Special services for Yorkshire - Sunday 6th July

[Deerfold]

My-thulm-royd is how I say it.

Sounds about right (having used Sowerby Bridge as my local station regularly for many years including living on bus rotues to both stations). For those interesting in pronunciation Sowerby Bridge is "Sore-bee Bridge" despite the on-train announcements.

To be fair that county is not worthy of your efforts to learn how to say it anyway

That's a little harsh.

The platforms, certainly the Leeds-bound one at least, are quite long, however the platform in front of the now disused station building was taken out of use with destaffing back in 1988 (I think it was), and the platforms were extended to the east to compensate.

I think that's similar to Sowerby Bridge where the platform is actually quite long but it is not all classified as "safe".

Was destaffing that late? I started using Sowerby Bridge in 1985 with no sign of any staff there but didn't deliberately travel West from it for a couple of years.

 

[Hebden Bridger]

I've always pronounced it:-

MY- thum royd

[ I always remember the joke someone made about "Mytholmroyd" sounding like it should be something you find on the pharmacist's shelves!]

Your pronunciation is certainly the one used locally. Jonathan Dimbleby caused great amusement amongst the audience of a Question Time show a few years back by pronouncing it Myth-OLM-royd apparently the preferred pronunciation of the BBC Linguistics team.

 

[Welshman]

Your pronunciation is certainly the one used locally. Jonathan Dimbleby caused great amusement amongst the audience of a Question Time show a few years back by pronouncing it Myth-OLM-royd apparently the preferred pronunciation of the BBC Linguistics team.

I lived in Halifax for 17 years before eventually moving to Wales, the country of my father's birth!

Neighbouring "Luddendenfoot" also seems to create some problems, too.


P.S. - For those really interested in what's going on at Mytholmroyd station, there's this:-

http://mytholmroydstation.wordpress.com/

 

[Hebden Bridger]

I was fairly sure they were listed on Northern's JourneyCheck page as calling additionally at Mytholmroyd

I like Yorkie relied on realtraintimes, however looking at the actual itinerary of the York-Blackpool services, they do seem to have been delayed between Halifax and Hebden Bridge (the only timings reported) so yes quite likely stopped.
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I lived in Halifax for 17 years before eventually moving to Wales, the country of my father's birth!

Neighbouring "Luddendenfoot" also seems to create some problems, too.

Try telling people that Mytholmroyd is in Luddendenfoot Calderdale council ward (which it is).
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I've always pronounced it:-

MY- thum royd

[ I always remember the joke someone made about "Mytholmroyd" sounding like it should be something you find on the pharmacist's shelves!]

Your pronunciation is certainly the one used locally. Jonathan Dimbleby caused great amusement amongst the audience of a Question Time show a few years back by pronouncing it Myth-OLM-royd apparently the preferred pronunciation of the BBC Linguistics team.