Great Western Coffee Shop

On the Overground the North London line  being diverted from Broad Street to North Woolwich from Dalston Junction  Non pasenger from Dalston to Stratford Low Level (now DLR) pre Beeching.

Also link from New Cross Gate to Peckham reinstated to allow East london Line trains to become South London Line trains. Although no stations on the link. Also link from Wandsworth to Clapham Junction Windsor side previously no regular passenger services for years.

Through trains from ECML at Finsbury Park to Moorgate.

DLR using parts of freight only heavy rail links between  Limehouse, Popular, Bow.

Tottenham and Hampstead: Junction Road Jn to Gospel Oak new platform, service diverted from Kentish Town.

Sinfin?

The Knowle and Totterdown Local History Society (KTLHS) are trying to find out more about the history of Hillcrest School, also known as Knowle Primary, or simply as School Road school.

And here's another unofficial one, from the Bristol Post:

What other place names do people know like this? Is there Bridge Road Bridge, for instance?

Bridge Street Bridge may refer to:

    Bridge Street Bridge (Newark)
    Bridge Street Bridge (Trenton)
    Bridge Street Bridge (Connecticut River)
    Bridge Street Bridge in Elkhart, Indiana
    Bridge Street Bridge, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Victoria Bridge, Montreal, the bridge at the base of Bridge Street, Montreal

If you need to refer to that bridge, I guess you would say Bridge Road bridge - but do most bridges have official names anyway?

Bridge Street Bridge, however, has a whole Wikipedia disambiguation page all to itself:

There's the old chestnut that is Bristol Bridge - where 'Bristol' means 'place of the bridge'. Then of course the water it spans is the River Avon - where 'Avon' means 'river' (in Welsh, as if this could get any worse...).

So to be clear, Bristol Bridge is the bridge at the place where the bridge over the river that's a river is. Or summat. Ooze round is it?

I seem to recall a Junction Road Junction somewhere.

Torpenhow Hill.

'Tor' and 'pen' are English alternates for the word 'hill, 'how' comes from an Old Norse word also meaning 'hill'. Thus a translation could be:

Hillhillhill Hill.

There have been many variations of the name Pinhoe over the years, with the Anglo Saxon Peonha, Pinnoc, and Pinnoch, the Domesday Pinoe and the later Pinho, Pynnoe, and Pinhowe all vying for attention at one time or other. The probably meaning is from the Celtic Pen and Saxon Hoe, both meaning 'hill'.

There's more than one Street Road in these western parts, but I can't think of a Road Street.

And how many lakes are there in the Lake District?



(Answer, at the risk of transfer to the Pedants' thread, is one - Bassenthwaite Lake. The rest are tarns, waters, meres, etc)

Lytham (Station Road) railway station
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Lytham
Location
Place   Station Road, Lytham St Annes
Area   Fylde
Coordinates   53.7384^N 2.9566^WCoordinates: 53.7384^N 2.9566^W
Operations
Original company   Preston and Wyre Joint Railway
Pre-grouping   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway / London and North Western Railway
Platforms   2
History
16 February 1846   Opened
1 July 1874   Closed to passengers
1963   Closed to goods
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The original Lytham railway station was the Lytham terminus of a branch of the Preston and Wyre Joint Railway from Kirkham in Lancashire, England. It opened, along with the branch, on 16 February 1846; the road it was located in became known as Station Road. It was built in a Renaissance style from Longridge stone. A branch was also built to the dock at Lytham Pool.

In 1863, the Blackpool and Lytham Railway opened a separate line to its own station in Ballam Road, Lytham.

By 1874, both lines were owned jointly by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the London and North Western Railway. Ballam Road station was rebuilt as a through station and a connecting line was built to join the other line east of Lytham. The original station in Station Road was then closed to passengers, but continued to be used as a goods station until 1963.[1]

A fire station now occupies the site.

A fire station now occupies the site.

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