Trivia - Stations named after people

[rower40]

Singer (Glasgow) after the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine company.

 

[P Binnersley]

Ramses station in Cairo ( after Pharaoh Ramses II).

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Is Georgemas Junction named after a person?

 

[YorksLad12]

Stretching the OP's definition (as others have done); Leeds Wellington, after Wellington Street, named for the Duke as many streets and building in the area were. The Wellesley was the station hotel for Leeds Central though.

Before 8 January 1964 (ahem... different thread...) you could have had Penda's Way in east Leeds, named after the area where the Mercian King, Penda, was reputed to have been killed in battle and buried.

 

[Journeyman]

Is Georgemas Junction named after a person?

It's named after an agricultural fair that was held in the area on St. George's Day, so it is somewhat indirectly.

 

[67thave]

SEPTA's Fortuna station in Bucks County (outside of Philadelphia) was named not after a person, but after a cow which was killed in a crossing accident at the station site.

 

[Western Sunset]

SEPTA's Fortuna station in Bucks County (outside of Philadelphia) was named not after a person, but after a cow which was killed in a crossing accident at the station site.

Not very "fortunate" for said cow though...

 

[Whisky Papa]

SEPTA's Fortuna station in Bucks County (outside of Philadelphia) was named not after a person, but after a cow which was killed in a crossing accident at the station site.

O! That's a little Orff...

 

[HORNIMANS]

Conversely, Gainsborough Lea Road and Gainsborough Central are not named after the artist. I never remember where the so-called "Gainsborough Line" is, but it's not even in the same county as the town of that name.

Gainsborough Line is Marks Tey to Sudbury[Suffolk] off GEML. Thomas Gainsborough [Artist] born 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, which is now a museum.

 

[philthetube]

Nelson?

 

[Lucan]

Mornington Crescent.

 

[swt_passenger]

Is Georgemas Junction named after a person?

George’s mum...

 

[vlad]

Depending on how far back you go - and how pedantic you are - many place names refer to a specific, long-dead individual.

Wulfruna (Wolverhampton)
Beorma (Birmingham)
Cofa (Coventry)
etc.

 

[RPM]

Calvert and Verney Junction, if closed stations are allowed.

 

[David Goddard]

Gainsborough Line is Marks Tey to Sudbury[Suffolk] off GEML. Thomas Gainsborough [Artist] born 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, which is now a museum.

In the 1990s it was for a short while known as the Lovejoy line, after the BBC drama filmed in the area.

 

[318259]

Kilmarnock and Dalmarnock in Scotland are named after Saint Marnock.

Kilwinning is named after Saint Finnan.

 

[306024]

Does Seven Kings count?

Nope, but Harold Wood would if this is true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wood

The name Harold Wood was recorded in about 1237, when it was shown as Horalds Wood. It was named after King Harold Godwinson, who was defeated by William the Conqueror in 1066. He held the surrounding manor of Havering-atte-Bower.[2] Some of the original roads are named after Anglo-Saxon kings such as Æthelstan and Alfred the Great.

 

[ValleyLines142]

James Cook Hospital

 

[Jamiescott1]

Saint Botolphs (until it was renamed in the 90s)

 

[Cakestall]

Nope, but Harold Wood would if this is true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wood

Harold Wood himself was actually a major figure in early UK Road Tankers.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

James Cook, though admittedly named after a hospital named after a person.

James Cook Hospital

Mentioned upthread already.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Milton of the original village comes from Middleton, suggesting that part's not after a person but after the geography. Keynes is debatable whether it's a single person or the entire de Cahaines family. Who also, incidentally, gave their name to Horsted Keynes in Sussex, and therefore by extension to the station now on the Bluebell.

Indeed. What I was alluding to was the possibly apocryphal story that the Government of the time were presented with a shortlist of possibilities based on ancient placenames, and the Minister, Dick Crossman, chose Milton Keynes because it combined John Milton and John Maynard Keynes.

Urban myth. There has long been a village called Milton Keynes, that the new town was built around.

Or, just maybe, after the two opposing economic theories of MILTON Friedman (of "monetarism" fame) year and John Maynard KEYNES.

According to Mr W Pedia:
"The name 'Milton Keynes' was a reuse of the name of one of the original historic villages in the designated area, now more generally known as 'Milton Keynes Village' to distinguish it from the modern settlement. After the Norman conquest, the de Cahaignes family held the manor from 1166 to the late 13th century as well as others in the country (Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire, Somerford Keynes in Gloucestershire, and Horsted Keynes in West Sussex). The village was originally known as Middeltone (11th century); then later as Middelton Kaynes or Caynes (13th century); Milton Keynes (15th century); and Milton alias Middelton Gaynes (17th century)."

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Does Seven Kings count?

No as King would not be a name of a person

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I knew a family called King ... there were only four of them, though!

 

[Mikey C]

In most of these examples the station is named after the place in which it is situated, which is named after a person. I think the OP was after stations that are directly named after a person. Mexborough and Conisbrough are named after Saxons: Meoc and an unspecified king, but nobody is suggesting the stations are named after these people. On the other hand, the several Victoria stations would qualify, unless for example they were built on an existing Victoria St.

Russell Square is another example of a station named after a place which was named after a person. Similarly King George V on the DLR, named after the dock rather than directly after the King

And sadly Gordon Hill wasn't named after the 1970s footballer

 

[StephenHunter]

Berlin has a number of such stations like that, including a number named after socialist heroes by the GDR, not all of which were renamed after the fall of the Wall.

 

[Lloyds siding]

The OP mentions Freshfield, which is part of Formby (the name is Viking and is reputed to mean 'Forn's place'), the nearby town of Ormskirk is also meant to be 'Orm's church', and also nearby is Ainsdale 'Einulf's valley'.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

And sadly Gordon Hill wasn't named after the 1970s footballer

I used to know someone called Gordon Hill .... and the station wasn't named after him, either!

Okay, coat on, door open ... see you later!

 

[Gloster]

Many years ago on Radio 4’s Brain of Britain there was a question, possibly in the mid-show section where the contestants briefly work together to answer a couple of questions sent in by a listener, where they were given four names. I can’t remember how the question was phrased, but they were given Gordon Hill, Harold Wood, Miles Platting and (I think) Bruce Grove and had to identify what they had in common. I think that they got close enough for Robert Robinson, or really Mycroft (Ian Gillies).

 

[southern442]

In Wilmington, Delaware, one has Joseph R Biden Jr. station, after a certain US president, and if that doesn't qualify I don't know what does.

 

[Dr_Paul]

There was a bloke at one place I worked called Colin Dale, so I knocked up for him a name-sign in the shape of an London Transport bar and roundel. He wasn't particularly amused.

 

[Unixman]

Gobowen. Owen's Mine.. ( I am well aware that there is an alternative etymology concerning Owain Glyndŵr)