Trivia: Stations which have been renamed?

[Esker-pades]

I'd be interested to know. It just looks a bit out of place somehow.

This from Wikipedia:

By 1763 the first colliery in what is present day Cleland was in operation at Swinstie, and three years later Alexander Inglis Hamilton of Murdostoun sells Cleland Estate to Captain Hew Dalrymple of Fordal. In 1789 Colonel William Dalrymple (the second son of Sir William Dalrymple, third baronet of Cousland, and the nephew of Captain Hew Dalrymple), distinguishes himself by helping to capture both the Fort of San Fernando de Omoa and the port town of Omoa, in Honduras, Central America. On returning to civilian life Colonel Dalrymple established the Omoa Iron Works on Cleland estate. At first there was only one furnace at Omoa, employing about 40 miners, 40 smelters and other workmen, and 12 horses. The furnace consumed nine tons of calcined ironstone per day, with casts every eighteen hours, yielding about two tons of pig-iron each cast. Omoa claimed to be the second oldest iron works in Scotland (after Wilsontown). The Omoa Waggonway was opened in 1813 from Newarthill collieries to Omoa Iron Works by Colonel Dalrymple. The Omoa Works initially prospered enough to create the new community of Omoa Town.
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The Coltness Iron Company was established in Newmains by Henry Houldsworth in 1837. It was estimated that the 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) site at Newmains could produce 18,000 tons of coal and 1,000 tons of ironstone per acre. Henry Houldsworth had no difficulty, therefore, in attracting experienced labour from the iron works of Yorkshire as well as from Omoa and Wilsontown in Lanarkshire.[25] The Iron Company, needing coal, was also aware of the coal mines in Ireland. When coal was being mined in Shotts, Cleland and the surrounding areas, the Iron Company sent representatives over to Ireland to hire miners for the Scottish mines. This is a primary reason why so many Irish families came to the area. Many came from County Donegal, and the Castlecomer coal fields in what is now north County Kilkenny and south County Laois. The population of Omoa and Cleland was recorded as 1,233 in 1861: Cleland had 190 males and 175 females; Omoa had 509 males and 359 females.

In 1869 the Omoa and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) was opened. The Omoa and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) to Addiewell followed in 1882. Cleland was served with two railway stations. The first was Omoa Station (across from what is now Cleland Hospital), and the second was Cleland Station (behind what is now Cleland Cross). After Cleland Station was closed, Omoa Station was then renamed Cleland Station.A list of mines under Holytown in this year includes Cleland Collieries owned by Wm. Dixon, Monkland Iron Co., Trustees of late Robert Stewart; Wyndedge owned by Robert Dick. The Omoa Fireclay Works, a brickworks, opened in 1870.

In 1871 the population of Cleland and Omoa had fallen to 819, but by 1881 it was 1,626. The Cleland and Omoa Public School opened in 1876, and in 1877 St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, a Free Church, and a Chapel of Ease were all established.

Basically, it used to serve an Ironworks, which was named after a place in Honduras which the founders had helped to capture.

 

[hexagon789]

This from Wikipedia:

Interesting, so it was named for an ironworks which was in turn named for a place in South America.

 

[Esker-pades]

Interesting, so it was named for an ironworks which was in turn named for a place in South America.

Indeed. It took me a while to work it all out. Another connection has been established.

 

[Macwomble]

From Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleland,_North_Lanarkshire

By 1763 the first colliery in what is present day Cleland was in operation at Swinstie, and three years later Alexander Inglis Hamilton of Murdostoun sells Cleland Estate to Captain Hew Dalrymple of Fordal. In 1789 Colonel William Dalrymple (the second son of Sir William Dalrymple, third baronet of Cousland, and the nephew of Captain Hew Dalrymple), distinguishes himself by helping to capture both the Fort of San Fernando de Omoa and the port town of Omoa, in Honduras, Central America. On returning to civilian life Colonel Dalrymple established the Omoa Iron Works on Cleland estate. At first there was only one furnace at Omoa, employing about 40 miners, 40 smelters and other workmen, and 12 horses. The furnace consumed nine tons of calcined ironstone per day, with casts every eighteen hours, yielding about two tons of pig-iron each cast. Omoa claimed to be the second oldest iron works in Scotland (after Wilsontown). The Omoa Waggonway was opened in 1813 from Newarthill collieries to Omoa Iron Works by Colonel Dalrymple. The Omoa Works initially prospered enough to create the new community of Omoa Town.

The procurement of ironstone for the Iron Works was reported as follows:

An interesting circumstance connected with the early history of Omoa, and perhaps applicable to other iron-works at the same period, was the scarcity of ironstone and how it was procured. Any balls found in a stream, or cropping-out by its margin, were carefully collected, and in the case of Omoa, ironstone was collected in streams or otherwise by farmers and others in the neighbourhood, and taken to the ironworks and sold - many a ton went from Shotts parish in this way. The transaction was never called in question, but if practised at the present day, would be called thieving.[citation needed]

