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Just to quote what the page currently says: Platforms 6 and 7 are dedicated to the Heathrow Express, and platforms 13 and 14 can only be used by the short trains used on local services. All the other platforms can be used by any of the station's train services. However in normal usage the tendency is for long distance trains to use the western platforms, and local trains (including Heathrow Connect) the eastern ones.
But this is incorrect, Platform 12 cannot be used by HST's. Platforms 1,2,13 and 14 do not have overhead wires so cannot be used by Heathrow Express or Heathrow Connect. Ta, Ollie 2/2/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.194.167 ( talk) 12:41, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Someone right about the bear! -- Sam
Paddington has four spans not three.
Having just had my wrist gently slapped by the National Rail journey planner for requesting a journey from 'Paddington' (it politely enquired if I really meant 'London Paddington'), I thought we needed to do something about naming of the article. However looking into this further, I found there isn't even a consensus amongst the station's key stakeholders, let alone amongst general usage. So I've left the naming alone, and added an explanatory paragraph. -- Chris j wood 11:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
I've split off the tube station section to its own article as it seemed too long and awkward to just be a subsection here. Other pages that still link to Paddington station need to have their links updated to either Paddington railway station or Paddington tube station. There's a list of such pages here, and obviously its too many to do all of them by myself. -- Dtcdthingy 15:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't think the 'tube split' described above makes any kind of sense. You either need to treat Paddington as a single transport interchange (1 article) or as a national rail station plus two quite separate tube stations (3 articles). Lets see what the consensus is. -- Chris j wood 20:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Given that the consensus at present seems to be in favour of going back to one article, but the move is blocked, I'm requesting admin assistance for the move. -- Chris j wood 12:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Paddington railway station → Paddington station – In order to revert previous split of article Paddington station into Paddington railway station and Paddington tube station without losing article history and in line with consensus developed on talk page. Three steps needed (1) This move (2) Revert moved article to revision id 74213323 (3) Revert the tube station article to revision id 16040944. -- Chris j wood 12:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Indicate which option you support followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
Does anyone else only seem to see the page in a box on the right hand side? I'm using firefox 2.0, by the way? Jt spratt 09:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
The article currently says:
I'm pretty sure that this discovery was actually of Brunel's spans carrying Bishop's Bridge Road over the adjacent Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal on the approach to the railway bridge. His actual spans over the railway were replaced long ago by a girder bridge, which has just been replaced again. Anybody confirm that?. -- Chris j wood 17:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
can the Metropolitan Line stop be mentioned under "disused" tube/railway stops as paddington used to be on the Metropolitan Line 82.24.175.199 18:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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This article has been reviewed as part of the GA Project quality task force, and I'm very pleased to be able to say that as a result of the work that's been it has been confirmed as a GA.
