Why do some places have STATION in their name?

[ess]

For example ST NEOTS STATION, MAIDENHEAD STATION. Why not just ST NEOTS or MAIDENHEAD?

 

[MCR247]

They don't?

 

[Darandio]

St Neots is just St Neots and Maidenhead is just Maidenhead.

I'm confused.

 

[MCR247]

That makes two of us

 

[Jonfun]

Do you mean things like MANCHESTER STNS or LIVERPOOL STNS in ticketing? It's to group several stations together in order to simplify ticketing (ie one doesn't have to buy a ticket specifically from Manchester Victoria to Liverpool Central and be restricted to certain routes etc)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_group_(railway)

 

[dzug2]

Nothing to do with groups

If you do a journey search on the FGW site then Maidenhead indeed is Maidenhead Station

Quite a few other places follow the same convention - Reading and Cambridge for starters. Bedford is another. Colchester too

As to why - pass

 

[exile]

There are places called station though - Rannoch Station comes to mind for example.

 

[90019]

There are places called station though - Rannoch Station comes to mind for example.

Rannoch isn't one.

 

[thewolf]

Llandudno Junction?


:-?

 

[stut]

Perhaps to distinguish it from a city centre bus destination within the travel planner?

 

[WatcherZero]

It was my understanding most of those existed where coach tickets were available to distinguish between rail stations and coach stations.

edit:
lol, you beat me by a few seconds.

 

[d9009alycidon]

There are places like Carstairs Junction, which is a complately separate village from Carstairs. I am sure that there are several examples like this, resulting from a station being built a mile or so away from the settlement that it's name suggests that it served, and the subsequent establishment of a separate village around the station.

Jim

 

[Mark_re]

There are places like Carstairs Junction, which is a complately separate village from Carstairs. I am sure that there are several examples like this, resulting from a station being built a mile or so away from the settlement that it's name suggests that it served, and the subsequent establishment of a separate village around the station.

Jim

Micheldever is in the village of Micheldever Station and I believe Widdrington is another example of this.

 

[exile]

Rannoch isn't one.

Yes it is. Obviously there is Rannoch Moor and Loch Rannoch - but Rannoch Station is a definite "place" with a post office called, not Rannoch Post Office but Rannoch Station Post Office.

 

[dzug2]

Yes it is. Obviously there is Rannoch Moor and Loch Rannoch - but Rannoch Station is a definite "place" with a post office called, not Rannoch Post Office but Rannoch Station Post Office.

But that is missing the point of the question - in the list of stations offered in the reservation system Rannoch is Rannoch, Micheldever is Micheldever, regardless of 'where' they are physically located.

The coach/bus explanation is I am sure correct - even though that coach/bus stop is rarely if ever listed as well

 

[142094]

Micheldever is in the village of Micheldever Station and I believe Widdrington is another example of this.

There is a settlement known as Widdrington Station, yet the station itself is only known as Widdrington.

 

[DarloRich]

There is a settlement known as Widdrington Station, yet the station itself is only known as Widdrington.

As are Ferryhill & Ferryhill Station ( if the station was still open).

They are, however, two seperate places. Although they are right next to each other.

 

[Schnellzug]

Yes it is. Obviously there is Rannoch Moor and Loch Rannoch - but Rannoch Station is a definite "place" with a post office called, not Rannoch Post Office but Rannoch Station Post Office.

It's even shown on my 1:880 000 map of the UK. You'd think it was the biggest metropolis in the West Highlands.

 

[cuccir]

There are places like Carstairs Junction, which is a complately separate village from Carstairs. I am sure that there are several examples like this, resulting from a station being built a mile or so away from the settlement that it's name suggests that it served, and the subsequent establishment of a separate village around the station.

Jim

This.

It would be interesting to know what the largest settlement to be called 'station' is...

 

[90019]

Yes it is. Obviously there is Rannoch Moor and Loch Rannoch - but Rannoch Station is a definite "place" with a post office called, not Rannoch Post Office but Rannoch Station Post Office.

Fair enough, I thought you meant the station itself.

 

[Lampshade]

The signs at Nelson have 'Nelson Interchange' facing the train for passengers getting off, and 'Nelson Station' facing the other way, presumably to let passengers know they're entering the station.

'Nelson Station' is not the name of the place though, obviously.

 

[matchmaker]

It's even shown on my 1:880 000 map of the UK. You'd think it was the biggest metropolis in the West Highlands.

It's not. According to road signs throughout most of Scotland, Crianlarich has that honour!

 

[noddy1878]

There are two Perranwells in Cornwall and one is called Perranwell Station to differentiate between the two.

 

[krus_aragon]

Following on from another thread, perhaps they're called '..... STATION' to distinguish them from halts! :P

 

[JoeGJ1984]

It's been mentioned in another thread that Tring station is in a village called Tring Station, a couple of miles away from the town of Tring.

 

[ess]

Sorry if the original question wasn't clear - I meant on tickets. If you buy a ticket to Maidenhead, the ticket destination is MAIDENHEAD STATION. Why? There's nowhere else in Maidenhead you're going to go on a train!
Slough is shown as SLOUGH and not SLOUGH STATION.

 

[Greenback]

Sorry, but is this phenomenon something new? I must have issued hundreds of tickets from Reading to Maidenhead and I never noticed the word 'station' on them!

 

[Eagle]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Maidstone, to which tickets are issued bearing the legend "MAIDSTONE STNS"? This is a group consisting of West, East and Barracks.

 

[RYS]

As has been said, in some cases it must be to distinguish from bus travel. In the case of St Neots and Cambridge, both of these places are served by the X5 bus which is operated by Stagecoach and runs from Oxford to Cambridge.

I once had to make a journey from Birmingham to Cambridge on a day when there was engineering work on the WCML south of Milton Keynes, and also engineering work on the Leicester to Peterborough line. I was able to buy an advance ticket from BHM to Cambridge which had the destination of "Cambridge Bus" and I was required to change at MK onto the X5 bus. I have never seen this option come up in journey planners since and don't seem to be able to recreate it now, but perhaps it provides some explanation to the OP's question.

 

[Anonywave]

Berwick (near Polegate) is split into two so the name 'Berwick Station' is also common for the area around the station itself.