Omoa Works changed proprietors several times, the last being to Robert Stewart, Esq., of Murdoston. Stewart reconstructed the works, and acquired a lease to an extensive mineral field, which was found to contain an excellent seam of blackband ironstone, he in the course of a few years acquired a considerable fortune, to which after years of great success were to make great additions. He became a member of Glasgow Town Council in 1842, becoming Lord Provost, 1848–1854, and drove the initiative to supply Glasgow with a freshwater supply from Loch Katrine. In 1856 Mr. Stewart acquired from Mr. Baillie Cochrane, now Lord Lamington, at a cost of £55,000, the estate of Murdostoun, situated in the parish of Shotts, and immediately began to improve it upon an extensive scale. The Omoa Works suffered a downturn through a slump in trade following the outbreak of Civil War in America in 1861. Two years after the death of Robert Stewart in 1866, operations ceased, with the furnaces eventually becoming ruins.[24] Collieries around the present village included Knowenoble, Greenhill, Windyedge, and Spindleside, extracting thick-bedded coals and black-band ironstone

The Coltness Iron Company was established in Newmains by Henry Houldsworth in 1837. It was estimated that the 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) site at Newmains could produce 18,000 tons of coal and 1,000 tons of ironstone per acre. Henry Houldsworth had no difficulty, therefore, in attracting experienced labour from the iron works of Yorkshire as well as from Omoa and Wilsontown in Lanarkshire.[25] The Iron Company, needing coal, was also aware of the coal mines in Ireland. When coal was being mined in Shotts, Cleland and the surrounding areas, the Iron Company sent representatives over to Ireland to hire miners for the Scottish mines. This is a primary reason why so many Irish families came to the area. Many came from County Donegal, and the Castlecomer coal fields in what is now north County Kilkenny and south County Laois. The population of Omoa and Cleland was recorded as 1,233 in 1861: Cleland had 190 males and 175 females; Omoa had 509 males and 359 females.

In 1869 the Omoa and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) was opened. The Omoa and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) to Addiewell followed in 1882. Cleland was served with two railway stations. The first was Omoa Station (across from what is now Cleland Hospital), and the second was Cleland Station (behind what is now Cleland Cross). After Cleland Station was closed, Omoa Station was then renamed Cleland Station.A list of mines under Holytown in this year includes Cleland Collieries owned by Wm. Dixon, Monkland Iron Co., Trustees of late Robert Stewart; Wyndedge owned by Robert Dick. The Omoa Fireclay Works, a brickworks, opened in 1870.

In 1871 the population of Cleland and Omoa had fallen to 819, but by 1881 it was 1,626. The Cleland and Omoa Public School opened in 1876, and in 1877 St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, a Free Church, and a Chapel of Ease were all established.

 

[Macwomble]

Looks like a few of us are working on the same idea

 

[hexagon789]

Indeed. It took me a while to work it all out. Another connection has been established.

From Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleland,_North_Lanarkshire

Thanks both

 

[hexagon789]

Looks like a few of us are working on the same idea

Great minds think alike

 

[Ken H]

I will get flailed for going off topic but the Omoa station discussion got me thinking. Etruria station near Stoke on Trent is named after a ancient area of Italy that is now Umbria, Lazio and Tuscany. Pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgewood built Etruria Hall and named it thus because the design was influenced by ancient Etruscan artefacts. The nearby Etruria pottery made pottery influenced by Etruscan artefacts - the classic wedgewood blue and white stuff.

 

[hexagon789]

I will get flailed for going off topic but the Omoa station discussion got me thinking. Etruria station near Stoke on Trent is named after a ancient area of Italy that is now Umbria, Lazio and Tuscany. Pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgewood built Etruria Hall and named it thus because the design was influenced by ancient Etruscan artefacts. The nearby Etruria pottery made pottery influenced by Etruscan artefacts - the classic wedgewood blue and white stuff.

Maybe we should have a new thread for UK stations named after places in foreign countries?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Maybe we should have a new thread for UK stations named after places in foreign countries?

Waterloo...

 

[hexagon789]

Waterloo...

After somewhere in Belgium IIRC

 

[Cherry_Picker]

I think the station was named after the bridge. The bridge was named after somewhere in Belgium.

 

[Ken H]

I think the station was named after the bridge. The bridge was named after somewhere in Belgium.

Battle of Waterloo. Waterloo is just outside Brussels.
wonder how the french felt turning up in a eurostar at a station named after one of their countries worst military defeats?

 

[92042]

Indeed. It took me a while to work it all out. Another connection has been established.

Thanks FelixtheCat and Macwomble! I never imagined that there would be such interesting background information . No wonder it sounds somewhat alien to other North Lanarkshire place-names.

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Battle of Waterloo. Waterloo is just outside Brussels.
wonder how the french felt turning up in a eurostar at a station named after one of their countries worst military defeats?

The legend goes that Winston Churchill had the funeral train take his coffin back to Oxfordshire from Waterloo station (as opposed to Paddington) just to annoy Charles De Gaulle.

 

[Whistler40145]

Horwich Parkway isn't near to Horwich, should be named Middlebrook Retail Park or Middlebrook

 

[Ken H]

Leeds New to Leeds City to Leeds

Sorry if I missed that above

 

[Railwaysceptic]

On London's Central Line George Lane became South Woodford and Chigwell Lane became Debden.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Leeds New to Leeds City to Leeds

Sorry if I missed that above

Platforms 1-3 were originally part of Leeds Wellington station, then became the parcels depot of Leeds New/Leeds City, before being returned to passenger use between 1997 (platform 1, then W) and the rebuild in 2001 (the rest).

 

[Vinnym]

Belfast Central, recently renamed Lanyon Place.

 

[Welshman]

Manchester Piccadilly, used to be London Rd, and before that Store St.
Brighouse for Rastrick closed under Beeching, and was re-opened as simply "Brighouse"
Deighton closed along with the Kirkburton branch, only to be opened on a new site on the main Huddersfield- Leeds line.