In traditional British editions of the game Monopoly, the boards four London stations are all termini formerly of the LNER: Fenchurch Street, Kings Cross, Liverpool Street, and Marylebone (in editions from the pre-nationalisation era, these stations are specifically labelled on the board, LNER).
With the game having been invented and come on the market in the 1930s -- and with its being set in its British form in London, and involving four railway-terminus properties one feels that it would have seemed apposite and pleasing, for the game to feature one important terminus in the capital, from each of the Groupings Big Four railway companies. Instead, only the LNER was thus honoured; it has occurred to me to wonder why this was, and has remained, so. My best guess would involve matters of copyright, and / or fees charged to the makers by the railway companies hence, an arrangement being made with just one company, the LNER: perhaps because they offered the financially cheapest deal ! If anyone knows more about this admittedly not earth-shaking matter, Id be interested to hear.
With the game having been invented and come on the market in the 1930s -- and with its being set in its British form in London, and involving four railway-terminus properties one feels that it would have seemed apposite and pleasing, for the game to feature one important terminus in the capital, from each of the Groupings Big Four railway companies. Instead, only the LNER was thus honoured; it has occurred to me to wonder why this was, and has remained, so. My best guess would involve matters of copyright, and / or fees charged to the makers by the railway companies hence, an arrangement being made with just one company, the LNER: perhaps because they offered the financially cheapest deal ! If anyone knows more about this admittedly not earth-shaking matter, Id be interested to hear.