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Trivia: Most ridiculously named station in UK
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backontrack
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Agreed. Should be called Valley Park.
backontrack
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It's actually piccalilli.
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I knew that. I was trying to be funny.
backontrack
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Oh dear.
backontrack
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And there's also pecorino (though that's a cheese).
Sorry about that - I couldn't tell whether you were facetious or if you'd forgotten the word, so I blundered in. Now, of course, it's obvious.
Two nearby stations : Bordon and Oakhanger Halt. They were both on the road between Bordon and Oakhanger. Bordon station was the one nearer to Oakhanger and Oakhanger Halt was the nearer to Bordon.
Peter Mugridge
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I can think of two others; Redcar British Steel is one and the long closed Ampress Works halt on the Lymington branch is the other. Would Lympstone Commando also count as a company name for a station?
bramling
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Ashburys? Although not sure if that name now reflects the local area - anyone with local knowledge able to elaborate?
Not too far from IBM there's Singer.
Company names for stations: on the Audley End -- Saffron Walden -- Bartlow branch there was Acrow Halt a little way north of Saffron Walden: opened, I understand, in the mid-1950s for the benefit of employees of the firm of Acrow, whose premises adjoined the railway. Branch workings served Acrow Halt until the line's closure in 1964.
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Sudbury Hill Harrow is a rather awkward name, though it is slightly nearer Harrow than the Piccadilly line station so correct in that sense!
But then is there really an area called Sudbury Hill, as none of the hills in the area are called that, and the location of Sudbury Hill is fairly flat?
For that matter, Harrow-on-the-Hill should surely be called Harrow-at-the-bottom-of-the-Hill as that's where it's located
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New entry to the competition: Gareth Southgate
transmanche
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FWIW, Sudbury Hill Harrow was originally called South Harrow.
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South Harrow is in itself a made-up name. The area was originally called Roxeth (meaning "Rooks Heath") and the name survives in several of the local street names.
When the District Railway arrived in the area in 1904 it was open countryside, and they named their station South Harrow as they wanted some of the cachet of Harrow-on-the-Hill to rub off on the area and stimulate suburban housing development.
I didn't know that Sudbury Hill Harrow was also named South Harrow at one time.
As said by Adlington Ashburys isn't the name of an area it's a company. 'Beswick' would be an accurate reflection of where it is located.
Following on from that I would rename Gorton station 'Openshaw and Abbey Hey' and Belle Vue station as 'Gorton Belle Vue' to reflect Belle Vue as being the closest station to the centre of Gorton.
Following on from that I would rename Gorton station 'Openshaw and Abbey Hey' and Belle Vue station as 'Gorton Belle Vue' to reflect Belle Vue as being the closest station to the centre of Gorton.
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Doctor Fegg
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Ladies and gentlemen, from the Isle of Man, I bring you... Majestic Halt.
Esker-pades
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What is the premise behind Valley? Surely there are loads of those everywhere.
backontrack
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And yet there isn't a valley at Valley.
Esker-pades
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Oh, great. Might as well have called it Ocean or Dyke.
backontrack
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The village it serves is pretty much nameless. Most call it 'Y Fali' - Valley.
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RAF Valley is also the name of the RAF station nearby.
Yes, Valley is a curious case of that oh-so-familiar RailUK forum topic: the use of the Welsh language by people who do, and who most certainly don't, actually use it.
"Dyffryn" is the literal word-for-word translation of "valley" from English into Welsh. "Y Fali" is the "Cymryisation", transliterating an English word into Welsh orthography. Both have levels of correct and incorrect about them, depending on your point of view. I sense that we could be putting our toes into the Off Topic waters, however, if we veer any further down this tangent.
Western Sunset
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East (or West or South) Croydon.
Why not Croydon East, Croydon West etc...?
Why not Croydon East, Croydon West etc...?
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Agree with this, it always struck me as odd that the compass point comes first with the Croydon stations, especially as East and West are actually more central to Croydon town than many stations that only bear the names of the settlements they serve.
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