Trivia:Obsolete stations names

[Mcr Warrior]

Ninian Park station was named after the Football Ground.

Certainly the one time Cardiff City stadium opened a couple of years before the railway station did.

 

[Taunton]

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Yes, it was very like that one (apparently only remaining one in the country). I believe the Avonmouth one carried imported zinc ore.

Today we live within sight of the London Cablecar, which of course has some notable similarities!

 

[AlterEgo]

Woolwich Arsenal.

The Arsenal is still there, it's just not an arsenal any more. If that makes sense!

Bat & Ball-
The pub it was named after closed many years ago

Berney Arms too!

 

[Mikey C]

Arsenal tube station is a slightly obsolete name now, after they moved to the Emirates Stadium, but is still pretty nearby!

 

[D6975]

Sevenoaks.....I believe that there has been only one since the March 1987 hurricane.

It ought to be called Eightoaks now.
The damaged trees were replaced, vandalised and replaced again, this time with one to spare.

 

[weepingwillowb]

Yes, it was very like that one (apparently only remaining one in the country). I believe the Avonmouth one carried imported zinc ore.

Today we live within sight of the London Cablecar, which of course has some notable similarities!

I occasionally travel on a bus which passes under the ropeway, which is powered solely by gravity (the ropeway, not the bus), and had no idea how big the whole operation is. The brickworks and ropeway would be must sees if opened to the public over Heritage Weekend.

 

[AndyNLondon]

There are many examples of this up and down the country. Haringey (the local council) and Harringay (the railway station). Styvechale/Stivichall (a suburb of Coventry where both spellings are frequently seen)...

Haringey vs Harringay isn't a spelling confusion: Harringay is a local area (which gives its name to two stations) within the larger borough of Haringey (see e.g. https://harringayonline.com/page/harringay-vs-haringey-vs-harringaygreenlanes from a local community site, which somehow manages to avoid making the "so good they named it twice" joke...) Tottenham and Muswell Hill are both in Haringey, but not part of Harringey!

 

[Old Yard Dog]

There is no easy access between Stanlow & Thornton and Thornton Science Park (formerly Thornton Research Centre) or Thornton-le-Moors village. A workers' mini-bus used to connect the railway station with Thornton Research Centre but that was withdrawn in the early 1980s. It is now a long walk around the outside of the fence between the station and science park, indeed it is a shorter and more pleasant walk from Ince & Elton station. The comparison is now academic, of course, as Stanlow & Thornton is "temporarily" closed and the trains are inconveniently timed for Thornton scientists.

 

[Lucan]

Battle.

The fighting stopped over 950 years ago.

 

[WesternBiker]

Even better, for one of youthful years, it had a miniature railway to ride on.

I still regret returning to the station one afternoon, possibly mud-strewn, probably summer 1962, and finding two 3-car Derby suburban dmus about to depart in opposite directions for Bristol TM. We had come out via Avonmouth, the porter said why not go back the opposite route. But we had passed, at St Andrews Road, a fascinating aerial ropeway with buckets conveying chemical raw material from the docks to the ICI factory, right overhead the railway, which I had never seen before and wanted to see again. So we went back the same way. Disappointingly, it had now stopped for the day.

What a lovely story. Did you get to travel the other way at all, via Pilning Low Level, before it closed?

 

[BeijingDave]

Haringey vs Harringay isn't a spelling confusion: Harringay is a local area (which gives its name to two stations) within the larger borough of Haringey (see e.g. https://harringayonline.com/page/harringay-vs-haringey-vs-harringaygreenlanes from a local community site, which somehow manages to avoid making the "so good they named it twice" joke...) Tottenham and Muswell Hill are both in Haringey, but not part of Harringey!

But they are competing alternative spellings for the same place, way before the existence of modern London Boroughs!

In that sense, Harringay is surely similar to Styvechale/Stivichall, Borehamwood/Boreham Wood and so on...

 

[THC]

Braintree Freeport, named for the adjacent retail experience, which has these last three years been known as Braintree Village.

THC

 

[Teflon988]

Martin's Heron (nothing to do with a bird),but an obsolete old word hurn meaning nook or corner of land.

 

[Komma]

White Hart lane was never the official name of Tottenham's stadium, it was adopted by the fans as it was the road that led to the ground.
Arsenal station is and always will be to me Gillespie Road. When ever I had to go to that ground, I always asked for a return to Gillespie Road. Much to the bemusement of the ticket office.
Bushey station used to be Bushey and Oxhey station and to me, it should be called Oxhey station as that is where it is located.

 

[adrock1976]

White Hart lane was never the official name of Tottenham's stadium, it was adopted by the fans as it was the road that led to the ground.
Arsenal station is and always will be to me Gillespie Road. When ever I had to go to that ground, I always asked for a return to Gillespie Road. Much to the bemusement of the ticket office.
Bushey station used to be Bushey and Oxhey station and to me, it should be called Oxhey station as that is where it is located.

On the London Underground's District Line, is Upton Park named after that area of West Ham or the informal name of West Ham FC's former stadium?

The former stadium was really called Boleyn Ground rather than Upton Park, similar as how the real name of Arsenal's present stadium is Ashburton Grove rather than Emirates.

 

[Mikey C]

On the London Underground's District Line, is Upton Park named after that area of West Ham or the informal name of West Ham FC's former stadium?

The former stadium was really called Boleyn Ground rather than Upton Park, similar as how the real name of Arsenal's present stadium is Ashburton Grove rather than Emirates.

The area Upton Park existed before the stadium was built.

