Dual–Named Stations?

[hermit]

Palmers Green and Southgate was dual- named until the 1970s. Presumably someone eventually realised that as well as being a mile from the historic village of Southgate it was even further from the modern centre that had grown up around the Piccadilly Line station that had opened in 1933.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

A couple of successive stations that have lost their "...& X" are Denby Dale (formerly Denby Dale & Cumberworth) and Shepley (formerly Shepley & Shelley, though the second "e" in Shelley was erroneously omitted). On the same line, Berry Brow could be Newsome & Berry Brow, but never has been.

For other stations that arguably could have other places added, Low Moor could become "Low Moor for Cleckheaton" and Ravensthorpe could be "Ravensthorpe & Thornhill". It wouldn't be outrageous to add "...& Kexborough" to Darton either.

Elsewhere in West Yorkshire we still have Steeton & Silsden; and Sandal & Agbrigg.

 

[Class15]

Finchley Road & Frognal and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury are both so named to distinguish them from nearby underground stations. Elsewhere on the ‘Mildmay line’, Chelsea & Fulham has dropped both parts of its name!

 

[elltrain3]

One of My Local ones, (closed 1966 but due to re-open) Is Beeston Castle and Tarporley Which is in the (slow) process of re-openeing so I'm guessing the 'And Tarporley' will be dropped upon re-opening! (Though Ironicially Tarporley has now outgrown Beeston Castle and is the 'Major' Town!)
A lot of people Just Call it Beeston, but that'll have to change when it reopens so as not to confuse with Beeston (Notts)!

 

[JD2168]

Kirkham & Wesham on the line to Blackpool North

 

[LLivery]

Highbury & Islington

Calling at: Canonbury & Highbury & Islington

Surrey has Box Hill & Westhumble and Boxhill & Westhumble with both names still in use. Some of the platform station name boards say "Box Hill & Westhumble" as two words and some of the platform station name boards say "Boxhill & Westhumble" as one word. So i guess you could count this.

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For some reason the train companies can never decide whether it should be two words or one word. Even the village at the top of the hill has this confusion with both "Box Hill" and "Boxhill" appearing on different signs. I remember on the old Avantix Mobile ticket machines used until 2017 there used to be both a "Box Hill & Westhumble" and "Boxhill & Westhumble" and if Guards selected the latter one it would say no fares available.

Shepherds Well is Shepherdswell on the signs. I assume people in the village want to to appear correctly!

 

[Falcon1200]

On the GWML, Goring & Streatley has retained its dual names, whereas the next station along, Cholsey, has lost its Moulsford!

 

[xotGD]

Belgrave & Birstall has been replaced with Leicester North in not quite the same location on the Great Central Railway.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

The French have always been the past masters at this, not only by combining adjacent settlement names, but also with great precision with how they are officially known. A superb one is "Colombier-le-Vieux-Saint-Barthelemy-le-Plain", an obscure narrow gauge wayside point in the middle of nowhere. It is on the Vivaris line, closed in the 1960s but reincarnated as a heritage line nowadays. It knocks its equivalent Tan-y-Bwlch right out of contention, and is a challenger to Llanfair PG. Both Colombier and Saint Barthelemy, nearby but inconvenient walking distance, are sleepy villages. Those who recall the 1970 (British) television comedy "Clochemerle" may know it was filmed there, including the railway.

Renfe/ADIF have a recent policy of renaming Spain's major stations after famous local inhabitants.
Madrid Chamartin is now Madrid Chamartin-Clara Campoamor.
Malaga is Malaga Maria Zambrano, and the relocated Burgos station is Burgos Rosa de Lima.

We have/had several "Victorias", and saints' names sometimes get attached to stations (linked to a nearby church).
We also now have the Elizabeth Line.
But generally we don't do personalities at railway stations (unlike some airports).

