Template talk:Douglas branch (CTA)

Station links

Please can a subject expert look at the station links in this template?

Looking at the pink line on File:Chicago L diagram sb.svg, Roosevelt and Lawndale seem to link to stations not on this line. Maybe there were former stations with similar names but no article. All stations on the closed section (below 54th Yard) look suspect. In particular, Central probably isn't any of Central Station#United States.

A few other templates have minor problems:

• {{Lake Street Elevated (CTA)}}: Racine and Kostner link to disambiguation pages. I think Racine is Racine station (CTA Green Line) but no idea about Kostner.
• {{Metropolitan Main Line (CTA)}}: Racine links to a disambiguation page.

I've looked into these but don't know the area well enough to correct them with confidence. Help would be appreciated. Thanks, Certes (talk) 19:14, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

 Done You can also fix the info on their respective articles with what I fixed. Cards84664 (talk) 15:29, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Cards84664! As for the closed stations west of 54th, did the Douglas branch share the Lombard Metra station and head north to meet the Green Line at Ridgeland, or should these be separate stations? Do you have any ideas as to how Module:Adjacent stations/CTA should handle the |Douglas parameter for the ambiguous links to Central, Austin and Oak Park? Certes (talk) 15:53, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

CTA's Lombard and Metra's Lombard are at least 20 miles apart. The CTA's was at Lombard Avenue & 21st Street. Metra's is at St. Charles Road & Main Street.

CTA's Lombard was named after the street, Metra's Lombard is named after the city.

As for the module, I'm sure @Mackensen: can help, that's not my expertise. Cards84664 (talk) 18:23, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

If we're confident that the stations don't exist, then we just need to settle on a suitable disambiguator. Mackensen (talk) 21:29, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Fixed the module as fas the Douglas branch is concerned. Mackensen (talk) 21:41, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you both. I've looked through the other relevant articles and templates, and that seems to have fixed everything except four links which another editor has marked as [disambiguation needed]:

List of former Chicago "L" stations

• Racine: probably Racine station (CTA Green Line)
• Damen: probably the 1893–1948 station on the site of the proposed Damen station (CTA Green Line)
• Kostner: possibly yet another station of that name

Cicero station (CTA Green Line)

• Kostner: possibly the same station mentioned in List of former Chicago "L" stations

Any clues please so we can finish this off? Certes (talk) 14:54, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

The two Kostners names are indeed the same station, which was on Lake Street (for which there is no article). Your assumption for Damen is also correct. The Racine in question is another station without an article. This one was also on Lake Street. I’ve added a few branches to the module for Garfield, Humboldt, and the Northwest branch (but forgot to add one for Lake Street). This should help with some name duplication in those areas. Lost on  Belmont  ^3200N_1000W  (talk) 15:56, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks everyone. I've added the Lake branch stations to the module and removed the {{dn}} tags; I think that's everything done now. Certes (talk) 16:33, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

I think I got most (if not all) of the remaining ones that were or would be problematic. Lost on  Belmont  ^3200N_1000W  (talk) 23:40, 16 May 2019 (UTC)