If stations were named after heroes...

[MidnightFlyer]

Like the Rep of Ireland have Heuston, Kent and Strand stations, all figures in the Easter Rising, who would you name stations after in Britain? Birmingham Churchill? Bristol Brunel? Portsmouth Nelson? Serious as you can please.

 

[Smethwickian]

You mean like Birmingham Chamberlain , honouring both Joseph and Neville?

Or Smethwick Julie Walters Interchange........

Actually, Smethwick Galton Bridge is already named after the structure named after the slightly less famous engineer son of prominent Victorian scientist Francis Galton, but that's not exactly heroic.........

 

[DarloRich]

Or London Wellington?

 

[4SRKT]

Like the Rep of Ireland have Heuston, Kent and Strand stations, all figures in the Easter Rising, who would you name stations after in Britain? Birmingham Churchill? Bristol Brunel? Portsmouth Nelson? Serious as you can please.

Heroes?? Some people in a certain part of Ireland might regard them more as traitors

Some of the Irish station names work well enough, but they often replaced (IMHO) better names like Kingsbridge and Westland Row. I've never been sure about the practice of enshrining nationalism in infrastructure, as it might look petty to outsiders or future generations, and it doesn't seem to have caught on outside Dublin (where a distinction between multiple stations is needed). When I first started going to Dublin in the early '90s people even as young as middle age still said Amiens Street, Kingsbridge and Westland Row. The use of 'Pearse Street' for Pearse station (Westland Row) is a very common mistake due to the road of the same name being nearby, so people saying 'Pearse Street' obviously don't realise what the station is really called or the reason why.

Who knows or even cares that the [only] station in Tralee is called Casement?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Heroes?? Some people in a certain part of Ireland might regard them more as traitors

Some of the Irish station names work well enough, but they often replaced (IMHO) better names like Kingsbridge and Westland Row. I've never been sure about the practice of enshrining nationalism in infrastructure, as it might look petty to outsiders or future generations, and it doesn't seem to have caught on outside Dublin (where a distinction between multiple stations is needed). When I first started going to Dublin in the early '90s people even as young as middle age still said Amiens Street, Kingsbridge and Westland Row. The use of 'Pearse Street' for Pearse station (Westland Row) is a very common mistake due to the road of the same name being nearby, so people saying 'Pearse Street' obviously don't realise what the station is really called or the reason why.

Who knows or even cares that the [only] station in Tralee is called Casement?

Like me :razz: I think Brunel etc would work. Did you get my PM about 50 mins ago?

 

[DarloRich]

Well London Victoria wont need a new name!

 

[starrymarkb]

In a similar vein. Belfast George Best - how many people still call it Belfast City/Harbour. (though to be fair you have the distinction with Aldergrove), then there is Liverpool John Lennon - with no distinction I bet most just refer to it as Liverpool.

Even in the States you have New York JFK and La-Gaurdia but not Newark Liberty - that's just Newark.

Generally new names take off if they are attached to something new, renaming an existing facility doesn't really work. Take Arsenal's new ground the Emirates (seeing one of their not so subtle "we are buying A380s from Europe now give us more landing rights in Germany/France" adverts on this page reminded me), would that have been accepted if they tried to rename Highbury. It didn't work for the SportsDirect.com stadium in Newcastle

 

[4SRKT]

In a similar vein. Belfast George Best - how many people still call it Belfast City/Harbour. (though to be fair you have the distinction with Aldergrove), then there is Liverpool John Lennon - with no distinction I bet most just refer to it as Liverpool.

Well I still call it 'Harbour', so I'm two renamings out of date! The airport code BHD tends to support my naming policy though! I admit that I may not be 100% representative in this: after all I still call standard class 'second class'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester Peterloo would remember a very sad event in Northern history.

 

[trainophile]

Well not Beeching anyway .

 

[Minilad]

Aston or Witton could be renamed Aston McGrath and Witton Cowans !

 

[DarloRich]

or Darlington could become Marco Gabbiadini Bank Top Station!

 

[merlodlliw]

What about naming Criccieth station "Criccieth Lloyd George" after Manchester born Lloyd George, famous for being Prime Minister and very liberal with the Ladies.

Gone now on the main line," Llangollen Ponsonby", named after the anglo Irish "Ladies of Llangollen"

Bob

 

[ollyrogers]

Wirral Mike Bassett Station

 

[Bonzodog]

But you could end up with real horrors such as Owen Gobowen .. (after Wilfred Owen, the WW1 poet who was born in nearby Oswestry)

 

[SWTCommuter]

How about Southampton Mitchell, instead Southampton Airport Parkway, after the designer of the Spitfire, which first flew from what is now Southampton Airport in 1936? It would probably be best to rename the airport as well, otherwise it could get a bit confusing.

 

[LE Greys]

Letchworth Howard might work.

 

[RyanB]

Stirling Wallace or Stirling Bruce?

 

[Lad Brookes]

Heroes?? Some people in a certain part of Ireland might regard them more as traitors

Some of the Irish station names work well enough, but they often replaced (IMHO) better names like Kingsbridge and Westland Row. I've never been sure about the practice of enshrining nationalism in infrastructure, as it might look petty to outsiders or future generations, and it doesn't seem to have caught on outside Dublin (where a distinction between multiple stations is needed). When I first started going to Dublin in the early '90s people even as young as middle age still said Amiens Street, Kingsbridge and Westland Row. The use of 'Pearse Street' for Pearse station (Westland Row) is a very common mistake due to the road of the same name being nearby, so people saying 'Pearse Street' obviously don't realise what the station is really called or the reason why.

Who knows or even cares that the [only] station in Tralee is called Casement?

Belfast Carson?

 

[martinsh]

Once talked about this with some friends - but we were think of airports. The best we came up with were

BJP - Birmingham Jasper Carrott
HJM - Huntingdon John Major

 

[LE Greys]

Once talked about this with some friends - but we were think of airports. The best we came up with were

BJP - Birmingham Jasper Carrott
HJM - Huntingdon John Major

Please no Grantham Margaret Thatcher!

 

[trainophile]

Hereford Nell Gwynne

 

[Lampshade]

Liverpool Ken Dodd

 

[deltic1989]

Lincoln tennyson, or grantham newton, Boston Wesley maybe?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

They could re-name an already re-named station which would become:-

BARNSLEY SCARGILL

 

[Oswyntail]

They could re-name an already re-named station which would become:-

BARNSLEY SCARGILL

It would shut itself down and insist on being relocated to a plusher area at public expense

 

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Liverpool Ken Dodd

That'll be where the diddy trains call then?!
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Dingwall Hector Macdonald

or in Gaelic:

Inbhir Pheofharain Eachann nan Cath

 

[4SRKT]

Oh, and BTW (returning to the OP) 'strand' is just an Anglo-Saxon word for 'beach', not a person's name.

 

[Seacook]

I think Slough Betjeman would be appropriate. Nelson Nelson would just be silly.

 

[ReverendFozz]

How about Raith Gordon(Brown), Newton Aycliffe Tony(Blair) as for Margaret Thatcher the less thats named after the better