Why is it called Marden (Kent)?

[djdanny77]

I've just moved to Kent and noticed this on the ticket but wasn't sure why?

Is there another Marden that it could be confused with?

 

[Colin1501]

There is one in Herefordshire, but I'm pretty certain it doesn't have a railway station.

 

[Surreytraveller]

Maybe to avoid confusion with Morden, or Morden South

 

[Cambus731]

back in APTIS days Chelmsford was called Chelmsford (Essex) presumably avoid confusion with Cheltenham, or even Chelsfield

 

[paul1609]

Think its to avoid confusion with Marsden (Yorks), Rye is called Rye (Sussex) to avoid confusion with Ryde (IOW), Peckham Rye and Rye House

 

[Ianno87]

Also possible confusion with Marsden (West Yorkshire) - which is on tickets as Marsden (Yorks)

 

[Parham Wood]

There is a Marden in Wiltshire very close to Patney and Chirton station that was on the Berks and Hants. A henge has also recently been discovered at Marden and is the largest Neolithic henge discovered so far in the UK.

 

[PHILIPE]

There is one in Herefordshire, but I'm pretty certain it doesn't have a railway station.

There is no station there

 

[Steamysandy]

Many years ago I knew another railway enthusiast who lived in Marden,Herefordshire

 

[MatthewRead]

Don't forget Marden Park in Surrey now known as Woldingham.

 

[Mordac]

On a related issue, is University (Birmingham) so named to avoid confusion with the one in Coleraine? I wouldn't have thought NIR stations would be considered, but I can't think of any other University station on the GB network

 

[Surreytraveller]

On a related issue, is University (Birmingham) so named to avoid confusion with the one in Coleraine? I wouldn't have thought NIR stations would be considered, but I can't think of any other University station on the GB network

Through tickets can be issued to NIR, so yes, probably is. Same as Bangor

 

[alangla]

Or just to be clear as to which University it serves.
On a similar note, apparently Neilston appears on the boards at Glasgow Central as <Neilston> to distinguish it from Newton. The trains have similar intermediate stops. They could, of course, put up Newton Lanark to match the tickets...

 

[Starmill]

Shipley Yorks was thought to have been added as such to prevent over-writing on tickets issued to Shirley, which was also suffixed (West Midlands).

 

[yorksrob]

Out of interest, what is the alternative to Atherton (Manchester). Atherstone ?

 

[tommy2215]

On a related issue, is University (Birmingham) so named to avoid confusion with the one in Coleraine? I wouldn't have thought NIR stations would be considered, but I can't think of any other University station on the GB network

James Cook University Hospital

 

[Ianno87]

Out of interest, what is the alternative to Atherton (Manchester). Atherstone ?

Possibly also Allerton, before it became Liverpool South Parkway?

James Cook University Hospital

Isn't the station simply 'James Cook'?

 

[yorksrob]

Possibly also Allerton, before it became Liverpool South Parkway?

Fair enough. Although they both seem fairly different to me !

 

[tommy2215]

Isn't the station simply 'James Cook'?

Not according to National Rail https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/jch/details.html

All the booking engines have the longer name too

 

[transmanche]

On a related issue, is University (Birmingham) so named to avoid confusion with the one in Coleraine? I wouldn't have thought NIR stations would be considered, but I can't think of any other University station on the GB network

There's also a University station on the T&W Metro South Hylton extension, the part of the system owned by Network Rail.

 

[geoffk]

Or just to be clear as to which University it serves.
On a similar note, apparently Neilston appears on the boards at Glasgow Central as <Neilston> to distinguish it from Newton. The trains have similar intermediate stops. They could, of course, put up Newton Lanark to match the tickets...

Preston is always "Preston, Lancs" presumably to distinguish it from Preston Park, Prestonpans and Long Preston.

 

[roadierway77]

Or just to be clear as to which University it serves.
On a similar note, apparently Neilston appears on the boards at Glasgow Central as <Neilston> to distinguish it from Newton. The trains have similar intermediate stops. They could, of course, put up Newton Lanark to match the tickets...

Newton (Lanark) might cause some confusion for passengers travelling to Lanark itself.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Shipley Yorks was thought to have been added as such to prevent over-writing on tickets issued to Shirley, which was also suffixed (West Midlands).

I'd always assumed it was to avoid clashing with Shepley, though a Yorks suffix wouldn't really help much in that case!

 

[laseandre]

Or just to be clear as to which University it serves.
On a similar note, apparently Neilston appears on the boards at Glasgow Central as <Neilston> to distinguish it from Newton. The trains have similar intermediate stops. They could, of course, put up Newton Lanark to match the tickets...

I had a feeling that was due to a problem in the system, considering the characters that surround it seem like they've been accidentally included from the code running behind the scenes, but it being a deliberate choice to avoid confusion is something I have to say I hadn't thought of before.

 

[Ianno87]

I had a feeling that was due to a problem in the system, considering the characters that surround it seem like they've been accidentally included from the code running behind the scenes, but it being a deliberate choice to avoid confusion is something I have to say I hadn't thought of before.

To a partially-sighted person, Newton / Neilston would be hard to distinguish, I'd imagine.

 

[MarkyT]

Preston is always "Preston, Lancs" presumably to distinguish it from Preston Park, Prestonpans and Long Preston.

Or Preston, a part of Paignton in Torbay, Devon, and once the site of 'Preston Platform', a GWR halt provided in 1911, but closed only three years later, never to be reopened.

 

[edwin_m]

The trains have similar intermediate stops. They could, of course, put up Newton Lanark to match the tickets...

Then people would think it was going to Lanark via Newton.

 

[alangla]

I had a feeling that was due to a problem in the system, considering the characters that surround it seem like they've been accidentally included from the code running behind the scenes, but it being a deliberate choice to avoid confusion is something I have to say I hadn't thought of before.

That was my first thought as well but the “official” answer from the ScotRail Twitter feed was to distinguish it from Newton

Edit - found it- https://twitter.com/scotrail/status/1148124849811927040?s=21

 

[moogal]

Back when I lived there, tickets to/from Hinckley all said "Hinckley (Leics)" which seemed puzzling as I couldn't find any other place in the country with the same name!

 

[BarryD]

Back when I lived there, tickets to/from Hinckley all said "Hinckley (Leics)" which seemed puzzling as I couldn't find any other place in the country with the same name!

Hinchley Wood (Surrey)?