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Because tonights TM was convinced Hanborough was actually Long Hanborough.....

Must have repeated it about 7 times!

As a literal answer to your possibly rhetorical question, FallenAngel: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Hanborough  ;) :D ;D

Yes - but I don't believe there is a station stop called "Long Hanborough"

And whilst I'm on the subject.......why is it "Station Stop"

Surely the "next stop is....." would be sufficient.............. because if its not a station its not relevent to the passenger

I've always thought that they say "Station Stop" because my trains quite often stop lots of times in between stations with no explanation whatsoever.. I guess it saves exciting passengers into trying to get off when they've not got where they are really wanting to go to... ;D

Obviously only ever stopping at stations so that they don't have to say that would be preferable but unlikely...  ;D

A lot of people refer to it as Long Hanborough. Another one is Great Bedwyn.

Well since 15th MArch 2004 this is the first time I've heard Long Hanborough

Maybe I've too much common sense then because I would not get off if there was no station - juxt like i'd never step off if there was no platform - oh sorry, that why we need SDO because there are moronic idiots who woould do so then blame someone else

Actually - I don't think its that rare an occurence since I see the same people day in day out sprinting through the carriages just as the whistles blow for all on board or whatever when they realise they are in H and can only get off at E...............................same culprits all the time

... and another one is Nailsea and Blackwell - too much watching London's Burning, I suspect!  ::) ;D

Remember having a debate with a customer about that, he had asked for Nailsea and Blackwell, asked if he meant Nailsea and Backwell and he said nope it is definitely Nailsea and Blackwell.

To add to the confusion, Hanborough is also often called Long HanDborough as well as Long Hanborough.

To be exact, the current generally accepted name for the village, used by the councils, road signs, etc, is Long Hanborough - quite apt since it straggles along the A4095, which crosses the line on that magnificent skew arch Brunel bridge at the west end of the station.

But there is also, just to the south - look for the spire - Church Hanborough, hence, I think, the railway preference for just Hanborough, or Handborough in earlier days, to avoid putting noses out of joint among the Church-ites.

In the 19th century, the spelling Handborough was used for the villages, and the station followed suit, being called Handborough Junction in the early days, when the London services ran from there on the old connecting line to the LNWR route to Bletchley and then Euston. I think it then became plain Handborough, then Handborough for Blenheim (presumably after the Blenheim & Woodstock branch shut in the 1950s), then in the late 1960s or early 1970s, just Handborough again.

Finally, from some point in the early 1990s, it became Hanborough, but only after a period when the BR sign at the top of the approach road had one spelling and the platform signs another. I forget which way round it was, but will have a delve into the library at the Oxford Mail where there is photographic evidence and find out exactly which and when this was.

The railway still preserves another bit of 19th century naming just down the line, at Wolvercot junction. The nearby village has long since switched to Wolvercote.

Another I hear is Teignmouth, pronounced variously as Teen-mouth, Tayn-mouth, Tin-mouth and correctly as Tinmuth.

Or even Tynemouth could have been in the list.

 '...and would you like a through ticket for the Metro sir?' ;D

Paul

Platform 1 of Bristol Temple Meads (a bay platform) even has signs on the non-platform side that say something like "Do not alight this side".  Now, if someone doesn't realise that they have to get off on the platform side, what hope is there that they know what alight means!?

Whilst local pronounce it as that, it lies on the River Teign, so the correct pronounciation is an interesting debate. After all, Ex(e)mouth and Dartmouth are both pronounced based on the name of the river.

Pronunciation-wise I've always been led to believe it's 'Tinmuth', the River 'Teen', 'Teenbridge', 'Bishopstaynton' and 'Kingstaynton'. Why there's so many variations of 'Teign' I've no idea.

"Station stops" came in a good few years ago to distinguish from "signal stops" because the latter became more prevalent....

Now let's discuss when "passengers" (which, to me, was quite acceptable and accurate) became "customers".

And probably because a fair few passengers decided to alight at the "signal stop"!!

Perhaps we should rename "fare evaders" as "passengers" and "ticket holders" as "customers".