TRIVIA: Rhyming rail journeys

[urbophile]

Sheffield to Chesterfield via Dronfield is straightforward though...

Meanwhile, for those travelling first class it'll be Bath to Penarth, whilst those in standard should go from Bath to Chapel-en-le Frith.

Who pronounces Bath as Bith?

 

[Class800]

Who pronounces Bath as Bith?

No-one it's more that Bath can rhyme with Penarth

 

[Western Sunset]

With my Derbyshire accent, I can make baff rhyme with friff...

 

[duffield]

No-one it's more that Bath can rhyme with Penarth

Yes, where I was born it would have been "Baarth to Penaarth" in the posh bits and "Baarf to Penaarf" in the not-so-posh bits.

 

[Henffordd]

Surprised no one has yet risked offending the Gallophones (in several ways) by suggesting Pembroke Dock to Llanfair....gogogoch

 

[urbophile]

Surprised no one has yet risked offending the Gallophones (in several ways) by suggesting Pembroke Dock to Llanfair....gogogoch

Not a question of offence, just simple inaccuracy. They don't rhyme.

 

[Class800]

Not a question of offence, just simple inaccuracy. They don't rhyme.

DOCK and GOCK do rhyme! I mean we're speaking English not Welsh, so it's GO GO GOCK.

 

[Calthrop]

DOCK and GOCK do rhyme! I mean we're speaking English not Welsh, so it's GO GO GOCK.

Thoughts now come to mind, of Mr. Wan buying a rail ticket to the terminus of the branch which diverges at Whitland...

 

[urbophile]

DOCK and GOCK do rhyme! I mean we're speaking English not Welsh, so it's GO GO GOCK.

One of those names is English. The other is Welsh, and doesn't end in Gock but Goch. Though I'll give a pass for a Scouse speaker who would pronounce Dock as Doch.

 

[Sealink]

It's 6 pages now so sorry if someone has already posted...

Milngavie to Ardgay

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Incorporating the Manchester Metro link, Besses o' th' Barn to Abergele & Pensarn.

 

[D6130]

Rhyl to Tir-Phil?

 

[Bradford PA]

Banstead to Stansted

 

[Bradford PA]

Banstead to Stansted

Buxton to Cuxton

 

[Bradford PA]

Another couple of closed ones : Brent to Trent

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Plockton to Aslockton.

 

[GCRS]

Rhyl to Tir-Phil?

Rhyl to anywhere that ends with 'Hill'.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Burnside to West Kilbride.

 

[xotGD]

Burnside to West Kilbride.

Reminds me of "The Bill":

Burnside to Carver - Go, Go, Go!

 

[Bradford PA]

Flixton to Brixton

 

[BazingaTribe]

Yes, where I was born it would have been "Baarth to Penaarth" in the posh bits and "Baarf to Penaarf" in the non-so-posh bits.

Given the American meaning of barf, that latter pair sounds like a very rocky ride with a lot of motion sickness going on...

In the alliteration/homophone game, Walsall to Warsaw might be an interesting cross-continental trip. (When Polish immigrants started coming over in large numbers after EU accession, some people I knew in the Birmingham area Labour Party mistook the two places and got rather confused. Ironically both English and Polish share the 'dark l', where an I sound softens into a w sound when at the end of a syllable. Basically say 'bottle' like a Cockney or with a Jonathan Ross style rhotacism. Polish uses the glyph ł for the sound, but although that letter still plays an important orthographic role, the sound has become an allophone of w. And to confuse things even further, the glyph w is used for the v sound.)

Even if you use the Polish pronunciation of Varshava, you could get there from Bath Spa eventually. I've never used Rome to Rio (haven't had time to travel overland within Europe since I was at uni doing interrail in the summers) but that might be a good starting point for those journeys. Then you could do Warsaw to Prague, since in Polish/Czech you get Varshava to Praha.

 

[BazingaTribe]

Incorporating the Manchester Metro link, Besses o' th' Barn to Abergele & Pensarn.

A quick detour would also get you to Larne in Northern Ireland.

 

[BazingaTribe]

Rhyl to anywhere that ends with 'Hill'.

Also Yeovil Pen Mill.

 

[Calthrop]

A quick detour would also get you to Larne in Northern Ireland.

And -- if admitting closed stations -- Glenfarne on the one-time Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Borth to Hertford North

 

[ian1944]

Horsforth to South Gosforth

 

[Trackman]

Poulton to Bolton.
At Preston booking office once they gave me a ticket to Poulton-le-Fylde when I said 'Bolton'. Booking clerk said a lot of people simply don't say 'le-Fylde'

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Frome to Broome (posted earlier, but was buried in a list of others. Deserves repeating as Frome is apparently the most mispronounced town in England)

Shirley to Purley

Slaithwaite to Llantwit (if you drop the "Major")

 

[Sun Chariot]

In this context it's a shame there's no direct train between Cosham and Bosham.

I'm a bit late to this thread.
Southern's 1N02 (Mo-Fr) Brighton to So'ton does. Here's today's path from RTT

 

[BazingaTribe]

Prior to 1965 you'd have been able to go from Horsham to Corsham, the latter in Wiltshire. There was a great sci-fi festival in the latter place for years (we met Chris Barrie and Danny John-Jules there in the early teens, from what I'm wearing in the pictures it was 2014 I think because I obviously had some money to spend on cosplay as I'd got a job not long beforehand), but alas, you can't even fit Starbug onto a freight train, let alone a GWR intercity.