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The Yorkshire bit absolutely, not so small though.Are you OK with "Small Town in Yorkshire"?
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Victoria Express instead of Gatwick Express.
Thames Line instead of Thameslink.
Paddington Express instead of Heathrow Express.
I hear all 3 on a regular basis!
Also some Americans pronounced Slough as Sloff. Heard it a few times on Meghan and Harry's wedding at Paddington
Thames Line instead of Thameslink.
Paddington Express instead of Heathrow Express.
I hear all 3 on a regular basis!
Also some Americans pronounced Slough as Sloff. Heard it a few times on Meghan and Harry's wedding at Paddington
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Depends on your accent really, like I tell my Welsh wife sometimes, I'm not pronouncing places wrong as such but with a Yorkshire accent, to pronounce how she things it should sound would require a false Welsh accent, which for me would probably turn out Pakistani and offend both.
Anyhoo, not just railways, for me the M1 still goes to Leeds, is certainly doesn't end in some field East of Aberford.
Conversely, I have heard quite a few people pronounce Brough (pronounced 'Bruff') as 'Brow' as in Slough.
in the past, my late wife always referred to the trains running from York to Scarborough as 'Metro Trains'. This was because an awful lot of the trains on the branch at the time had 'Metro Train' branding and colours, as opposed to the actual TOC branding/colours. Infact she thought that 'Metro Train' was the actual TOC serving York to Scarborough!
I do still hear a lot of people of my generation call all mainline trains 'British Rail' or call LNER 'GNER'.
I know someone who works for 'Aviva' (the insurance company) in their head office and she said they often receive complaints about trains and buses meant for Arriva.
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You mean they're different...???
Geezertronic
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Has BNS being incorrectly used to refer to Birmingham New Street been mentioned? 
(BNS is the Station Code for Barnes station in Greater London for anyone who doesn't know)
(BNS is the Station Code for Barnes station in Greater London for anyone who doesn't know)
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A friend of mine who moved oop north over 20 years ago still refers to Network SouthEast!
To be fair to many examples here, it's hardly surprising that people can't keep up to date with all the changes in franchising, especially when some brands are far more famous than others or it's a line you don't use very often. If someone asked me to write down all the rail franchise operators in this country, I doubt I'd get them all correct!
To be fair to many examples here, it's hardly surprising that people can't keep up to date with all the changes in franchising, especially when some brands are far more famous than others or it's a line you don't use very often. If someone asked me to write down all the rail franchise operators in this country, I doubt I'd get them all correct!
duffield
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East Midlands Parkway (EMD) being referred to as 'EMP' is a a particular bugbear of mine. EMP is Emerson Park.
But as from now I won't mention it again (nearly every post on this forum which refers to it uses EMP, and even if it gets corrected the next poster still gets it wrong, so it's pointless).
But as from now I won't mention it again (nearly every post on this forum which refers to it uses EMP, and even if it gets corrected the next poster still gets it wrong, so it's pointless).
Only if you care about CRS codes, which most of us don't, because that's the height of anorak-dom
I find people making anal comments about unwitting individuals using abbreviations, rather than actually attempting a CRS code, as if they've been awfully silly, far more irritating!
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I think calling it British Rail still is forgivable. I mean, franchise names are fairly temporary in theory and aren’t particularly iconic. Plus it’s less generic than saying “National Rail”.
Maybe I’m just a nostalgic romanticist but calling stations by their old names I find quite nice. I don’t think I can ever stop saying “South West Trains”, seeing as it was a brand that’s been around as long as I’ve been alive and the name just slips off your tongue.
Maybe I’m just a nostalgic romanticist but calling stations by their old names I find quite nice. I don’t think I can ever stop saying “South West Trains”, seeing as it was a brand that’s been around as long as I’ve been alive and the name just slips off your tongue.
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I once overheard a group of 20 something girls refer to LNER as "Liner"
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adrock1976
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I once overhead a group of 20 something girls refer to LNER as "Liner"
Do cruise liners still sail from Kingston upon Hull and Newcastle?
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Some still do actually, few and far between however.
Thought'd i'd share a few stations I used to misname when I was younger. The misspelled word is in bold.
St Pancras - St Pancreas
Partick - Patrick
Cutty Sark for Marmite Greenwich
St Bordeaux Ferry/Victoria Road
Smethwick Rolle Street
Also, in regards to LNER being referred to as liner, it reminds me of the days when WAGN were around and I referred to them as "Wagon". Mind you, if i had to choose between travelling from London to Peterborough in either a liner or a wagon, I think i know which one i'd go for.
St Pancras - St Pancreas
Partick - Patrick
Cutty Sark for Marmite Greenwich
St Bordeaux Ferry/Victoria Road
Smethwick Rolle Street
Also, in regards to LNER being referred to as liner, it reminds me of the days when WAGN were around and I referred to them as "Wagon". Mind you, if i had to choose between travelling from London to Peterborough in either a liner or a wagon, I think i know which one i'd go for.
