Talk:Wells-next-the-Sea railway station

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The town may be Well-next-the-Sea these days but the station was Wells-On-Sea until closure (as is the replacement narrow gauge station). As the article is about the station and not the town this needs to be moved back to the correct title, with this page being the redirect and the name of the station returned to a factual state. I will do the latter now. 09:13, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

No, please don't: see Butt (1995), pp. 243-4: the station was opened as Wells on 1 December 1857; it was renamed Wells-on-Sea on 1 July 1923; again renamed Wells-next-the-Sea on 1 January 1957; and closed 5 October 1964. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK stations) we should go with the name at closure. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:43, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, as Wikipedia after all rarely reports on actual truth, but in which case, which closure applies? Site or facility? The relocated railway station for the town is still "Wells-On-Sea" after all - and other station articles allow for relocated stations. Also, in historical references to the station other those relating to a couple of years at the very end (which I still contest as I have yet to see a single photograph of a "Wells-Next-The-Sea" running in or name board) the correct name should apply. DiverScout (talk) 10:51, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The closure date is normally taken to be that when passenger services were withdrawn; some stations did continue in use for goods only afterwards, but the information for these is less easily obtained. Any names given to the site after closure to both passengers and goods don't really count when we're writing about a railway station.

By "relocated railway station", I take it you mean that of the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway; where is this described as "Wells-on-Sea"? --Redrose64 (talk) 11:28, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DiverScout - if you have a copy of Stanley Jenkins' 2011 edition of "The Wells-next-the-Sea Branch" (Oakwood Press), on pages 148 and 155 part of the running-in board is visible in images taken from different directions which show "...the-Sea"; there's also a copy of a ticket on page 157. The Wells & Walsingham Light Railway station is called "Wells-on-Sea" (see here), this is located a little to the north of the closed station and was opened on 6 April 1982. Lamberhurst (talk) 21:24, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]