 

[43010]

The French have always been the past masters at this, not only by combining adjacent settlement names, but also with great precision with how they are officially known. A superb one is "Colombier-le-Vieux-Saint-Barthelemy-le-Plain", an obscure narrow gauge wayside point in the middle of nowhere. It is on the Vivaris line, closed in the 1960s but reincarnated as a heritage line nowadays. It knocks its equivalent Tan-y-Bwlch right out of contention, and is a challenger to Llanfair PG. Both Colombier and Saint Barthelemy, nearby but inconvenient walking distance, are sleepy villages. Those who recall the 1970 (British) television comedy "Clochemerle" may know it was filmed there, including the railway.

Not sure how common this is, but during my travels in Italy I alighted at the triple-named Cervignano–Aquileia–Grado station (situated in Cervignano but with bus links to Aquileia and Grado). There is another example, Latisana–Lignano–Bibione, some 20 miles closer to Venice on the Venice - Trieste railway line.

 

[D6130]

Not sure how common this is, but during my travels in Italy I alighted at the triple-named Cervignano–Aquileia–Grado station (situated in Cervignano but with bus links to Aquileia and Grado). There is another example, Latisana–Lignano–Bibione, some 20 miles closer to Venice on the Venice - Trieste railway line.

There are even some quadruply-named stations in Italy. An example that might be familiar to many UK travellers is Oulx-Cesana-Claviere-Sestriere, a stop on the Paris-Milano TGV service which serves four nearly-adjacent ski resorts in the Piemonte Alps.

 

[xotGD]

Renfe/ADIF have a recent policy of renaming Spain's major stations after famous local inhabitants.
Madrid Chamartin is now Madrid Chamartin-Clara Campoamor.
Malaga is Malaga Maria Zambrano, and the relocated Burgos station is Burgos Rosa de Lima.

We have/had several "Victorias", and saints' names sometimes get attached to stations (linked to a nearby church).
We also now have the Elizabeth Line.
But generally we don't do personalities at railway stations (unlike some airports).

James Cook is one example.

 

[Ianigsy]

A few years ago, the Friends of the Class 502 posted a picture of the full destination blind for one of the units. One of the possible destinations was shown as “Crosby”, except the station is Blundellsands and Crosby. I’m guessing they went with the more legible (and better known) of the two.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

James Cook is one example.

Yes, except I suppose that one was probably named after the adjacent hospital rather than the man directly.
We do have a Saltaire of course, the district named after Titus Salt.

 

[lyndhurst25]

Cark & Cartmel. There’s already been at least one lengthy discussion about that one.

Cark Conundrum?

Cark Station on the Cumbrian Coast Line is referred to as just that on the Station Running in Boards. Yet the Area is seemingly 'Cark & Cartmel'. Also the PIS on Northern Trains (well, the 156's at least) refer to it as 'Cark-in-Cartmel'... Definitive Ruling anyone?

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[bearhugger]

James Cook is one example.

Yes, except I suppose that one was probably named after the adjacent hospital rather than the man directly.

Correct @LNW-GW Joint - the station was built primarily to serve the hospital.
Incidentally, the next station along the line at Marton is very close to Stewart Park where Captain James Cook was born.

 

[Pyewipecarshed]

Apperley Bridge in West Yorkshire is a modern replacement for a station on a slightly different site which closed in the 1960s, and was named Apperley Bridge and Rawdon. The dual name would be useful because if anyone asked for a ticket to there I always felt the need to confirm it's that one and not Appley Bridge near Wigan, which sounds exactly the same when spoken! At least twice it was the Wigan one they meant.

There were other stations on the Leeds to Skipton line which had dual names but have not reopened; Newlay and Horsforth, Calverley and Rodley and Kildwick and Cross Hills spring to mind.

 

[YorksLad12]

Apperley Bridge in West Yorkshire is a modern replacement for a station on a slightly different site which closed in the 1960s, and was named Apperley Bridge and Rawdon. The dual name would be useful because if anyone asked for a ticket to there I always felt the need to confirm it's that one and not Appley Bridge near Wigan, which sounds exactly the same when spoken! At least twice it was the Wigan one they meant.

