Talk:Boggo Road railway station

Station’s own page?

Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel stations each have their own page, and Forrestfield-Airport link stations in Perth, and these have yet to open, why can’t the Cross River Rail stations have their own too? Jackgill06 (talk) 20:10, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Merger and renaming discussion

I am proposing that the content of Boggo Road busway station and Boggo Road railway station be merged into Park Road railway station then redirected to a new article Boggo Road station and all three redirected. Park Road has been officially renamed Boggo Road[1][2] and is shown as such in timetables.[3] The platforms now have temporary "Boggo Road/Park Road" signs and the stop IDs are temporarily named "Boggo Road/Park Road station". The temporary dual naming will be dropped in about 6-12 months.

In essence the lede of this article is now factually incorrect. Boggo Road railway station is not a railway station currently under construction as part of the Cross River Rail project. Nor is Boggo Road busway station a separate station to the two railway stations. Boggo Road station is officially a single interchange with 4 above ground train platforms (1-4), 2 bus platforms (5-6) and 2 underground train platforms (7-8) under construction. DigitalPanda (talk) 09:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

No objection to the merge of the railway station articles if legally and physically everything is connected. I reckon for now, the busway station article should remain separate as Roma Street busway station is separate to Roma Street railway station, and same for South Bank, etc.

It would be unprecedented to have a Wikipedia article name on an Australian station completely drop the "railway" or "busway" or "bus" before "station". It was considered for Chatswood and Epping in Sydney to drop "railway" in their names as they both have metro and traditional trains, however, it was decided on consistency grounds that they keep "railway" per this requested move discussion.

Another example, Perth and Perth Underground are physically connected stations, however, they have separate Wikipedia articles.

It has been suggested to completely remove "railway" from all station names in Australia, but no one is bothered to go around and actually move thousands of articles for it, per this requested move discussion. Fork99 (talk) 20:57, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Support I agree with the proposal listed above but I would also like to make sure that we keep the history of Park Road station by moving selected content from there to here before we redirect the article to this one. GCunknown (talk) 06:38, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Agree with merging into Park Road rather than Boggo Road. DigitalPanda (talk) 10:53, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Partial support, support merging the two railway station articles, but the newer (2019) Boggo Road railway station article should be merged into the older (2004) Park Road railway station article to preserve the history and then be renamed Boggo Road railway station. Oppose merging the railway and busway station articles. Ratleyvale (talk) 23:31, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Why oppose merging the railway and busway station articles? They are physically and now legally a single station. DigitalPanda (talk) 10:53, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

For consistency's sake with Roma Street and South Bank which currently maintain separate railway and busway station articles. I'm not sure of the exact details of Woolloongabba and Buranda, but those bus stations will or already share names with adjacent railway stations, and also have separate articles for each. Considering that the busway station articles for those are quite short and could probably fall under the railway station scope, those should be merged too if Park Road/Boggo Road are being considered to be merged, but also consider for each station on whether or not everything is connected. Fork99 (talk) 20:45, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Roma Street should also be merged as it is physically and legally one station with consecutively numbered platforms, buses use platforms 1-2 and trains use platforms 3-10. Just like Boggo Road has 6 platforms (soon to be 8) and it does not make sense for platforms 5 and 6 out of 8 to be a separate article. The Ministerial statement is explicit that "The rail station has now combined with the Boggo Road busway to create a major public transport interchange, Boggo Road station". South Bank and Buranda are legally separate (South Bank is physically separate) and the platforms are numbered independently. That's the difference. Woolloongabba platform numbering has not yet been revealed. DigitalPanda (talk) 13:36, 29 August 2024 (UTC)