[Trivia] Stations named for things which no longer exist

[McDontrains]

Moorgate

Moorgate was a postern in the London Wall originally built by the Romans. It was turned into a gate in the 15th century. The gate was demolished in 1762.

 

[EM2]

The gate to the forest in Forest Gate is long gone.

 

[AlanFry1]

White Hart Lane in just under two weeks

 

[noddingdonkey]

New Pudsey is not very new (and the old stations it was called New to differentiate it from are definitely gone).

 

[kevconnor]

If there ever was a Flowery Field there is not one to be found now.

 

[theageofthetra]

I seriously doubt Coatbridge has a Sunnyside any more.

 

[yorksrob]

Dover Priory - No longer has a Priory although some buildings apparently remain in other uses.

Sevenoaks - famously lost six of them in the great storm.

 

[JohnElliott]

Blackfriars. The priory after which it's named closed in 1538.

 

[Springs Branch]

Burscough Junction hasn't been a junction for many years.

Ashburys, near Manchester - there is no district named Ashburys. According to Wikipedia, the station was built and named by the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd, which relocated from Manchester to Birmingham in 1902.

 

[johnnychips]

But the railway station is named for the settlement not the camp, so surely that's not applicable in this thread.

That's absolutely right. About half the place names in England are named after somebody long dead; the station is named after the town whose name is derived from that person, not the person itself.

 

[greaterwest]

Penychain station is announced as "Butlin's Penychain" at Birmingham International, although the Butlin's closed years ago.

 

[Strathclyder]

I know in Scotland that there is no longer a waterfall at Falls of Cruachan because the source of the falls was blocked by a dam in the sixties as part of the construction of a hydroelectric power station, and that Singer railway station in Clydebank doesn't serve the Singer factory any more as it was knocked down donkeys years ago.

The factory closed in June 1980 and was finally demolished in the late 90s, a business park eventually taking it's place.

In the 20-or-so years since, no name change for the station has been seriously proposed. If such a thing were to happen (highly unlikely, given the factory's integral part in the town's history), Clydebank North, Kilbowie or Kilbowie Road would be the most geographically appropriate names to select from.

 

[Deafdoggie]

Penychain station is announced as "Butlin's Penychain" at Birmingham International, although the Butlin's closed years ago.

Kind of. Transferred to Butlins sister company Haven. However, a surprising number of holiday makers (and staff!) still use it. Interestingly, there is no place called Penychain, although the area has since taken the name from the station, it is really called Llanystumdwy. So how the station got that name is a bit of a mystery. Really, the station should be renamed Hafan-Y-Mor now.

There are a couple of farms, but nothing else (apart from Haven) so if the Haven ever did shut, I don't think the station would see any use at all!

 

[Essan]

Interestingly, there is no place called Penychain, although the area has since taken the name from the station, it is really called Llanystumdwy. So how the station got that name is a bit of a mystery. Really, the station should be renamed Hafan-Y-Mor now.

On the coast about a mile to the south-southeast is Pen-ychain - the head(land) of the oxen

 

[Julia]

Shippea Hill was named after a local potato farm. No idea if it's still there. The lady farmer added 'Hill' as people in those days believed potatoes grown on a hill where of superior quality. The whole area is flat Fenland for miles.

... the name Shippea originally coming from the island that used to be roughly there before the draining of the Fens (cf. Manea, Stonea, ...) - of course no evidence remains other than the names.

 

[midlandred]

One in reverse - there's never been a "Coventry Arena"
Yes, I know Ricoh's sponsorship may end!

 

[Tomnot27]

Allens west on the tees valley line and dinsdale

 

[30907]

Allens west on the tees valley line and dinsdale

What were they named after, please?

 

[DerekC]

London Fields, Hackney Downs and Cambridge Heath make a nice sequence!

 

[anti-pacer]

Despite it being relatively new, Kirkstall Forge.

There's no longer a forge there, it's just some marketing gimmick for the development they're building there.

 

[marks87]

There's no longer a ferry from Broughty Ferry.

But I think I might be stretching the definition of what's being looked for here

 

[adrock1976]

A similar thing could apply to both Connel Ferry and Stromeferry as well.

 

[Ianno87]

One in reverse - there's never been a "Coventry Arena"
Yes, I know Ricoh's sponsorship may end!

Dare I mention Stratford International?!

 

[me123]

I seriously doubt Coatbridge has a Sunnyside any more.

I doubt Coatbridge ever had a Sunny side. Whenever the sun appears, the locals run in panic from the giant ball of fire in the sky and sacrifice a child to the great juju on the mountain. But the name is indeed appropriate - it is on (the inappropriately named) Sunnyside Road.

 

[Lrd]

Martin's Heron, I'm sure that heron's long gone!



I don't actually know the history with the name just thought it was funny, apologies.

 

[InOban]

Stromeferry didn't cease until 1970. Connel Ferry stopped when the bridge on the Ballachulish branch opened ? 1903 or thereby. Don't know when the Broughty Ferry stopped, but a long long time ago.

 

[SSp]

Aberystwyth should really be Aberheidol

 

[unlevel42]

Kind of. Transferred to Butlins sister company Haven. However, a surprising number of holiday makers (and staff!) still use it. Interestingly, there is no place called Penychain, although the area has since taken the name from the station, it is really called Llanystumdwy. So how the station got that name is a bit of a mystery. Really, the station should be renamed Hafan-Y-Mor now.

There are a couple of farms, but nothing else (apart from Haven) so if the Haven ever did shut, I don't think the station would see any use at all!

People (inc. Lloyd George) living in Llanystumdwy would use Criccieth or back in his day Chwilog for North Wales coast, London and Lancashire or even Afon Wen.
The OS 1900 map series shows Pen y chain for the area and the headland.
The OS 1920 map series shows Pen ychan for the area and the headland and shows a halt.
Penychain Halt opened in 1933, local politicians pointing out that this was meaningless in Welsh.