[Trivia] Pairs of stations with different sounding names

[SteveM70]

(If a mod can phrase the title better than me feel free to change it)

Most days at Manchester Victoria I hear announcements of trains on the Wigan line calling successively at Hag Fold and Daisy Hill

It always strikes me how they sound like polar opposites - Hag Fold sounds awful but Daisy Hill sounds like the kind of place you’d go on a sunny summer’s day

Are there any others?

 

[Joey Beauchamp]

Not quite consecutive as Guide Bridge is in between, but Gorton and Flowery Fields (although the latter is not quite as nice as it sounds: my friend and I once got chased into a local pub by pre teen scallies lobbing debris at us).

 

[kentuckytony]

Just FYI, the dog Snoopy in the Peanuts cartoons came from Daisy Hill Puppy Farm...

 

[Ianno87]

Pleasington, Cherry Tree then.... Mill Hill.

 

[Peter0124]

Coatbridge Sunnyside doesn't work well being in one of the coldest and wettest areas of the UK

 

[Merle Haggard]

Not a station, but a shed;
Brightside shed on the Midland ML north of Sheffield had an alternative name; Grimethorpe.

 

[Zamracene749]

On the DLR, Island Gardens sounds somewhat more idyllic than the next station, the less than pleasant sounding Mudchute.

 

[Parallel]

Port Sunlight and Spital on the Merseyrail network.

Filton Abbey Wood and Patchway

Montpelier and Stapleton Road

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Ulceby and Thornton Abbey.

And perhaps to a lesser extent, Dullingham and Newmarket, and Shotton and Chester.

 

[Whattraintoday]

The whole of the Settle-Carlisle line has lovely idyllic-sounding stations such as Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Appleby, Langwathby, Lazonby & Kirkoswald etc.
But right in the middle: "Dent"

 

[Scotty]

Grimsby sounds very dull, but Cleethorpes has an upwards tone about it...

 

[mrcheek]

On the Heart of Wales line, the impossible-to-pronounce Cynghordy, and Llanwrtyd, are either side of the rather simple Sugar Loaf

 

[Jamie Price]

On the Heart of Wales line, the impossible-to-pronounce Cynghordy, and Llanwrtyd, are either side of the rather simple Sugar Loaf

Cung-hordee, and Llan-oo-er-tid, easy peasy

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Grimsby sounds very dull, but Cleethorpes has an upwards tone about it...

Even better if you spoonerise them... Gleethorpes and Crimsby!