The review can be found here. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 12:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
In the light of the imminent GA review (see above), I have removed all the uncited references from the 'in fiction' section. I have done this because:
If anybody else, and especially the original editors of the references, feels agrieved by this, please feel free to do the necessary research and reinsert with cites. -- Chris j wood ( talk) 15:13, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
This section must have been hijacked by someone marketing the new office blocks! The station dominates its location, which is naturally not "residential" but grimly commercial. Whatever the marketeers might hope or achieve, at present the location is dominated by the large hospital and the usual railway red-light area, cheap hotels, cafes, shops, railway traffic; obviously not "residential", but what authority can one cite? Jezza ( talk) 00:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was no consensus for the moves. -- PBS ( talk) 18:05, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
There are 12 London stations that for some purposes are prefixed "London" [1] and for other purposes are not. [2] Our article naming has used "London X" on five articles and "X" on seven articles. The articles text explains that two alternative names exist and give these sources. Both names are present in the infoboxes. These articles should share a common naming convention. This proposal concerns only the prefix "London". The article name suffixes (-station, -railway station) form a convention that is followed. MRSC ( talk) 08:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
This would bring them into line with these articles:
For Victoria the "London X" naming was used for disambiguation with others outside London. However, there is another format currently used for this purpose and it should be moved to match:
Thanks. MRSC ( talk) 08:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
For clarity, those not supporting the move please indicate if they have a preference for the status quo of random/mixed article naming or if they would prefer to see Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Euston, Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street etc. moved to the "London X" format. MRSC ( talk) 10:56, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
London Waterloo East railway station | → Waterloo East railway station | Strong support | a fairly minor station... |
London Waterloo station | → Waterloo station | Support | scans better |
London Paddington station | → Paddington station | ... | no preference |
London King's Cross railway station | → King's Cross railway station | Oppose | disambig @ King's Cross station |
London Victoria station | → Victoria station (London) | Strong oppose | unnatural (brackets); disambig @ Victoria station |
I would note there are actually two published sources for the station names. National Rail use "London" [3] and Network Rail (the owners of the stations) do not. [4] MRSC ( talk) 15:13, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Link | Network Rail managed stations [5] |
National Rail station codes [6] |
Station signage |
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1 | n/a | London Blackfriars | London Blackfriars >image< |
2 | Cannon Street | London Cannon Street | London Cannon Street >image< |
3 | Charing Cross | London Charing Cross | London Charing Cross >image< |
4 | n/a | City Thameslink | City Thameslink >image< |
5 | Euston | London Euston | London Euston >image< |
6 | Fenchurch Street | London Fenchurch Street | Fenchurch Street >image< |
7 | King's Cross | London Kings Cross | London Kings Cross >image< |
8 | Liverpool Street | London Liverpool Street | London Liverpool Street >image< |
9 | London Bridge | London Bridge | London Bridge >image< |
10 | n/a | London Marylebone | London Marylebone >image< |
11 | n/a | Moorgate | Moorgate >image< |
12 | Paddington | London Paddington | London Paddington >image< |
13 | St Pancras | London St Pancras | St Pancras >image< |
14 | Victoria | London Victoria | London Victoria >image< |
15 | Waterloo | London Waterloo | London Waterloo >image< |
16 | n/a | London Waterloo East | Waterloo East >image< |
The station signage adds another layer of complexity as "London" is not applied to agree with either source. With this, the notion of an "official name" becomes harder to grasp hold of. MRSC ( talk) 15:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I am changing the current image ( File:Paddington Station.jpg) into a new one ( File:Paddington Station rush hour.jpg) as it is a much recent image and displays the main concourse along with the old train shed, platforms and directions to give the reader a general view of the station that displays many features mentioned further in the article, rather than an image which only focusses on one particular platform and a train. Hope it helps! Gareth-- 80.194.231.189 ( talk) 23:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
The history section does not include anything associated with the works carried out during the introduction of Heathrow Express. Specifically the building of check-in desks for Heathrow airlines (as used to be at Victoria for Gatwick). And the subsequent conversion into retail units after off-airport check-in was dispensed with. I am aware it happened, but this significant works at the station are missing. Unfortunately, although I know it happened I do not have the relevant sources to put the info into the article. -- Stewart ( talk | edits) 23:25, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
What is the evidence that, "recent research, using early documents and photographs, does not seem to support this belief, and their actual purpose is unknown"?
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Railway_Appliances_1000721621/209 refers to a hydraulic platform and Charles Lee in his Railway Magazine article (June 1954 p. 374) on the centenary also referred to John Wolfe Barry's 1878 'Railway Appliances' and included these diagrams.
