Stations with names not from that location

[dvboy]

Who outside of the WM has heard of Oldbury ......

Dudley fair enough.....

Sandwell....normally top's any list related to urban deprivation etc.:cry:

ps I used to live in Old Hill (part of Sandwell)

Who outside the West Midlands has heard of Coseley, Tipton, or Smethwick - all on the same line and the latter of which I often hear mispronounced (the "w" is silent) by non-locals... likewise the numerous stations on the other lines serving what are basically suburbs of Birmingham?

One could argue that Smethwick Galton Bridge is the most important station between Wolverhampton and Dudley so quite why they decided Sandwell & Dudley needed a name to encompass a much larger area than it actually serves passenger-wise, is beyond me.

 

[W-on-Sea]

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I heard that it was named Clapham Junction because either Battersea was too rough an area at the time, for the company (I assume LSWR?) to name the station after it, or the other way around - the people of Battersea were too posh and didn't want a station named after their area...

Hmm, my theory (which I'm sure I heard from someone else...and I'm about to back it up with other examples) is that *some* stations with "junction" in often are located at the point at which a line diverges TO/FROM the destination mentioned in the station name, so the station, by definition, is located somewhere else.

i.e. Clapham Junction is in Battersea
Willesden Junction is in Harlesden
Norwood Junction is....somewhere that's not Norwood (which in any case is a bit of a weird geographical concept and reality, anyway, various detached places with the same name rather than a coherent whole) - anyway the first station there was originally called "Jolly-sailor"....

Sure, there are loads of counter-examples, but I think it feasible that this could explain the naming of Clapham Junction which, by any measure isn't in Clapham, but does serve as a location of a link from various main lines to a branch that does pass through Clapham (now High Street)

 

[ReverendFozz]

Seaburn on the Tyne and Wear Metro is in Fulwell