Category talk:Greater Anglia franchise railway stations

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Archived renaming proposal[edit]

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Category:Greater Anglia franchise railway stations to Railway stations served by Greater Anglia - C2C. A renaming discussion was held in 2014 and I am surmising was carried by a desire to not have to rename each time the franchisee changed. Since then, things have changed with the Department for Transport deeming the franchise name it specifies will carry over when franchisees change. Hence Abellio Greater Anglia have advised that it will be rebranding itself back to Greater Anglia when the new franchise commences on 16 October. Morr747 (talk) 10:30, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose renaming of Category:Greater Anglia franchise railway stations. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 September 14#Category:Railway stations served by Greater Anglia and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 April 6#Category:ScotRail railway stations. We are trying to avoid the incessant renaming of categories whenever the TOC decides to rebrand itself: franchises (whose names are largely stable) are not synonymous with train operating cmpanies (whose names change at a whim). --Redrose64 (talk) 19:59, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Support The 2014 and 2015 discussions mentioned above were conducted in an era when franchisees were free to chose the trading names. Since that time things have changed with the trading name now specified by the Department for Transport and written into the franchise contract.

This will mean in the future when franchisees change, the trading names won't, hence the front end wiki article and categories won't need to be renamed again. Examples are the rebranding of First Great Western to Great Western Railway, First TransPennine Express to TransPennine Express and Abellio Greater Anglia to Greater Anglia despite the incumbent operators retaining the franchisee.

Also the category needs to be renamed regardless as the Greater Anglia franchise is now named the East Anglia franchise. Shireofsx (talk) 22:44, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Redrose64: in case you may reconsider your opposition after noting this reply. – Fayenatic London 16:44, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.