TRIVIA: Rhyming rail journeys

[Class800]

Sunbury to Sudbury - got that one from a rather deaf ticket clerk years ago before TVMs who mistook one for the other when ordering a ticket

 

[Class800]

Plumstead to Banstead. Charlton to Carlton. Mottingham to Cottingham via Nottingham.

 

[Class800]

Dover to Andover - bonus points for via Ben Rhydding (got your ben dover joke there)

 

[urbophile]

A rhyme only counts if the final stressed syllable, and any following unstressed ones, also rhyme. Or so it seems to me. Hence Chester and Leicester rhyme, and Nottingham and Mottingham, but not Southampton and Brighton. or Ilkley and Keighley.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Redruth to Crossmyloof.

 

[cjw714]

Perth to St Erth.

It's taken me a while but I've finally thought of a pair which are even further apart - Pinhoe to Thurso

 

[Class800]

It's taken me a while but I've finally thought of a pair which are even further apart - Pinhoe to Thurso

Only in post announcement speak not local way of saying it. Suppose could also do Prudhoe and Thurso! Though again different in local

 

[Class800]

Depending on how you define rhyme, a pair fair apart are Georgemas Junction and Yeovil Junction

 

[CaptainHaddock]

For a more local journey home about Parbold to Hag Fold?

 

[Sprinter107]

Earley to Shirley.

 

[Spamcan81]

Market Harborough to Scarborough via Narborough.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Kidwelly to Pwllheli.

 

[duffield]

Earley to Shirley.

As an aside, being a former local, we had a good selection of different "Earleys".

Earley - The district where I lived and the railway station (which was a long way from my house, Reading was much more convenient).
Erleigh Court Gardens - The road where I lived
Maiden Erlegh - The school I attended.
Early - What you were supposed to be at school, which was pretty strict for a comprehensive.

As you can imagine, letters came addressed with a fairly random assortment of the different spellings.

 

[BazingaTribe]

As an aside, being a former local, we had a good selection of different "Earleys".

Earley - The district where I lived and the railway station (which was a long way from my house, Reading was much more convenient).
Erleigh Court Gardens - The road where I lived
Maiden Erlegh - The school I attended.
Early - What you were supposed to be at school, which was pretty strict for a comprehensive.

As you can imagine, letters came addressed with a fairly random assortment of the different spellings.

As a current local and former employee of Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, 25 Erleigh Road was seared into my brain by the time I left their employ in 2021.

Anyway, another journey requiring a TARDIS is New Malden to Saffron Walden.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Newton Aycliffe to Aberystwyth.

 

[D6130]

Newton Aycliffe to Aberystwyth.

Really? How does that rhyme?

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Really? How does that rhyme?

Unless there's some local pronounciation I don't know about, "Cliffe" rhymes with "Aber-ist-with".

 

[urbophile]

Unless there's some local pronounciation I don't know about, "Cliffe" rhymes with "Aber-ist-with".

Huh? Only if you can't tell the difference between thought and fought.

 

[D6130]

Unless there's some local pronounciation I don't know about, "Cliffe" rhymes with "Aber-ist-with".

....iffe rhymes with ....with? Sorry, can't see it myself. What do others think?

 

[duffield]

....iffe rhymes with ....with? Sorry, can't see it myself. What do others think?

It does in rhyme certain pronunciations. Saying the "-wyth" in Aber as "-wiff" would be fairly normal in the non-posh areas of my original home town. It almost works for me but my accent hovers half-way between the "with" part of town and the "wiff" part".

I'd also note that for a stand-alone "with" the non-posh version would be "wiv" not "wiff".

 

[BazingaTribe]

It does in rhyme certain pronunciations. Saying the "-wyth" in Aber as "-wiff" would be fairly normal in the non-posh areas of my original home town. It almost works for me but my accent hovers half-way between the "with" part of town and the "wiff" part".

I'd also note that for a stand-alone "with" the non-posh version would be "wiv" not "wiff".

Agreed. It has a certain cadence to it that's not a million miles away from a rhyme. A lot of us have gone a bit off-piste with that over the past 7 pages.

Anyway, I'm hoping Horwich to Norwich is ok.

 

[Sunil_P]

Earley to Purley

 

[xotGD]

Earley to Purley

Ilford to Guildford

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Furness Vale to Silverdale

 

[BazingaTribe]

Furness Vale to Silverdale

And on to Tottenham Hale.

 

[52290]

In Germany I once travelled from Bamberg to Amberg. Both towns had a considerable number of breweries within their boundaries. At least nine each.

 

[Sunil_P]

Ilford to Guildford

Well, I mentioned Ilford to Milford upthread

 

[D6130]

Haltwhistle to Entwistle via Church & Oswaldtwistle?

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Another one that might fall foul of local pronunciations; Roose to Caersws.

 

[xotGD]

Marlow to Pontecarlo