Trivia: Stations that don't use the correct name of the place.

[thenorthern]

Whenever I pass thought Burton-on-Trent station it reminds me that the station is not the correct name of the town, the real name of the town in Burton upon Trent although I think its unlikely that people would get confused.

It made me think though how many other stations don't follow the correct name of the place/location that they are designed serve. So far I have got Leamington Spa, Askam, Dalton, Teesside Airport, Sutton Coldfield, Newark North Gate, Newark Castle, Hull, Newcastle and Sutton Parkway.

Can anyone think of any more?

I would suggest avoiding stations with a suffix and prefix such as Oxenholme Lake District or Manchester Oxford Road or stations with multiple place names such as Tutbury and Hatton as they still show the correct name of the place however Newark Castle doesn't as the correct name of the town is Newark-on-Trent.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Cross Gates in Leeds had nameboards with 'Crossgates' for a good while during the 1990s.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Though practically everything else refers to it by its full name, the station boards at Barrow-in-Furness simply read 'Barrow'.

 

[Firesprite]

Whittlesey in Fens. The station name is spell 'Whittlesea'

 

[causton]

Welwyn North.

It is in Digswell. Not in the North of Welwyn Garden City, nor in the north of Welwyn proper, the other side of the A1(M)!

 

[thenorthern]

One thing I never understand is Curriehill station and why its not just Currie. Retford is technically incorrect but I don't know anyone who calls Retford its proper name of East Retford.

 

[Mojo]

Clapham Junction isn't in Clapham, although many people assume that it is

 

[Starmill]

Sandbach is in Elworth, there is nowhere called 'Ashburys', Kirton Lindsey should I think be Kirton in Lindsey, much like Marton in Marton-in-Cleveland, Stockton is in Stockton-on-Tees and Adwick is in Adwick-le-Street.

On Manchester Metrolink, Withington is about a mile away from Withington!

Not sure on this one, but I wonder if Broad Green station is in a place known locally as Broadgreen?

EDIT: 'Saltburn-by-the-Sea' and 'Marske-by-the-Sea' too.

 

[Requeststop]

It's actually in Rose-An-Grouse (just), but St. Erth is easier to remember.

 

[richard1976]

Dent station, its 8km from the village of dent the nearest village is Cowgill

 

[Searle]

St. Margarets actually serves Stanstead Abbots

 

[ACBest]

Not a station, but a signalbox which I believe has now been demolished...

The 'box was called 'St. James Deeping' - however the locality in which it resided is actually Deeping St. James.
It was believed to be the only recorded use of the backwards name, and I don't think anyone knew why!

Back to stations, and local ones off the top of my head... Hykeham - the station is located in the town of North Hykeham; the village of South Hykeham is some distance away.
Barnetby is another one, with the official title of the village being Barnetby le Wold.

Eccles Road in Norfolk is an interesting one, as it's now in the actual village of Eccles - the village wasn't there when it was originally built, it was actually some distance away in a now-abandoned site.

Now, about East Midlands Parkway...

 

[RichmondCommu]

Clapham Junction isn't in Clapham, although many people assume that it is

The whole point being that it was the junction station for Clapham. As I'm sure you are aware the area around the station is now named after the station, in fact my first flat share was just down the road from the station!

 

[alexjames]

Harrow on the Hill is another porky.

As we all know, railway stations and hills are mutually exclusive in the UK. Or near enough.

Tediously steep uphill walk between the station and the hill. Not that far but best avoided by the unathletic.

And all the other Harrow stations are similarly misnamed. South Harrow is in Roxeth, West Harrow was a largely unoccupied bit of semi-marsh land before the Met line promoters got creative and so on.

Meanwhile, I continue to search for any relic of the gardens in Ruislip Gardens.

 

[RichmondCommu]

Now, about East Midlands Parkway...

To be honest I don't think East Midlands Parkway falls into this bracket given that it is in the East Midlands!
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Dent station, its 8km from the village of dent the nearest village is Cowgill

You beat me to it! Incredibly the Midland Railway initially considered Dent Head and then Arten Gill as possible locations for the station before deciding on the location that we all know so well. To be honest Cowgill was the closest that route

was going to get to Dent village and perhaps the station should have been named Dent Dale. You might be interested to know that the site of the station was originally know as Monkeybeck when construction first started.

 

[bnm]

Castle Cary station is in Ansford.

 

[alwaystouchout]

Tenuous one - Heaton Chapel in Heaton Moor?

 

[High Dyke]

Not a station, but a signalbox which I believe has now been demolished...

The 'box was called 'St. James Deeping' - however the locality in which it resided is actually Deeping St. James.
It was believed to be the only recorded use of the backwards name, and I don't think anyone knew why!
....

Not yet... The box is still in use, but scheduled to close in the next couple of months along with the signal boxes at Littleworth and Spalding.

As for stations Rauceby is actually at a place called Greylees with the nearest village of the same name - South Rauceby - about a mile away.

As a tenuous naming does Berney Arms qualify? The location takes its name from the pub, the only settlement in the area being that, the windmill and a farmhouse. Notable as one of the few places in Britain without road access but linked to the railway network.

 

[306024]

A few from East Anglia
Wickham Market station is nearer Campsea Ashe
Audley End is nearer Wendens Ambo
Manningtree is in Lawford
Harwich International is in Parkeston.

 

[Whistler40145]

Kirkham & Wesham is in Wesham

 

[Colly405]

The GW "Parkway" stations are inconsistent.
Bodmin Parkway (formerly Bodmin Road) is not in Bodmin, and Bristol Parkway is not in Bristol (it is in Stoke Gifford, which is in South Gloucestershire).
But Didcot Parkway (formerly Didcot) and Port Talbot Parkway (formerly Port Talbot) *are* in their respective towns...

 

[Ash Bridge]

Tenuous one - Heaton Chapel in Heaton Moor?

Damn! Beat me to that one, it's exactly a mile from where we live. Up until the 70s the totem signs always read Heaton Chapel & Heaton Moor and I was informed that the railway forms the border between the two Stockport districts, that puts the Manchester bound platform in Heaton Moor and southbound platform in Heaton Chapel.

 

[Whistler40145]

Hull Paragon station is actually in Kingston upon Hull

 

[Kneedown]

When learning Liverpool I was always told that Widnes Station was actually in Farnworth.
I'll leave it to someone with better local knowledge to confirm or deny this.

 

[The Decapod]

Here's a place whose station has the correct name ........

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waterloo_Station_2011_30341.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waterloo-railway-station-Belgium.JPG

 

[Tetchytyke]

London Paddington, Marylebone, Euston, St Pancras, Victoria, Waterloo and Kings Cross aren't in London.

What are you looking at me like that for?

 

[DarloRich]

Teesside Airport

Teesside Airport is the correct name - some damn fool changed it to the incredibly silly Durham Tees Valley Airport!

 

[gordonthemoron]

isn't Dinsdale in Middleton St. George?

North Road (Darlington) is actually on Hopetown Lane (IIRC)

Heighington should be called Heighington Lane

isn't Hartlepool in West Hartlepool?

 

[Deepgreen]

As a slight tangent to the topic, Betchworth in Surrey was announced in the recorded on-train public address as Bletchworth until FGW bothered to correct it after my campaign of e-mails to them!

 

[Antman]

Frant which is actually in Bells Yew Green and over a mile from the village of Frant