Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Silcox station

Other flag stop "stations" on the Hudson Bay Railway to consider for redirects

Churchill, Manitoba to Bird station

Via Rail describes each of these as "sign posts" on the Hudson Bay Railway used by the Winnipeg–Churchill train. They have exactly the same characteristic as the Silcox station - there's nothing there. Satellite images show no populated places between Churchill, Manitoba (the north end) and the Fox Lake Cree Nation, served by the Bird station (flag stop), 262 km to the south. Bird is on Manitoba 290 near the Limestone Dam on the Nelson River. From north to south:

• Digges station
• Bylot station
• Lamprey station
• Chesnaye station
• Cromarty station
• Belcher station
• M'Clintock station
• Back station
• O'Day station
• Kellett station
• Herchmer station
• Thibaudeau station
• Lawledge station
• Weir River station
• Amery station
• Sundance - unsure if there's a current flag stop there.
  • Unlike the other locations, there is an abandoned town there, Sundance, that was built and used during the construction of the nearby Limestone Dam on the Nelson River

There are 1-3 equipment sheds on sidings at several of these flag stops but they don't look like "stations". A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 03:18, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Bird station to Thicket Portage station

Still more flag stops heading south:

• Kettle Rapids station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • associated "town" redirects to Gillam, Manitoba with which I concur
• Luke station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • associated "town" redirects to Gillam, Manitoba with which I concur
• Willbeach - unsure if there's a current flag stop there.
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • associated "town" redirects to Division No. 22, Manitoba with which I concur
• Wivenhoe station (Manitoba)
  • something is there but not much
    • poor satellite image
    • associated "town" redirects to Division No. 22, Manitoba with which I concur
• Nonsuch station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • article implies it was named for the Nonsuch (1650 ship) but no ref cited
    • associated "town" redirects to Division No. 22, Manitoba with which I concur
• Ilford station (Manitoba)
  • Ilford, Manitoba (town)
• Split Lake, Manitoba is a town not on the railroad
  • there may or may not be a flag stop by that name 10-20 km away in deep boreal
• Munk station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • associated "town" redirects to Division No. 22, Manitoba with which I concur
• Kelsey, Manitoba
  • is on a spur line from Pit Siding to Kelsey town. I don't think it has a station article
• Pit Siding station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • associated "town" redirects to Division No. 22, Manitoba with which I concur
• Boyd station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest
    • associated "town" redirects to Division No. 22, Manitoba with which I concur
• Stitt - unsure if there's a current flag stop there.
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • We have no article for a "town" here
• Arnot station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest
    • associated "town" redirects to Division No. 22, Manitoba with which I concur
• Wilde station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • Wilde, Manitoba is proposed for deletion
• Bridgar station
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • I recommend deleting or redirecting Bridgar, Manitoba to Division No. 22, Manitoba
• Pikwitonei station
  • Pikwitonei (town)
    • I recommend merging the station article, a flag stop, into the town article
• Matago - unsure if there's a current flag stop there.
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • We have no article for a "town" here
• Sipiwesk station
  • middle of deep boreal forest and bogs. Dirt road runs off to other dirt roads
    • redirects to Mystery Lake, Manitoba
• Leven station (Manitoba)
  • nothing there - just deep boreal forest and bogs
    • We have no article for a "town" here
• Thicket Portage station
  • Thicket Portage (town)
    • I recommend merging the station article, a flag stop, into the town article

There are still more station articles for flag stops in the middle of nowhere south of Thicket Portage. They're for another day. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 03:33, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Via Rail guide to the route. Does not include the flag stops:

• https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/files/media/pdfs/route_guides/Route_Guide_Churchill-En.pdf

Timetables:

• https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/train-schedules/churchill-the-pas-winnipeg
• https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/train-schedules/winnipeg-the-pas-churchill

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 05:37, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Keewatin Railway:

• https://www.krcrail.ca/train-schedules
• https://www.krcrail.ca/route-map

Spur line from The Pas to Pukatawagan

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 05:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)