Talk:Yeoveney Halt railway station

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Location[edit]

Lat/Long added to the article differ slightly from the coords in List of closed railway stations in London which were converted from Yeoveney's position on a 1940 War Office map (not Ord. Surv.). I've found no other map spotting the halt. The Lat/Long puts Yeoveney east of the M25 while, admittedly without evidence, other sites say the site is now under the M25. I have wondered about the origin of some of the co-ordinates, to several decimal places, which have been added to lost stations.--SilasW (talk) 11:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The location now in the article, 51.44968N 0.52122W, puts the halt east of a railway alignment (apparently the lifted chord to the Windsor line) and so is not correct. To repeat my earlier comment: the coordinates pushed into articles such as this are not sourced. Giving degrees to five decimal places is normally unwarranted as .00001 of a degree is of the order of one metre (less E-W away from the equator), most features, especially railway stations have an extent way beyond that. Some who insert coordinates cannot appreciate the difference between accuracy and precision. How they determine where a station was I do not know but for long-closed stations the very spot can be indicated differently by different sources.--SilasW (talk) 10:40, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the pre-war OS map I have put into the article, the coordinates seem about right.--DavidCane (talk) 22:37, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The station is on the OS one-inch sheets 160 (NW London) and 170 (SW London), 1958 edition. Have added gridref from those. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]