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Your favourite evocatively-named stations (both past and present)

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Some of these names are pure poetry:
  • Berry Brow
  • St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
  • Sugar Loaf
  • Castleton Moor
  • Ribblehead
  • Sampford Courtenay
  • Copplestone
  • Causewayhead
  • Torver
  • Kirtlebridge
  • Arkleby
...what other station names do you especially like?
 
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Dogdyke, Tunby Woodside ad Trouble House Halt.

Acknowledgement to Flanders and Swann.
 
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backontrack said:
Some of these names are pure poetry:
  • Berry Brow
  • St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
  • Sugar Loaf
  • Castleton Moor
  • Ribblehead
  • Sampford Courtenay
  • Copplestone
  • Causewayhead
  • Torver
  • Kirtlebridge
  • Arkleby
...what other station names do you especially like?
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Falls of Cruachan
 
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Adelstrop has its following. I like the sound of Monmouth Troy too. Old Oak Common sounds so bucolic, in contrast to the reality!
 
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Eden Park, Hatfield Peverel, Pevensey Bay, Ryder Brow, Woolwich Dockyard.

Also this might just be familiarity with the area, but Erith, Stone Crossing, Northfleet and Strood all sound perfect for the eerie North Kent landscape.
 
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The branches to Maldon were via some nice villages
Stow Maries
Cold Norton
Wickham Bishops

The branch to Tollesbury went through the delightfully named Tolleshunt D'Arcy
 
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Some great place names in Essex of course. High Easter. Matching Tye. Foulness. Ugley. Abbess Roding. Braintree. Saffron Walden. Black Notley. And all the "Great" and ''Little" pairs.
 
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As a kid I always hoped that my Mum and Dad would take me for a country picnic at London Fields. They never did though.
 
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Yeovil Junction, Sherbourne, Templecombe, Honiton, Par, St Austell, Lostwithiel are all evocative of going on holiday.
 
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Of those stations still with us, I do enjoy the likes of Chetnole, Maiden Newton, Hinton Admiral, Morchard Road, Sandplace, Thorpe Culvert, Hutton Cranswick and Barrow Haven.

To extend the parameters slightly to include the likes of level crossings and signal boxes, there are some crackers in eastern England - Black Horse Drove near Littleport; Burnt House Drove and Three Horse Shoes near March; Golden High Hedges between Spalding and Sleaford...
 
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Lech-a-Vuie

Shame it's no longer there (not that it was ever anything more than a private halt - between Glenfinnan and Lochailort)
 
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Cold Meece,
Shirley Holms
Angarrack
Bugle
Quintrell Downs
Woofferton
 
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When I worked in a summer holiday job in Minehead in the late '60s, I used the branch line on a few occasions, then still under B.R., and was always very amused by Stogumber and, to a lesser extent, Watchet.
 
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Busaholic said:
When I worked in a summer holiday job in Minehead in the late '60s, I used the branch line on a few occasions, then still under B.R., and was always very amused by Stogumber and, to a lesser extent, Watchet.
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I love Stogumber (the name and the actual station).
It's as interesting as it sounds I reckon - the way it clings to the hillside with a few cottages around the station.
Lovely.
 
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It was of course a Taunton branch whose sequence of station names came to national television attention, by Caryl Brahms, on the BBC's "That Was The Week That Was" the day after the Beeching report publication :

Old engines with their primal anger gone
Their fire and fury rusted quite away
No longer chuffing into Platform One,
Butchered to make a scrapyard's holiday.
Don't think they will not take take it hard at Hatch,
Thornfalcon, Donyatt, Chard, their summary despatch.

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I love Stogumber (the name and the actual station).
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Unfortunately completely impractical. Way away from Stogumber village, by a very narrow, lengthy, unlit road between high hedges which makes pedestrian access quite unsafe - you could never send village schoolchildren that way.
 
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One that always struck me from OS maps was Oakle Street
 
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Newton St. Cyres
Gomshall & Shere (now has its 'Shere' sheared off)
Chilworth & Albury (just Chilworth now)
Langwathby
 
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backontrack said:
Some of these names are pure poetry:
  • Berry Brow
  • St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
  • Sugar Loaf
  • Castleton Moor
  • Ribblehead
  • Sampford Courtenay
  • Copplestone
  • Causewayhead
  • Torver
  • Kirtlebridge
  • Arkleby
...what other station names do you especially like?
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Most of these are long closed, but sound either quaint or just generally different or interesting:

Back O'Loch Halt (Kirkintilloch branch)

Rumbling Bridge and Crook of Devon (Alloa-Kinross Jcn)

Tullibardine, Muthill, Strageath Halt, Highlandman, Pittenzie Halt (Gleneagles to Crieff and Comrie line)

Grange, Knock, Glenbarry, Cornhill, Tillynaught, Portsoy, Cullen, Portknockie, Findochty, Portessie, Buckie, Portgordon, Spey Bay, Garmouth, Urquhart, Calcots (Keith Town to Elgin via Buckie)

Cambus o'May Halt (Aberdeen to Ballater line)

Some that are still open:
Achnasheen
Achnashellach
Achanalt
Clarkston & Stamperland (so much more poetic with the "Stamperland" on the end!)
Burntisland
 
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Knockando Upper
Oldham (Clegg Street) - can almost smell the flat caps and whippets!
Besses o'th' Barn - the only BR totem sign to be in lower case
Church and Oswaldtwistle
Port Isaac Road (always a clue that the station was miles away from the place it served!)
Bishops Nympton and Molland
 
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