Talk:Poison Cross railway station

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Conflict of dates

Both the opening and closing dates in both the main text and side panel conflict!!

Kind regards, --176.254.53.37 (talk) 00:33, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There are two schools of thought regarding closure dates. Some authors use the "last day of service" convention: this is date on which the last scheduled train called at the station, and has the advantage of being precise, and does not require knowledge of the timetable. Others use the "first day of no service" convention: the earliest date on which a train would have run from the station had it not been closed. The problem with that is that you need to know whether the timetable was seven days a week or not. The dates in the infobox are the same as those given in Butt (1995), p. 187. The closure date in the infobox is also the same as that given in

McCarthy, Colin; McCarthy, David (2007). Waller, Peter (ed.). Railways of Britain: Kent and Sussex. Hersham: Ian Allan. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-7110-3222-4. 0710/C1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

but that merely states "1925" for the opening. Both Butt and McCarthy&McCarthy use the "first day of no service" convention for closure dates. Since 1 November 1928 was a Wednesday, it's likely that the last train ran on Tuesday 31 October 1928 which may indicate that Mitchell and Smith follow the "last day of service" convention. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:42, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]