Trivia: geographically anomalous station names

[urbophile]

Rainford station is actually in the hamlet called Rainford Junction, a couple of miles from Rainford itself.

 

[mlambeuk]

Malton station is in Norton
Seamer station is actually in Cross Gates

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Rainford station is actually in the hamlet called Rainford Junction, a couple of miles from Rainford itself.

Similarly, after the opening of Llandudno Junction, a settlement grew around the station taking the name "Llandudno Junction".

 

[BurtonM]

Clock House, Kent House, Birkbeck and Beckenham Hill all seem to be named after roads, whilst Ravensbourne is either named after the road or river. You probably wouldn't know unless you know the Beckenham area.

Kent House is an historical name referring to a nearby farmhouse that was the first building over the Kent border.
Clock House is another historic name as the eponymous house was demolished in the late 1890s.

 

[Dr_Paul]

Didcot Parkway. Normally stations called 'Parkway' are remote from the town centre, such as Tiverton Parkway. Didcot station is about 200 yards from the main street in Didcot, if that far.

It's the modern version of 'Road' stations. If a country station had such a suffix, it usually meant that it was a mile or two (or three...) from the settlement of that name. Does anyone know the biggest distance between a 'Road' station and the place after which it was named?

 

[takno]

It's the modern version of 'Road' stations. If a country station had such a suffix, it usually meant that it was a mile or two (or three...) from the settlement of that name. Does anyone know the biggest distance between a 'Road' station and the place after which it was named?

London Road (Guildford)?

 

[MedwayValiant]

Manchester Oxford Road is plenty further from Oxford than that!

But if we're talking only of stations which are supposed to serve a place that they're not really all that near, Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway was a fair step from Mansfield.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Manchester Oxford Road is plenty further from Oxford than that!

But the A34, known generally for its entire length as the Oxford Road, starts just round the corner from it - although admittedly it is called Princess Street at that point.

 

[sk688]

London Marylebone

Not in Marylebone , but in fact near Lisson Grove . Marylebone is actually south east of Marylebone Rd and Baker St

 

[Cherry_Picker]

That's Marylebone village. The wider area extends up the west side of Regents Park at least as far as some cricket stadium owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club.

 

[Welshman]

It's the modern version of 'Road' stations. If a country station had such a suffix, it usually meant that it was a mile or two (or three...) from the settlement of that name. Does anyone know the biggest distance between a 'Road' station and the place after which it was named?

Kings Nympton on the Exeter-Barnstaple line, was renamed from South Molton Rd in 1951, as it is 11 miles from South Molton!!

 

[Welshman]

Abergele & Pensarn station is actually in Pensarn, although I suppose it is logical to name the larger settlement first.

It also avoids any confusion with the Pensarn on the Cambrian Coast line.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Ashburys is not in Ashburys. It is actually in Openshaw. There isn't even an area called Ashburys anywhere nearby!