Trivia: Colourful station names

[341o2]

Liverpool Lime Street

Any station in Liverpool counts as Liver is a colour (or shade of a colour)
As is Sand, Camber Sands on the former Rye & Camber
Romney Sands on the RH&D.
Sand Hutton Light railway
On the national network Sandal & Aggbrigg, Sandbach, Sanderstead, Sandhills, Sandhurst, Sandling, Sandown, Sandplace, Sandwell & Dudley, Sandwich, and Sandy
Wheat is also another shade of brown - Wheathampstead
Likewise Dun - Bridge of Dun
Tan - Tan-y- Bwlch and Tanygrisau

 

[Calthrop]

Any station in Liverpool counts as Liver is a colour (or shade of a colour)
As is Sand, Camber Sands on the former Rye & Camber
Romney Sands on the RH&D.
Sand Hutton Light railway
On the national network Sandal & Aggbrigg, Sandbach, Sanderstead, Sandhills, Sandhurst, Sandling, Sandown, Sandplace, Sandwell & Dudley, Sandwich, and Sandy
Wheat is also another shade of brown - Wheathampstead
Likewise Dun - Bridge of Dun
Tan - Tan-y- Bwlch and Tanygrisau

(My bolding) -- Since we're getting into "abandoned" stuff -- on the Midland & Great Northern Joint system, which I greatly love: Bluestone (between Melton Constable and North Walsham).

 

[D6130]

Greystones on Dublin - Rosslare line

See post #39 (also for Blackrock on the same line).

 

[341o2]

I see oak has been mentioned, a colour I associate with fence paint, but Burnt Oak, Gospel Oak Oakworth, and Sevenoaks don't appear to have been mentioned.
Camel - Camelford.
What a pity there was never a station at Vandyke Jcn on the Leighton Buzzard sand railway.
Canary Warf
Flint
Rose Grove

 

[61653 HTAFC]

At this point, there are probably shades in the Dulux archives called things like Hag Fold and Six Mile Bottom. They must be running out of names by now!

 

[leytongabriel]

Green Park
Wood Green
Greenwich
Whitechapel
Bounds Green
Stepney Green
Golders Green
Greenford

 

[D6130]

Nailsea & Blackwell
Mottisfont & Dunbridge

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Nailsea & Blackwell
Mottisfont & Dunbridge

It's Nailsea & Backwell

 

[D6130]

It's Nailsea & Backwell

Aye, Cap'n Mainwaring....ah wuz just testin' ye there!

 

[Springs Branch]

At this point, there are probably shades in the Dulux archives called things like Hag Fold and Six Mile Bottom. They must be running out of names by now!

Even before this thread came along, I had always thought Chatelherault sounded like a pretentiously-named shade of paint which might appeal to a nice middle-class couple doing a rather tasteful house renovation.


While in that neck of the woods, and now we're up to post #70, so presumably allowed to start getting silly:-

Not a colour per se, more a pattern involving bright combinations of colours: Paisley - in three colourful variants, classic 'Gilmour Street', hipster 'Canal' and upmarket 'St James'. Available from a retailer near you.

 

[Future]

Ivybridge
Hayle
Redruth
Reddish (South and North)
Also, might be pushing it but: Gun(metal)nislake and St E(a)rth

 

[snowball]

Pontefract Tanhill
Stanford-le-Hope
Stanlow and Thornton
Whatstandwell

Cherry Tree

 

[Purple Train]

Pontefract Tanhill
Stanford-le-Hope
Stanlow and Thornton
Whatstandwell

Cherry Tree

Tanshelf

I volunteer Appley Bridge and Appleby.

 

[SteveyBee131]

A few perhaps slightly obscure ones I don't remember being mentioned yet...

Kirk Sandall
Sandal & Agbrigg
South Elmsall
Meadowhall

 

[randyrippley]

Not sure if this Trivia has been covered so please feel free to post any links if its already been covered.

But examples of colourful stations are Wylde Green and Whitehaven. Wonder if theres more??

not much colour in Whitehaven.................

If Irish stations are allowed - and the title of the thread doesn't specify that they're not - how about Blackrock and Greystones?

Or Dublin if you want to speak Irish

or maybe Penrith as detailed in this reply by "The Prisoner" in the Welsh names thread

Trivia: Stations in England with Welsh names

Eryl definitely now says Salisbury. Does say Harbwr Portsmouth though. Are you sure? When did that change? Every time i have been to Cardiff Central and Newport it has always been "Caersallog" he says. Parallel just posted a new video on youtube this morning and it is still "Caersallog" on...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[341o2]

Orange on the SNCF Paris to Lyon mainline, fond memories of taking part in a performance of Rigoletto at the former Roman amphithetre in the town

 

[D6130]

Montrouge in the South Western suburbs of Paris.

 

[341o2]

Blanche, Chemin Vert, Luis Blanc, Maison Blanche and Croix-Rouge (cl 1939) on the Paris Metro

 

[318259]

National Rail Scotland:

Blackridge
Greenock Central
Greenock West
Greenfaulds
Whitecraigs

Edinburgh Trams:

Balgreen (Edinburgh Trams)

Berlin S-Bahn:

Grünau
Grünbergallee
(Ignoring Grunewald because it has a u and not a ü)

Berlin U-Bahn:

Rotes Rathaus
(Ignoring Rosa-Luxemborg-Platz because, although 'rosa' means pink, it's someone's name)
(Ignoring Schwartzkopffstrasse because although 'schwarz' and 'schwartze' mean 'black', 'schwartz' does not)

 

[John Griffiths]

Fawdon (Tyne & Wear Metro) derives from the Old English for 'hill of many colours'.

The next station, Wansbeck Road, suggests an absence
of colour, though.