Talk:Scalby Mills railway station

Miniature

I see you reverted the edit by which I specified that the North Bay Railway is a miniature railway, but the article really needs to specify that right at the beginning. To say "Scalby Mills railway station is the northern terminus of the North Bay Railway miniature railway" would be awfully clumsy, a problem that's avoided by phrasing it the way I did and converting to a piped link. That's the virtue of piped links: one can use the phraseology that works best in one article, and link to the actual official title in the article on that entity itself. In today's featured article Joanna Yeates, for example, "life imprisonment" links to "Life imprisonment in England and Wales".

You may be able to think of a better solution, but if not, I think my edit should be restored.

Cheers, Awien (talk) 23:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Notwithstanding the question of whether the North Bay Railway really is a "miniature" railway at all (many would argue that only railways below the traditional "minimum gauge" of 15-inch can be defined as miniature - but that's a question for the main article page), any station page merely needs to identify the railway on which that station is located. Anyone wanting further data about the network (including, for example, the track gauge) would be expected to click the link to go to the article about the railway or network. There is no need, in this case, to give the lead paragraph the impression of an inaccurate version of the railway's name, by inserting the word "miniature". If you really feel it is important to insert information about the track gauge into a station article, then do so (though I'm not clear why it is important), but not by artificially altering the name of the railway. Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 03:59, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

What the article does now is give an inaccurate idea of the railway's nature, because it's not a mainline train, and it does call itself a miniature railway. In academic writing this is the kind of basic fact that needs to be specified right off the bat.

Also, FYI, the link is dead.

Awien (talk) 13:08, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

There are thousands of railway station articles on Wikipedia, including many hundreds which are stations on assorted miniature railways, light railways, light transit systems, and so on. Looking at them as a class, it has never been policy to comment about the gauge on such station pages, for the reasons already outlined above. Is there a particular reason why you feel this is necessary in relation to Scalby Mills railway station? A railway station is a railway station, regardless of the track gauge of the railway on which it is located - it still seems to me that the status quo is more than adequate, wherein every station article has a wikilink in its lead paragraph (usually in the first sentence) to the railway or rail network concerned, where technical data (including the track gauge) is available. Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 15:15, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Unwatching. Awien (talk) 17:05, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Tower

Hi, would anyone happen to know what purpose the stone tower with an inverted salad shaker on top serves? MinorProphet (talk) 17:32, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Track Layout

"The station features two platforms, either side of a single island platform concourse, together with a run-round (loco-release) track. These three lines meet at the southern end of the station in a series of points, whilst at the northern end they merge at a turntable, which is also the headshunt for locomotive release."

This paragraph appears to be incorrect, given the track diagrams on the main North Bay Railway page. It looks like one of the tracks is a stub track with no connection to the turntable at the northern end. Jhlister (talk) 02:45, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

The paragraph quoted correctly describes the traditional layout (as you can see in the photograph which, coincidentally, User:MinorProphet recently posted on this talk page). However, there have been a lot of changes at the railway since the new operators took over, and that could well include alterations to the track plan at this station. Someone with local knowledge may be able to advise. Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 08:01, 6 June 2020 (UTC)