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Title: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: grahame on May 11, 2024, 07:06:08 "On this day" celebrating the opening of Lake station got me thinking about stations who's names are also actual word in the English Language ...
Ash Barry Dean Dockyard Fleet Hillside Hook Lake Minster Ore Rye Sandling Selling Singer Spital Sway Tooting Valley Wick Wool Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: bobm on May 11, 2024, 07:08:05 General (Wrexham)
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: eightonedee on May 11, 2024, 08:41:57 Par (for golfers and statisticians)
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: grahame on May 11, 2024, 08:51:52 Can't believe I missed Reading! oops - Stone ... Looking at the London Underground there's quite a number there too - Angel, Archway, Bank, Barking, Borough, Embankment, Monument, Oval, Temple and Victoria
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: stuving on May 11, 2024, 10:49:32 Sometimes you get two words in one name - Martin Heron - or three - Grange over Sands.
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Worcester_Passenger on May 11, 2024, 12:10:36 University (Birmingham got in first with that one)
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Oxonhutch on May 11, 2024, 14:17:16 Bath, Dent, Settle, Bury
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: bobm on May 11, 2024, 14:44:36 Bank Hall
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Worcester_Passenger on May 11, 2024, 15:42:00 Sugar Loaf
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: eightonedee on May 11, 2024, 15:46:59 The DN&S had a fruitful stretch (for names in this thread) between Didcot and Newbury, with Churn, Pinewood and Hermitage
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Electric train on May 11, 2024, 18:31:38 Ham as in Cookham
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 12, 2024, 00:06:43 Kings Bridge :)
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 12, 2024, 00:13:43 Trouble House Halt ;D
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Red Squirrel on May 12, 2024, 08:56:24 Sea Mills?
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Red Squirrel on May 12, 2024, 08:57:47 …or even Temple Meads. Or do plurals not count?
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: grahame on May 12, 2024, 09:22:44 …or even Temple Meads. Or do plurals not count? Wellll .. as I started it the thread was single words. Multiple word answers go all though the alphabet from Abbey Wood to Wood End ... and we are in the "Lighter side" where we can freely make up the rules as we go along. Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Oxonhutch on May 12, 2024, 09:40:05 Graham is into computers: I offer Scunthorpe
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: grahame on May 12, 2024, 09:46:34 Graham is into computers: I offer Scunthorpe Yeah, and we have had problems with Arsenal and Penistone too. Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: froome on May 12, 2024, 11:45:32 Bath, Dent, Settle, Bury Bath is, of course, two words - Bath Spa. Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: grahame on May 12, 2024, 13:00:39 ... Bury Bury no longer has a national rail station. Bury (Knowlsey Street) closed in 1970 Bury (Bolton Street) closes in 1980 Both were known as just "Bury" at some point(s) in their history Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Worcester_Passenger on May 12, 2024, 15:01:09 Craven Arms
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Oxonhutch on May 12, 2024, 15:16:22 Bury no longer has a national rail station. Bury (Knowlsey Street) closed in 1970 Bury (Bolton Street) closes in 1980 Both were known as just "Bury" at some point(s) in their history But Bury does have a railway station and it is called Bury Station on the ELR website (https://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/plan-your-day-out/stations/). Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: CyclingSid on May 12, 2024, 16:16:49 Quote Martin Heron Should this station in a suburb of Bracknell be Martins Heron. I am not minded to get into a discussion on the use or not of apostrophes in a geographical context that is exercising part of the media. Apparently Ordnance Survey has a problem with them, I presume their GML (Geographical Markup Language) gets its nickers in a twist, or the users of it do! Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Red Squirrel on May 12, 2024, 17:54:55 ...gets its nickers in a twist... "Yes, I know "knickers" is spelt with a "K". I was at Oxford, it was one of the first things they taught us." Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Western Pathfinder on May 12, 2024, 18:04:47 Along with Betchington Boventry and Bings Bollage Bambridge....
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: bobm on May 12, 2024, 21:11:13 Of course if two words really are allowed it opens up a whole new prospect.
East West North South Central Halt Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 12, 2024, 22:01:55 Nail Sea Back Well ;D
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: PrestburyRoad on May 12, 2024, 22:04:15 also with two words there's Exchange, General, Lower, Upper
and if three words are allowed there's Main and Line (in Acton) Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: johnneyw on May 12, 2024, 22:44:57 Heath High Level, Heath Low Level.
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: Electric train on May 13, 2024, 07:10:15 Bat and Ball
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: brooklea on May 13, 2024, 07:27:15 Derby
Title: Re: Stations with English Language words as their names ... Lake, Valley and more Post by: eightonedee on May 13, 2024, 14:26:41 Hope (on the Sheffield - Stockport line) and Hale
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