Talk:Woodhaven Junction station

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Merge

I'm proposing a merge because it seems pretty obvious that the extant-if-closed underground station was the direct replacement and rebuilding of the surface station from before the line was grade separated. The supposed difference in placement is uncertain as it is, and even if accurate was a difference of just a few dozen yards.

Plus the idea that the current names are accurate is sketchy. The underground station signage has always read "Woodhaven". The station was known as both simultaneously, and it's not a valid and sufficient distinction between the two.

Between that and the dates of replacement, it's clear to me that the pre-grade separation version is just an earlier incarnation of the same station. I think the existence of two articles is trying to make a distinction that doesn't sufficiently exist, and that readers would be better served by a single article that covers the entire history of the various incarnations of the station. oknazevad (talk) 16:24, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm reading it as Woodhaven being at 87th Street, and Woodhaven Junction (confusingly, later known as Woodhaven) being at the Rockaway Beach Branch crossing near 100th, and that before 1939 they coexisted (see the ETT here). If that's the case, they're sufficiently different (and 3,000 feet apart) and shouldn't be merged. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:07, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]