The problem there is that in some places with two stations it's debatable which one is the "Main". For example in Bradford which station would be the "Hauptbahnhof"? (I'd argue Interchange, but only because it's nearer to Little Germany so could actually be called Bradford Hbf!). Both stations have intercity services to London, which might otherwise be a determining factor.
Indeed - in which case, you don't name either of them Main. I'm not saying we need a full-on convention of it like Germany - just that it would be nice to see it used where it makes sense - most notably where currently the main station just takes the name of the place with no suffix.
I don't really think there's much need- as a general rule if it's a place I'm unfamiliar with, I'll assume the one without the suffix is the "main" station. If there's multiple stations e.g. Pontefract then I'll find out which is nearest to where I need (and whether I can actually catch a train there at the time I need- which rules out Baghill!).
In Germany (and other countries using the same principle), one (and only one) of the stations is often designated and named - a matter of designation, not status - the main station or 'Hauptbahnof' (or equivalent) - and if there isn't an obvious choice, there may not be one: traditionally neither Berlin nor Vienna had one: none of their principle stations was THE main one. And even if one was so designated, there were (are) places where it isn't the most important from a passenger point of view (even if it is from a railway point of view). In some anglophone places 'Central' has been used in the same way - a station may be central for the railway, but not so on the city plan.
Box Hill and Westhumble has had five (one name reused):
When my Norwich born uncle phoned up in the 1970's he regularly asked for the time of the next train from Thorpe to ____, he was given the time from Thorpe-le-Soken!!
Assuming you mean the LU station, it is called 'St. James's Park'. There is one roundel on the EB platform which reads "St. James' Park" which was retained in situ as a heritage item (dating from around 1910) when I was responsible for the station's refurbishment in the early 1990s.
Even today, the two TOCs serving Box Hill can't decide whether it's 'Boxhill' or 'Box Hill' in their on-train information!
Society has lost its already-imperfect grasp of apostrophes, not helped by the BBC and other organisations 'dumbing down' and using them both wrongly and inconsistenty.
That is because Cark is in the Cartmel peninsular. Cartmel village is a couple of miles away. The station is actually equidistant between Cark & Flookburgh - which would be a more accurate name.
Apostrophes are as randomly done on the railway as elsewhere. You would think that local authority streetnames would be correctly done, but in a few minutes in Chelsea I found official street nameplates for King's Road, Kings' Road and Kings Road.
Not exactly, the original harbour station was on the Stone Jetty in Morecambe, not Heysham. Except it hardly did service as a harbour, even with the adjacent Wooden Jetty
Quite a conundrum, already! I'm neither a common enough or recent enough user to expatiate on St Pancras (or St. Pancras?) or King's' Cross with or without International or Thameslink or York Road (one way) or Suburban or London King(')s(') Cross St Pancras International for Central St Martins' College of Art and University College London University... Maybe platforms 0-99 or whatever of North London Central Interchange? Or Great British Library?
This isnt confined to railways of course.
Interestingly - the GWR dispensed with the suffix on the tiled walls of the new platforms at TM in the 1930s. I think the same applies at Cardiff (no “General”)
Many 'locals' in Portsmouth still call Portsmouth & Southsea the Town station.
In a way that makes a kind of sense, if somewhat abbreviated- if it's intending to convey that it can be easier to 'change' to 'the underground' at Farringdon than e.g. at St Pancras, for some destinations
