Talk:Birmingham Moor Street railway station

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[edit] Images

I don't really think that the images on this page are up to the high quality that would normally be expected for wikipedia. For now the pictures are ok but it would be better if they were improved (Sam giles2001 17:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Anonymous

Will the anonymous user, who has made a wonderful job of expanding this article, please create an account? Thank you. Andy Mabbett 7 July 2005 09:47 (UTC)

[edit] Traverser

We should say something about the (unique?) traverser, which released engines "trapped" at the station end of the platforms. Andy Mabbett 7 July 2005 09:47 (UTC)

[edit] 45,000 passengers?

I've removed the sentence that "the station serves 45,000 passengers a year". The idiosyncracies of the usage statistics have been discussed at length elsewhere (especially the problem if there is more than one station in a city centre, all ticket sales are counted towards the largest one, and that PTE passes aren't counted at all), but in this instance it's such an absurd under-estimate that including that data here serves no useful purpose at all. --RFBailey 13:56, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Support I would like to support this move. Presumably more accurate figures for the three city centre stations could be obtained from Centro (under the Freedom of Information Act if necessary). DonBarton 14:10, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The other stations have moved

This is not related to usage figures. I was just thinking that both New Street and snow hill have had their articles moved to simply "station". So wouldn't it make sense to move this one to "station" instead of "railway station" as well. This is quite a major station in Birmingham and i think it said on the Midland Metro website that ths would be served sometime in the futrure. Or did it mean nearby? Anyway, what do you think? Simply south 15:07, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Snow Hill was moved because it is a joint railway/metro station. New Street is at its current name because of a long argument, however this name contravenes the naming convention. As for future extensions of the Midland Metro, we should wait until they are actually being built before changing article names. Remember Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. So, to summarise, it should stay where it is! --RFBailey 15:28, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Probably for now. Simply south 15:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

This article could use a better picture. The current one isn't exactly very useful. One of the inside would be nice, the roof is spectacular. Just saying... 81.77.202.210 12:32, 28 August 2006 (UTC)