Talk:Wilby railway station

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Wilby, next stop is Wilby! sorry couldn't help myself but I didn't want to vandalize. On a serious note though, concerned about possible notability here, do any more sources exist? I won't tag just yet I don't want to bite, but the sole source looks like trivial coverage. HominidMachinae (talk) 09:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've checked the source given: and it doesn't fully support the statement that it's been applied to ("Wilby railway station was a station located in Wilby, Suffolk") - it states "WILBY MSuffolkLt 90 TM 27 OP 29 September 1908; CL 28 July 1952 BR", which decodes as "Wilby was a station on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, which is shown on page 90 [of an atlas named elsewhere] in square TM 27 on that map; it opened on 29 September 1908, and was closed on 28 July 1952 by British Railways". So, whilst this confirms that Wilby was a railway station, it doesn't confirm that it was in Suffolk, nor even that it was in a place named Wilby. However, the source does pin down the location to the 10 km x 10 km square bounded by grid reference TM200700 and TM300800, an area that mostly lies within Suffolk (about 2% is in Norfolk), and does include a village named Wilby, which is in Suffolk, at TM241720; but in my experience, railway stations may sometimes not be named after the place that they lie in, but the nearest sizeable settlement.

As it happens, I have another source (an Ordnance Survey map dated 1946) which shows the station at TM251731, which just lies within the parish of Wilby, Suffolk - by about five yards. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:08, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]