Hassocks5489
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I have in my collection a recent travel ticket from Manchester to Worle, plus an accompanying Excess ticket to Wool. The passenger apparently wanted to go to Wool but the clerk misheard!
As I said before, I would be totally on board with London Liverpool Street being renamed London Broadgate or London Bishopsgate.
How about Lime St station being renamed Liverpool St Georges?
I wonder if there have ever been any services that call at both Adlingtons, I know that was why Seamer station was so named in the 1840s because Seamer is actually over a mile away, and that area is actually called CrossgatesWe have Adlington (Lancs) and Adlington (Cheshire). Both have stations
However, as I pointed out a few days ago in another thread, there are Chorleys near both Adlingtons, so you missed an opportunity for a further layer of confusion.I realised that there is a Poynton only near Adlington (Cheshire),
I wonder if there have ever been any services that call at both Adlingtons, I know that was why Seamer station was so named in the 1840s because Seamer is actually over a mile away, and that area is actually called Crossgates
Fortunate it wasn't. It could easily have been London Road which is just round the corner.Just imagine how much worse it would be if Liverpools terminus was called "Liverpool London Street"
Manchester Piccadilly was, of course, once called Manchester London Road.Fortunate it wasn't. It could easily have been London Road which is just round the corner.
Wikipedia could do with an update thenGiven that before the railway all there was at Crossgates (N Riding) was a quarry and pub I doubt it was ever going to be called Crossgates station, but at the time of Seamer's opening Cross Gates had been closed for 5 years anyway, after George Hudson had leased the route then diverted traffic over his own line, which would be more lucrative, for him at least) and only reopened 5 years after Seamer opened after Hudson's fall from grace had begun.
Presumably, this is why tickets have a destination of Hampden Park (Sussex) to avoid anyone mistakenly buying a ticket from say Glasgow Central to Hampden Park. (Although the anytime return fare of £451.40 might give them a clue).This probably doesn't answer the question properly but I do wonder whether anyone has EVER turned up in Hampden Park (Eastbourne) wanting the football stadium in Scotland.
Wikipedia could do with an update then
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I realise that any Wiki article is only as good as its contributers, and there are no references to back the statement up, I must admit that locally the name conflict with Cross Gates W Yorks is assumed to be the reason it was called Seamer
It’s still Highbridge & BurnhamThe posters at Abbey Road DLR were there on opening day, so before any history of blunders. It was a good laugh by the DLR team, which has stuck. The posters (a couple of different ones) are classics in their own right, with several puns on Beatles' song names.
American visitor to our office did exactly this. Another American had given instructions to meet in a restaurant, just calling the address Edgware rather than Edgware Road. I got involved as it unfolded, and the easiest resolution was to tell him to get a black cab from the Edgware station rank, and later write an explanation for the (substantial) expenses claim.
Another longstanding issue is Burnham. Everyone in Taunton knows it as a place near Highbridge, and even calls Highbridge station that, but on the Western Region it's a station near Slough. One parcel (remember those?) sent from Taunton was more explicit to overcome this, and written as Burnham-on-S to avoid confusion, alas with a slightly wobbly S - it ended up a couple of days later at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. The Somerset station used to be called Highbridge for Burnham, but has now retreated to just Highbridge.
And too late for that warm up battle in 1066!Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire regularly makes the news with people ending up there, or en-route up the M1, looking for Chelsea.
The Liverpool station isn't the source of the confusion though.How about Lime St station being renamed Liverpool St Georges?
or KnottingleyOr they could have got Mottingham in SE London
And then there's Hartford & Hertford!I did make the Hereford/Hertford mistake once. Not travelling but the was a show touring that I wanted to see which I only heard about after it was on the road. I misread the flyer and thought that the only gig left was at Hereford
A long time ago so many parcels for addresses in California (USA) ended up at California station (named after the local pub) on the Epsom Downs branch that the station was renamed Belmont.An international example: Las Vegas (NV) is one of the largest cities in the USA (and possibly the entire world) to not have any intercity railway service, however Amtrak does manage to serve another, much smaller Las Vegas in New Mexico. I wonder how many rail passengers have ended up there expecting to see the High Roller or the Stratosphere tower?
There definitely have. The first stopper out of Stoke every weekday morning runs through to Blackpool calling at both.I wonder if there have ever been any services that call at both Adlingtons
I saw an article some years ago about a letter posted in Glasgow for an address in Alexandria near Dumbarton eventually getting there nine months later via Egypt…..A long time ago so many parcels for addresses in California (USA) ended up at California station (named after the local pub) on the Epsom Downs branch that the station was renamed Belmont.
Although in many ways I am a traditionalist, I do think it's worth recognising that the UK is a country with a lot of inbound tourism (which we should be grateful for), at least in non-pandemic times and things should be made as non-confusing as possible for tourists, and even domestic travellers who have poor knowledge of geography.
As I said before, I would be totally on board with London Liverpool Street being renamed London Broadgate or London Bishopsgate.