Trivia: Temporally anomalous station names.

[takno]

Its still a junction so I think it counts. Even if it is just the parry people mover using it.

It's named after the junction between the line to Snow Hill and the one to Wolverhampton LL. The station predates the Stourbridge Town line (although it was slightly further up the line originally)

 

[steamybrian]

There is a football team though.

There never was a place called Crystal Palace the area is named Upper Norwood. The two stations were named Crystal Palace to serve the all glass Great Exhibition Hall which burnt down in 1936

..but my favourite team play at Selhurst Park to which the nearest stations are Selhurst or Norwood Junction

 

[Ianno87]

Accessing Angel Road station from Angel Road itself is something of a challenge....

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

In the temporal spirit of the thread, Clock House in Bromley is named after the long-gone family home of some local dignitary.

 

[yorksrob]

Dorking Deepdene - the Deepdene hotel has since passed into history.

There is no longer a Priory at Dover Priory.

 

[rower40]

Wikipedia says that the former White Hart pub, on the Lane of the same name, is being demolished by the local footie club to enlarge their ground (i.e. provide more car parking and corporate hospitality boxes.)

 

[snowball]

Dorking Deepdene - the Deepdene hotel has since passed into history.

There is no longer a Priory at Dover Priory.

But the use of the name Deepdene in Dorking is not limited to the hotel. A friend of mine used to live in Deepdene Park Road.

 

[yorksrob]

But the use of the name Deepdene in Dorking is not limited to the hotel. A friend of mine used to live in Deepdene Park Road.

Does it count if a new geographical feature has subsequently been named after the station ?

 

[Spankthemonkey]

Ninian Park; stadium was demolished years ago

 

[Dr_Paul]

Strawberry Hill -- whatever there may have been when the line was built, there's no sign of any hill there these days.

The same goes for Shippea Hill, although I suppose that any rise of more than a couple of feet in the Fens counts as a hill.

 

[Tetchytyke]

Central Station serving Newcastle station on the Tyne and Wear Metro.

Newcastle Central station is still called Newcastle Central station.

Dalston Junction

Is still a junction with the westbound NLL, even though the eastbound link was lifted when the station originally closed in the 80s.

 

[notlob.divad]

Burscough kept the "Junction" suffix to distinguish it from Burscough Bridge. Rainford didn't have that problem.

The weirdest thing about Burscough train station names is that Burscough Bridge is where the bigger Junction used to be, whilst the historic junction that Burscough Junction station refers to is the other side of a bridge from the location of the station.

 

[Dr_Paul]

Is still a junction with the westbound NLL, even though the eastbound link was lifted when the station originally closed in the 80s.

It's not a junction station: you can't change on to the NLL there, you have either to walk to Kingsland station or to travel to Canonbury and change there.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

The weirdest thing about Burscough train station names is that Burscough Bridge is where the bigger Junction used to be, whilst the historic junction that Burscough Junction station refers to is the other side of a bridge from the location of the station.

Are you sure? The Ormskirk to Southport curve left the Preston line before it crosses the Wigan to Southport line, and that curve was the only one which carried regular passenger services. The Preston to Southport curve was almost entirely freight only due to there being a more suitable route via Crossens.

 

[Kite159]

Similarly Loughborough Junction, as it isn't a junction anymore

 

[notlob.divad]

Are you sure? The Ormskirk to Southport curve left the Preston line before it crosses the Wigan to Southport line, and that curve was the only one which carried regular passenger services. The Preston to Southport curve was almost entirely freight only due to there being a more suitable route via Crossens.

It was mainly meant tongue in cheek, because I am fully aware that Burscough Bridge is the name of the settlement created where the coach road (now A59) crossed the canal. This was separate from Burscough which was the settlement by the Priory. However as with most rural villages, settlement sprawl meant the two have merged as to what you find today.

However yes, my understanding is the curve only left the Liverpool - Preston line, north of the canal bridge some 400metres North of Junction station. whereas both curves merged with the Southport-Wigan line within a couple of hundred metres of Burscough Bridge Station. Irrespective of which routes were busiest, the '3-way' junction must surely be deemed the bigger.

 

[Teithiwr]

There are no Romans in Roman Bridge. Or anyone else on most days

 

[najaB]

There are no Romans in Roman Bridge. Or anyone else on most days

There's (I think) a bridge possibly built by Romans though.

 

[Dr_Paul]

Similarly Loughborough Junction, as it isn't a junction anymore

However, the district has been for decades known as Loughborough Junction, so, although the station is not a junction any more, it's nonetheless a reasonable name for it.

The station was previously named Brixton Junction and Loughborough Road; the district was originally called Loughborough Park.

So: perhaps a new thread: 'Places that have been named after a railway station'?

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Is there a bank near to Warrington Bank Quay station?

Bank Quay was developed on the Mersey by early industrialists, notably Thomas Patten who built a big house nearby called Bank Hall.
It's now Warrington Town Hall.

Many stations called "Central" are no such thing.
To avoid confusion, BR added Central to ex-GC station names, and Midland to ex-Midland.
Not many left now. Gainsborough Central is one.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Strawberry Hill -- whatever there may have been when the line was built, there's no sign of any hill there these days.

Strawberry Hill is named after a nearby stately home.

http://www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/

Created by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, Strawberry Hill is internationally famous as Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic revival architecture. It also inspired the first gothic novel The Castle of Otranto.

 

[Dr_Paul]

Many stations called "Central" are no such thing.

There used to be a station called just Central on the Galleons branch in East London. And it was more or less halfway along the Royal Albert Dock. On the attached picture, the only would-be passenger seems to be a cat. More details here.

 

[Busaholic]

Woolwich Arsenal might lead to a would-be terrorist making a complaint under the Trades Description Act!

 

[reb0118]

Glasgow Queen Street isn't in Queen Street.

What's the name of the wee street where the unfortunate bin lorry of recent infamy ended up? Usually a spare taxi or two hanging about.

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[gsnedders]

What's the name of the wee street where the unfortunate bin lorry of recent infamy ended up? Usually a spare taxi or two hanging about.

Variously listed as "Queen Street", "Queen Street (North)", "Queen Street North", and "North Queen Street" in various statutory documents.

 

[reb0118]

Thought so, but is always pays to check. So whilst it may not be in Queen Street you could say it is on Queen Street - albeit a small part of it.

Glasgow George Square anyone?

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[bastien]

Bath Spa - the spa was closed between 1978 & 2006.

 

[Calthrop]

Bath Spa - the spa was closed between 1978 & 2006.

Bath Spa has always struck me as in itself, a bit of a repetitively-redundant name. If in one of our nearby Continental nations, one feels that the station would have had to be called Les-Bains-Les-Bains, or Bad Bad. (In Germany there is the real Baden-Baden, I suppose.)

 

[bastien]

Bath Spa has always struck me as in itself, a bit of a repetitively-redundant name. If in one of our nearby Continental nations, one feels that the station would have had to be called Les-Bains-Les-Bains, or Bad Bad. (In Germany there is the real Baden-Baden, I suppose.)

I suppose it made more sense when the Midland station was open (Queen Square, later Green Park). Not that it's actually much further from the actual spa building.

What's more confusing is when people think Bath Spa is the name of the city. "I'm going to visit Bath Spa" what, the station, the university, the baths?

 

[glbotu]

Many stations called "Central" are no such thing.
To avoid confusion, BR added Central to ex-GC station names, and Midland to ex-Midland.
Not many left now. Gainsborough Central is one.

Except Newcastle Central, which is in fact the Central station for Newcastle (to distinguish it from Newcastle Manors I suppose). The Great Central went nowhere near Newcastle.