Talk:Adelaide Railway Station

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"Almost all trains either depart or terminate from the station" - what do the other trains do?

Depart or terminate from somewhere else, I'd imagine. Ambi 03:05, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Prolly the casino upstairs.

[edit] Still tortured English

"Almost all trains either depart or terminate from the station." As the station cannot handle through trains, it is a silly statement. And how does a train "terminate from the station"?

[edit] Templates on Railway Station pages

From User talk:Cyberjunkie#Adelaide Railway Station

You replaced the line information I added to Adelaide Railway Station with adjacent station information. I would like to have both as used in Tokyo Station and other Japanese train stations (and the ja wikipedia for Tokyo Station as an example) Softgrow 07:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Having each template is excessive, which is why I intend to replace them with station adjacency templates. The complete line information could be retained for use in each line article.--cj | talk 06:19, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll copy this discussion to Talk:Adelaide_Railway_Station and continue there. Softgrow 06:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

A consensus among editors should be reached on this matter. You can't just decide the matter yourself.

I've stated the common use in Japan in both the English and Japanese wiki. Looking around both line and adjacency templates are used in Eastwood railway station, Sydney. Comment from other editors is invited. Softgrow 06:39, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

It's a fair comment that cj makes about some of the inner southern lines having three blocks and some two blocks of templates, and I have talked to cj about this before, but in the case of Adelaide Railway Station perhaps the five is a bit unnecessary as it is obvious that it is the start of the rail system. Also, some suburbs have two council areas, and we put two templates on these, so being part of two rail lines is not too bad IMHO. It would be best if there was a way of making a template, where you can click "expand" or "hide" when you want to see the whole line. I don't know if this exists.Blnguyen 07:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I didn't say I'd go ahead - I said it was my intention to replace them. What I was proposing to do is the same as has been done with other Australian train stations. The station you point to seems to be an exception. Even still, it doesn't correspond directly to what had been done here. Blunguyen, such a thing does exist - in fact I've used it quite a few times.--cj | talk 07:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's the page with line templates on it.

The shortcoming I see with having adjacent station's only as a reader is probably not interested in the station that is geographically adjacent. They would be interested in stations that are accessible on the network in one journey from that station. This is particularly so in the case of Adelaide station as (with the exception of Bowden) most trains do not stop at the adjacent station.

Looking at the existing templates there are probably too many which doesn't help. The Tonsley line is really a branch line off the Noarlunga line and should be part of the same template. (TransAdelaide and Adelaide Metro treat it as one). The Grange line could be considered a branch off the Outer Harbor line at Woodville). Disused stations could also be dropped. These measures would reduce the amount of screen real estate devoted to the templates but still allow the reader to navigate from station to station easily. Softgrow 09:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)