Talk:Birmingham Moor Street railway station

Images

I don't really think that the images on this page are up to the high quality that would normally be expected for wikipedia. For now the pictures are ok but it would be better if they were improved (Sam giles2001 17:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC))

Anonymous

Will the anonymous user, who has made a wonderful job of expanding this article, please create an account? Thank you. Andy Mabbett 7 July 2005 09:47 (UTC)

Traverser

We should say something about the (unique?) traverser, which released engines "trapped" at the station end of the platforms. Andy Mabbett 7 July 2005 09:47 (UTC)

45,000 passengers?

I've removed the sentence that "the station serves 45,000 passengers a year". The idiosyncracies of the usage statistics have been discussed at length elsewhere (especially the problem if there is more than one station in a city centre, all ticket sales are counted towards the largest one, and that PTE passes aren't counted at all), but in this instance it's such an absurd under-estimate that including that data here serves no useful purpose at all. --RFBailey 13:56, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Support I would like to support this move. Presumably more accurate figures for the three city centre stations could be obtained from Centro (under the Freedom of Information Act if necessary). DonBarton 14:10, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

New services from the Camp Hill line

I can't see that this would happen - to get to Moor Street from the Camp Hill line, trains would have to reverse at Bordesley Junction and again at Small Heath South Junction. Extremely unlikely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.245.17 (talk) 15:59, 28 November 2008 (UTC) They would build a new curve from Bordesley to the Camp Hill line. I don't know the plans for the exact location but would be a major project and not cheap.

The other stations have moved

This is not related to usage figures. I was just thinking that both New Street and snow hill have had their articles moved to simply "station". So wouldn't it make sense to move this one to "station" instead of "railway station" as well. This is quite a major station in Birmingham and i think it said on the Midland Metro website that ths would be served sometime in the futrure. Or did it mean nearby? Anyway, what do you think? Simply south 15:07, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Snow Hill was moved because it is a joint railway/metro station. New Street is at its current name because of a long argument, however this name contravenes the naming convention. As for future extensions of the Midland Metro, we should wait until they are actually being built before changing article names. Remember Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. So, to summarise, it should stay where it is! --RFBailey 15:28, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Probably for now. Simply south 15:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Picture

This article could use a better picture. The current one isn't exactly very useful. One of the inside would be nice, the roof is spectacular. Just saying... 81.77.202.210 12:32, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Photos

In the five years since the above comment, the pendulum has now swung the other way, and there are too many for the size of the article. I've raised a comment at WT:UKT#Birmingham Moor Street photos regarding this. — An optimist on the run! 22:33, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

QRpedia

I deployed eight QRpedia QR codes at Moor Street today; pictures in commons:Category:QRpedia codes at Birmingham Moor Street Railway Station; blog post to follow. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:23, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

History

It is a little-known fact that the brickwork of the retaining wall of the road linking the station to Deritend outlines the position and shape of the old warehouse ferro-cement columns and arches (using the now rarely found Hennebigue method) which it replaced - the developers having to overturn a Grade II Listing to do it. (Anketil (talk) 11:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC))

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Grade II Listed Building and the formation of the Moor Street Station Historical Society who stopped it from being knocked down.

Chiltern Railway will be celebrating 30yrs of its Listing next July. Anketil Anketil (talk) 10:13, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Images

The size allowed is ridiculously small and I have difficulty in getting even the smallest resolution accepted. I also find it hard to upload an image - even when they are accepted. Anketil (talk) 10:22, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

@Anketil: The size allowed is actually quite large - c:Commons:Maximum file size indicates that the maximum file size is formatnum:4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes). Even without compression, this allows for images to be up to around 1000 megapixels in area, or more than 30,000 pixels square.

If you are having difficulty uploading, see c:Commons:Contributing your own work. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:14, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks but Step 4 uploading just tells you how to upload but not how to actually retrieve it to place in an article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anketil (talk • contribs) 19:07, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

That is covered at various pages linked from Help:Image tutorial. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:17, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Verifying data.

Very often data is held by National & Regional newspapers or is in the possession of private individuals. Sometimes this is of vital import but, as such, cannot be "verified" under the usual criteria. In some respects this rather shoots itself in the foot since much valuable information is lost. Anketil (talk) 10:25, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

@Anketil: What do you mean it cannot be "verified"? See WP:V for the policy on verifiability, and WP:CITEBEGIN for information on adding references. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:17, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Redrose64 If items are in private hands and not in the public domain other than stating the obvious this cannot be verified under the expected criteria other than tio state that it is in private hands - in this instance mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anketil (talk • contribs) 19:04, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

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