The road that leads to it from the city centre is "North Station Road".
Yep, when I lived in Bristol it was universally referred to as "Temple Meads". Never heard anyone refer to it as Bristol station or the station. Always thought "Bristol Temple Meads" sounded fantastic in announcements. Dunno why, it just sounds awesome.
Do people still refer to "Gwent" in casual conversation despite it no longer existing in any administrative sense?
Both of which are historic or ceremonial counties, aren't they? Or am I being duped by the "-shire" ending? I know counties get a bit weird the other side of Offa's Dyke...
*sigh* Here's hoping if these new stations in the Newport area come about that Newport High Street is re-adopted as the official name.
Only by people trying to push a certain agenda that we won't go into here...
True, but Portsmouth (Lancs) was its name. It was in Lancashire until 1888.
That's as may be, but has the station ever officially been named 'Colchester North'?
Although then you have the debate about whether Shoreditch high street is a new station or relocated one, so it might be the former name, or it could be a former name that a new station has inherited, which opens up a whole other angle.
'Shoreditch High Street' station is built more-or-less on the site of a different one-time 'Shoreditch' station (i.e. not the former tube station), isn't it?
It's built on top of the remains of Bishopsgate station isn't it?
There may have been an earlier station at ground level but my understanding was the elevated alignment is completely new once it's left the old Broad Street approach.
The original terminus of the Eastern Counties railway was Shoreditch, which became Bishopsgate goods depot when they extended to Liverpool Street. The current station is within that site but may not be on the footprint of the original one.
I'd always assumed that it was just short for Lincoln (age 40, grew up within 20miles away)
Can anyone remember what the CRS code for Lincoln St Marks was? I arrived there on a Pleasure-Seeker excursion from Portsmouth sometime in the mid-1970s.
No CRS code is given on Railway Codes but interesting Lincoln St Marks does have the TIPLOC code of 'LINCOLN' listed while Lincoln (Central) gets 'LINCLNC'
Some attempt has been made but it's incomplete: http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/crs/crsl.shtm I believe the owner of the site is on here, so full credit to them for the remarkable effort.More to the point, has anyone kept a list of redundant codes?
Would it have pre-dated CRS codes?
Quite possibly. I can't remember exactly when they started, but I thought it was sometime in the mid-late 'seventies. I'm sure that someone on here will know!
The old GWR was, inevitably, there with such codes long before.
www.railwaycodes.org.uk
If you stand at the entrance of Deansgate station, above it is the very old name of "Knott Mill"!
I believe on the genius systems it still shows up as lyndhurst road, same with Ashford (Middlesex) which is now in surrey, and reading 4AB which is the name of the old 3rd rail platforms before reading was rebuilt
Yes, exactly. Also the building is facing the other way at the opposite ends of the platforms so it's not on the High St anyway. I think there were plans originally to have a entrance there too. Would have enticed city workers with a zone two fare but then they moved the boundary so just shoreditch high st was in zone one and that scuppered it.
Believe the station's official name (until around the time of the 1971 re-electrification to 25 KV AC) was 'Knott Mill and Deansgate' and that this had been so since c. 1900, so the distinctive old lettering to which you refer must therefore date back to before then, quite possibly as far as the mid 19th Century.
True, but I guess the only reason it got the "high street" added was because it's in a slightly different location from the old station. However as it is the only station that serves Shoreditch, it's not surprisingly that the average punter/non-RailForums user just refers to it as Shoreditch.
Agreed, but it's still not the worst named station on the network, there's far more egregious ones. But that's possibly for another thread...