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This template provides external links for railway station articles in Great Britain. The links are to the National Rail website's "live departure boards" and station information pages, and to Multimap for a map and aerial photograph.
The distinction between this template and {{ stn art lrnk}} is the scale of the map: this template links to a large-scale street map, and is more suited to stations in urban areas. For urban areas, a smaller-scale Ordnance Survey map is linked to by {{ stn art lrnk}}.
The first argument should be the station's National Rail code. The second argument should be its postcode. Both of these can be found in the alphabetical lists of UK railway stations, linked to from here:
Why has the map link function been removed from this template? I'm sure I'm not the only one who found it useful. – Tivedshambo (talk) 12:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
The aerial imaging offered by multimap is very poor compared to the competition (most obviously maps.google). This template also doesn't provoke a dot on Google Earth (needs to be COOR or COORD). Can a template guru try to (a) add code to convert OSCOOR into Lat/Lon, then invoke COORD [maybe in OSCOOR template?] and (b) offer a lot more mapping options that Multimap. -- John Maynard Friedman 17:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
This template lacks justification on whether it should be present or not on wikipedia. It offers a link to timetables which wikipedia does not cover and links to an exclusive mapping website that doubles the coordinates template which offers a choice (including mapping websites which do not advertise). This template should be changed and it will be nominated on the grounds its entire concept is geared around something Wikipedia does not cover. Cheers, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 12:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed that the template Template:Stn art lrnk be merged into this one. Please see my comments at Template talk:Stn art lrnk. Adambro 19:49, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Please see: Template talk:Infobox UK station#Links from Template:stn art lnk. Andy Mabbett 11:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The station information link seems to be broken, at least for Ancaster railway station, Rauceby railway station, Grantham railway station. Looking at the way the calling mechanism works, I can't see it would not be broken for every station. I have no doubt the problem lies at their end -- Robert EA Harvey ( talk) 16:17, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
I happened to look at an external link on a UK station article today and noticed it mentioned Train times first and Station information second. This is seemingly at odds with purpose of a Wikipedia article which is to give information first and respect WP:NOTTIMETABLE. I also note the national rail station information page has a clear link to the live departure/arrival boards. On that basis I propose:
Thankyou. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 09:13, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
![]() | This template does not require a rating on Wikipedia's
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![]() | This template was considered for deletion on 2007 February 26. The result of the discussion was "keep". |
This template provides external links for railway station articles in Great Britain. The links are to the National Rail website's "live departure boards" and station information pages, and to Multimap for a map and aerial photograph.
The distinction between this template and {{ stn art lrnk}} is the scale of the map: this template links to a large-scale street map, and is more suited to stations in urban areas. For urban areas, a smaller-scale Ordnance Survey map is linked to by {{ stn art lrnk}}.
The first argument should be the station's National Rail code. The second argument should be its postcode. Both of these can be found in the alphabetical lists of UK railway stations, linked to from here:
Why has the map link function been removed from this template? I'm sure I'm not the only one who found it useful. – Tivedshambo (talk) 12:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
The aerial imaging offered by multimap is very poor compared to the competition (most obviously maps.google). This template also doesn't provoke a dot on Google Earth (needs to be COOR or COORD). Can a template guru try to (a) add code to convert OSCOOR into Lat/Lon, then invoke COORD [maybe in OSCOOR template?] and (b) offer a lot more mapping options that Multimap. -- John Maynard Friedman 17:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
This template lacks justification on whether it should be present or not on wikipedia. It offers a link to timetables which wikipedia does not cover and links to an exclusive mapping website that doubles the coordinates template which offers a choice (including mapping websites which do not advertise). This template should be changed and it will be nominated on the grounds its entire concept is geared around something Wikipedia does not cover. Cheers, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 12:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed that the template Template:Stn art lrnk be merged into this one. Please see my comments at Template talk:Stn art lrnk. Adambro 19:49, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Please see: Template talk:Infobox UK station#Links from Template:stn art lnk. Andy Mabbett 11:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The station information link seems to be broken, at least for Ancaster railway station, Rauceby railway station, Grantham railway station. Looking at the way the calling mechanism works, I can't see it would not be broken for every station. I have no doubt the problem lies at their end -- Robert EA Harvey ( talk) 16:17, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
I happened to look at an external link on a UK station article today and noticed it mentioned Train times first and Station information second. This is seemingly at odds with purpose of a Wikipedia article which is to give information first and respect WP:NOTTIMETABLE. I also note the national rail station information page has a clear link to the live departure/arrival boards. On that basis I propose:
Thankyou. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 09:13, 24 May 2019 (UTC)