Trivia: Station names that phonetically spell that of famous people

[PTR 444]

Any open or disused station on a heavy rail, metro, heritage or light rail line within the UK are allowed, as well as former names of stations that have since been renamed. The purpose of this thread is to combine station names so that they form a name which sounds like that of a famous person. For example:

Witney Euston (Whitney Houston)
Lewes Hamilton (Lewis Hamilton)

Can you think of any others?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Is there a 'Hamilton' station?

Hamilton Central or Hamilton West, isn't it?

 

[birchesgreen]

Chester Rhodes is apparently a character in a TV show (Prison Break - not seen it to be honest)

Aspley Guise, Bow Brickhill, Kempston Hardwick, Fenny Stratford and Stewartby are characters in a 1930s whodunnit novel, or if not they should be.

 

[Gloster]

Aspley Guise, Bow Brickhill, Kempston Hardwick, Fenny Stratford and Stewartby are characters in a 1930s whodunnit novel, or if not they should be.

Nearer than you might think. In one of Georgette Heyer’s detective novels, Duplicate Death from 1951 (I think), most of the major characters have surnames the same as place names, mostly in the North-East. I can remember a Beulah Birtley and a Colonel Cartmel.

 

[Peter C]

Aspley Guise, Bow Brickhill, Kempston Hardwick, Fenny Stratford and Stewartby are characters in a 1930s whodunnit novel, or if not they should be.

Aren't they friends with Bertie Wooster...?

-Peter

 

[Magdalia]

Gordon Hill played for Manchester United including their 1977 FA Cup winning team.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Gordon Hill played for Manchester United including their 1977 FA Cup winning team.

But is that a combination of (two) station names?

 

[Herefordian]

Marton Par.
Martin Parr, a photographer who was the cameraman for It's Nice Up North.

It was also his birthday yesterday.

 

[Railsigns]

Dolau Parton.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Angus Deighton, former HIGNFY host and next door neighbour to Victor Meldrew.
Rod Hull (and Emu).
Tina Weymouth, bass player with the Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club.

Edit- I clearly missed part of the OP's rules. Apologies!

One that I think sort-of fits if I've got the gist this time: the famous weather forecaster St Michaels Fishguard Harbour.

Blackrod Stewartby

 

[Springs Branch]

There's an American TV series called Revenge, where one of the main protagonists is Ashley Davenport (incidentally from Croydon, according to the narrative, rather than leafy Cheshire)

Agatha Christie's fictional sleuth Miss Jane Marple was a confirmed spinster and never married.
Her lesser-known younger sister Rose, on the other hand, married a Captain Hill, formerly an officer in the British Indian Army - subsequently changing her name to Rose Hill-Marple.


Question: Have we had a thread in the past where a single station is used to form a plausible name? I'm thinking Bruce Grove; Colin Dale; Ed Monton-Green etc. Given the eclectic range of 'Trivia' threads on here, we must have.

 

[Railsigns]

Stirling Moss.
Marton Clunes.

 

[Magdalia]

Question: Have we had a thread in the past where a single station is used to form a plausible name? I'm thinking Bruce Grove; Colin Dale; Ed Monton-Green etc. Given the eclectic range of 'Trivia' threads on here, we must have.

Gordon Hill played for Manchester United including their 1977 FA Cup winning team.

Indeed, why use two stations when you only need one.

I don't know if Gordon had a brother Lawrence.

I think that Big Les Wade and Sandy Huntingdon should have been a pair of 4th division central defenders from the 1970s.

 

[adc82140]

Any open or disused station on a heavy rail, metro, heritage or light rail line within the UK are allowed, as well as former names of stations that have since been renamed. The purpose of this thread is to combine station names so that they form a name which sounds like that of a famous person. For example:

Witney Euston (Whitney Houston)
Lewes Hamilton (Lewis Hamilton)

Can you think of any others?

Does anyone have a rail ticket marked "valid for one journey from Lewes to Hamilton"?

 

[Purple Train]

Question: Have we had a thread in the past where a single station is used to form a plausible name? I'm thinking Bruce Grove; Colin Dale; Ed Monton-Green etc. Given the eclectic range of 'Trivia' threads on here, we must have.

I do that with Milton Keynes squares. There are surprisingly many plausible names, though I think my favourite is Stan Tonbury-Campus.

 

[D6130]

1950s American film star Alexandra Palace?....no, I thought not!

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

You could have the Nottingham tram stop David (Lane) and Attenborough.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Does anyone have a rail ticket marked "valid for one journey from Lewes to Hamilton"?

That would make a good Grand Tour challenge... Lewis Hamilton ferrying Jeremy Clarkson in a Morris Marina versus Hammond and May using the trains!

 

[12LDA28C]

Question: Have we had a thread in the past where a single station is used to form a plausible name? I'm thinking Bruce Grove; Colin Dale; Ed Monton-Green etc. Given the eclectic range of 'Trivia' threads on here, we must have.

Good idea. Rick Mansworth and Don Caster?

 

[Old Yard Dog]

Rose Hill - the actress best known for playing Madame Fanny La Fan in 'Allo 'Allo