Most evocative station names

[Welly]

Adlestrop.

There's a poem about that station

 

[Railops]

Kyle of Lochalsh.

One of my favourite places in the world.

 

[LowLevel]

I'd go for Bristol Temple Meads or Exeter St Davids. Probably due to the GWR's PR machine.

Birmingham New Street as well. If only because it's the heart of network and I can still if I think about it hear Phil Sayer booming 'Birmingham New Street, this is Birmingham New Street' in the grimy depths in my mind.

 

[Busaholic]

Snodland - the name says it all about the place.

 

[backontrack]

Georgemas Junction, Scotscalder, Golspie, Dunrobin Castle and Brora.

 

[156443]

Drigg - just the name of it evokes industry


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[backontrack]

Drigg - just the name of it evokes industry


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Aspatria is along that line - pronounced 'Spee-â-tree'.

 

[Gathursty]

Falls of Cruachan - Very Lord of the Rings
Godley - it's not
Blackpool Pleasure Beach - indeed
Luxulyan - It's such an odd name, it inspires investigation.

 

[Springs Branch]

These are the images which certain station names evoke in me:-

Rose Grove - another of those cheques returned stamped "Insufficient Funds". Reminds me of the hospital euphemism Rose Cottage.

Hag Fold - what it says on the box - two hard-faced slappers wheeling their pushchairs through a bleak northern council estate.

Church & Oswaldtwistle - two eccentric old blokes in flat caps wandering up a hilly street, Last of the Summer Wine-style (I know it's the wrong county!).

Effingham Junction - briefcase-carrying commuter in suit looking at watch and tutting (my view is coloured by reading Modern Railways in the past).

Pewsey - Colonel Faversham (retd.) standing at attention, brolly tightly furled, waiting for the morning train to Paddington.

Kirkby - a sudden, unexpected punch in the face from a random stranger.

Slough - come friendly bombs ......

 

[Scouseinmanc]

Bramley & Wonersh

Wetwang

Sible & Castle Hedingham

Loch Skerrow

Strata Florida

On the way in to work this morning, 2 more came to mind:

Dover Marine

My favourite - French Drove & Gedney Hill

 

[DarloRich]

so a list of our favorite stations then? I will choose Darlington although I like my little personal station at Fenny Stratford

Although my favorite name is either Luxulyan or Achnashellach or Briech

 

[Aldaniti]

My favourite evocative station name has to be Kingussie.

Over the years I've heard it pronounced literally, Kingoosie, Kinussie and Kinoosie. Always used to enjoy the various station announcers tackling it when announcing the arrival of The Clansman.

 

[edwin_m]

I'm not sure I can even think of the name Wednesbury without thinking of it in a very strong West Midlands accent.

That's how I think of "Dood-laay".

 

[Railsigns]

Anywhere with "Junction" in its name infers a degree of importance, not always matched by reality.

 

[AJM580]

Starcross, Dawlish Warren, Dawlish, Teignmouth - hearing those names conjures up memories of mid 80's trips with 45s, 47s and 50s down that way

 

[47271]

Breich

 

[cf111]

Edinburgh Waverley is a very grand name. There seems to me to be a move towards referring to it as just "Edinburgh" in recent times, which is a shame.

 

[backontrack]

Edinburgh Waverley is a very grand name. There seems to me to be a move towards referring to it as just "Edinburgh" in recent times, which is a shame.

Indeed.

What about Upper Tyndrum?

 

[Kendalian]

Indeed.

What about Upper Tyndrum?

Sounds better than when it was Tyndrum Upper

What about Crossmyloof?

 

[backontrack]

Sounds better than when it was Tyndrum Upper

What about Crossmyloof?

I'll see your Crossmyloof and raise you Dunlop. And Stewarton. And Auchinleck, Kirkconnel and Sanquhar.

 

[DasLunatic]

I'll see your Crossmyloof and raise you Dunlop. And Stewarton. And Auchinleck, Kirkconnel and Sanquhar.

... a Quintuple Scottish Bypass? But... you can't make that move unless you're in Nidd!

 

[edwin_m]

Arrochar & Tarbet. Two for the price of one.

 

[backontrack]

... a Quintuple Scottish Bypass? But... you can't make that move unless you're in Nidd!

See the 1987 ruling addressed by a guideline in the Pimlico (another one!) Proviso.

 

[RichmondCommu]

Clapham Junction. On the 12th December 1988 thanks to an appalling attitude to safety and rolling stock not fit for purpose I was lucky not to lose my life.

 

[John Luxton]

To me on a personal basis the most evocative station names were Penzance and Exeter St David's. In my late teens early 20s used to travel to West Country from Liverpool departure from Lime St was around 09:20 if I recall correctly with a relief SO 09:15? train to Paignton which went via Hereford & Severn Tunnel.

Penzance and the last mile of tack after the train comes through the bridge near the old Marazion station ... Since 1982 I drive down now but still get that buzz when I glimpse St Michael's Mount for the first time!

John

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Newhaven Marine!

 

[Zamracene749]

If we are having stations abroad, I usually sigh thirstily when I hear the name 'Plzen' and have a childish snigger when I pass through 'Horni Police' (on the Decin-Liberec line) in the Czech Republic.

In the UK I think Dunrobin Castle is evocative of some retired riever in a huge grey stone edifice, British Steel Redcar says it all, Hazel Grove and Rose Hill sound much lovelier than they really are and just for pure roll off the tongue- Poppleton...

 

[Calthrop]

If we are having stations abroad, I... have a childish snigger when I pass through 'Horni Police' (on the Decin-Liberec line) in the Czech Republic.

Continuing on “Eastern-Europe-related-minds-in-the-gutter” theme -- this recalls the station near Kłodzko in south-west Poland, with the name of Bardo Śląskie. With the Polish word for “very”, being “bardzo”: on first seeing the name of this place, I couldn’t refrain from pseudo-interpreting it as “Very Salacious” – while knowing with head, that the S-word in the name refers to the Polish form of Silesia, the surrounding region.

 

[oldman]

It's the sequences that bring back memories for me. Prestatyn, Rhyl, Abergele, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno Junction, Deganwy and Llandudno. An endless stream of black fives on a summer Saturday at Chester General.

 

[47271]

It's the sequences that bring back memories for me. Prestatyn, Rhyl, Abergele, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno Junction, Deganwy and Llandudno. An endless stream of black fives on a summer Saturday at Chester General.

Luton-Leagrave-Harlington-Flitwick & Bedford.