Talk:Taunton railway station

Services

Before editing the services section, please take time to reflect on the information and links that are required.

1. Cross-Country Route only refers to Bristol northwards, so should not be linked from this page. If you must have a route, it reaches here over the Bristol to Taunton Line.
2. Each route can only have one "next station", so the London to Penzance Line shuld only show "Castle Cary - Taunton - Tiverton Parkway", not "Castle Cary, or Westbury, or Reading - Taunton - Tiverton parkway or Exeter St Davids"! (See WP:NOT#TRAVEL)
3. The "Butlins Express" appears to actually be a heritage rail service, not a National Rail service that was operated in 2007 by the West Somerset Railway using Victa Westlink Rail's Network Operating Licence. At the time of writing this note, the WSR website makes no mention of it running again this year. (See WP:CRYSTAL...!)

By all means make edits to this page – it is by us all working together that Wiki can have such a wide range of useful information – but please keep to the facts and check your links. Geof Sheppard (talk) 13:00, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi

i made some edits stating that not all Paddington trains call at Westbury but most at Newbury so put via Newbury instead. Is this ok? Thanks. --Chip123456 (talk) 17:09, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Not all call at Newbury either: the 10:28 up ex-Taunton calls Westbury but not Newbury. Then there are several that run non-stop between Taunton and Reading (e.g. the 07:18 and 08:19 from Taunton, and the 13:06 from Padd); but if a train runs via a place that does not imply that it calls there. There are also some Paddington-Taunton services which run via Bristol Temple Meads, so we need some means of indicating those that take the shorter route. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:58, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok. Newbury and Westbury are both on the line so whatever goes there is acceptable. Thanks for the reply. A lot of them run non stop to reading anyway.--Chip123456 (talk) 18:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Can anyone help me edit this article to include the FGW>GWR rebrand?

On 20 September 2015 FGW rebranded itself as GWR. The FGW article is now called Great Western Railway (train operating company) to differentiate it from the GWR page. On 11 October 2015 I converted this article's FGW references over to GWR and ensured that all FGW links were called GWR and went to the new toc page and not the pre-1948 company. However, I am not familiar with routeboxes and I made the error of not using the full link name in the routebox as I thought it was too cumbersome. I did not realise that this would automatically function as a link to the pre-1948 company. Clearly my work needed correcting.

However, the whole edit was quickly reverted by User:Redrose64 who summarised the revert "please don't break the routebox nor link to the pre-1948 company". Unfortunately the revert has taken out all the references to the toc's new brand. Some more editing still needs to be done to replace the FGW references. I assume that the only answer is to include the full article name in the routebox, however cumbersome that might be. The rest of the edit will still need to stand to update the brand. I would be grateful if someone more skilled than myself can do this for me. Otherwise, if no-one objects, I shall attempt to do it myself. Polly Tunnel (talk) 17:37, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

The existing links to First Great Western go to the correct page, so they are WP:NOTBROKEN; and so there is no need to bypass redirects, unless other beneficial changes are also being made. Your edits also removed the green stripe from the routebox (which was the correct colour), and caused it to link to Great Western Railway, which is entirely the wrong page. This is why we advise people to WP:PREVIEW their edits. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:30, 11 October 2015 (UTC)