TRIVIA: Rhyming rail journeys

[Calthrop]

Once again, getting into closed-stations realms with one "ingredient": but, a "trio" which has always appealed to me -- Bridlington via Lidlington, to Kidlington: a journey which would have been quite possible (if not particularly sensible), until closure of Kidlington in 1964.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Dent to Burton-on-Trent.

 

[duffield]

Dent to Burton-on-Trent.

Pretty sure I've done that at least once (i.e. passed through both stations on the same day trip) - Nottingham(->Burton-on-Trent)->Tamworth->Crewe->Carlisle(->Dent)->Leeds->Nottingham .

 

[D6130]

Wymondham to Saxmundham (almost?)

 

[CaptainHaddock]

With the local pronunciation, Dodworth to Brough.

 

[Calthrop]

Wymondham to Saxmundham (almost?)

I gather that Wymondham is customarily pronounced "Windum". Seemingly it's a Norfolk habit to drop a syllable from place-names -- but not noticeably so in Suffolk; they wouldn't thus, be likely to go for "Smundum". Sadly, rather spoils the rhythm ...

 

[Bevan Price]

Sheffield > Mirfield > Lichfield > Northfield

Bradford > Bedford > Waterford (Ireland)
(via Radford & Midford if the Somerset & Dorset was still open)

 

[BazingaTribe]

Bedford to Bideford via time machine (the latter station closed in 1965). I'm envisaging the locomotive from Back to the Future III.

Not a rhyme but...Farnworth to Farnham via Farnborough.

Bangor to Westenhanger in Kent. (Sadly Moggerhanger in Bedfordshire has no station.) Bonus points if you consider there's a Bangor in Northern Ireland. Helen's Bay to St Helen's is also a cross-sea trip, as is Cultra to Low Moor (the first station, along the southern coast of Belfast Lough, is pronounced Cultraw), but I had to search for that one a bit...

Also Dublin to Blackpool. May not make sense at first glance, but the Irish etymology of Dublin is dubh lin -- Blackpool (although the official Irish name is Baile Ath Cliath) With a stop at Welshpool on days with an r in them, and Liverpool on the others.

 

[D6130]

I gather that Wymondham is customarily pronounced "Windum". Seemingly it's a Norfolk habit to drop a syllable from place-names -- but not noticeably so in Suffolk; they wouldn't thus, be likely to go for "Smundum". Sadly, rather spoils the rhythm ...

Yep, I realised that....hence the 'almost'!

 

[Pigeon]

Penychain to Headbolt Lane, surely? My memory of the very long announcements for Cambrian services definitely had Penychain pronounced as it's written... suppose some accents might have it ending more like "Chine" though.

Penny Chain? I'd pronounce it "Pen-u-chine" with the "ch" pronounced "German-style" as in "loch". Cf. "Mair" which is Welsh for "Mary", and is pronounced "mire", not "mare", much as I may personally find this disappointing, mair.

Dunno how valid a guide announcements can be taken as; sure I remember hearing "Lan-dud-no" and similar horrors on plenty of occasions

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Sheffield > Mirfield > Lichfield > Northfield

Bradford > Bedford > Waterford (Ireland)
(via Radford & Midford if the Somerset & Dorset was still open)

If there's no letters different in the bits that rhyme, is it really a rhyme? Or is it just repetition? (with credit to the Monty Python "Argument" sketch)

 

[D6130]

Bearley to Fairlie? (If I have the correct pronunciation of Bearley).

 

[Western Gaffer]

Sheffield > Mirfield > Lichfield > Northfield

Bradford > Bedford > Waterford (Ireland)
(via Radford & Midford if the Somerset & Dorset was still open)

If there's no letters different in the bits that rhyme, is it really a rhyme? Or is it just repetition? (with credit to the Monty Python "Argument" sketch)

I'm with you on that - I'd see, say, Shenfield and Enfield as genuine rhymes, but not just any pair of places that happen to end in -field, but am sure that there'll be other views on linguistics!

 

[BazingaTribe]

If there's no letters different in the bits that rhyme, is it really a rhyme? Or is it just repetition? (with credit to the Monty Python "Argument" sketch)

Well, Notlob is the palindrome of Bolton after all, according to the Pythons. It's a bit more rhythm than rhyme, maybe. Like Auden and his Night Mail poem we've moved on from rhymes to more complicated wordplay.

Still, if Cowes station didn't look like this it would basically rhyme with Slough. And Pokesdown (which always elicits a schoolgirl giggle from me when I travel that way) rhymes with Kentish Town.

 

[dannypye9999]

Hale to Hayle. I wonder if Anne did a separate recording for each stop even though they're pronounced the same.

 

[Calthrop]

Yep, I realised that....hence the 'almost'!

Seemingly a bit of sense-of-humour failure on my part -- sorry ! (I'd been wanting to give a reference from a novel which I like: where a Norfolkman character jokingly explains the local dropping-a-syllable idiosyncrasy -- but the reference is refusing to be found.)

 

[pitdiver]

As a matter of interest has any one got the timetable for the regional railways service from Great Yarmouth to Barmouth as was?

 

[Class800]

Goole to Poole? Diss to Liss? Horley to Morley? Yorton to Gorton? Brampton to Northampton? Must be quite a few out there!

My dad always said Goole as GOO-LEE but people these days say it like a ghost GHOUL.

 

[Class800]

Horley to Morley (via Chorley)?
Does Norwich rhyme with either Harwich Town or Harwich International?

Yes in Norfolk at least you say NARCH and HARCH! For Norwich and Harwich

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Bingham to Kingham.

 

[Silver Cobra]

Bayford to Crayford
Benfleet to Ham Street

 

[xotGD]

How about Sunderland to Fréthun

(For those who pronounce the Wearside city "Sun-lun".)

 

[Sunil_P]

Lenham to Denham

 

[Silver Cobra]

Here's another:

Bat & Ball to Meadowhall

 

[duffield]

Yes in Norfolk at least you say NARCH and HARCH! For Norwich and Harwich

So you can actually go from "Narch" to March, on the same train, with a proper rhyme?

Unless March is actually pronounced "Match" or something.

 

[Right Away]

Bradford on Avon to Milford Haven. Connected by a direct train in Regional Railways/Wales & West days.

 

[Class800]

So you can actually go from "Narch" to March, on the same train, with a proper rhyme?

Unless March is actually pronounced "Match" or something.

Yes you can, but it's definitely more the older locals who still say Norwich that way, younger people tend to say it like Londoners do

 

[BeijingDave]

Bank Quay to Sankey. Only a few miles apart (walkable for some people) but would require a change in Manchester or Liverpool.

 

[xotGD]

Man Pic to Man Vic

By tram, free bus, train or on foot.

If no trains are running, you might have to Fester in Chester.

When it is time to get off, Bale at Hale.

And on a geometric theme, Winnersh Triangle to Bradford Forster Square. (Using the Circle Line to cross London on your way.)

For a right royal journey, Kings Lynn to Queens Park via Princes Risborough.

 

[Peter0124]

Irvine to Girvan via Ayr(vin)