How are these station names pronounced?

[swt class 450]

Many thanks for the information. I would never have guessed that those two stations are pronounced that way. We do seem to have quite a few stations in the UK with unusual pronunciations. Though it makes it more interesting i suppose.

 

[Rikki Lamb]

Am I right to say Forster is pronounced "Foster" and Harrogate "Harrigert". Forgive me if I'm wrong I'm from Warrington living in London.

Station announcement always say Foster but it should be Forster and as for Harrogate, it's usually pronounced 'arragat' but again announcements and 'posher' residents of Harrogate say Harrowgate

 

[geoffk]

On-train and station announcements often get it wrong. I've heard Slaithwaite, Kirkby and Euxton (actually pronounced "Exton") all pronounced as spelt. On the Borders line in Scotland, Stow is pronounced to rhyme with Cow or Slough, not as in Stowmarket or Stow-on-the-Wold, and the train announcements I heard were wrong.

 

[FS-2-11]

The daddy of them all is Milngavie (pronounced Milgay if you are a local or Mulguy by the rest of Glasgow)

Little-known fact: it's derived from the old Gaelic name 'Mhealleach-an-agadh-bheidth', which translates literally as, 'Land of the Large German Cars'

 

[AY1975]

There is another long-running thread on place names that you're not sure how to pronounce at www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-place-names-that-youre-not-sure-how-to-pronounce.149178

 

[scotrail158713]

It’s not quite the same as the others that have been mentioned, but I’d always have pronounced Edinburgh as “Edin-bru”, until I heard a couple of people recently saying “Edin-bur-u”. Very much similar to Musselburgh.

 

[hexagon789]

It’s not quite the same as the others that have been mentioned, but I’d always have pronounced Edinburgh as “Edin-bru”, until I heard a couple of people recently saying “Edin-bur-u”. Very much similar to Musselburgh.

Burghs in Scotland are correctly pronounced as Buh-ruh, hence:

Edin-buh-ruh
Mussel-buh-ruh
Fraser-buh-ruh

Those in England tend to be elided to bruh that I've heard, for example:

Peter-bruh (I admit I do sometimes say Peter-buh-ruh though )

This seems to carry over in the sense that most English people will call Edinburgh - Edin-bruh. It also seems to have spread to Scottish speakers, certainly I'd say more people from my age group say Edin-bruh than Edin-buh-ruh as I do.

 

[sheff1]

Edinburgh - Embra

 

[Mordac]

Edinburgh - Embra

Indeed, that is the standard Scots pronunciation.