Talk:Stirling railway station (Scotland)

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Further platforms[edit]

An arial view shows there were a further two through platforms to the west of 9 and 10. I remember these were used for the motorail service. I was able to use the \Motorail service with my parents in 1978 getting off at Bristol, I believe the remainder of the train went to Newton Abbot. I remember the details at the platform from that time. PS. there was never a monorail service. I think that is a misspelling below. The citation would be myself, John Brownlee One can still see the tracks terminating at the north end of these platforms where the cars were driven onboard the train. 82.41.150.95 (talk) 09:46, 15 September 2016‎ (UTC)[reply]

I moved this material across from the article to the talk page because it was unsourced and appears more suitable to be part of a talk page discussion. Drchriswilliams (talk) 10:22, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is an ariel photo taken in 1947,[1] which is part of Canmore's Stirling station collection.[2] I have added some information to the article about the Monorail services which stopped in 1989. Drchriswilliams (talk) 10:38, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Name change?[edit]

I suggest that the name of the article be changed to Stirling (Scotland) railway station, in common with other stations around the UK (the local area is usually placed immediately after the station name, e.g. Charing Cross (Glasgow) railway station, Earlswood (West Midlands) railway station). Any objections? 109.153.124.38 (talk) 12:31, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Earlswood (West Midlands) railway station is named that way because "Earlswood (West Midlands)" is the official name (see the National Rail link for the station) to distinguish it from Earlswood (Surrey) railway station. Similarly Charing Cross (Glasgow) railway station is named that way officially to distinguish it from London Charing Cross. In the case of Stirling there is no supplementary designation by National Rail, so the customary Wikipedia disambiguation convention (comma separated) is used to distinguish it from Stirling railway station, Perth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Biddulph (talk • contribs) 19:14, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

But there are also several stations around the country which officially have a secondary designation, but they don't in their respective Wikipedia articles (e.g. Rye railway station is officially called Rye (Sussex)). You might disagree with me here but I don't think the name of the Wikipedia article should depend solely on the way the station is officially named; I think it would be more conventional to stick to the same format every time (i.e. either always have the local designation at the end or immediately after the station name). Personally I suggest going for the latter option, mainly because it would work better with templates like {{Stnlnk}}. What do you think? (And yes, I know this isn't the right place to decide this, I just want to know someone's opinion.) 109.153.124.38 (talk) 14:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Georgetown railway station (Scotland) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 17:16, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]