Historic station name changes

[didcotdean]

And line the said Station Road with railway built & owned houses.

I hadn't realised the road from Didcot to Wantage was a turnpike - interesting. I wonder what the pre-turnpike route from the ancient towns of Wallingford to Wantage would have been? Via Abingdon? Or way back, via the Ridgeway?

There is the further possibility that it was an upgrade to a pre-existing route. The toll house itself lasted long enough to be photographed.

The road through Didcot village itself was NE-SW orientated from the Hagbournes towards Abingdon, roughly along present day Park Road-Foxhall Road-Lydalls Road-Cow Lane although some of these have been straightened or re-aligned over the years. Before Station Road was built the station was accessed via a short stub off Lydalls Road.

 

[WL113]

Great Barr was renamed Hamstead in 1974. Just along the line Bescot became Bescot Stadium after the new Walsall FC ground opened in 1990. The football stadium then got renamed Banks's Stadium in 2007...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Just along the line Bescot became Bescot Stadium after the new Walsall FC ground opened in 1990. The football stadium then got renamed Banks's Stadium in 2007...

Think that's just for sponsorship purposes, which might possibly be coming to an end sometime soon.

Link to webstory...

SADDLERS RAISE A GLASS TO BANKS'S SPONSORSHIP DEAL

Beer supplier extends sponsorship until summer of 2022.

www.saddlers.co.uk

 

[Bevan Price]

Back in the 19th Century, Earlestown & Newton Le Willows were once Newton Junction and Newton Bridge.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Back in the 19th Century, Earlestown & Newton Le Willows were once Newton Junction and Newton Bridge.

The first of these two nearby stations has also previously been known as 'Earlestown Junction' and (perhaps more confusingly, for almost a decade) 'Warrington Junction'.

 

[Western 52]

Swansea was Swansea High Street.
Ardgay was Bonar Bridge.

 

[Pigeon]

Ardgay was Bonar Bridge.

Fnarr fnarr.

 

[Springs Branch]

Have we had the two contenders on Merseyrail? . . . .

• Marsh Lane & Strand Road became Bootle New Strand in 1968.
• Preston Road became Rice Lane in 1984.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which stations had an official "for" in its official name? Llandaf was "for Whitchurch" for example whilst Quakers Yard is known locally and unofficially "for Edwardsville and Treharris" as it is in the former.

Newton for Hyde is still such a station.

On the matter of station renamings, these were quite prevalent in the early days of the railways. Fazakerley is a good example, with two renamings in its first twelve years of existence after being opened by the Liverpool and Bury Railway:-
1848 ... Opened as Simonswood
1850 ... Renamed Aintree
1860 ... Renamed Fazakerley.

 

[JBuchananGB]

Squirrels Heath & Gidea Park opened in that name in 1910.
By 1914 it had become Gidea Park & Squirrels Heath.
It was built to serve the Romford Garden Suburb.
It is now known simply as Gidea Park. (Since 1969)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

'Bare Lane' station was apparently opened as 'Poulton-le-Sands' when it first opened in August 1864, but only operated under its original moniker, for less than three months, before then being changed in October 1864.

P.S. Wonder if this is the shortest-lived name that a station has ever had following its opening?

 

[D6130]

'Bare Lane' station was apparently opened as 'Poulton-le-Sands' when it first opened in August 1864, but only operated under its original moniker, for less than three months, before then being changed in October 1864.

I've often wondered why this station isn't just called 'Bare', as it's situated in the village - now a suburb of Morecambe - of that name. Perhaps such a name would have offended Victorian sensibilities?