Trivia: Station nicknames

[Class800]

I think almost all of these are local names, used informally by some people, but not really used in railway business, but it doesn't matter, still interesting. The Slaithwaite/Slawit one was done by a guard doing announcements.

St Awful = St Austell?

 

[Neo9320]

Willington has a local abbreviation similar to Doncaster….

 

[Strathclyder]

Likewise most people in Scotland probably know Glasgow Central simply as Central.

This is the example that instantly sprung to mind when I saw the thread, even with Helensburgh, Dumbarton, Coatbridge, Hamilton & Greenock all having similarly named stations.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Pontefract = ponte Carlo

Anyone guess where st awful is?

Cornwall's biggest town?

 

[quattromatt]

Cornwall's biggest town?

You win a cookie.

 

[DorkingMain]

Berrylands used to be known as "Smellylands" thanks to the water treatment plant next to the station.

 

[johntea]

My old boss from a slightly rougher part of West Yorkshire also often used to nickname Starbeck 'St Arbeck' because he didn't reckon the original name was posh enough for Harrogate

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Nearby Wombwell also had it's name corrupted to sound like an organ.

I think that's the correct pronunciation, not a corruption... though I'm prepared to be corrected on that.

 

[thenorthern]

Older people still call Manchester Piccadilly it's former name London Road and they often call Deansgate it's former name Knott Mill.

 

[warwickshire]

Alty for altrincham station in Trafford Manchester.
Nicknamed very locally among the locals from south Trafford derives from sale and altrincham ie sale and alty.
2. Dorridge station in west Midlands.
Also nicknamed knowle. With the locals ie dorridge and knowle.

 

[MadMac]

Pollokshields East has been christened “Banglashields” in some circles due to the local populace having their origins in the Indian sub-continent. Croy is also referred to as “The Vatican” as it has a sizeable Catholic population.

When the Cumbernauld services in the evening ran from Queen Street High Level with a reversal at Eastfield, the Cowlairs signalmen christened the service “The Noddy”.

 

[RPM]

Aylesbury Vale Parkway is often referred to as "The Parkway", or "AVP" for reasons other than the fact that happens to be its CRS code. Rickmansworth is often "Ricky". Gerrards Cross, Princes Risborough and Great Missenden are frequently abbreviated to "Gerrards", "Risborough" and "Missenden".

 

[PaulMc7]

I don't get the train that often but the ones I know are purely just through the area being nicknamed or shortened. EK-East Kilbride, Bishy-Bishopbriggs and Wessy-Westerton are the main ones I know.

 

[AlastairFraser]

Reading West is Oxy (Oxford) Road, Oxy after the recreational, err, "substance" Oxycodone.
Winnersh Triangle is Winnersh Trial, you have to experience it to understand that one.
I've heard Earley nicknamed Late when the signalling bows on the London via Brackers line.

 

[Peter0124]

I don't get the train that often but the ones I know are purely just through the area being nicknamed or shortened. EK-East Kilbride, Bishy-Bishopbriggs and Wessy-Westerton are the main ones I know.

I've also heard Rutherglen being called Ruggy

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I got shouted at on this board for saying Kirkham rather than it’s full name of Kirkham and Wesham.

Liverpool Lime Street is usually just called Lime Street.

 

[PaulMc7]

I've also heard Rutherglen being called Ruggy

Completely forgot about that one. Yeah I've heard it for years.

 

[Sean Emmett]

St Awful = St Austell?

Snozzle

 

[Whistler40145]

Sheffield is The Crucible, you always get a red before a colour

 

[Ianno87]

Sheffield is The Crucible, you always get a red before a colour

Also applied to Windmill Bridge Jn and (pre-remodelling) Proof House Jn.

 

[Brian M]

The old LMS station in Oxford, ”Oxford Rewley Road”, was locally referred to as just ‘Rewley Road’

 

[D6130]

When I was a guard at Brighton in the 'eighties, we used to call Redhill "Stop'em Junction"....especially prior to the resignalling, when the two mechanical boxes never seemed to be able to contrive to give non-stopping trains a through run. This was particularly frustrating on Sundays, or on other occasions when the Quarry Line was blocked, and the Brighton fasts and inter-regional inter-cities were diverted that way.

 

[norbitonflyer]

A few on SWR
Suburbiton
Twickers
Teddytown
Cla'ham (rhymes with "harm") - from the same gentrifying moves that led to St Reatham and "South Chelsea" (Battersea to you and me)
Wimblydon (which is how some drivers on the District Line pronounce it - we also get Upminister and Westminister on the same line)

 

[D6130]

A few on SWR

....and a few more on SWR, courtesy of my friend in North-West Surrey:

West Flybeet
Flybeet & Old Whore
Addled & stoned
Walton-on-Splosh
Curtsey
Virgins' Water
Egg & Ham
Esher, Esher....all fall down.
Dems Titton

(Sorry....not all 100% PC!)

 

[Brian M]

Sheffield is The Crucible, you always get a red before a colour

Well s..potted !

 

[Kieran1990]

Kings cross- The Cross

 

[Class800]

Dems Titton - that makes me laugh, anything particular about that area that makes this name especially appropriate?

 

[D6130]

Dems Titton - that makes me laugh, anything particular about that area that makes this name especially appropriate?

You may assume that, but I couldn't possibly comment!

 

[Western Lord]

Lawn stuhn or Lanson - heard both, but not Lawn Cess Ton!

The one in Tasmania is pronounced Lawn cess ton, but it lost its station many years ago.

 

[Class800]

You may assume that, but I couldn't possibly comment!

Well what I can say is it's a posh area, and ball gowns are worn maybe more than other places.

The one in Tasmania is pronounced Lawn cess ton, but it lost its station many years ago.

Such a shame it didn't keep the UK pronunciation - it sounds awful, like the US version of Birmingham, emphasising HAM