Longest station name

[trainophile]

It seems from LM onboard announcements that Liverpool South Parkway (a mouthful enough in its own right) is now officially known as "Liverpool-South-Parkway-For-John-Lennon-International-Airport". Gets a bit tedious when heard in every "we will be calling at..." announcement after every station stopped at.

Anyone beat this for wordiness?

 

[Intermodal]

I think Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch would win.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

 

[robertbishop]

I've never heard any announcer try the full Llanfair PG name!

Alyesbury Vale Parkway, Southampton Airport Parkway and Cobham and Stoke D'Abernon have a fair few syllables.

 

[Irishman]

How about Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch ?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Rhoose for Cardiff International Airport is quite long too!

 

[Lampshade]

Manchester United Football Ground Halt

There are quite a few different interpretations of the name but this is the longest I know of.

 

[43106]

If my information is correct, the stations with the longest SINGLE word name (ingnoring Llanfair PG, which is concocted anyway) is MIDDLESBOROUGH and WELLINGBOROUGH. I could be wrong, but that's what I've been told.

 

[LE Greys]

How about Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch ?

Or indeed it's copycat:
Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion


How about the shortest? Anything shorter than Ely (two letters or fewer)?

 

[ainsworth74]

If my information is correct, the stations with the longest SINGLE word name (ingnoring Llanfair PG, which is concocted anyway) is MIDDLESBOROUGH and WELLINGBOROUGH.

Middlesbrough not Middlesborough

 

[wintonian]

Or indeed it's copycat:
Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion


How about the shortest? Anything shorter than Ely (two letters or fewer)?

Ayr & Par are the best I can come up with.

Further afield though there is Ib in India

 

[class377man]

Ore and Ash as well. Pretty sure there are no two letter stations in the UK.

 

[Sapphire Blue]

Ore and Ash as well. Pretty sure there are no two letter stations in the UK.

Only because they could not have a 3 letter code

 

[Geezertronic]

The same could apply to most stations where a mini description is added. "Birmingham International for the airport and NEC" is a local example for me.

 

[causton]

The same could apply to most stations where a mini description is added. "Birmingham International for the airport and NEC" is a local example for me.

How far would you take that? :P "King's Cross St. Pancras, change here for the Northern, Piccadilly, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, and National and International rail services. Alight here for the Royal National Institute of the Blind"?

 

[Clip]

How far would you take that? :P "King's Cross St. Pancras, change here for the Northern, Piccadilly, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, alight here for the Royal National Institute of the Blind"?

Doesnt that announcement also have 'National Rail services' in it also?

 

[Via Bank]

Doesnt that announcement also have 'National Rail services' in it also?

"National and International rail services", remember. Or, if you're on the Northern Line, "Mainline inter-city, suburban and international rail services."

 

[northwichcat]

How far would you take that? :P "King's Cross St. Pancras, change here for the Northern, Piccadilly, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, alight here for the Royal National Institute of the Blind"?

The OP seems to be reffering to the LM automated system saying:

This is the xx: xx service for Liverpool Lime Street calling at ......, Runcorn, Liverpool South-Parkway For John Lennon International Airport and Liverpool Lime Street.

i.e. it's announced after every station, not just when the train calls there.

 

[causton]

Doesnt that announcement also have 'National Rail services' in it also?

Knew I was going to add something after that comma! Whoops, fixed. Don't even know if the lines are in the right order. Plus, as I'm taking it as the Vic line, which would have "Doors will open on the..." as well.
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The OP seems to be reffering to the LM automated system saying:

This is the xx: xx service for Liverpool Lime Street calling at ......, Runcorn, Liverpool South-Parkway For John Lennon International Airport and Liverpool Lime Street.

i.e. it's announced after every station, not just when the train calls there.

Oh dear, that sounds much worse :/

 

[Mintona]

How far would you take that? :P "King's Cross St. Pancras, change here for the Northern, Piccadilly, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, and National and International rail services. Alight here for the Royal National Institute of the Blind"?

I took the Victoria line to St. Pancras earlier. On the new trains, she doesn't actually say the bit about the RNIB.

 

[Statto]

Manchester Piccadilly & Manchester Oxford Road are a mouthful to say the least also there's a Prestwick International Airport station.

There is a village called Ae i Scotland shortest place name in the UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ae,_Scotland but not on the rail network[be interesting to see the 3 letter code for that place if it were on the rail network].
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Not on the National Rail network but on the Midland Metro there's a couple of long stop names, one being Wednesbury Great Western Street the other Lodge Road West Bromwich Town Hall.

 

[TEW]

A candidate for the most stupid name, which is also pretty long too is St Keyne Wishing Well Halt.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I think it's more there for the tradition - apart from the rolling stock the line has changed very little in over 100 years...

 

[imagination]

I remember being on a cross country service once where the guard (or whoever was doing the announcement) insisted on giving every station as full a name as possible (eg. "Royal Leamington Spa General Old Warwick Road National Railway Station") and tagged onto the end "for" and then a list of all the places that you could reasonably change at that station for. This announcement started on leaving Reading and we were well past Didcot by the time it had finished.

I seem to remember the announcement for Birmingham New Street taking rather a long time...

 

[valenta]

I remember being on a cross country service once where the guard (or whoever was doing the announcement) insisted on giving every station as full a name as possible (eg. "Royal Leamington Spa General Old Warwick Road National Railway Station") and tagged onto the end "for" and then a list of all the places that you could reasonably change at that station for. This announcement started on leaving Reading and we were well past Didcot by the time it had finished.

I seem to remember the announcement for Birmingham New Street taking rather a long time...

I can imagine, you get some announcers who talk until nobody is listening anymore, and then the other extreme, who make announcements that you can barely hear.

 

[HST Power]

I'm not quite sure if this has already been said (I think it has, but I don't know the language it was written it) but just try saying the Welsh for train station and then you have a real mouthful!

 

[krus_aragon]

I'm not quite sure if this has already been said (I think it has, but I don't know the language it was written it) but just try saying the Welsh for train station and then you have a real mouthful!

Train station (gorsaf drenau) isn't that bad. Railway station (gorsaf rheilffordd) is more tricky. The old Victorian term for railway station (gorsaf cledrffordd) could qualify as a minor evil.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch would win.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

Does anyone realise that this station name is also famous for having FOUR successive identical consonents (LLLL) in the spelling of its name.

 

[PR1Berske]

Does anyone realise that this station name is also famous for having FOUR successive identical consonents (LLLL) in the spelling of its name.

Not quite. "Ll" is a separate, distinct letter in Welsh, so "llll" is two successive identical consonants :-P

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

not quite. "ll" is a separate, distinct letter in welsh, so "llll" is two successive identical consonants

Nid wyf yn deall. Rwyf sorry.

Prynhawn da.

 

[Boothby97]

Don't you think the Welsh are cheating, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch means ST MARYS CHURCH IN HOLLOW OF THE WHITE HAZEL NEAR TO THE RAPID WHIRLPOOL OF LLANTYSILIO OF THE RED CAVE and Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion means The Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the northern headland road on the golden beach of Cardigan Bay.

By the way I don't speak Welsh.