Station association

[Nym]

Oakham, another oak...

 

[deltic1989]

Swineshead bridge..,. You get ham from a pig aka swine

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Swineshead bridge..,. You get ham from a pig aka swine

Just Swineshead

Eccles Road - another station with an hourly service or better passing through with a very limited service itself.

 

[imagination]

Chorley

Eccles = eccles cake
eccles cake is similar to chorley cake
hence Chorley

 

[Welshman]

Cattal

[cattle cake]!

 

[The_Rail_WAy]

Cattal

[cattle cake]!

Manchester Victoria

Manchester tart, continuing with the tradition of Lancashire cakes and Victoria sponge.

Custard anyone??

 

[Lampshade]

Wakefield Kirkgate - also a depressing hole.

 

[deltic1989]

Glasgow queen st glasgow being home of the spl champions rangers. Manchester home of the english league champions the super reds manchester united..... Damn too slow

 

[OxtedL]

South Croydon - like Wakefield Kirkgate, the junior of its neighbour

 

[imagination]

Royston - the nearest station to the south of Croydon (in Cambridgeshire)

 

[trentside]

Royston - the nearest station to the south of Croydon (in Cambridgeshire)

Hadfield - the town was a filming location for the League of Gentlemen, and therefore masqueraded as Royston Vasey!

 

[imagination]

Mallaig.

We all know that Old MacDonald had a farm. That farm probably HAD at least one FIELD.
Now who is Old MacDonald? well there is a Scottish clan called MacDonald of Sleat. Where is Sleat? It's a peninsula on Skye. One of the settlements on this peninsula is Armadale, which has a direct ferry from Mallaig.

 

[LE Greys]

Whitby - also has a regular steam service

And I certainly can't beat the last one

 

[Anon Mouse]

Saltburn, its by the sea!

 

[ainsworth74]

Marske - It's also by the sea


I feel I should point out that both Marske and Saltburn are both properly called Marske/Saltburn-by-the-sea

 

[deltic1989]

Marsden.......I need to start trying harder.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Slough - Where Mars bars are manufactured.

 

[12CSVT]

Stourbridge Junction - start of a single track self-contained branch with no intermediate stations

 

[Welshman]

Bournemouth


[Stourbridge Junction/Town - Cl.139- Parry People Moover- Hubert Parry- British Composer 1848-1918- born in Bournemouth]

 

[MCR247]

Wow Erm

Nottingham

Transdev has a stake in Nottingham city transport

 

[imagination]

Formby

Nottingham = Not Ingham. George Formby's wife was called Beryl Ingham. Thus if she took her husbands name on marriage she would have been Nottingham but Formby.

 

[Ivo]

These are getting rather good!

Chester-le-Street: I forget who did it, but a group made a song about the Beeching Cut during its peak. They listed several stations affected, a few of which survived. Formby and Chester-le-Street both survived the good Doctor in spite of being mentioned in the song.

 

[imagination]

^Flanders and Swann you are referring to.

Which leads me to Ashton-under-Lyne - a town mentioned in another of their songs (the Gnu song)

 

[Captain Chaos]

Llanelli

Donald Ibrahim Swann, the other half of Flanders and Swann was born in Llanelli on 30 September 1923.

 

[Oswyntail]

^Flanders and Swann you are referring to.

Which leads me to Ashton-under-Lyne - a town mentioned in another of their songs (the Gnu song)

In which case Woodhouse, because P.G. Wodehouse also wrote a poem about the Gnu.

 

[Welshman]

Next must be Emsworth.

[P.G. Wodehouse also wrote the "Blandings" novels, and the incumbent of Blandings Castle was Lord Emsworth]

 

[imagination]

Next must be Emsworth.

[P.G. Wodehouse also wrote the "Blandings" novels, and the incumbent of Blandings Castle was Lord Emsworth]

Chelmsford - another station that was for a while my family's local station during my early childhood.

 

[LE Greys]

Folkestone West - Staying with the literary theme, the fictional South Essex Regiment's home barracks in the Sharpe books was at Chelmsford. Folkestone West was once called Shorncliffe, where the 95th Rifles used to be based (Sharpe being a rifleman).

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Cambridge.

The area being the target of Tom Sharpe's wit in more than one of his hilarious books.

 

[Anon Mouse]

Oxford, another station with a Uni for the chosen few!