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Title: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 18, 2021, 23:27:59 Stations in cities in Ireland - and now perhaps the USA - and airports have been named after national and regional figures to honour their memories in their home towns and cities
Joe Biden is no stranger to trains. He has been called Amtrak Joe. Indeed -- so much so that his local station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_station_(Delaware)) has been renamed after him. Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: MVR S&T on January 18, 2021, 23:57:15 Not a policy of naming railways staions after poeple, in the UK, also not limited to GWR please? include the coffee shop area, with me in SWR land, much more opertunity for odd suggestions. My station is Hinton Admiral, no such place, there is The two houses at Hinton, a brisk 15 min walk away. Should be called: Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick station
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 19, 2021, 00:40:41 Not a policy of naming railways staions after poeple, in the UK, also not limited to GWR please? include the coffee shop area, with me in SWR land, much more opertunity for odd suggestions. My station is Hinton Admiral, no such place, there is The two houses at Hinton, a brisk 15 min walk away. Should be called: Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick station By all means go wider - we have fuzzy edges. "Banbury Godiva", "Bletchley Turing", "Poole Baden-Powell" anyone? Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Lee on January 19, 2021, 01:14:48 Chris and Backwell
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: TaplowGreen on January 19, 2021, 06:03:41 Taplow Green 😉
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: eightf48544 on January 19, 2021, 12:27:45 Sir Nicholas Winton is already waitng for a train at Maidenhead.
Windsor & Eton Central station has already been renamed Harry & Meghan Central although it didn't last long! Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Bmblbzzz on January 19, 2021, 12:57:13 Bristol Brunel Meads. Alternatively, Bristol Kingdom Temple ? direct link on metrolbus to the Jehovahs Witnesses!
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 19, 2021, 13:07:05 Bristol Brunel Meads. Alternatively, Bristol Kingdom Temple ? direct link on metrolbus to the Jehovahs Witnesses! Would it not be more atmospheric to apply Brunel's name to Starcross? I have been looking through people voted as the "Greatest Britain" at the BBC a few years back and come up with some clusters to rename stations serving different parts of a city such as ... PLY - Plymouth Drake DPT - Plymouth Scott or CBW - Canterbury Caxton CBE - Canterbury Chaucer Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Jamsdad on January 19, 2021, 13:49:47 I suggest renaming a number of stations in Cornwall after their local pasty bakers. Hence we get
Saltash Helluva Liskeard Barnicutt Lostwithiel Luscombe St Austell Niles Camborne Berryman Hayle Philp Penzance Warren This would be contingent on an agreement that no station is Cornwall could countenance being named after Ginsters! Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 19, 2021, 14:00:16 This would be contingent on an agreement that no station is Cornwall could countenance being named after Ginsters! Can we amend that to "no current station", please? Ginsters are based at Callington, which has doubled in population since the railway from Gunnislake closed in 1966 - it's now a larger town than (for example) Gunnislake was at the time of closure. Should Ginsters provide funding and operational support for a re-opening of the rail line into Callington, it would be churlish to refuse the station the name "Callington Ginsters". Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Robin Summerhill on January 19, 2021, 15:23:50 Melksham Ellis
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 19, 2021, 16:05:46 Melksham [snip] No - Melksham Moule - in honour of a Henry Moule who's invention saved many, many thousands of lives during a time of disease. The Victorian equivalent of some of our current research scientists who's work is giving us some hope of a return to a new normal. From Wikipedia: Quote Henry Moule (1801?1880) was a priest in the Church of England and inventor of the dry earth toilet. During the cholera pandemics of 1849 and 1854 his exertions were unwearied. Impressed by the insalubrity of the houses, especially in the summer of 1858 (the Great Stink), he turned his attention to sanitary science, and invented what is called the dry earth system. Wikipedia talks of tens of thousands of dry closets still in use around the world. Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: TaplowGreen on January 19, 2021, 16:24:26 Bristol Brunel Meads. Alternatively, Bristol Kingdom Temple ? direct link on metrolbus to the Jehovahs Witnesses! Would it not be more atmospheric to apply Brunel's name to Starcross? I have been looking through people voted as the "Greatest Britain" at the BBC a few years back and come up with some clusters to rename stations serving different parts of a city such as ... PLY - Plymouth Drake DPT - Plymouth Scott or CBW - Canterbury Caxton CBE - Canterbury Chaucer The Woke Brigade would never let you have "Plymouth Drake"......I'm just relieved his statue is still standing on The Hoe! Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: TonyN on January 19, 2021, 16:41:06 Evesham Sir Henry Fowler
Fowler was born in Evesham and educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School. The school and its sports fields overlook the point at which the GWR and Midland lines crossed in Evesham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fowler_(engineer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fowler_(engineer)) Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: REVUpminster on January 19, 2021, 16:49:45 Greenaway Halt to Agatha Christie Estate. Torbay would push for that even though not in Torbay.
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 19, 2021, 17:05:03 The Woke Brigade would never let you have "Plymouth Drake"......I'm just relieved his statue is still standing on The Hoe! There are a number of names in the 100 "Greatest Britains" which would not be acceptable as station names ... I'll post s fuller list of what I have at some point. Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Oxonhutch on January 19, 2021, 17:39:43 Cholsey Old King Cole
It was his merry island apparently: Ey, eyot, ay, oy, ?, I see the last one (angstrom ab.) disappeared altogether! Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: TaplowGreen on January 19, 2021, 17:50:04 Paddington Bear?