Charles' research was usually very thorough. Was he wrong? Johnragla ( talk) 07:40, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
I think it might be a good idea to talk about how polluted the station is. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/paddington-station-more-polluted-than-the-marylebone-road-thanks-to-diesel-fumes-from-trains-a2943126.html http://www.airqualitynews.com/2015/09/11/paddington-station-air-more-polluted-than-marylebone-rd/ http://www.iop.org/news/15/sep/page_66225.html
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Are we seriously suggesting that no accident occurred at Paddington until 1920? Mjroots ( talk) 17:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
I've gone an idea, how about when someone changed someone else's work, we just revert it, back and forth until someone gets blocked, or reported for vandalism or a major argument breaks out. "Thumbs up" Happy Christmas. Gwrhst ( talk) 17:23, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Apparently there is a strike happening right now, but a search for news sources brings back nothing. What's going on? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:04, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Not sure how I'm only reading this in detail for the first time now but I'm surprised at how little coverage there is of the architecture of the station. There's an entire book on it (which is cited as a reference) and multiple other books on station architecture in general and the London termini in particular. Paddington is one of only nine grade I listed main line railway station in England. There's probably enough material to write a sub article, but I feel it deserves at least a paragraph or two here. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:06, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
After four months, proposal has been overwhelmingly opposed, result is not merged. Rossonwy ( talk) 05:37, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
I see that this has been mooted before - see Talk:London_Paddington_station#Requested_move_(1). However, I want to get this discussion going again because having three different articles covering much of the same content makes no logical sense. I am thus proposing the merge of Paddington_tube_station_(Bakerloo,_Circle_and_District_lines) and Paddington_tube_station_(Circle_and_Hammersmith_&_City_lines) into the London Paddington station article. I think it would be sensible to follow the structure above for this discussion - so please write your opinion under the relevant heading with Strong oppose, Oppose, Support or Strong support with your reasoning if you wish - and remember to use the 4 tildes (~~~~)! Mattdaviesfsic ( talk) 18:04, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@ Chris j wood, Willkm, Jt spratt, MRSC, Thryduulf, and Robwingfield:
Couldn't work out how to word additions to the highly concise and well worded lead - so offering my suggestions to the "floor". Should the lead mention a) electrification of the lines into the station b) the opening of the Elizabeth line? Turini2 ( talk) 18:12, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
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Just to quote what the page currently says: Platforms 6 and 7 are dedicated to the Heathrow Express, and platforms 13 and 14 can only be used by the short trains used on local services. All the other platforms can be used by any of the station's train services. However in normal usage the tendency is for long distance trains to use the western platforms, and local trains (including Heathrow Connect) the eastern ones.
But this is incorrect, Platform 12 cannot be used by HST's. Platforms 1,2,13 and 14 do not have overhead wires so cannot be used by Heathrow Express or Heathrow Connect. Ta, Ollie 2/2/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.194.167 ( talk) 12:41, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Someone right about the bear! -- Sam
Paddington has four spans not three.
Having just had my wrist gently slapped by the National Rail journey planner for requesting a journey from 'Paddington' (it politely enquired if I really meant 'London Paddington'), I thought we needed to do something about naming of the article. However looking into this further, I found there isn't even a consensus amongst the station's key stakeholders, let alone amongst general usage. So I've left the naming alone, and added an explanatory paragraph. -- Chris j wood 11:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
I've split off the tube station section to its own article as it seemed too long and awkward to just be a subsection here. Other pages that still link to Paddington station need to have their links updated to either Paddington railway station or Paddington tube station. There's a list of such pages here, and obviously its too many to do all of them by myself. -- Dtcdthingy 15:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't think the 'tube split' described above makes any kind of sense. You either need to treat Paddington as a single transport interchange (1 article) or as a national rail station plus two quite separate tube stations (3 articles). Lets see what the consensus is. -- Chris j wood 20:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Given that the consensus at present seems to be in favour of going back to one article, but the move is blocked, I'm requesting admin assistance for the move. -- Chris j wood 12:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Paddington railway station → Paddington station – In order to revert previous split of article Paddington station into Paddington railway station and Paddington tube station without losing article history and in line with consensus developed on talk page. Three steps needed (1) This move (2) Revert moved article to revision id 74213323 (3) Revert the tube station article to revision id 16040944. -- Chris j wood 12:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Indicate which option you support followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
Does anyone else only seem to see the page in a box on the right hand side? I'm using firefox 2.0, by the way? Jt spratt 09:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
The article currently says:
I'm pretty sure that this discovery was actually of Brunel's spans carrying Bishop's Bridge Road over the adjacent Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal on the approach to the railway bridge. His actual spans over the railway were replaced long ago by a girder bridge, which has just been replaced again. Anybody confirm that?. -- Chris j wood 17:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
can the Metropolitan Line stop be mentioned under "disused" tube/railway stops as paddington used to be on the Metropolitan Line 82.24.175.199 18:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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This article has been reviewed as part of the GA Project quality task force, and I'm very pleased to be able to say that as a result of the work that's been it has been confirmed as a GA.
