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"Disused" misused

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A favorite for WP railway catergorisers and "previous-and-succeeding"ers is "Disused" but much of what they so class is not disused but utterly done away with. If a gate, for example, is permanently barred it is disused; if its place in the wall has been bricked in then the gate is not disused, though it may well come in the category of former gates in Salop. --SilasW (talk) 12:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The word "disused" comes up four times in the entire atricle as displayed.
WT:UKRAIL is a better place for discussing the topic of the suitability of "disused" as a term, rather than on the talk page of a railway station that has few watchers. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:45, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Gates and railway stations/lines are very different things. A gate may be removed, but an abandoned railway generally leaves its traces, whether that is through remaining sections of trackbed/structures, conversion of former buildings or references to lost transport links (signs, road names etc). A gate may well disappear unnoticed, but books are written on lost lines and associations are formed to preserve/reopen/walk the remains. In this case, the line/station is "disused", in the sense of a thing now fallen into desuetude, irrespective of whether that thing still exists as it once did. However, if the line is still in use, the word "historical" is used. Lamberhurst (talk) 15:16, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]