Upton Park is the area, and Boleyn is the name of the stadium (which also has historic roots) so actually more similar to the old Arsenal ground, called the Arsenal Stadium but also Highbury after the area. Ashburton Grove isn't an area, but rather an obliterated road!

 

[The exile]

Indeed. Quite how they thought it was a suitable place for a seaside resort is beyond me, but I understand at one point it even had a swimming pool, funfair and boating lake.

I believe that one of the “selling points” was the fact that Gloucestershire had more liberal licensing laws than Bristol.

 

[davetheguard]

According to Wiki, the well is still there and flourishing, "now in a small housing made of dressed granite". Its wish-granting capacity of course depends on what one chooses to believe...

I think Geoff & Vicki Marshall did a Youtube video on the Looe branch at some stage that included a visit to the wishing well.

Blackfriars (the priory from which the district took its name was closed by Henry VIII in 1538)

At least the rather splendid Blackfriar pub is still there just across the road from the north bank entrance. And I'm sure you can hear the rumble of the Waterloo & City Line from the pub's Gents' toilet!

 

[Trog]

I have often wondered about the station of Tring no where near the village of Tring but it is in the hamlet of Tring Station, so does that make it Tring Station station, and thus the Hamlet Tring Station Station Station.... etc etc Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch watch out Tring Station Station Station Station Station Station Station Station Station.... etc coming through.

 

[William3000]

There are many examples of this up and down the country. Haringey (the local council) and Harringay (the railway station). Styvechale/Stivichall (a suburb of Coventry where both spellings are frequently seen)...

Whittlesey’s railway station also still uses the older spelling Whittlesea .

 

[Wolfie]

It's still officially known as St Albans Abbey, though (as are several other former abbey churches).

Including Westminster....

 

[DelW]

I have often wondered about the station of Tring no where near the village of Tring but it is in the hamlet of Tring Station, so does that make it Tring Station station, and thus the Hamlet Tring Station Station Station.... etc etc Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch watch out Tring Station Station Station Station Station Station Station Station Station.... etc coming through.

See also Micheldever Station, Ratho Station, and possibly others.

At least Tring Station and Micheldever Station still have the stations they're named after. Ratho Station, over a mile from Ratho itself on the other side of the M8, no longer has. So it's a village named after a now non-existent station. Halwill Junction has a similar status.

 

[xotGD]

See also Micheldever Station, Ratho Station, and possibly others.

At least Tring Station and Micheldever Station still have the stations they're named after. Ratho Station, over a mile from Ratho itself on the other side of the M8, no longer has. So it's a village named after a now non-existent station. Halwill Junction has a similar status.

See also Trimdon Station in County Durham.

 

[Magdalia]

Haringey vs Harringay isn't a spelling confusion: Harringay is a local area (which gives its name to two stations) within the larger borough of Haringey (see e.g. https://harringayonline.com/page/harringay-vs-haringey-vs-harringaygreenlanes from a local community site, which somehow manages to avoid making the "so good they named it twice" joke...) Tottenham and Muswell Hill are both in Haringey, but not part of Harringey!

Harringay, Hornsey and Haringey are all variants of a Saxon settlement name. None of them are obsolete. The Haringey spelling was adopted by the London Borough created in 1965. The -ey ending can also be found in, for example, Finchley and Hackney.

Ashburton Grove isn't an area, but rather an obliterated road!

Ashburton Grove was a refuse tip.

Whittlesey’s railway station also still uses the older spelling Whittlsea.

Whittlesea I don't think of as an obsolete name. It is just one example of the Great Eastern Railway's habitual spelling eccentricity. I put it in the same category as Spelbrook, Felstead, Coldham Lane Junction, Long Stanton and Fulbourne.

 

[Haywain]

Whittlesea I don't think of as an obsolete name. It is just one example of the Great Eastern Railway's habitual spelling eccentricity.

It's just an old name, that was almost certainly in common use when the railway arrived and, even now, is in use for some purposes such as the Straw Bear Festival. It's definitely not eccentric spelling.

 

[Magdalia]

The -ea ending fits with other local place names, such as Eastrea, Stonea and Manea, though not Thorney. And use of Whittlesea for the Straw Bear Festival clearly demonstrates that it is not obsolete.

But it is not clear to me whether the -ea and -ey endings are interchangeable. One for the etymologists.

And I wonder if it is the Great Eastern influence that resulted in Guyhirne on the GN/GE Joint Line.

 

[Dr Hoo]

Not so much an obsolete station name, though - the station has never ever been on New Street.

(After some while.)
When the original Birmingham New Street opened in 1854 it could only sensibly be accessed from New Street through a station approach that was called, err, Station Approach. I suppose that a pedant would say that it should have been called Birmingham Station Approach.
The area next to the station was soon re-developed as Stephenson Place and Stephenson Street, giving a clearer distinction from New Street.

 

[urbophile]

The Arsenal is still there, it's just not an arsenal any more. If that makes sense!


Berney Arms too!

Old Roan too.

 

[trainmania100]

Newhaven harbour.
There's no public access to the marina, nor the port without going past Newhaven town station and over the swingbridge. The closest to any harbour you'll get is the beach between Seaford and Newhaven marine agg terminal. No boats.

They might as well rename harbour to Newhaven Marine, I guess you can see the boats but it's somewhat misleading. If you're a resident living near Newhaven harbour then great. If you want the harbour, get off at town. For the harbour side cafes and boat yards are on the other side of the river

 

[Haywain]

Newhaven harbour.
There's no public access to the marina, nor the port without going past Newhaven town station and over the swingbridge. The closest to any harbour you'll get is the beach between Seaford and Newhaven marine agg terminal. No boats.

Doesn't the ferry to Dieppe go from right next to the station?