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[trivia] Stations named after a private organisation

Mcr Warrior

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Fishguard Harbour named after the Harbour and ferry port owned by Stena Line?
The station opened as 'Fishguard Harbour' in August 1906, but wasn't the promoting private organisation at the time known as the "Fishguard & Rosslare Railways & Harbours Company"? Don't think the station was ever known by that clunky name!
 
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A closed station, Acrow Halt. Its limited service was arranged around the working hours of the factory.
 

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IBM Halt (currently closed) Inverclyde Lines - closed around 2018. (served the IBM Factory)
 

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IBM (halt).
I’m going to guess that was going to be at their (now closed) Portsmouth site rather than the Hursley one that operations moved to in 2024?

I ask because I applied for a job there years ago and got quite far in the interview process so curious.
 

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Oh I see! IBM really had a huge presence around the world didn’t they? I didn’t even know they were in Glasgow.

My company still uses emulators for their computers because their Z/OS systems run on ancient Mainframe architecture, and we use Db2 databases for many things.

One of my managers came from IBM in Ireland too.
 

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IBM Railway Station is/was on the Inverclyde Line near Glasgow.
Nearer to Greenock? As the Wiki article states, there's not been any train service calling at the IBM railway station since 2018. The nearby IBM factory had already been closed for several years by then, I believe, and so patronage of the station had fallen away.
 

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In Ireland there was Mosney (Butlin’s), possibly without the apostrophe and possibly Butlins (Mosney). Opened in 1948, the reference to Butlinz was later dropped.
 

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In Ireland there was Mosney (Butlin’s), possibly without the apostrophe and possibly Butlins (Mosney). Opened in 1948, the reference to Butlinz was later dropped.
Interesting, but not a National Rail station, as the OP stipulated.
 

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St James'
Gateshead Stadium
Stadium of Light
Regents Centre
...and St. Peters (a church - private organisation?), University (Sunderland) and Airport (Newcastle) to continue the T & W Metro theme.

Sorry - overlooked the National Rail stipulation in the OP - sorry! At least St. Peters is on national rail line....
 
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All of the airport ones?
Surely the airport stations are named after the airport itself, as are most (maybe all) of the companies that run the airports? So the station and the company share a name (give or take the word "Limited" in the company name, but neither is actually named after the other.
 

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Really obscure here but Bellgrove (named for the adjacent Bellgrove Street, there is no area called Bellgrove) was named by property developers in the 1850s who (allegedly) wished to conjure up Belgrave Square but spelt the name incorrectly. Prior to that the street was called Witches’ Lone
 

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City Thameslink. Named after the City of London Corporation?
In retrospect, combining the historic names of Ludgate Hill and Holborn Viaduct might have been more informative, but lacked the
City slickness expectations of the yuppies and dinkies in vogue at the time :)
 

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Another one close to me: Formby Power House Halt, which was for workers at the power station built to supply electricity to the L&Y Liverpool-Southport railway.
And another former one nearby: Birkdale Palace, named after the adjacent hotel.
On the WCML: Bay Horse, named after adjacent pub.
Uralite Halt, built to serve the British Uralite works.
Port Victoria.
Wingham Colliery to serve the colliery which never produced any coal!
Tilmanstone Colliery yard, which served a colliery which did produce coal
Port Richborough, which should have been to serve the local Kent collieries: it did export some coal ,and import some pit props, but was not a success.
The Hawthorns, which was built to serve the West Bromwich Albion football ground.
 

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Turnberry was named after the hotel, but this doesn't really count as the GSWR built and operated the hotel itself.
 

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