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WikiProject Stations

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This WikiProject aims to provide a standard format for articles about a train station or metro station. Naming convention is excluded. Consult Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations) instead. Consult Wikiproject trains for rail line and railway format.

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The parent of this project is WikiProject Trains.

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Golbez
Meelar
ScottKuberski – Esp. Japanese Railstations
Ambivalenthysteria representing WikiProjectMelbourne
TPK for Melbourne and Australia as well
alren for Mumbai (Western Railway suburban). Continuing from Utcursch
Somebody in the WWW
Vaoverland
CCMichalZ esp. at Railway stations in Poland
Lordkinbote — concentrating on the western United States
JROBBO – from WikiProject Sydney – CityRail railway stations (and elsewhere in Australia if necessary)
Lakeyboy (Articles in Melbourne and Victoria, Australia)
Daniel Case, working occasionally on Metro-North stations.
Geoking66 I usually work on the Northeast. I also add infoboxes and/or other small cleanups.
Chris5897I can do South-East France
Oakshade Concentrating mostly on California, but not exclusively.
LHOON mostly on Belgium
TDude695 I can do stations on the Toronto Subway System
Db1944 Working on Israel Railways' stations
Ltvine Amtrak and commuter stations in Pacific Northwest, USA.
Gherkin30 Larger stations in Central London, and select few smaller ones in the suburbs.
ACBest I just added the template to lots of talk pages of stations
Pafcool2 I can upgrade some of the train and tram stations in South London
Lostvalley 13:59, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Hirohisat Stations in Japan.
Anywikiuser Generally stations in the UK.
Trulystand700 Stations In NYC
CosnahanG Invererate adder of Infobox Station and coordinates. Working on Japan railroad East currently
Plyhmrp Stations around the D.C./MD/VA area and the Northeast area.
Halowithhorns89 Stations in Ireland (ROI & NI)
Matthew25187 New Zealand stations.
Bluedisk Stations serving the Empire Builder.
StarsTrainsAndRandomThings Chicagoland Metra and Amtrak.
Likelife I can do some UK stations.
Arsenikk—Stations in Norway
257 Townsen – I am working on the METRORail stations by changing them from stubs to "Need of expansion."
MChew – Stations in Japan
Dex1337 – Stations in Japan
Redrose64 – Stations in the United Kingdom. Well, England. South East, that is, er, Oxfordshire. I'll move on to the others eventually.
Sharadbob – Railway Junctions in India
Mabeenot – Stations in the United States
Manor 7812 – Stations in the UK
Rhvanwinkle – Stations in the United States
sillybillypiggy – Stations in the UK SE
Sgreen93 – I can do the East Coast Main Line, mainly the Southern end.
Chopin 68 Am working on railway stations in Mauritius.
Arvind for all train stations in India
WVRMad – I've already created quite a few railway articles in the UK, I focus on Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire.
User:Eisfbnore, railway and metro stations in Norway
Rcsprinter123, all stations and formatting them
User:Chris0693, railway stations in UK, Netherlands, Germany, France and willing to start other countries too.
Psjk2106 – railway stations in Japan.
Martin H. Heron – railway stations in the United Kingdom.
Peeky44 – I have added both content and project infoboxes for United Kingdom and Switzerland rail stations, plus a few others.
Bahnfrend – stations mainly in Italy, central and eastern Europe
Cls14 – Mainly, but not exclusively, Welsh current and historic stations
balablitz (talk · contribs) – Indian railways and elsewhere
Sayowais (talk · contribs) – Mostly railway stations – Indian railways.
Drumlineramos (talk · contribs) – all stations in New Mexico, but concentrating on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express
SounderBruce (talk · contribs) – Seattle-area services and stations
HyperGaruda (talk · contribs) – Stations in Indonesia and the Netherlands
HanSangYoon (talk · contribs) – Stations in Los Angeles, and probably South Korea in the future.
Epicgenius (talk · contribs) – American railway stations
Feroze Ahmad 2 (talk · contribs)- Indian Railway stations including surburban railway stations also.
Quidster4040 (talk · contribs) – America railway stations, specifically mid-Atlantic
screech1616 (talk · contribs) – South Australian railway stations
Wizzy011 (talk · contribs) – for all train stations in London
Mathieudu68 (talk · contribs) — For stations in France.
IJBall (talk · contribs) 22:03, 16 April 2016 (UTC) – Theoretically for stations anywhere, but primarily for stations in California.
kgrr (talk · contribs) 05:30, 22 April 2016 (UTC) Amtrak in the Pacific Northwest since 2008.
Jaywardhan009 (talk · contribs) – Indian Railway stations
Knoxhale (talk · contribs) – Primarily stations in the United States.
Barnoldswick1 (talk · contribs) – UK Railway Stations
Fazley01 (talk · contribs) – Primarily stations in the Klang Valley Integrated Transit System in Malaysia.
Kew Gardens 613 (talk · contribs) – New York area railway stations
DreamLinker (talk · contribs) – Delhi Metro stations in Delhi, India
CravinChillies (talk · contribs) – primarily Great Britain
Vanstrat (talk · contribs) – Edmonton/Canada public transit/rail
1.02 editor (talk · contribs) – mostly on Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) but sometimes on London Underground and London Overground
jinoytommanjaly (talk · contribs) – Indian Railways and Kochi Metro 19:58, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Oshawott 12 (talk · contribs) – Japanese and British Rail Stations
Gazamp (talk) 18:10, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Kianaviation (talk · contribs) – UK Railway Stations
Ganbaruby (talk · contribs) - Taiwanese railway stations
World Metro (talk · contribs) - Subway systems, and the Northeast US. 01:12, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Daybeers (talk · contribs) – U.S. stations, primarily East Coast systems. 18:36, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
cpotisch (talk · contribs) – Amtrak stations 00:42, 11 May 2019 (UTC) (UTC)
BamZ412 (talk · contribs) - Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) 16:27, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
AvianEnRoute (talk · contribs) - Stations in the Twin Cities 01:34, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Miles Riehle (talk · contribs) - Stations in Southern California
Cards84664 (talk · contribs) - Various.
Epluribusunumyall (talk) 06:05, 20 April 2020 (UTC) mostly france
Julius177 (talk · contribs) - 16:33, 28 June 2020 (UTC). Minor and defunct/demolished Canadian railway stations and flag stops in rural communities.
Budi2darmawan (talk · contribs) - Stations in Indonesia,mostly in the island of Java.10:25, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Exodus662 (talk · contribs) Stations in Britain
A smart brainy man (talk · contribs) Stations in France and China 08:34, 25 July 2020
Unspectrogram (talk · contribs) Stations built in USSR
Quoll662 (talk) 11:47, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Kieran207 (talk · contribs) - Metro-North stations.
Chongkian (talk · contribs) – Railway stations in Taiwan, 02:58, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Article structureEdit

