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« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2021, 17:05:03 »
Quote from: TaplowGreen on January 19, 2021, 16:24:26
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.
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« Reply #16 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!
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« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2021, 17:50:04 »
Paddington Bear?
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« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2021, 17:52:54 »
The one station named after a famous bare - Paddington  Grin

A station on the South Coast named after Norman Wisdom - Normans Bay  Roll Eyes

The station is SW1 - Victoria

2 stations in Berkshire named after the Royal Family - Windsor



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« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2021, 19:49:08 »
Quote from: Electric train on January 19, 2021, 17:52:54

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...
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« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2021, 19:51:38 »
Quote from: grahame on January 19, 2021, 17:05:03
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...
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« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2021, 19:59:12 »
Quote from: Robin Summerhill on January 19, 2021, 19:51:38
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 ...
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« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2021, 20:09:47 »
Newcastle Brown?
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« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2021, 20:38:37 »
Tim Bowles Parkway, Pilning?
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« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2021, 21:06:03 »
Quote from: Red Squirrel on January 19, 2021, 20:38:37
Tim Bowles Parkway, Pilning?

I had better share the list I had ...

Code:
ABC	Altnabreac Warrior
AMB	Ambergate Wallis
BKG	Barking Moore
BNH	Barnhurst George
BIL	Billingham Blair
BLT	Blantyre Livingstone
BLY	Bletchley Turing
BMH	Bournemouth Tolkein
BRI»  (Bristol Temple Meads - next trains)	Bristol Brunel
BRX	Brixton Bowie
BMS	Bromley Darwin
CDU▸  (Cab Display Unit)	Cam Tyndale
CBG	Cambridge Hawking
CBW	Canterbury Caxton
CBE	Canterbury Chaucer
CAR	Carlisle Edward
CPW	Chepstow Henry
CTR	Chester Cheshire
CHD	Chesterfield Benn
CRK	Chirk Glyndwr
CHR	Christchurch Berners-Lee
COV	Coventry Whittle
CCC	Criccieth Lloyd George
WDU	Dulwich Shacketon
HYM	Edinburgh Bell
EDP	Edinburgh Connolly
SLA	Edinburgh Maxwell
SGL	Edinburgh Stopes
TAT	Epsom Pankhurst
EXM	Exmouth Raleigh
FEL	Feltham Bulsara
GTW	Gatwick Branson
GRA	Grantham Thatcher
GRV	Gravesend Dickens
GKC	Greenock Watt
HMC	Hampton Court Faraday
HND	Hanborough Churchill
HPD	Harpenden Morecambe
HLU	Helensburgh Baird
HSW	Heswall Peel
DYP	Holloway Rotten
HUL	Hull Wilberforce
HUN	Huntingdon Cromwell
ISL	Isleworth Attenborough
KET	Kettering Richard
KMK	Kilmarnock Fleming
KLN	Kings Lynn Diana
KNG	Kingston Campbell
LVC	Liverpool Harrison
LPY	Liverpool Lennon
LIV	Liverpool McCartney
BFR	London Babbage
MYB▸  (London (Marylebone))	London Bader
CHX	London Blake
PAD»  (Paddington (London) - next trains)	London Elizabeth
CST	London More
EUS	London Nightingale
VIC	London Victoria
LWT	Lowestoft Boudica
MAI▸  (Maidenhead station)	Maidenhead Richard
MCO	Manchester Beckham
MLW	Marlow Redgrave
MTO	Marton Cook
NOT	Nottingham Booth
OKM	Oakham Newton
OVR	Overton Austen
PCN	Paisley Wallace
PLY»  (Plymouth - next trains)	Plymouth Drake
DPT	Plymouth Scott
POO	Poole Baden-Powell
PTA▸  (Passenger Transport Authority)	Port Talbot Burton
PTM	Porthmadog Lawrence
RNH	Rainhill Stephenson
RHY	Rhymney Bevan
ROC▸  (Rail Operating Centre - a centralised location for railway signalling and train control operations for a specific route or region)	Roche Arthur
SAL	Salisbury Crawford
SCU	Scunthorpe Wesley
PIL	Severnside Jenner
SHM	Sheringham Nelson
STG	Stirling Bruce
SOT	Stoke Williams
SAV	Stratford Shakespeare
TTF	Thetford Paine
THS	Thurso Elizabeth
TRO»  (Trowbridge - next trains)	Trowbridge Pitman
VXH	Vauxhall Montgomery
WKF	Wakefield Harrison
WAM	Walmer Wellesley
WAL	Walton Andrews
EPH	Walworth Chaplin
WRW	Warwick Crowley
WCX	Wembley Geldorf
WSB»  (Westbury - next trains)	Westbury Cuthred
WNC	Windsor Elizabeth
WNR	Windsor Henry
WVH	Wolverhampton Powell
WOS»  (Worcester Shrub Hill - next trains)	Worcester Elgar
YAE	Yate Rowling
YRK	York Fawkes

PIL ... is "Severnside Jenner"  Cheesy
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« Reply #25 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....
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« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2021, 02:17:53 »
Weston Super Mare Cleese?
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« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2021, 07:05:59 »
Yatton Rees-Mogg
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« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2021, 07:51:44 »
Bearing in mind recent news, Carbis Bay Johnson?
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« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2021, 07:56:22 »
Quote from: CyclingSid on January 20, 2021, 07:05:59
Yatton Rees-Mogg

or even Yatton Fox, Keynsham Rees-Mogg and Worle Penrose if you go with current constituency boundaries.  
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