Yes, it was Cheltenham Spa Lansdown between 1925 and the late 1940's. More or less the years when LMS were running the show.Wasn’t Cheltenham Spa, Cheltenham Spa Lansdown for a while?
That's interesting. It's the only map of Northampton I've ever seen that makes mention of Bridge Street south of the riverI'm not sure it is - I think when the station opened what is now known as Cotton End was actually Bridge Street.
Take a look at this map from 1899 from this site https://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/britishlibrary/mapsu145ubu12u3uf009ru1
That's interesting. It's the only map of Northampton I've ever seen that makes mention of Bridge Street south of the river
It is very slightly closer to Cark. The two villages merge into one in reality. The train announcers still say Cark & Cartmel. Tickets ditto.Isnt the station in Flookburgh?
Don't forget us in Sussex! - Worthing(Central) and all the little stations on the SR. previously known as halts ie; Aldrington(Halt) Fishersgate(Halt) East Worthing(Halt) for starters.
Nottingham Arkwright Street actually closed in 1963 (by Beeching) before being reopened to act as the northern terminus of the remaining service on the GCR between Rugby Central (has anyone mentioned Rugby Midland as losing its suffix?) and Nottingham when Victoria closed in 1967. It finally closed in 1969. I can remember seeing a DMU running on the GCR close to Lutterworth from the adjacent M1 sometime in 1968.That would tie in with Arkwright Street closing.
Nottingham Arkwright Street actually closed in 1963 (by Beeching) before being reopened to act as the northern terminus of the remaining service on the GCR between Rugby Central (has anyone mentioned Rugby Midland as losing its suffix?) and Nottingham when Victoria closed in 1967. It finally closed in 1969. I can remember seeing a DMU running on the GCR close to Lutterworth from the adjacent M1 sometime in 1968.
Banbury Station was Banbury General (GWR) when the close-by Banbury Merton Street (LMSR) was still open. I'm not sure when the General suffix was dropped - certainly when I lived there, no-one used General!
Is that really an example of a station losing a suffix? Surely it's just a name change.Manchester London Road switching to Manchester Piccadilly.
Well, it lost one suffix and gained another!Is that really an example of a station losing a suffix? Surely it's just a name change.
Well I was going on some of the other given examples where suffixes changed.Is that really an example of a station losing a suffix? Surely it's just a name change.
...especially on the former Great Western Railway network, which was fond of both 'halt' and 'platform'. The latter always struck me as a bit odd - a sort of lesser halt!Aughton Park Halt...was years ago though!
There must be hundreds of those.
Go to RTT, type Lincoln into the search box and it shows trains from... Lincoln Central.Lincoln's a funny one. The station may say Lincoln, but the displays at stations en route to Lincoln and some of the trains themselves still refer to it as Lincoln Central.
It'll always be Lincoln Central to me.
...especially on the former Great Western Railway network, which was fond of both 'halt' and 'platform'. The latter always struck me as a bit odd - a sort of lesser halt!
I can think of Penmere Platform on the Falmouth line - the last time I was there they still had a GWR style nameboard (beautifully preserved) alongside a BR totem-style nameboard - both including the "platform" suffix.
Go to RTT, type Lincoln into the search box and it shows trains from... Lincoln Central.
LNER's booking website calls it... Lincoln.
I'm sure I've seen a site or app somewhere that shows both in a drop-down list when you start the search!
It was called Leamington Spa General to distinguish it from the LMSR station Leamington Spa Avenue - which was actually next to it and was the station for trains to Coventry and Rugby. When Avenue closed (you can still see the bridge abutments to the north of the former GWR line as you run run from the south) the General was dropped at sometime.Also Leamington spa, far as I recall it gained a suffix (and lost another) as the the station originally opened as Leamington, had spa added to it after and then the name was changed again to Leamington Spa General.
The sequence of name changes at Highbridge since the closure of the branch to Burnham-on-Sea is almost neurotic. (The Somerset & Dorset Joint branch to Burnham's own station closed to regular passenger services in 1951 and to excursion trains in 1962.) It was called "Highbridge" until 1962; then "Highbridge for Burnham-on-Sea" - sometimes shown with or without brackets; then back to just "Highbridge" in 1974; and since 1991 "Highbridge & Burnham". (Maybe we need a thread on the most name changes for a single station...)Is it one like Cark (& Cartmel) which has bounced back and forth in recent years?
Did it not also for a while, boast BR’s only official halt? Rosyth Halt’s suffix outlived all the others I believe, though at least St Keyne etc has had it subsequently reinstatedScotland -- particularly, though not exclusively, its approximate northern half -- appears also to have had rather a fondness for the "platform" halt-equivalent suffix.
Also IBM Halt for a while.Did it not also for a while, boast BR’s only official halt? Rosyth Halt’s suffix outlived all the others I believe, though at least St Keyne etc has had it subsequently reinstated
I mentioned several in Scotland at the start: Carfin, Balmossie and Golf Street were also ‘halts’ at one point. Two others that lost suffixes were Wishaw and Uddingston, which still carried ‘Central‘ long after they became the only stations in their respective areas.Also IBM Halt for a while.
Garrowhill was also was a "Halt" prior to the Blue TrainsI mentioned several in Scotland at the start: Carfin, Balmossie and Golf Street were also ‘halts’ at one point. Two others that lost suffixes were Wishaw and Uddingston, which still carried ‘Central‘ long after they became the only stations in their respective areas.