Retrieved 12 February 2023.

[1] "New Midland Station Summary Project Definition Plan" (PDF). Metronet. November 2020. p. 11. Retrieved 12 February 2023.

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