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thanks for the reply... I think your ideas are on the right track...maybe NW11 was originally going to be part of NW3 and maybe also has something to do with the building of a main post office for the area?? The Tube reached G.G. in 1907 so ten years until the area got it´s postal number is not that long... Parts of NW11 weren´t completely built up until the late twenties early thirties... greetings from Berlin IsarSteve 13:43, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello again... I´ve always thought that it´s a shame that there´s not a "Greater London" Postcode, e.g. GL ....thus doing away with Middx, Herts, Essex, Surrey & Kent within the GLC area.. The whole of the London Postal System seems like a typically "british" botch-up (meant politely) to me... As someone now used to "German" orginisation..I do find the whole thing unsatisfactory...I´d like to know your views on this..!! thanks Steve IsarSteve 13:53, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thanks for the info...I didn´t know about Mailsort... that is the same or similar to the system we have here in Germany... our parcels are delivered with bar-code type labels on them...
e.g. for my address 10827-025-155
10827 (postcode)> 025 street>(alphabetically) > 155 House Number
although there has been some talk lately about an extra (sixth) digit on the postcode to make them more precise..
IsarSteve 15:02, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It was (originally) my edits that you reverted, not IsarSteve's, but I understand why. Just thought I'd point you to the comments I just left on User talk:IsarSteve#Main sorting office, in case you're not watching that page. — OwenBlacker 18:31, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
Hello! I caught the back end of a programme on Radio Four this week which was solely about British Postcodes and their introduction, including some Jingles on postcodes. Of course the Royal Mail representative thought that the British system was "the best in the world" and of course it was "the first"..... Did you hear the programme?? I´ve tried to find it on "Listen again" on the BBC website but to no avail.. greetings from Berlin IsarSteve 15:33, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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Hi.
I notice you reverted my move of Mansion House tube station to Mansion House underground station and I wondered why. To me the name seemed to be an obvious error, after there is no tube station at Mansion House, just a sub-surface station on the Circle and District lines. I've discussed further at Talk:List of London Underground stations. -- Chris j wood 10:21, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've responded to the above, and another similar post from rbrwr, on Talk:List of London Underground stations. -- Chris j wood 12:41, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. IMO, infoboxes such as that you put on Battersea should be narrower. A 300 pixel box on an 800 ixel width screen looks ugly and leaves precious little space for the article. I've shrunk Battersea to 210 pixcels. The words wrap, but the article is more easily readable. Also, perhaps the addition of an infobox is not a minor edit. YMMV, of course. -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Thanks for fixing the info-box on Whetstone. The spacing was really annoying me but I had no idea how to fix it! sars 16:42, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
Whilst I know that if an article is too short it usually gets the stub addition, I am puzzled as to what else can be said about a postal district, other than xxxx covers the district of yyyy. The article about yyyy presumably says all there is to say about it. Isn't it a trifle pedantic, and an unnecessary addition to the huge list of stubs? I'm asking you, since I was doing a random page check and came across London SW4, not because I thought you were the arbiter of such things! Peter Shearan 07:03, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi.
I was wondering why you had changed link text 'fare zone x' to 'Zone x' (x=2 or 3) on Canning Town station and Limehouse station.
I originally wrote (or in these cases probably changed it) that way because I thought it was more informative. A reader not already familiar with the London fare system would have no clue what the sentence 'Station is in Zone 2' was telling him or her. At least 'fare zone' gives them enough context to decide whether they need to follow the link or not. I've already made this change to most DLR stations as I've been working on them.
On a related subject, I've been contemplating moving the fare zone articles. Currently they are called London Underground Zone x, which isn't strictly the whole story as they also apply to DLR stations and (for Travelcard usage only) to National Rail stations within London. I'm not sure of a better title though. At least some TfL documents call them Travelcard zones but again that doesn't tell the whole story, as they are used for basic fares on LU and DLR. Any thoughts?.
Sorry not to get back to you quicker. Yes, of course it ought to be done the same way throughhout. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 17:40, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Have you seen Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Postal district? -- 80.189.58.246 08:29, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi.
I've noticed this template, which I think is great, and I have started adding it to some station articles. I have one question; is there is a standard for the line colours that I should be using?. National rail lines don't really have line colours in quite the way LUL lines do, although National Rail's 'London and South East' and 'London Connections' maps do use a consistent set of colours to denote lines that reach London. -- Chris j wood 14:14, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Agree with your mods to Euston. But an observation on your "font small" (which is a good idea and replicates practice on the tube lines): wouldn't it be better to update the template to provide the formatting? I'm sure this issue is not unique to Euston.
(btw, I cheated with the ScotRail colours by using generic blue. If it amuses you to go photoshopping again, feel free to correct.) -- Concrete Cowboy 22:50, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
And thanks for fixing my mistakes at WJ. Serves me right for relying om memory rather than checking. -- Concrete Cowboy 23:12, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is there any convention about which precedes and which follows? North/south? East/West? London/"Provinces" (only as far as the Border of course!) -- Concrete Cowboy 23:17, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I've just reformatted Template:PostcodeIG, for a handful of reasons:
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, which doesn't sacrifice accessibility.I hope none of this was contentious to do; feel free to drop me a note on my Talk: page or on Template talk:PostcodeIG if you wanna chat about any of it. — OwenBlacker 20:47, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
PS: Just looked at your recent contributions. Wow! :o)
Fair point on this small village - although I have not checked what there is in the US, but the point he has systematically changed all of the clarifying names that I had set up (it looked like he was working down my contributions page)- from England and even Australia - where a local resident there had requested that we move "Snowtown" to "Snowtown, South Australia" - he clearly didn't look at the discussion page where this had been requested - and just moved it back from where it had started from. There are various Daventry's, Corby's etc. This was a systematic change - rather than a reasoned move. Northampton which was part of my scheme has about 10 places of that name in the US + the Australian place as well. Brookie:A glow in the dark 19:25, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you just added some telephone/post code info to the Sunbury article. You might be interested to know about Template:Infobox England place which contains rows for all of these things in much the same format. If you like it you are welcome to use it. 80N 06:39, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
Why have you been adding this to London suburb pages? Susvolans (pigs can fly) 17:01, 9 May 2005 (UTC)