Template:Stnlnk/doc

Usage

This template expands a name (first parameter) to link to the appropriate railway station article, without displaying "railway station".

Optionally a second parameter can be supplied to distinguish between identically named stations in different locations. (With respect to the UK, this is typically the county level administrative division.)

A third parameter can be used to change the displayed station name.

The template can be abbreviated as {{rws}} (for railway station).

For example:

{{stnlnk|Wolverhampton}} expands to [[Wolverhampton railway station|Wolverhampton]].

{{stnlnk|Bramley|Hampshire}} expands to [[Bramley railway station (Hampshire)|Bramley]].

{{stnlnk|Ashford International||Ashford Intl}} expands to [[Ashford International railway station|Ashford Intl]].

Note:

This template will correctly handle all the standard forms of station name disambiguation:

• Xxx railway station (Location)
• Xxx (Location) railway station
• Xxx railway station, Location
• Xxx station (Location)
• Xxx (System station)
• Xxx (System)

Discretion should be used on whether to name the place itself or the station that serves it. In railway articles it is generally preferred to use the station unless specifically talking about the place, for example that Peterborough serves the city of Peterborough.

Almost all British stations follow the link form of terminating with "railway station".

See also

A number of other templates provide the same function for specific systems:

Template Shortcut(s) Used for {{Station}} {{stn}} Any transit, bus station or train station, with lowercase word "station" {{STN}} none Any transit, bus station or train station, with the word "Station" capitalized {{BSsrws}} none Any station, split over two lines of text {{Stnlnk}} {{rws}} Railway stations {{Gare}} none Any French railway station ("Gare de …") {{Metro}} none Metro stations {{Metrod}} none Any metro station with disambiguating qualifier {{Subway}} none Subway stations {{LRT Station}} {{lrt}} or {{lrts}} Light rail transit stations {{MRT station}} {{mrt}} or {{mrts}} Mass rapid transit stations {{Tram}} none Tram stops {{Tstop}} none Any transit stop {{Ferry}} {{fw}} Ferry wharves Specific locations North America Amtrak stations {{amtk}} Amtrak CTrain stations {{cts}} Calgary CTrain CDOT stations {{cdots}} CTfastrak, Hartford Line, and Shore Line East (Connecticut) CTA stations {{cta}} Chicago Transit Authority Edmonton LRT stations {{stl|ETS}} Edmonton Light Rail Transit Exo stations {{Exos}} Exo (formerly RTM, Greater Montreal) GO Transit stations {{GOs}} GO Transit (Greater Toronto Area) {{LIRR stations}} {{lirrs}} Long Island Rail Road MAX stations {{maxs}} MAX Light Rail (Portland, Oregon) MBTA stations {{bts}} MBTA (Boston) Metro Transit station {{MTs}} Metro Transit (Minnesota) MNRR stations {{mnrr}} Metro-North Railroad (New York and Connecticut) {{Montreal Metro stations}} {{stms}} Montreal Metro MTA Maryland stations {{mtams}} Maryland Transit Administration (excluding MARC Train) {{MTS stations}} {{mtss}} San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Muni stations {{munis}} San Francisco Municipal Railway and Muni Metro NJT stations {{njts}} NJ Transit Rail Operations (New Jersey) {{NYCS station}} {{nycs}} New York City Subway SCAX stations {{scax}} Metrolink (California) {{SIR station}} {{sirs}} Staten Island Railway {{SLML}} none MetroLink (St. Louis) SMART stations {{smarts}} Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit {{TTC station}} {{ttcs}} Toronto subway VREX stations none Virginia Railway Express WMATA stations {{wmata}} Washington Metro (Washington, D.C.) Elsewhere {{StnlnkA}} {{rwsa}} Australia and New Zealand {{BJS stations}} {{bjss}} Beijing Subway {{BVG stations}} {{bvgs}} Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (Berlin) {{Buenos Aires Subte}} {{bas}} Buenos Aires Underground {{DLRstation}} {{dlr}} Docklands Light Railway (London) {{Istanbul Metro stations}} none Istanbul Metro {{IWLR}} none Dulwich Hill Line (Sydney) {{METROKIEV stations}} {{kms}} Kyiv Metro {{Komuter station}} {{kstn}} KTM Komuter (Kuala Lumpur) {{Tubestation}} {{lus}} London Underground {{Metro Madrid}} {{MdM}} Madrid Metro {{MOSMETRO stations}} {{mms}} Moscow Metro {{München bahnhof}} {{mbhf}} Munich S-Bahn {{StnlnkO}} {{rwso}} Oslo tramway and metro stations {{Paris Metro/Station}} {{pms}} Paris Métro {{RER/Station}} {{prs}} Paris RER {{StnlnkR}} {{rwsr}} Russia {{SHM stations}} {{shm}} Shanghai Metro {{SNCF}} none SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, France) {{HSR station}} {{hsr}} Taiwan High Speed Rail {{TRA station}} {{tra}} Taiwan Railways Administration (only when ambiguous) {{VSB station}} {{vsbs}} Vienna S-Bahn {{VUB station}} {{vubs}} Vienna U-Bahn Template Shortcut Used for

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TemplateData for Stnlnk

<templatedata> { "description": "Typing aid for railway stations articles", "params": { "1": { "label": "Station name", "type": "string", "required": true, "description": "The title of the railway station article, without \"railway station\"", "example": "Wolverhampton" }, "2": { "label": "Station location", "type": "string", "description": "Distinguishes between identically named stations in different locations", "suggested": true }, "3": { "label": "Link label", "type": "string", "description": "Change the displayed link text from station name", "suggested": false } }, "format": "inline" } </templatedata>