Trivia - Stations named after people

[ijmad]

Denmark Hill is dedicated to Prince George of Denmark.

Two former national rail stations (one of which is now a DLR station, and one now closed):

Canning Town (the area, as well as the station) is named after British Prime Minister George Canning.
Silvertown (area + station) is named after Samuel Winkworth Silver.

If we're doing tube and DLR stations:

Langdon Park is named after Reverend Charles Langdon, famous vicar of nearby St Michaels.
Warren Street is named after Anne Warren, wife of Charles Fitzroy.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Earlestown - Sir Hardman Earle of Allerton Towers, Liverpool, was a director of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and later the London and North Western Railway.
The station was originally called Newton Junction.

The Brits didn't go in for personalising their railways, but Austria named its principal lines after the royal family:

KFNB - Kaiser Ferdinand Nordbahn (Vienna-Krakow) - first locos were from Stephenson in Newcastle and Tayleur in Warrington
KEWB - Kaiserin Elisabeth Westbahn (Vienna-Salzburg) - the first Elizabeth Line!
FJB - Franz Joseph Bahn (Vienna-Prague - with FJ stations at either end; the portrait of Franz Joseph at what is now Praha Hlavni is still there)
KRB - Kronprinz Rudolfsbahn (heir to the throne until his suicide at Mayerling)

Germany also had its Ludwigsbahn and Wilhelmsbahn.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Wednesbury's an interesting one, the town is named after Woden, the old English name for Odin. There can't be many places in Britain named after a Norse god.

It doesn't have a railway station, and never has, but Thundersley in Essex (Castle Point, just north of South Benfleet) is named after Thor

 

[Starmill]

Thinking more of stations named after more "ordinary" people.

I don't think Queen Victoria, William of Orange or King George V for example really satisfy that criteria.

Surely then there are no valid answers and this thread is moot? Or there are lots of answers like Lee and Ashley and Glyn and whatnot but again that makes the thread seem moot?

 

[NSE]

Until Selhurst is renamed ‘Sir Alan of Pardew Central’ I won’t rest happy.

 

[iantherev]

Until Selhurst is renamed ‘Sir Alan of Pardew Central’ I won’t rest happy.

More appropriate for the Midland Metro these days?

 

[NSE]

More appropriate for the Midland Metro these days?

Oh Indeed, though I travel through Croydon often so I’d appreciate it more if it was there haha. Though to celebrate him I’d happily have one for every team he’s managed!

 

[stut]

When the Great Northern railway was built, a halt was constructed in the countryside, near a bridge in the river Ivel, for local characterful landowner "Big Les Wade" to transport his prize-winning marrows to London. A surrounding settlement built up, known as "Biggleswade" and grew to its current state. It is due to reach the 1970s at some point next year.