The review can be found here. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 12:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
In the light of the imminent GA review (see above), I have removed all the uncited references from the 'in fiction' section. I have done this because:
If anybody else, and especially the original editors of the references, feels agrieved by this, please feel free to do the necessary research and reinsert with cites. -- Chris j wood ( talk) 15:13, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
This section must have been hijacked by someone marketing the new office blocks! The station dominates its location, which is naturally not "residential" but grimly commercial. Whatever the marketeers might hope or achieve, at present the location is dominated by the large hospital and the usual railway red-light area, cheap hotels, cafes, shops, railway traffic; obviously not "residential", but what authority can one cite? Jezza ( talk) 00:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was no consensus for the moves. -- PBS ( talk) 18:05, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
There are 12 London stations that for some purposes are prefixed "London" [1] and for other purposes are not. [2] Our article naming has used "London X" on five articles and "X" on seven articles. The articles text explains that two alternative names exist and give these sources. Both names are present in the infoboxes. These articles should share a common naming convention. This proposal concerns only the prefix "London". The article name suffixes (-station, -railway station) form a convention that is followed. MRSC ( talk) 08:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
This would bring them into line with these articles:
For Victoria the "London X" naming was used for disambiguation with others outside London. However, there is another format currently used for this purpose and it should be moved to match:
Thanks. MRSC ( talk) 08:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
For clarity, those not supporting the move please indicate if they have a preference for the status quo of random/mixed article naming or if they would prefer to see Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Euston, Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street etc. moved to the "London X" format. MRSC ( talk) 10:56, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
London Waterloo East railway station | → Waterloo East railway station | Strong support | a fairly minor station... |
London Waterloo station | → Waterloo station | Support | scans better |
London Paddington station | → Paddington station | ... | no preference |
London King's Cross railway station | → King's Cross railway station | Oppose | disambig @ King's Cross station |
London Victoria station | → Victoria station (London) | Strong oppose | unnatural (brackets); disambig @ Victoria station |
I would note there are actually two published sources for the station names. National Rail use "London" [3] and Network Rail (the owners of the stations) do not. [4] MRSC ( talk) 15:13, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Link | Network Rail managed stations [5] |
National Rail station codes [6] |
Station signage |
---|---|---|---|
1 | n/a | London Blackfriars | London Blackfriars >image< |
2 | Cannon Street | London Cannon Street | London Cannon Street >image< |
3 | Charing Cross | London Charing Cross | London Charing Cross >image< |
4 | n/a | City Thameslink | City Thameslink >image< |
5 | Euston | London Euston | London Euston >image< |
6 | Fenchurch Street | London Fenchurch Street | Fenchurch Street >image< |
7 | King's Cross | London Kings Cross | London Kings Cross >image< |
8 | Liverpool Street | London Liverpool Street | London Liverpool Street >image< |
9 | London Bridge | London Bridge | London Bridge >image< |
10 | n/a | London Marylebone | London Marylebone >image< |
11 | n/a | Moorgate | Moorgate >image< |
12 | Paddington | London Paddington | London Paddington >image< |
13 | St Pancras | London St Pancras | St Pancras >image< |
14 | Victoria | London Victoria | London Victoria >image< |
15 | Waterloo | London Waterloo | London Waterloo >image< |
16 | n/a | London Waterloo East | Waterloo East >image< |
