Talk:Burnham railway station

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[edit] County?

While the village of Burnham, Buckinghamshire is indeed within Buckinghamshire, the suburb of Slough called Burnham is within the county border of Berkshire. This is clearly visible on the Multimap (see article) within the county border of Berkshire. The railway station is also clearly visible within the county border of Berkshire, i.e. part of the suburb. Does anyone have any contradictory proof? If not, then I intend to change the categorisation to Railway stations of Berkshire. Thanks, Ian Cairns 07:48, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citations

While writing this article I have included original research and I can't quite go about verifying it!

Chelseafan1989 (talk) 21:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

you probably should remove the material then - see Wikipedia:No original research for Wikipedia's agreed stance on this. From having done a little bit of copyediting on your most welcome additions, I wonder if you mean the claim that many trading estate workers use the station? This probably is a provable claim - Slough Council, FGW or possibly the rail regulator may well have done surveys of specific destinations. Maybe Slough has evidence showing particularly heavy pedestrian flow along Burnham Lane between station and Trading Estate? This would at least support the point. On the issue of destinations of trains beyond Reading, I queried it because my experience is that trains continue beyond Reading throughout the day rather than just during peak. Maybe a reference to a timetable site would be enough to demonstrate the point one way or another?

keep up the good work! Grblundell (talk) 10:08, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Can't it be re-worded to say that it serves the Trading Estate? I ask as it'd be relevant to the contributions i have planned. What do you say a station is for? As in, if there is ONE station in the whole town, but that station is in a suburb of the town, as opposed to the town centre, say 3 miles north of town centre for example, is it advisable to a)state simply the town name ie Townsville station in Townsville, or say Townsville station in Greensuburb, Townsville. Secondly, if a station is in the middle of nowhere, except for a hotel, or a castle, what could you say? Could you say that Cathays railway station serves the Universities of Cardiff, and University railway station serves the University of Birmingham, or University of Ulster (there are two University stations, west midlands and ireland), if it's not best to say they serve them, what is the appropriate wording? isn't there a railways related question thing on wikipedia, some wiki project where i can ask my questions to? rather than putting it on talk pages?Halowithhorns89 (talk) 17:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

if I've understood Chelseafan1989's concern correctly, I'm not sure that this would help. The point that needs to be demonstrated is that Trading Estate workers use Burnham Station. The proximity of the station to the Estate might suggest this - but it is also possible that everyone who works on the Estate drives / walks / cycles / pogosticks their way there. HTH Grblundell (talk) 19:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

The recent FGW (December 9th 2007) has ensured that all trains that call at burnham during the day only call at Reading, then the occasional service to Oxford, Banbury, Didcot either at peak periods or late at night and some weekends but even this is rarely set in stone! As for Slough Trading Estate, Burnham railway station more-or-less sits on it so I assume people who live in Central Slough and commute by rail would use this service to get to the Estate (then join the purple bus service to get to the right side of the estate).

Chelseafan1989 (talk) 12:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)