On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 13:29 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2016-05-18 10:10 GMT+02:00 Philip Barnes <[email protected]>: > > There does appear to be a fair bit wrong with that page, it says > > 'Stations without switches (should be points) where only passenger > > trains stop are called halts. > > > > A halt should be a station where trains stop on request. The wiki > > would make most stations into halts, including busy stations, such > > as Telford, which is ridiculous. > > > > this might be country specific, AFAIK according to the German law, a > station without a switch is not considered a station but a halt (not > sure if we should add this requirement to OSM though, cannot recall > that we discussed this on an international level, so that adding it > into the general wiki definition doesn't seem right). > I spluttered a bit when I read on #talk-gb that and RichardF has since corrected it to say that rule only applies in German speaking countries.
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