GrimShady
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The E&G service is was on a few weeks ago stated "Edinburgh Waverly" on the PIS both visual and audio.
Well it is Edinburgh after allSeems a rather pompous usage.
Hee hee hee!Well it is Edinburgh after all
I've a feeling that KX is sometimes referred to as the Cross.
I don't think that anyone's suggesting that 'The Waverley' is the definitive answer. It's just a funny old fashioned local quirk, like LRT buses or the North British, or calling the Portobello Ford dealers Laidlaws.What Edinburgh locals call something can't be the definitive answer as there's so much variety. It's 25 years since Lothian Regional Council went its unlamented way, but there are still those who refer to Lothian Buses as LRT. And 28 years after the name change, the big hotel is still called the North British by some.
I don't think that anyone's suggesting that 'The Waverley' is the definitive answer. It's just a funny old fashioned local quirk, like LRT buses or the North British, or calling the Portobello Ford dealers Laidlaws.
From my point of view, the definitive answer is that if you're in the city then you call the station 'Waverley' and if you're elsewhere then it's 'Edinburgh'.
I don't think that anyone's suggesting that 'The Waverley' is the definitive answer. It's just a funny old fashioned local quirk, like LRT buses or the North British, or calling the Portobello Ford dealers Laidlaws.
From my point of view, the definitive answer is that if you're in the city then you call the station 'Waverley' and if you're elsewhere then it's 'Edinburgh'.
Just had a shuftie at the NR Edinburgh Waverley Masterplan page.Indeed, the official name no longer uses "Waverley".
Edinburgh New Street might be a better name once they've finished masterplanning it to death.Just had a shuftie at the NR Edinburgh Waverley Masterplan page.
First Edinburgh Waverley, then just Waverley.
I think that's how I refer to it. First usage in a conversation would be Edinburgh Waverley, thereafter referring to it as Waverley.
I must admit I was rather doubtful about anyone putting 'the' in front of a station name, as I'd couldn't remember hearing it for Waverley or any others I could think of.... until you mentioned The Caley! I suppose as a contraction it's also a bit like The Cross or The Bone.I'm over 60 but as a wee laddie my late parents used to always refer to 'the Waverley' or 'the Caley' when distinguishing the 2 main stations at either end of Princes Street. The Caledonian (Princes Street Station) has of course long since gone.
Haymarket has always been just 'Haymarket' although I can understand the reason to include Edinburgh in the name.
Yes, never any confusion about Bridge Station - don't know why a city prefix was necessary.London termini were known only by their original name. There was none of this London Kings Cross or London Waterloo waffle. It was Kings Cross, Waterloo, Paddington etc.
I suppose it was because it was the Caledonian Railway Co's Princes Street Station, with the Caledonian Hotel.I'm over 60 but as a wee laddie my late parents used to always refer to 'the Waverley' or 'the Caley' when distinguishing the 2 main stations at either end of Princes Street. The Caledonian (Princes Street Station) has of course long since gone.
Haymarket has always been just 'Haymarket' although I can understand the reason to include Edinburgh in the name.
In London people living near Caledonian Road often call it "The Caley."I'm over 60 but as a wee laddie my late parents used to always refer to 'the Waverley' or 'the Caley' when distinguishing the 2 main stations at either end of Princes Street. The Caledonian (Princes Street Station) has of course long since gone.
In London people living near Caledonian Road often call it "The Caley."
Oops! My apologies.Except we generally write it as "The Cally".
Oops! My apologies.
The signs outside the station say Edinburgh Waverley. The signs outside Haymarket Station say Haymarket. Pretty sure signs outside the Caley, and ye olde Google parchment maps of the day, would have said Princes St. None of these are necessarily definitive in reflecting exactly what people say or what is printed on your ticket or the on-train announcement or info screens.Google maps has it as Edinburgh Waverley. Just saying....
My bringing up 'The Waverley' was mainly in jest, but it's definitely a thing. Taxi drivers often take you to 'The Waverley'.
I've no idea why some people call it that out of habit, but it isn't at all pompous. I don't believe that I've heard it in relation to any other station anywhere. You'd never hear 'The Haymarket' for example.
It's just a funny local thing.
Sticking to Tyneside, Teams is usually referred to as The Teams and Low Fell is sometimes called The Fell.It happens with other kinds of locational names, too. In Co Durham there was a pit village named Hobson (now demolished), but always known as 'The Hobson'; in the 19th century Felling, on Tyneside, was often referred to as 'The Felling'. As late as the 1940s you get references to 'the Tyneside' and 'the Clydeside'.
The signs outside the station say Edinburgh Waverley. The signs outside Haymarket Station say Haymarket. Pretty sure signs outside the Caley, and ye olde Google parchment maps of the day, would have said Princes St.
Unlike the original poster I don't think there's a attempt from any operating company or Network Rail going on just now to force station name changes.
It's just that people sometimes call the stations by different names .
https://images.app.goo.gl/odXd8yyPGFWxW6rX9
Nice old image which shows Edinburgh Princes St, presumably in its latter days.
Though I think the poster was referring to Caledonian Rd tube station in London? Partly OT - how many people still say ‘the Tube’?
When I lived in Edinburgh in the 1970s the large sign at the top of the approach road incline just stated Waverley Station. I think it's common that where the name is distinctive, like Temple Meads, that is good enough. Where it's generic, like Glasgow Central, it's more commonly the complete name, though within the city just the suffix is the norm.
From those times, although Princes Street station had closed by then the adjacent Caledonian Hotel and the Caledonian Cinema opposite were always known as "The Caley" where it was apparent you were speaking about hotels or cinemas.
Putting "the" on the front of names and even elsewhere is a Scottish feature, hence "I'm taking the girlfriend to the Caley the night" (or even "... the noo").