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Featured articleWaddesdon Road railway station is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Featured topic starWaddesdon Road railway station is part of the Brill Tramway series, a featured topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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June 19, 2010Featured article candidatePromoted
October 5, 2010Featured topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 22, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Waddesdon Road railway station generated only £4 per year in passenger revenue before being taken over by the London Underground?
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"...railway station" should be capitalised as "Waddesdon Road Railway Station" because it part of a title. Viz 'Buckingham Palace', 'Westminster Bridge', 'National Exhibition Centre', etc, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.168.33 (talk) 09:37, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Railway Station" is not part of the title, it's a descriptor of what it is. In the examples you've given, the signs over the entrances include the word "Palace", "Bridge" and "Exhibition Centre". Waddesdon Road was signed as, and appeared in timetables as, "Waddesdon" and "Waddesdon Road". See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (UK stations). – iridescent 13:40, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder how 'railway station' can be a descriptor of 'railway station' LOL. It's no more a descriptor than 'Road' is as in 'Waddesdon Road'. Next the bullshitters who make up these so-called rules will be saying there is no need to capitalise 'Road' either, because it is a descriptor LOL. Try googling 'euston railway station' and see what you get. Most people capitalise railway station by convention when it is part of a title. Wikipedia should go along with convention and not make up bullshit rules that most people don't recognise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.248.224 (talk) 19:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The point is that the station signs carried the two words "Waddesdon Road" (or "WADDESDON ROAD" if you're pedantic): the words "railway station" were not on the signs, but the word "Road" was. Further, all Wikipedia articles on British railway stations have names ending "station", often "railway station" or "tube station", but whichever of these is used, it's always lower case. The vast majority of railway stations are named after places, and the words "railway station" are a consistent form of disambiguation. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:01, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Are the coordinates correct? Looking at the area the nearest disused railway is about a mile to the west? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.156.30.52 (talk) 11:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, see here. Remember that the line closed in 1935, so newer maps may not show any indication of a former railway line. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:10, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Coordinates are more like 51.855162, -0.901300 --Southfork (talk)