Talk:List of railway stations in Greater Manchester
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[edit] Issues
There's a problem with the table autosort in that it will sort the numerical values according the first digit, not the total (so we'll have a "sorted" list of 1,000,000, 234, 3,456, 4, 5,600,797, 65, etc etc). Not sure how that's addressed.
Where are these figures sourced from? We need to make this clearer, even if it's in the lead. -- Jza84 · (talk) 20:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- True about the sorting of figures, looks like we can't use commas :(. Also the excel sheets that the usage figures are from can be found here http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529, dunno what method to use to display them as references? └and-rew┘┌talk┐ 20:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- I've put in a ref for the ORR figures. The West Midlands stations list used one link to the "front page" from which the individual Excel files can be downloaded, rather than creating threee different refs for the three Excel files, so I've just copied and pasted. I found the same glitch with the number sorting, but found that if you click again (either once or twice), it will sort correctly (i.e. by total rather than by first digit). Hassocks5489 (talk) 21:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Unless things have changed in recent years, I believe Swinton station has 2 platforms! Hope that helps! -- Jza84 · (talk) 20:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
- Cool. I thought it probably had, as that line is double-track, but I couldn't find any photos or references to make myself confident enough to put it in. To be honest, I think all the others I have left blank have 2 as well... Hassocks5489 (talk) 22:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
- Unless things have changed in recent years, I believe Swinton station has 2 platforms! Hope that helps! -- Jza84 · (talk) 20:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
With regards to the usage figures sorting, it works if you press the sort button 4 times, not sure why? └and-rew┘┌talk┐ 12:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
- Me neither. Seems odd. I wonder if that'd be a barrier to acheiving something like WP:FL status?
- I was wondering however if the East Lancashire Railway ought to be given special mention in the lead, it being a heritage railway?
- Also wanted to leave a note too that we have Category:Railway stations in Greater Manchester at WikiCommons full of images. Follow this hyperlink. Hope that helps, :) -- Jza84 · (talk) 12:41, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
- Oh good, thanks for pointing that category out; I'll try and add the category tag to my pix this weekend so they are included as well. Hassocks5489 (talk) 18:13, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Usage Figures
Whilst we have the 2005/06 data in the table, the figures listed on the individual station pages are the older 2004/05 ones. Any particular reason for this, or is it just a case of getting round to updating the individual pages? paypwip (talk) 09:27, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- Just that nobody has bothered to update the station articles yet, bit of a tedious job. ┌Joshii┐└chat┘ 12:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I've started updating them. paypwip (talk) 12:38, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
- I've started going through alphabetically, swapping 04/05 figures for 05/06 figures in the infobox, then I've come across a couple of stations that already have the 05/06 figures in addition to the older figures. Before I go any further, can we have a consensus on whether we should have both 04/05 and 05/06 figures, or should we show only the latest figures. My personal view is for the latter. paypwip (talk) 21:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
