Dhassell
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"Western-Super-Mare" is one which annoys me.
Oddly, I refer to it as Meridian, and I'm only 20 (no idea when it was in or out of use...).
"Birmingham Grand Central" - Drives me absolutely mad, in my opinion, a successful plot of a commercial shopping centre to confuse people into naming the station by their entity mistakenly.
I was speaking to someone about it once, who called it Grand Central. I challenged them on it, they said they thought New Street was the old name and they were being cautious because they knew I was into trains.
I do wonder if ticket offices/guards get people asking for tickets to Grand Central.
What doesn't help is the inappropriately named tram stop. It is on the same level as the station concourse.... Just call it New Street.
(Yes, New Street isn't really on New Street, but it is it's official name...)
"Birmingham Grand Central" - Drives me absolutely mad, in my opinion, a successful plot of a commercial shopping centre to confuse people into naming the station by their entity mistakenly.
I was speaking to someone about it once, who called it Grand Central. I challenged them on it, they said they thought New Street was the old name and they were being cautious because they knew I was into trains.
I do wonder if ticket offices/guards get people asking for tickets to Grand Central.
What doesn't help is the inappropriately named tram stop. It is on the same level as the station concourse.... Just call it New Street.
(Yes, New Street isn't really on New Street, but it is it's official name...)
My grandad always called Sandwell and Dudley Bromford Lane, as it was called Oldbury & Bromford Lane. He also used to refer to Smethwick West as Smethwick Junction. Old habits die hard I suppose. Still quite a few of my passengers ask for Blackheath, when travelling to Rowley Regis.My grandmother, who lived in the Coseley area for all of the 82 years of her life, always called the local station "Deepfields".
There's been some argument over what exactly the name is: the placename didn't seem to exist before the arrival of the railways.Another oddity is some Welsh station names on station signs and Welsh announcements are different. If you board a train to Valley, it's announced as 'Y Fali' in Welsh at stations, but when you alight the train there, it's 'Y Dyffryn' on the station name plates.
What time is the last train to Grand Central?
Class! Never knew that. Do people still use Oldbury for Sandwell & Dudley? S&D it must be said is a damned stupid name.
Running via Kirkstall Forge, I assume?Via Liberation Loophole i believe it's scheduled for 03:00 Eternal.
What time is the last train to Grand Central?
Via Liberation Loophole i believe it's scheduled for 03:00 Eternal.
Running via Kirkstall Forge, I assume?
I think Meridian is still currently in use. I continue to think of it as Southern Television, which was the licence holder for the region from 1958 to 1981!
Living in Nottingham I still used to refer to 'the Midland station' for years after the establishment at Victoria was closed.
They used to be 'Wumpty Buses' in my day.I keep calling my area Central, and the local bus operator Travel West Midlands!
That reminds me of being on an southbound EC service which had come from Aberdeen. There were some oil workers on board who'd had a couple of beverages by the time I boarded at Edinburgh.In older times when people travelled less some mispronunciation was understandable. As a (very) young train spotter at what was Andover Junction, I recall the porter who tended to do the announcing would always pronounce "Cosham" as "Cossam" when locals actually pronounce it as spelled yet just a few stops along the coast "Bosham" is pronounced "Bossam" by its inhabitants! This same announcer also greeted every train arrival by yelling "AndoverANdoverAndoverJunctionnnnnn" over the tannoy but having said it so many thousands if times it just slid into something Germanic and unintelligible that sounded like "HanoverJungshernnnn". I miss those quirky days.
Via Liberation Loophole i believe it's scheduled for 03:00 Eternal.
I always would have thought whatever it primarily says on the platform signs is the name of the station. (ignoring the "home of...." bits.)Hull Paragon is called Hull Paragon though.
This is the answer but I don't understand why people who know they're doing it wrong, continue to do so and sometimes get all uppity when corrected!I think that sometimes it's just a case that people don't realise they are saying something wrong as no-one has ever corrected them, and even if they are corrected they find it difficult to actually move away from what they've always thought it to be.
I always would have thought whatever it primarily says on the platform signs is the name of the station. (ignoring the "home of...." bits.)
“The lizard line” is becoming popularThere are many people who refuse to call Crossrail "Elizabeth Line," me included.
Nobody local refers to Bath Spa as that and I don't know why GWR calls it that, as there is no Queens Square (or Green Park) any longer. Well there is, but it's not a station now. Nobody says Weston Super Mare either, unless you want to earn unfortunate comments.