The station signage adds another layer of complexity as "London" is not applied to agree with either source. With this, the notion of an "official name" becomes harder to grasp hold of. MRSC ( talk) 15:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I am changing the current image ( File:Paddington Station.jpg) into a new one ( File:Paddington Station rush hour.jpg) as it is a much recent image and displays the main concourse along with the old train shed, platforms and directions to give the reader a general view of the station that displays many features mentioned further in the article, rather than an image which only focusses on one particular platform and a train. Hope it helps! Gareth-- 80.194.231.189 ( talk) 23:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
The history section does not include anything associated with the works carried out during the introduction of Heathrow Express. Specifically the building of check-in desks for Heathrow airlines (as used to be at Victoria for Gatwick). And the subsequent conversion into retail units after off-airport check-in was dispensed with. I am aware it happened, but this significant works at the station are missing. Unfortunately, although I know it happened I do not have the relevant sources to put the info into the article. -- Stewart ( talk | edits) 23:25, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
What is the evidence that, "recent research, using early documents and photographs, does not seem to support this belief, and their actual purpose is unknown"?
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Railway_Appliances_1000721621/209 refers to a hydraulic platform and Charles Lee in his Railway Magazine article (June 1954 p. 374) on the centenary also referred to John Wolfe Barry's 1878 'Railway Appliances' and included these diagrams.
Charles' research was usually very thorough. Was he wrong? Johnragla ( talk) 07:40, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
I think it might be a good idea to talk about how polluted the station is. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/paddington-station-more-polluted-than-the-marylebone-road-thanks-to-diesel-fumes-from-trains-a2943126.html http://www.airqualitynews.com/2015/09/11/paddington-station-air-more-polluted-than-marylebone-rd/ http://www.iop.org/news/15/sep/page_66225.html
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Are we seriously suggesting that no accident occurred at Paddington until 1920? Mjroots ( talk) 17:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
I've gone an idea, how about when someone changed someone else's work, we just revert it, back and forth until someone gets blocked, or reported for vandalism or a major argument breaks out. "Thumbs up" Happy Christmas. Gwrhst ( talk) 17:23, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Apparently there is a strike happening right now, but a search for news sources brings back nothing. What's going on? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:04, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Not sure how I'm only reading this in detail for the first time now but I'm surprised at how little coverage there is of the architecture of the station. There's an entire book on it (which is cited as a reference) and multiple other books on station architecture in general and the London termini in particular. Paddington is one of only nine grade I listed main line railway station in England. There's probably enough material to write a sub article, but I feel it deserves at least a paragraph or two here. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:06, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
After four months, proposal has been overwhelmingly opposed, result is not merged. Rossonwy ( talk) 05:37, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
I see that this has been mooted before - see Talk:London_Paddington_station#Requested_move_(1). However, I want to get this discussion going again because having three different articles covering much of the same content makes no logical sense. I am thus proposing the merge of Paddington_tube_station_(Bakerloo,_Circle_and_District_lines) and Paddington_tube_station_(Circle_and_Hammersmith_&_City_lines) into the London Paddington station article. I think it would be sensible to follow the structure above for this discussion - so please write your opinion under the relevant heading with Strong oppose, Oppose, Support or Strong support with your reasoning if you wish - and remember to use the 4 tildes (~~~~)! Mattdaviesfsic ( talk) 18:04, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@ Chris j wood, Willkm, Jt spratt, MRSC, Thryduulf, and Robwingfield:
Couldn't work out how to word additions to the highly concise and well worded lead - so offering my suggestions to the "floor". Should the lead mention a) electrification of the lines into the station b) the opening of the Elizabeth line? Turini2 ( talk) 18:12, 1 April 2023 (UTC)