Highland Main Line

[Liam]

10% if that of Scots will actually understand them.

1% maybe.

 

[Eagle]

There are probably more urdhu speakers in the UK than the above two combined yet there is no proliferation of such signs in Birmingham or Bradford or London.

Southall station has Gujarati signage. Just saying. :P

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Levenshulme (South Manchester) has some form of Gujarati / Urdu station signs too

 

[HSTEd]

Wallsend Metro Station

 

[37 418]

It does seem to be very token, especially in central Scotland where Gaelic was never the first language - you'd be better renaming stations in the Scots of Oor Wullie instead

Gaelic WAS spoken as a first language in Central Scotland, Gaelic was spoken there before it was in the Outer Hebrides. Hence why we have place names such as Polmont, Milngavie, Balloch, Airdrie, Kilwinning, Kinross etc which are all Gaelic in origin. Most Scottish placenames beginning with Ach-, Kil- Kin- and Bal- are Gaelic.

I'm not saying that it was the ONLY language in the area, there was also Brythonic (which Gaelic displaced) then later came Scots and English. But many aren't aware of the fact that there only a few areas (parts of the Borders, Eastern Caithness, Orkney and Shetland) where Gaelic was never spoken.
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It's not quite that general, although ScotRail seem to like the idea of making up new names for stations.

It isn't a case of ScotRail making up new names, but Transport Scotland who are working with AÀA and Bòrd na Gàidhlig to ensure the correct Gaelic (if there was) is used on and new signage.

 

[exile]

Having Gaelic, Welsh or other language names is probably good for tourism as it gives an area something unique. It can all seem a bit false though if no-one in the area actually speaks the language. Very few people in Inverness speak Gaelic - in fact it probably hasn't been spoken by the inhabitants (as opposed to visitors from the West Coast) for 300 years or more.

 

[PaulLothian]

"Originally Posted by PaulLothian
It's not quite that general, although ScotRail seem to like the idea of making up new names for stations"

It isn't a case of ScotRail making up new names, but Transport Scotland who are working with AÀA and Bòrd na Gàidhlig to ensure the correct Gaelic (if there was) is used on and new signage.

I would have put in some sort of Smiley thing if there was one for irony! Perhaps I should have said "ScotRail seem to like the idea of resurrecting names for stations that are not in common usage, even among Gaelic speakers"!

 

[Butts]

Falkirk is just.......

Falkirk - no gaelic for us

 

[37 418]

Falkirk is just.......

Falkirk - no gaelic for us

Aye there is:

An Eaglais Bhreac

The name Falkirk has been Anglicised from the Scots Fawkirk

 

[Butts]

Aye there is:

An Eaglais Bhreac

The name Falkirk has been Anglicised from the Scots Fawkirk

Imagine the scene at Edinburgh Waverley.....can I have a single to...

An Eaglais Bhreac

 

[jopsuk]

Reading up on, um, wikipedia, it appears Stirling may not have a Gaelic root, but may instead have a Brythonic (closer to Welsh, Cornish) origin- and I seem to remember being told that the nearby vilage of Menstrie is similar (though it hasn't had a station in many years, has been disconnected for a few years and now has no track on the old line )

 

[37 418]

Reading up on, um, wikipedia, it appears Stirling may not have a Gaelic root, but may instead have a Brythonic (closer to Welsh, Cornish) origin- and I seem to remember being told that the nearby vilage of Menstrie is similar (though it hasn't had a station in many years, has been disconnected for a few years and now has no track on the old line )

You are quite correct, both Stirling and Perth are of Brythonic origin.

Throughout the whole of Scotland you can trace placenames back to either Pictish (Pit-), Gaelic, Brythonic, Norse, Scots and English.

In many cases there are names that are a combination e.g.

Aberdeen - Aber from Brythonic meaning 'river mouth', -deen from Gaelic (from Deathan), the Gaelic for the river Don.