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Electric train on January 19, 2021, 17:52:54 The one station named after a famous bare - Paddington ;D
A station on the South Coast named after Norman Wisdom - Normans Bay ::) The station is SW1 - Victoria 2 stations in Berkshire named after the Royal Family - Windsor ;D ;D Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Robin Summerhill on January 19, 2021, 19:49:08 2 stations in Berkshire named after the Royal Family - Windsor Spot of luck they went for the Deed Poll job then. Saxe Coburg Gotha and Eton Riverside would have been a bit of a mouthful... Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Robin Summerhill on January 19, 2021, 19:51:38 There are a number of names in the 100 "Greatest Britains" which would not be acceptable as station names Thats rather a moveable target I suggest. I doubt the time is ripe for Grantham Thatcher... Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 19, 2021, 19:59:12 I doubt the time is ripe for Grantham Thatcher... ? Did I leak out the secret URL of my complete list of 99 of the 100 ? It's there with Billingham Blaire ... Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: TaplowGreen on January 19, 2021, 20:09:47 Newcastle Brown?
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Red Squirrel on January 19, 2021, 20:38:37 Tim Bowles Parkway, Pilning?
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 19, 2021, 21:06:03 Tim Bowles Parkway, Pilning? I had better share the list I had ... Code: ABC Altnabreac Warrior PIL ... is "Severnside Jenner" :D Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: eightonedee on January 19, 2021, 21:50:51 You could spend hours on a wet day populating a list-
Slough Betjeman Reading Wilde (or Gervais) Pangbourne Grahame Cookham Spencer Cholsey Christie (as in Agatha - she's buried there - not sure if that's a better claim than Torquay!) Goring & Streatley Harris Worcester Elgar Stroud Lee (as in Laurie) Crowthorne Minor (as in "The Surgeon of Crowthorne" - the prisoner at Broadmoor who contributed to the first Oxford English Dictionary) Cheltenham Holst Swansea Dylan Thomas Swindon Churchward Weston super Mare Archer (no, no...) Cam and Dursley Peter Scott and so on.... Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: johnneyw on January 20, 2021, 02:17:53 Weston Super Mare Cleese?
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: CyclingSid on January 20, 2021, 07:05:59 Yatton Rees-Mogg
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Thatcham Crossing on January 20, 2021, 07:51:44 Bearing in mind recent news, Carbis Bay Johnson?
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 20, 2021, 07:56:22 Yatton Rees-Mogg or even Yatton Fox, Keynsham Rees-Mogg and Worle Penrose if you go with current constituency boundaries. Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: eightf48544 on January 20, 2021, 09:10:34 Henley on Thames Dusty ( Springfield) who is buried in the churchyard.
The pracice of naming a series of stations with a common name and then a district is widespread in Germany thus you have the hauptbahnhof and then stations usually on the S Bahn are named say eg Dresden Stralen ( 1st station on S Bahn East of the Hbf. Dresden is part of at least 30 railway installations with Dresden in the title Berlin is even worse occupying three columns in the Index of my Geramn Atlas. If the same was used in the UK all the stations out of Paddington to at least West Drayton (Boundary Zone 6) would be prefixed London. This would apply to all lines to Boundary Zone 6. Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Clan Line on January 20, 2021, 16:02:02 Was it George W Bush who thought that Heathrow was named after Ted Heath ? (perhaps he meant the band leader !)
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: eightonedee on January 20, 2021, 20:52:52 Tell me - who was Stan Stead?
Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: JayMac on January 20, 2021, 21:03:00 Camborne Berryman I think that one should be Camborne Wednesdays. Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: grahame on January 20, 2021, 21:06:28 Tell me - who was Stan Stead? Dunno ... I wonder who Stan Drew is, and how come Stan Drew's Road is named after him. Fancy tea with the Lane family? My friend Dean Lane's dad, sadly, passed away and he's now know as Headstone Lane and because of some her habits, his sister is called Bare Lane ... Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Electric train on January 20, 2021, 22:32:02 Hasting of course was named after Hercule Poirot assistant Capt Arthur J M Hastings OBE
Iver named after the famous Welsh steam engine ;D ............ but the English got the spelling wrong ::) Plymouth named in honour of the famous Gin Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: Robin Summerhill on January 20, 2021, 23:19:55 Tell me - who was Stan Stead? Dunno ... I wonder who Stan Drew is, and how come Stan Drew's Road is named after him. That one might have appeared in the book Krek Waiters Peak Bristle some 50 years ago ;D Fancy tea with the Lane family? My friend Dean Lane's dad, sadly, passed away and he's now know as Headstone Lane and because of some her habits, his sister is called Bare Lane ... Did they have a brother Dean near Newton Heath MPD? Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: JayMac on January 20, 2021, 23:59:47 Hasting of course was named after Hercule Poirot assistant Capt Arthur J M Hastings OBE Iver named after the famous Welsh steam engine ;D ............ but the English got the spelling wrong ::) Plymouth named in honour of the famous Gin Plymouth Navy Strength would be a perfect station name! Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: TaplowGreen on January 21, 2021, 06:48:56 Tell me - who was Stan Stead? He was a mate of Heath Row, but much smaller. Title: Re: Have members any suggestions for new names for GWR stations? Post by: plymothian on January 21, 2021, 09:13:26 Torquay Fawlty.
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