[trivia] Stations named after a private organisation

[plugwash]

Bank?

I'd struggle to call the bank of England a "private organsiation".

 

[Henffordd]

I'd struggle to call the bank of England a "private organsiation".

Was only nationalised in 1946. Station was built before that....

 

[mikeg]

I'd struggle to call the bank of England a "private organsiation".

Depends when it was named, the Bank of England was privately owned originally and only nationalised in the late 1940s. Incidentally, there are still some privately owned central banks around the world, notably the Beligan one and in South Africa, but I digress...

I've just had a brainwave. Southampton Airport is privately owned is it not? Thus would Southampton Airport Parkway count?

If we're going after privately owned national infrastructure, Grimsby Docks is part of Associated British Ports, but reversing the rule around Bank station, was it when it was named?

 

[birchesgreen]

There are some stations named after the model villages built for a company's workforce (Port Sunlight and Stewartby and i think there are others).

 

[mikeg]

There are some stations named after the model villages built for a company's workforce (Port Sunlight and Stewartby and i think there are others).

Were they necessarily owned by the company as a private enterprise at the time? And are they now?

I don't think there are too many more 'true' examples left, though some have closed. IBM is probably the most recent. Then there were stations named after pubs: Trouble House Halt would be a closed one. Berney Arms probably wouldn't count as a settlement of the same name sprung up around the (now closed) pub. Are there any surviving such stations?

 

[birchesgreen]

Were they necessarily owned by the company as a private enterprise at the time? And are they now?

Well Stewartby certainly isn't anymore as the brick works has gone!

 

[steamybrian]

Some now closed stations-
Vulcan Halt
Rowntree Halt in York

 

[Harpo]

Wembley Stadium?
Three Cocks
Various ‘Market’ stations?
Both Corytons??

 

[mcmad]

Bournville?

 

[Minnietheminx]

There are some stations named after the model villages built for a company's workforce (Port Sunlight and Stewartby and i think there are others).

Saltaire

 

[cool110]

I've learnt something new! I only thought there was Blackpool North and Blackpool South

North and South are just the remaining termini, Squires Gate (for Blackpool Airport) and Layton are also within the borough boundary.

 

[cjw714]

Bournville?

Although the area was given it's name by Cadbury's I don't think it counts as the station isn't directly named after a private organisation.

 

[Rescars]

How about Gatwick Racecourse -before it's change of use to Airport?

 

[thenorthern]

Coventry Arena is named after the stadium which ironically has never actually been called the Coventry Arena officially. Medowhall is an odd one as the station is obviously named after the shopping centre but Meadowhall itself is named after the area of Sheffield.

Not a railway station as such but I always remember the old National Rail timetables had a Chinnor to Princes Risborough bus service who's stops were listed in the list of stations. One I found odd was Chinnor The Red Lion which is obviously named after a pub.

Talking of buses there is of course Wedgwood which of course has been sort of closed for 21 years now but I think that officially is still a station which of course is named after the china.

 

[steamybrian]

How about Gatwick Racecourse -before it's change of use to Airport?

and add Newbury Racecourse, Cheltenham Racecourse

Do you include holiday camps such as now closed Filey Holiday Camp, Caister Holiday Camp

 

[SuspectUsual]

Coventry Arena is named after the stadium which ironically has never actually been called the Coventry Arena officially

A pedant writes…..

The actual Arena (the indoor bit next door to the football ground) was called Coventry Arena when it hosted judo for the 2022 Commonwealth Games

 

[Jellyfish261]

Ninian Park?

 

[thenorthern]

Canary Wharf is an odd one as Canary Wharf is of course both a location named after the part of the West India Docks where ships came in from the Canary Islands. Canary Wharf Group which owns Canary Wharf, is also a company.

A pedant writes…..

The actual Arena (the indoor bit next door to the football ground) was called Coventry Arena when it hosted judo for the 2022 Commonwealth Games

You are right, I forgot it hosted the Commonwealth Games Judo. I was thinking of the 2012 Olympics when it hosted some football matches and was called the City of Coventry Stadium but there was also the Commonwealth Games.

 

[richard1976]

Battersea Power station, tube

 

[D6130]

Ampress Works Halt (now closed) on the Lymington branch.

 

[YorksLad12]

Slightly tenuous but...Kirkstall Forge. It's named after the housing and commercial development of the same name next to it, but in turn that development is named after the Kirkstall Forge Company.
In a similar vein is Meadowhall. The station is named after the shopping centre it was built to serve, however the shopping centre took the name of the area it is built in, in the past also written as Meadow Hall sometimes.

Before Kirkstall Forge Station, there was a short-lived station at Kirkstall Forge. I do wish they'd get on with the housing side of the development though...

Meadowhall is the area. The station opened as Wincobank, then Wincobank and Meadow Hall. There was also Meadow Hall Station, later Meadow Hall and Wincobank. So really, Meadowhell (the building) is named after the area, as is Meadowhall Interchange.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Post #20 is Wedgwood station.
Named after the pottery which, in turn, was named after its founder Josiah Wedgwood.
The station served the Staffordshire factory, for employees.

Winnersh Triangle station. Intended for the business park of the same name.

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Craven Arms (pub now sadly closed).

 

[flitwickbeds]

Metrocentre

 

[D365]

No mention yet of IBM or Redcar British Steel?

 

[Elecman]

North and South are just the remaining termini, Squires Gate (for Blackpool Airport) and Layton are also within the borough boundary.

Squires Gate is actually outside of Bkackpool borough and is inside the St Anne's/Fylde borough

 

[Milo T.K]

Canary wharf?

Assuming since the area is managed by the canary wharf group

 

[Revilo]

St Keyne Wishing Well Halt, assuming the wishing well is privately owned.

 

[flitwickbeds]

No mention yet of IBM or Redcar British Steel?

Both been mentioned above.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Canary wharf?

Assuming since the area is managed by the canary wharf group

Doesn't its name (Canary Wharf) date back to pre WW2, when it was one of the main docks handling fruit imports from the Canary Islands? So, quite a few years before the much more recent redevelopment of the Isle of Dogs area, some fifty years later?