Most evocative station names

[Calthrop]

Just come to mind -- in sequence on the Derwent Valley Light Railway: Thorganby, Cottingwith, and Wheldrake. Feeling of quintessence of all things North-of-England-with Danish/Viking-flavour.

 

[EssexGonzo]

Newton Abbot. I was born in Paignton and whenever we travelled back down to Devon we'd go past the line with a large number of semaphore signals visible from the car.

And Chesham. For a couple of years when I was 5 or 6 we lived there. My first sight of a tube train was above ground in a small suburban town. Even now, I look back and find it fascinating how out of context it still looks. Although the modern trains look much more like, well, normal trains.

 

[Railops]

Borth - simply because it was where we went for our holidays when I was young and always traveled by train.

 

[Bevan Price]

Just a few:

Moss Bank. Just down the road from where we lived when I was little and close to where I probably saw my first trains. Not that we used it much - a train every few hours could not compete with trolleybuses to St. Helens every 6 minutes.

Crank - the next station towards Rainford.

Thatto Heath - where I spent much time watching steam trains, mostly in the evening after school.

Hell (Norway) - in contrast to the name, it is a fairly quiet, pleasant small town station. .

 

[Steveman]

Pant Halt.

 

[anti-pacer]

Already mentioned but CROSSMYLOOF has to be the funniest. I could just hear that in a broad Glaswegian accent. "Hey pal, ye dunnae cross my loof or I'll chib ye with my Buckie bottle, ye wee bam so ye are". ☺

Others I like... in no order.

Dent
Seascale
St Budeaux
Dunrobin Castle
IBM
Manors
Seer Green and Jordans
Berry Brow
Cherry Tree

I'd have to have a think about others. Of course Cornwall, Wales and Scotland have some corkers.

On the Underground I like...

Fairlop
Angel
Bank
Elephant & Castle
Theydon Bois

 

[ian1944]

Undoubtedly Slaggyford, between Alston and Haltwhistle. The building and platform still seem to be extant, though in private hands.

 

[matchmaker]

Arrochar & Tarbet. Two for the price of one.

Dunkeld & Birnam.

 

[pitdiver]

My favourite in thee UK must be Falls of Cruachan and Forsinard ( naughty connotations). On the continent Calais Maritime. This always evokes thoughts of long distance European rail journeys planned but never taken.

 

[SouthDevonian]

Midsomer Norton always sounded nice. I've never been there and it may not live up to its name as it was in the heart of the Somerset coalfield.

 

[Calthrop]

My favourite in thee UK must be Falls of Cruachan and Forsinard ( naughty connotations).

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have been struck by the abovementioned naughty connotations ! Had sometimes feared that concerning this, I was uniquely and reprehensibly subject to schoolboy mucky-mindedness...

 

[JohnB57]

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have been struck by the abovementioned naughty connotations ! Had sometimes feared that concerning this, I was uniquely and reprehensibly subject to schoolboy mucky-mindedness...

Yup. Such a shame that Levisham never carried the instruction "Alight here for the Hole of Horcum"...

 

[Calthrop]

Yup. Such a shame that Levisham never carried the instruction "Alight here for the Hole of Horcum"...

Had to Google this one -- fun stuff -- referred to, as a feature equivalent to the south's Devil's Punchbowl. For those of us seemingly frozen in time at the approximate age of 8 years: it turns out that there's a book titled Rude Britain -- the 100 rudest place names in Britain: in whose hierarchy the H of H comes in at eleventh place.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Some of the stations up north are certainly a funny bunch. Lazonby & Kirkoswald and Ramsgreave & Wilpshire for example!

 

[Ianno87]

Some of the stations up north are certainly a funny bunch. Lazonby & Kirkoswald and Ramsgreave & Wilpshire for example!

And Church & Oswaldtwisle!

 

[Calthrop]

Some of the stations up north are certainly a funny bunch. Lazonby & Kirkoswald and Ramsgreave & Wilpshire for example!

And Church & Oswaldtwisle!

And -- long ago -- Sledmere & Fimber.

 

[Old Yard Dog]

Hull Paragon

 

[341o2]

Ramsbottom, Effingham junction (fnarr fnarr). Not a staion, but Pyewipe near Grimsby

 

[Calthrop]

Not a staion, but Pyewipe near Grimsby

There's a virtually identical rail-associated name (though again, not an actual station) in those parts: Pye Wipe Junctions just west of Lincoln, divergence-points involving former Great Northern / Great Eastern Joint, and Great Central (ex-Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast) lines. I gather that the word is the local version of "peewit": colloquial name for the lapwing or green plover.

 

[colchesterken]

Christ's Hospital ,Makes you think they have done away with ambulances and just ferry patients in by train