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The name of the station given within the article has been changed twice, recently, by an anonymous editor, from Kemptown to Kemp Town. These two names are not the same thing, as can be seen in the Kemptown and Kemp Town articles, and the history of this present article. If you believe the station was actually called "Kemp Town Railway Station" and not "Kemptown Railway Station", please provide evidence for this. The sources supporting "Kemptown" include the website "My Brighton and Hove" and the newspaper "The Argus", although I don't have exact references to hand to cite right now. More to the point, the station was well outwith the actual Kemp Town estate. An ideal reference, if anybody could provide one, would be a British Rail document of some kind, or a photograph including the station nameboard. – Kieran T ( talk | contribs) 00:28, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
(Resetting indent for people with smaller screens) That sounds pretty good to me, although it's a shame not to get a railway's-own reference. Is it certainly a real OS map feature, and not an overprint by the publishers of the book (to make the map clearer)? (We could verify that detail if it says which edition of the OS map is used, which presumably it will if the book itself is properly referenced.) Those details would make it a pretty sound reference to use. I'm just being picky because the name of the station is a pretty major feature of the article! :) – Kieran T ( talk) 11:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Actually, it might be a 1931 town planning map rather than a OS map, which (if so) would have used the official name. There is also (above plate 25) what looks like an excerpt from a 1890 Bradshaw's timetable showing, again, "Kemp Town". As for overprinting (or even 'faking it'), possible but unlikely IMO, the two items looks 'to original'. Also, I've just looked in my 'Red Book' map and the area is certainly refereed to as "Kemp Town" as well, their information is taken from OS sources. ( SouthernElectric 11:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC))
I have added some material from Harding and Turner, surely both more authoritative.
So far as the extensive debate above about Kemp Town or Kemptown is concerned, the issue of how local people nowadays refer to the district is irrelevant. What is important is what the LBSCR called their station. There are many cases where railways used their own variants of local names. Obvious examples are the Redruth and Chasewater Railway, Stoke Bruern station, and if you want a present-day one, Whittlesea near Peterborough, serving the small town of Whittlesey.
It is not for us to "correct" the originals in Wikipedia. The railway spelling Kemp Town can easily be established, quite apart from looking in Harding or Turner, by the cheap and easily obtainable Bradshaw reprints, 1922 for example. Afterbrunel ( talk) 08:59, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
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The name of the station given within the article has been changed twice, recently, by an anonymous editor, from Kemptown to Kemp Town. These two names are not the same thing, as can be seen in the Kemptown and Kemp Town articles, and the history of this present article. If you believe the station was actually called "Kemp Town Railway Station" and not "Kemptown Railway Station", please provide evidence for this. The sources supporting "Kemptown" include the website "My Brighton and Hove" and the newspaper "The Argus", although I don't have exact references to hand to cite right now. More to the point, the station was well outwith the actual Kemp Town estate. An ideal reference, if anybody could provide one, would be a British Rail document of some kind, or a photograph including the station nameboard. – Kieran T ( talk | contribs) 00:28, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
(Resetting indent for people with smaller screens) That sounds pretty good to me, although it's a shame not to get a railway's-own reference. Is it certainly a real OS map feature, and not an overprint by the publishers of the book (to make the map clearer)? (We could verify that detail if it says which edition of the OS map is used, which presumably it will if the book itself is properly referenced.) Those details would make it a pretty sound reference to use. I'm just being picky because the name of the station is a pretty major feature of the article! :) – Kieran T ( talk) 11:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Actually, it might be a 1931 town planning map rather than a OS map, which (if so) would have used the official name. There is also (above plate 25) what looks like an excerpt from a 1890 Bradshaw's timetable showing, again, "Kemp Town". As for overprinting (or even 'faking it'), possible but unlikely IMO, the two items looks 'to original'. Also, I've just looked in my 'Red Book' map and the area is certainly refereed to as "Kemp Town" as well, their information is taken from OS sources. ( SouthernElectric 11:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC))
I have added some material from Harding and Turner, surely both more authoritative.
So far as the extensive debate above about Kemp Town or Kemptown is concerned, the issue of how local people nowadays refer to the district is irrelevant. What is important is what the LBSCR called their station. There are many cases where railways used their own variants of local names. Obvious examples are the Redruth and Chasewater Railway, Stoke Bruern station, and if you want a present-day one, Whittlesea near Peterborough, serving the small town of Whittlesey.
It is not for us to "correct" the originals in Wikipedia. The railway spelling Kemp Town can easily be established, quite apart from looking in Harding or Turner, by the cheap and easily obtainable Bradshaw reprints, 1922 for example. Afterbrunel ( talk) 08:59, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
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