There was once a Washington station in the U.K. Closed 1963. Located in Washington, Tyne & Wear, up in the North East, which town was the ancestral home of George Washington's family.
My Dutch teacher taught us to pronounce every letter. So Hoover is about right.Yes, I'd forgotten about that. I believe it's pronounced 'Hoover' in Flemish (especially by class 50 fanatics!)
The station is actually Troon (Flemish) Trône (French). It was originally named Luxemburg/ Luxembourg. I imagine the change was made because it’s not actually all that close to the SNCB station of that name.
As I type this, I am looking from my living room window across the valley to Heptonstall on its hilltop. According to local history books, 'Hepton' and 'Hebden' are both derived from the Saxon 'hip dene', meaning 'valley of the roses' and 'stall' means 'stable' or 'pig sty' - so make of that what you will!
Yes, I was thinking that too, but the relevant pirate story concerns a city of that name in the Spanish West Indies....so maybe it's old Spanish?
That's very interesting....and may explain the conundrum. Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo) was, of course, Italian - from Genova - even though his expedition was sponsored and financed by the King and Queen of Spain.
Correct. It translates from the Welsh as 'hill'.
Even if it was spelt the same way it'd be invalid unless the place in the UK was named for the Australian city. If that wasn't against the rules I'd dig out my list of railway stations in Australia that have the exact same name as railway stations in Britain
There is at least one other English Bryn - Malvern was originally Moel Bryn/Vryn.
That would have been interesting during the Falklands War or more topically after the "hand of god" goal of 1986!
Welsh isn't a foreign language.
My mistake (and failure to work out how to type a circumflex)
There was no such thing as an Italian in the 15th century - Italy existed as a nation only from the "risorgimento" (unification) in the mid-19th century. n
Hear, hear! Thanks for being an unofficial moderator!Thread is about UK stations with foreign language names, as per post #1.
Wales was still part of the U.K. the last time I checked, so Welsh can't, by definition, be a foreign language from a U.K. perspective, I would suggest.
If you count that, you should count Singer.Although temporarily closed - IBM (it is an American company after all)
Thread is about UK stations with foreign language names, as per post #1.
Wales was still part of the U.K. the last time I checked, so Welsh can't, by definition, be a foreign language from a U.K. perspective, I would suggest.
That's true of loads of places in England and southern Scotland, of course. The 'Elmet' in Sherburn-in-Elmet, fot instance, comes from the ancient Brythonic / Welsh kingdom of Elfed in Yorkshire. I think you just have to treat Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Norman names as being endemic to these islands or the list would go on for ever!
A Chapel.
Cheers.
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