Talk:List of Amtrak stations

List of Amtrak station codes was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 15 November 2012 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into List of Amtrak stations. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Section size for List of Amtrak stations (12 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,709	5,709
Active stations	144,589	144,589
Suspended stations	7,344	7,344
Closed stations	63	63
Future stations	4,654	4,654
Amtrak Thruway stations	55,174	55,174
See also	270	270
Notes	40	40
Bibliography	392	392
References	28	28
Sources	716	716
External links	470	470
Total	219,449	219,449

Excessive page length[edit]

This list is far, far too long. It increased in size from 183 bytes to 412k bytes in this edit by Mitchazenia. While it was good to reorganize the table, I think a lot of that information is just not needed in a list article. The routes that serve/previously served the station? Belongs on the station's article. Same with the closed date. Not sure why the station code was taken out of a column and put in parentheses. We should all analyze List of MBTA Commuter Rail stations for a standard, as it's rated as a Featured list. Visual editing will be invaluable when fixing this list. –Daybeers (talk) 07:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Station code should be a separate column. Open/close/rebuild dates (which are far too complicated for a list like this, and would require hundreds of citations) and date of agency closure (utterly unrelated to this topic) should go. (Date of closure might be okay for closed stations, but even that is iffy.) Former services should not be shown, though current services only may be worthwhile keeping. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 07:43, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See previous discussion at Talk:List of Amtrak stations/Archive 1#Page length. Mackensen (talk) 12:20, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For something of that size, splitting by state would be totally reasonable. ―cobaltcigs 02:28, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Suspended stations are effectively former stations[edit]

It's been over 16 years since the Sunset Limited had service suspended on its eastern end - how much longer are we going to continue to pretend that these stations aren't effectively closed? I propose, in part to shorten the length of this article, that we move these to the List of former Amtrak stations. -MJ (talk) 05:58, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"List of railway stations in the United States" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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