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Same compamy but Normanton
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« Reply #91 on: December 12, 2019, 11:25:23 » |
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Same compamy but Normanton
That roof is very distinctive Midland. Kettering survives in similar form, IIRC▸ . |
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« Reply #92 on: December 12, 2019, 12:45:46 » |
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Trent Railway Station
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« Reply #93 on: December 12, 2019, 15:14:18 » |
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Trent Railway Station
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« Reply #94 on: December 12, 2019, 15:24:52 » |
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Trent Railway Station
The only station named after a river, according to the internet. Really? And Swale? |
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« Reply #95 on: December 12, 2019, 15:27:24 » |
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Don't forget the River Frome!
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« Reply #96 on: December 12, 2019, 15:36:27 » |
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Trent Railway Station
The only station named after a river, according to the internet. "Can you trust the Internet" asks the station at Dovey Junction |
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« Reply #97 on: December 12, 2019, 15:37:40 » |
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Trent Railway Station
The only station named after a river, according to the internet. "Can you trust the Internet" asks the station at Dovey Junction ....or Falmouth.... |
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« Reply #98 on: December 12, 2019, 15:49:28 » |
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Bradford-on-Avon?
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« Reply #99 on: December 12, 2019, 16:03:26 » |
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There must be loads of stations that were named for a town that shares its name with a river, usually, one that runs right next to or through it - Frome's one, or Annan was the example I thought of.
I'm sure there will be a couple of cases where the town shares its name with a river coincidentally - in which case it may be nowhere near it. Wye would be one, I think.
But Swale struck me as being named after the river itself. After all, there's ***-all else there. Unless you want to split hairs (as opposed to rivers) and won't allow the Swale as a proper river...
PS: Of course there's still the other Swale which is certainly a proper river but miles away.
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« Reply #101 on: December 12, 2019, 16:25:54 » |
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There must be loads of stations that were named for a town that shares its name with a river, usually, one that runs right next to or through it - Frome's one, or Annan was the example I thought of.
I'm sure there will be a couple of cases where the town shares its name with a river coincidentally - in which case it may be nowhere near it. Wye would be one, I think.
But Swale struck me as being named after the river itself. After all, there's ***-all else there. Unless you want to split hairs (as opposed to rivers) and won't allow the Swale as a proper river...
PS: Of course there's still the other Swale which is certainly a proper river but miles away.
I think I will split hairs. Someone has the stand up for the poor old internet. The Swale in question is, as I think you were about to admit, a tidal channel and not a river. Took me ages to work out what the three asterisks stood for; c**f has five letters, and b****r six... |
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« Reply #102 on: December 12, 2019, 16:44:10 » |
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Then there are the stations that were built in the middle of nowhere, or in the gaps between places, and had to be named, often fancifully. Later a place coagulated around the station and took on its name. Some of those were named for watercourses - Ravensbourne and Stamford Brook come to mind.
Of course we'll now get objections from all those shop stewards of the hair-splitters' union who've invented an adjustable fixed strict lower bound for riverhood.
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« Reply #103 on: December 12, 2019, 16:55:20 » |
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It was. It was east (i.e. the Nottingham side) of the triangular junction, but there was an express loop which allowed trains to/from Derby from/to London to call at Trent. It was still quite a spotters paradise in its final days. If you had a pair of binoculars you could bag the numbers on the Leicester-Derby side of the triangle- everything else was clear from the platform. My father - doubtless in common with other Nottinghamians - used to say "well, I'll go to Trent" as the mock expression of surprise. My mother hated the place. I suspect she often changed there when returning from leave to go back to London nursing in the mid-to-late '40s, with endless delays to Midland trains from Manchester, Leeds, and Carlisle. A bit like Reading this afternoon, in fact. |
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« Reply #104 on: December 12, 2019, 17:58:08 » |
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Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!
Talking more generally of names, how did Junction Road Junction get its name?
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