As was Maud Foster.
The humorous writer Paul Jennings wrote a story in which all the characters were named after places - not all railway connected though. I haven't read it for years, but from what I remember it concerned the theft of a valuable painting - a Polperro - from a country house. The crime was investigated by Inspector Harold Wood, and suspicion fell on the faithful family retainer Old Sodbury and his son Chipping Sodbury, the village carpenter.
I never saw that one, but he also had an an essay in which place names became dictionary words, for example
dungeness = dullness, boringness (e.g. "a suburb of extraordinary dungeness")
rickmansworth = a former tax on haystacks. Usually occurs in the phrase "rickmansworth and stevenage", where stevenage was an ancient tax on stones.
glossop = idiot ("Put it down, you silly glossop")
thirsk = a desire for vodka
I love the majority of Jennings's stuff. "Place names becoming dictionary words" is a scene nowadays referred to as "Uxbridge English Dictionary" -- at which, for my money, Jennings had a beautifully delicate touch unequalled by any other exponent whom I've come across. Some other Jennings contributions in this line, treasured by me:
babbacombe = an idle or nonsensical rumour
bawtry = wind-and-weather-wise, cold / raw / blustery: "a bawtry day"
beccles = an ailment of sheep
bovey tracey = headstrong or wilful: "none of your bovey-tracey ways here, Miss !""
buckfastleigh = manfully: "Aye, and right buckfastleigh, lad !"
leek = very cold
lostwithiel = a ne'er-do-well, of a gentle and harmless kind
wembley = feeling-in-oneself, rather frail-and-wobbly
ETA -- just thought of another: kettering = flitting lightly and erratically around or along -- like a butterfly in flight