There were other stations on the Leeds to Skipton line which had dual names but have not reopened; Newlay and Horsforth, Calverley and Rodley and Kildwick and Cross Hills spring to mind.

The stations were between each village pair, which at least made sense. These days I hear people say "App-er-ley" rather than the more local "ap'ly" pronunciation.

On closed routes, slightly further south: Birkenshaw and Tong was opened in 1856 as just Birkenshaw, renamed six months later; Drighlington and Adwalton was renamed Drighlington just 28 weeks before it closed. Why rename a station you know is about to close??

 

[py_megapixel]

What about Rose Hill (Marple)? I think it would be better for it to be called Marple Rose Hill and Marple Station on the HVL be renamed Marple Central.

A better name would be Marple Bridge. It's closer to the centre of Marple than Rose Hill is, but only slightly so, and still not really in the centre.

 

[pokemonsuper9]

Ravenglass shows:
Ravenglass on the platform signs
Ravenglass for Eskdale on announcements
Ravenglass and Eskdale on the display in the train

 

[james73]

Possilpark & Parkhouse - still around
Arrochar & Tarbet - still around
Houston & Crosslee - gone

 

[xotGD]

St Andrews Road

 

[MadMac]

Possilpark & Parkhouse - still around
Arrochar & Tarbet - still around
Houston & Crosslee - gone

Priesthill and Darnley.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

Shepherds Well is Shepherdswell on the signs. I assume people in the village want to to appear correctly!

I'm sure in late BR and Network SouthEast days, it was Shepherd's Well on the station boards - even though this was incorrect. Not sure when it changed back unless it was at the start of the SouthEastern franchise

 

[Ridercross]

I can think of Churchill & Blakedown and Knowle & Dorridge that are now Blakedown and Dorridge respectively these days.

In both these cases I partly suspect this is because when the stations opened both Blakedown and Dorridge were fairly inconsequential settlements and so the GWR added the name of a larger nearby village. What then happened is the railway helped to increase the poulation of both places to a point where they justified stations being named after themselves alone.

 

[splashoutradio]

Not sure if it has been mentioned already, but North Llanrwst is to rejoin the dual-named club, when it reverts to its historical name of North Llanrwst and Trefriw.

Sources:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.da...ation-beautiful-north-wales-rail-29990158.amp

Community secure historic rename of local railway station

Janet Finch-Saunders, Member of the Welsh Parliament for Aberconwy, has spoken of her delight at the fact that Transport for Wales have agreed to fund the works to change the name of North Llanrwst railway station to “North Llanrwst and Trefriw”.

www.janetfinchsaunders.org.uk

 

[cce]

Nailsea & Backwell is another one that has changed a few times but currently has the name. The station is on the edge of Backwell and Nailsea is about a mile away, so it should probably be the other way round or "Backwell for Nailsea". But I think Nailsea was the more important place historically and probably still is.

Just along the line from there we've got Highbridge & Burnham too. Burnham on sea is definitely the more significant place but the station is very definitely in Highbridge

 

[aliceh]

SWR insist that it's 'Pokesdown for Boscombe' but for everyone else it's just plain Pokesdown. It'll always just be Pokesdown to me.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Turning the topic on its head for a moment, the city of Brighton & Hove has separate stations for each named part!

 

[Springs Branch]

Turning the topic on its head for a moment, the city of Brighton & Hove has separate stations for each named part!

In South Australia, on the Adelaide suburban rail system, there are also two successive stations named Hove and Brighton. Keeping with the English south coast theme, the trains which call there are heading to or from the line's terminus at Seaford.

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Back vaguely OT, one station which over the years couldn't decide what name(s) it wanted is Parbold.

According to WP, it opened in 1855 as Newburgh, then became Newburgh for Parbold, then swapped around to Parbold for Newburgh. By 1910 name had been shortened to just Parbold, before reverting to Parbold for Newburgh during the 20th Century

It finally settled back to Parbold under BR in the mid-1970s.