Article titlingEdit

Migrated to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations).

LeadEdit

The lead paragraph includes the name of the station as it appears on the system map, and not a short-hand name, but those can and should be mentioned later. It also mentions the system, the city or area, and the line(s) the station lies on, and, if notable, the location on the line(s). It is preferred that the first sentence of the lead begins along the lines of, for example, "Fremont station is..." or "Fremont [railway/metro/light rail/tram] station is..." (depending on the naming convention of the article, i.e. whether the article's title has "railway"/"metro"/"light rail"/"tram" in it).

Generally, infoboxes are used along with the lead. The most common infobox is {{Infobox station}}.

Article bodyEdit

The next information should be the history of the station, including the date service began. Notable historic events specific to that rail station should go here. This should be followed by the area served by the station and major establishments and attractions near it. A list of lesser but still notable places can be supplied later.

A table should exist, displaying the line(s) and the next stations on that line, with a link to the appropriate line. {{Adjacent stations}} should be used, which can be placed either in the infobox, under a separate section titled "Services", or at the bottom at the page. The western or northern or counter-clockwise station should go on the left. If there is a western or eastern link, that should take precedence (as seen in the example below), since it would make poor sense to have the eastern link on the left.

Preceding station		Following station
Farragut North toward Shady Grove	Red Line	Terminus
McPherson Square toward Franconia–Springfield	Blue Line	Federal Triangle toward Largo Town Center
McPherson Square toward Vienna	Orange Line	Federal Triangle toward New Carrollton
McPherson Square toward Wiehle–Reston East	Silver Line	Federal Triangle toward Largo Town Center

Article template exampleEdit

(The) [Station name] station is located in [the municipality where the station
is located] and is served by [train lines that serve the station]. [Notable information
also goes here, like if it's a terminus or changeover station...]

It is located at [address/intersection].  [Other notable locations here, like proximity
to a university or sports venue]. Service began [date].

==History==
[If applicable, add a few paragraphs about history here]

==Notable places nearby==
* [List of places that people going to this station may be interested in knowing about]

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Online Historical Map Digitization Project – Western Canadian stations Waghorn Guides Publisher – reuse information

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