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St Helens Shaw Street was renamed to St Helens Central in the late 80s
Godstone in Surrey, a sizeable village, is nowhere near its station. Subsequently a settlement has grown up around this, which is known as Godstone Station.'Road' is another suffix that has been mentioned as either removed, or leading to renamings. One interesting one is Micheldever, originally opened as Andover Road but renamed after the village it is approximately 2.5 miles from. However, after the station opened a small village developed around the station and this village is... Micheldever Station!
Have any other villages (or suburbs) gained their name from a railway station?
Tring Station is a locality in the same way as Micheldever. It's actually nearer to Aldbury than Tring.'Road' is another suffix that has been mentioned as either removed, or leading to renamings. One interesting one is Micheldever, originally opened as Andover Road but renamed after the village it is approximately 2.5 miles from. However, after the station opened a small village developed around the station and this village is... Micheldever Station!
Have any other villages (or suburbs) gained their name from a railway station?
Though replying myself may be bad form, I've just remembered that the station was briefly renamed Llandudno and Llanrwst Junction after the opening of its second branch line, though that name didn't stick.Llandudno Junction is another obvious one. The locale was initially known as Tremarl, but hardly anyone even knows about that name anymore.
Tooting was Tooting Junction
Aldrington was originally Dyke Junction Halt
Staines Central was Staines Junction
Purley was Caterham Junction
Redhill was Redhill Junction
Swanley Junction station closed in 1939 replaced with resited present Swanley station
Tonbridge was Tonbridge Junction
Wivelsfield was Keymer Junction
Purley, previously Caterham Junction, was originally named Godstone Road. Double whammy?'Road' is another suffix that has been mentioned as either removed, or leading to renamings. One interesting one is Micheldever, originally opened as Andover Road but renamed after the village it is approximately 2.5 miles from. However, after the station opened a small village developed around the station and this village is... Micheldever Station!
Have any other villages (or suburbs) gained their name from a railway station?
Feniton has quite the history of name changes including a long spell asHow many stations have lost the suffix "Junction"?
I can think of two, Waterloo Junction became Waterloo East and Lewisham just dropped Junction.
If RailSCOT is accurate, the current station - replacing the original 1858-97 station on the east side of Dumbarton Road on the present-day Singer line - was known as Dalmuir from opening in 1897* to 1952 and from 1973 onwards; it being called Dalmuir Park for the period inbetween the latter two years. The station opened in 1896 by the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway was renamed Dalmuir Riverside in 1952, a name it retained until closure in October 1964. Presumably the 1952 name changes were intended to finally put a end to the confusion between the two stations, not that it mattered in the long term with Riverside closing outright just 12 years later.Dalmuir was known as Dalmuir Park until the late 1970s.
'Road' is another suffix that has been mentioned as either removed, or leading to renamings.
One interesting one is Micheldever, originally opened as Andover Road but renamed after the village it is approximately 2.5 miles from. However, after the station opened a small village developed around the station and this village is... Micheldever Station!
Have any other villages (or suburbs) gained their name from a railway station?
This has it as harbour hotel stn.Didnt Newhaven Marine get called Newhaven Harbour for a while and was designated platform 3 even though it really could be considered a separate station ?
I think you will find it was Sidmouth Junction. Seaton Junction was a good ten miles or so further towards London - between Axminster and Honiton - and it never reopened.Feniton has quite the history of name changes including a long spell as Seaton Junction,
Halwill Junction.The village of Halwell Junction in Devon named after the station,
Oops! I literally had the wikipedia page open in another tab, and still typed the wrong East Devon resort!I think you will find it was Sidmouth Junction. Seaton Junction was a good ten miles or so further towards London - between Axminster and Honiton - and it never reopened.
Yes, but only between its opening in 1847 and c. 1860.Wasnt Oxenholme 'Kendal Junction' at one point?
Have any other villages (or suburbs) gained their name from a railway station?
How many stations have lost the suffix "Junction"?
Apparently, it only received nameplates "St. Helens Shaw Street" in 1948, previously having been plain "St.Helens". However, the name Shaw Street had been used in Bradshaw since before 1900.St Helens Shaw Street was renamed to St Helens Central in the late 80s
Ticket office is in Bebington then!In my former local area, Bebington & New Ferry changed simply to Bebington. However geographically the current Liverpool bound platform is located in Bebington and the Chester / Ellesmere Port Platform (former island) is located in New Ferry.
I think Didcot -later renamed Didcot Parkway- was known as Didcot Junction in the very early days of railways; the town didn't exist, it was just a village of 200 or so people, and the station was opened purely to allow interchange with the line to Oxford.
The station is listed as Didcot (Junction) in its early appearances in the Bradshaw Companion, but similarly there is Swindon (Junction) so could just be a descriptor. The GWR did have to build a road from Didcot station to connect with the Wantage turnpike (the present day Station Road and Broadway respectively).