Proposal:Railway=technical station
| Technical Station | |
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| Proposal status: | Abandoned (inactive) |
| Proposed by: | Tomasmarklund |
| Tagging: | railway=technical_station
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| Applies to: | 
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| Definition: | A railway station for railway traffic management only with no passenger access. |
| Statistics: |
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| Rendered as: | text only: name(ref) |
| Draft started: | 2014-01-05 |
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This tag has been obsoleted by railway=service_station |
Proposal
This is a proposal to make the tag railway=technical_station official.
Rationale
From a railway traffic management point of view, a technical_station is the same as a railway=station, however, there are no platforms here for passengers to embark/disembark the trains. The station is used only for railway traffic management purposes. I.e, to let trains meet on a single track line.
A technical station is most often remote controlled from some controll center, there is most often no personell here.
Tagging such a station with railway=station would be wrong since there are no passengers here, and tagging it railway=halt
would be wrong for several reasons: there are multiple tracks here (which there is not on a halt) and there is no passenger exchange here (which there also is on a halt).
Tagging
Tagging a single node should be sufficient. Also, the node should be tagged with
Examples
There are today (2014-01-05) already 647 nodes tagged with railway=technical_station
Applies to
Tagging a single node should be sufficient. When creating timetables for the railway they are treated as point objects.
Rendering
The rendering of "name=* (ref=*)" in plain text should be sufficient.