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The terminus of the branch from Romiley.
NRE refers to it as "Rose Hill Marple" but the sign outside the entrance with the BR double-arrow simply says "Rose Hill", some train destination blinds have (or used to have) "Rose Hill (Marple)" with brackets, and I've also seen "Marple Rose Hill"
NRE refers to it as "Rose Hill Marple" but the sign outside the entrance with the BR double-arrow simply says "Rose Hill", some train destination blinds have (or used to have) "Rose Hill (Marple)" with brackets, and I've also seen "Marple Rose Hill"
I think this is more to do with the American accent but I’ve heard before whilst on a train ‘So guys, we’ve gotta change at West Berry for Castle Kerry and then get on a bus to Glaston Berry’. He was also in disbelief that there were no power sockets at any seat. I told him there were no sockets but he didn’t believe me
I still think of Pontypool & New Inn as Pontypool Road.
As a teenager my mother used to confuse me by referring to the Eastern National route 251 as "City Coaches", a company that had ceased to exist when I was barely out of nappies. When I finally convinced her that I didn't know what she was talking about she decided that they must be Green Line because they were painted green. Come to that it wasn't uncommon to hear the LT country buses generically referred to as Green Line.
As a teenager my mother used to confuse me by referring to the Eastern National route 251 as "City Coaches", a company that had ceased to exist when I was barely out of nappies. When I finally convinced her that I didn't know what she was talking about she decided that they must be Green Line because they were painted green. Come to that it wasn't uncommon to hear the LT country buses generically referred to as Green Line.
The first is never written with a hyphen in either place, so Liverpool South Parkway or South Parkway for short, surely?
Next door to Childwall was (is) of course Gateacre, which is even more of a trap for the unwary.
Egg-b'th of course, but I have never heard anything other than Mossley Hill.
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My late mother always referred to Waterloo East as Waterloo Junction, which I believe it once was. But she was from Bristol and didn't go to London until she started nursing in 1940.
After the formation of EWS the MoD guys at Marchwood still called us British Rail. After we became DB Schenker they started calling us EWS. [Civil Service, always got a finger on the pulse!]
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After the formation of EWS the MoD guys at Marchwood still called us British Rail. After we became DB Schenker they started calling us EWS. [Civil Service, always got a finger on the pulse!]
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My brother's partner (now wife) referred to the now-defunct bus company trading as "K-Line" as "Kline" (as in Kevin)... easy mistake to make if you're not an anorak I suppose, as the hyphen was removed from their branding in later years, appearing as:I once overheard a group of 20 something girls refer to LNER as "Liner"
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One that slightly annoys me would be the constant naming of "Southern" as "Southern Railway"
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Given that the website is southernrailway.com it's not exactly surprising.
I've heard "Mozzley Hill" by one or two outsiders which grates somewhat.
As for Liverpool South Parkway, I interpreted it to mean the word 'Parkway' should be the primarily stressed word rather than 'South'.
johnnychips
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Even worse when Mossley - and I’m thinking about the Tameside example - is pronounced ‘Moseley’ like in Birmingham. Fortunately this doesn’t happen on trains. However when the football club reached the FA Trophy final in 1980, the number of mispronunciations was incredible.
pinkmarie80
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I fell into the Gateacre trap every time
my ex lived there for many years and when we first met (long distance relationship back in the late 90’s so initially we used to write to each other) I always used to refer to it as Gate-Acre until he taught me to say it properly the first time we met for real when I moved to Liverpool to go to uni I moved to Aigburth but as soon as I found out where the halls were my ex taught me how to say it correctly )
johnnychips
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Tell all! How do you pronounce it?I fell into the Gateacre trap every time
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I believe it is pronounced like ‘Gattaker’.
Another one on the Merseyrail network that bugs me is Kirkby. Everybody seems to pronounced it ‘Kirby’, as you would when you say ‘West Kirby’. But look at the town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, for example, one wouldn’t pronounce it ‘Kirby-in-Ashfield’ would they?
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Worse still is that nobody seems able to pronounce Molesey properly. They either call it Moseley or Molesley, despite the fact that there are plenty of "seys" and "seas". Maybe that's one of the (maybe lesser) reasons why the station there is called "Hampton Court", which is in fact on the opposite side of the Thames. I've just remembered that the station there is actually built over the River Mole (or should that be River Mose?) so I'm now off to the "Stations Built Over Rivers" thread to see if it's been mentioned there,
Worse still is that nobody seems able to pronounce Molesey properly. They either call it Moseley or Molesley, despite the fact that there are plenty of "seys" and "seas". Maybe that's one of the (maybe lesser) reasons why the station there is called "Hampton Court", which is in fact on the opposite side of the Thames. I've just remembered that the station there is actually built over the River Mole (or should that be River Mose?) so I'm now off to the "Stations Built Over Rivers" thread to see if it's been mentioned there,
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Yeah, that certainly doesn't provide brand continuity.
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