TRIVIA: Stations named after three or more places that they serve

[mrcheek]

How about "Rhoose" "Cardiff" International "Airport"

 

[Rescars]

A shame that the GWR line to Chester served Baschurch rather than Ruyton-XI-Towns!

 

[U-Bahnfreund]

In Germany I can think of couple.

You have to know that in Germany, the name of the municipality where a station is located is usually the first part of the station name. Consequently, if a station is named after two places served, and the municipality's name is something different altogether, it's possible that there's three. In addition, stations where the place name exists multiple times usually have some kind of suffix to denote this, which can also lead to more than two places names in total in a station name. However, I do have to caveat that it's not always straightforward what the official name of station actually is, with the railway-internal name, the name on the sign and the name in e.g. the travel app sometimes being all different.

My examples:
* Heidelberg-Kirchheim/Rohrbach, which is the station between Kirchheim and Rohrbach, both parts of the city of Heidelberg. Similarly: Heidelberg-Pfaffengrund/Wieblingen and Heidelberg-Schlierbach/Ziegelhausen
* Neukirchen (b Sulzbach-Rosenberg), with Neukirchen ("new church") being a very generic name, so here it was specified with "the one next to Sulzbach-Rosenberg"
* Höchst-Mümling-Grumbach, the latter two villages merged at some point and later became part of the city of Höchst (Odenwald)
* Langenfeld (Rheinland)-Berghausen, the station of Berghausen in the municipality with the generic name Langenfeld ("long field"), thus specified as "the one in the Rhineland"
* and I guess there are edge cases like Mainz-Kastel, which is the station of the Kastel area, which used to belong to the city of Mainz, so the station has that grandfathered name, but today it's actually in the city of Wiesbaden, so sometimes the station name is given as Wiesbaden-Mainz-Kastel

 

[Lockwood]

London Waterloo

Serves: London, Waterloo Bridge, the Thames, the toilets on the station concourse.

 

[Andyjs247]

I’ll nominate East Midlands Parkway - named after a whole region and the airport which itself serves Derby, Nottingham and Leicester.

 

[D6130]

Here in Italy there are many such examples. The longest one that I can think of off the top of my head is Oulx-Cesana-Claviere-Sestriere on the Torino-Bardonecchia-Modane line. The station is situated more-or-less in the centre of Oulx....but also serves three nearby ski resorts which featured prominently in the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics.

More local to us in Tuscany there is Porrena-Strada-Montemignaio on the TFT Arezzo-Stia branch. Although situated within the comune of Poppi, the latter already has its own station, therefore the rule about having the local municipality as the first name doesn't apply in this case. Incidentally, should you ever find yourself there, there is an excellent microbrewery-cum-pizzeria less than 100 metres from the station.

 

[Scotty]

London Liverpool Street are 3 placenames in England...

 

[Mcr Warrior]

London Liverpool Street are 3 placenames in England...

That's as may be, but they're not places / settlements that are all served by the one station! Nice try though!

 

[Geswedey]

FORTWILLIAM for BALLACHULISH GLENCOE and KINLOCHLEVEN

 

[xotGD]

The Lakes

How many are there?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The Lakes

How many are there?

= Three reservoirs for the local canal system, apparently.

 

[wilbers]

The Lakes

How many are there?

Several railway stations with Lakes in their name.
The Lakes (near Stratford)
Lake (Isle of Wight)
Oxenholme Lake District
Penrith North Lakes
Lakeside (heritage station in Cumbria)
also about 4 with Loch in their name

 

[Dr Hoo]

The Lakes

How many are there?

Two (and I thought that they were canal reservoirs, not natural lakes).

 

[duffield]

Several railway stations with Lakes in their name.
The Lakes (near Stratford)
Lake (Isle of Wight)
Oxenholme Lake District
Penrith North Lakes
Lakeside (heritage station in Cumbria)
also about 4 with Loch in their name

Penrith North Lakes is misnamed, since there's only one actual lake, Bassenthwaite. The rest are all properly waters, meres and tarns.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Two (and I thought that they were canal reservoirs, not natural lakes).

I've got the three of them as 'Engine Pool', 'Windmill Pool' and 'Terry's Pool'. But yes, canal feeder reservoirs.

 

[WilloughbyGC]

Re-raise with Three Counties [ECML closed 1959].

Three Cocks Junction (I'll get my coat)

 

[Warrior2852]

London Waterloo

Serves: London, Waterloo Bridge, the Thames, the toilets on the station concourse.

The toilets aren't on the concourse anymore! They've moved downstairs to the ex-Eurostar shopping centre rather unhelpfully far away from most platforms.

 

[Bald Rick]

The toilets aren't on the concourse anymore! They've moved downstairs to the ex-Eurostar shopping centre rather unhelpfully far away from most platforms.

The toilets on (or rather behind and below) the main concourse have reopened after a refurb.

 

[AndrewE]

There are also several stations on the route with two settlements named, including the termini at each end.

Pedant alert... where else would the termini be?

 

[wilbers]

Pedant alert... where else would the termini be?

Ormskirk isn't exactly at an end, depends on how you define "end".

 

[AndrewE]

Ormskirk isn't exactly at an end, depends on how you define "end".

Sorry, I thought I was replying to "This is a bit of a cheat though, as Font-Romeu is a ski resort rather than a "true" settlement, and the other two named villages are administrated as a single commune. There are also several stations on the route with two settlements named, including the termini at each end" ... which of course I can't find now!
Hadn't spotted any reference to Ormskirk...

As per the OP, stringing multiple settlements into a station name seems to be something our Gallic friends are fond of.
One example of a "threefer" can be found on one of my favourite railways, the petit train jaune line in the Pyrenees: Font-Romeu–Odeillo–Via. This is a bit of a cheat though, as Font-Romeu is a ski resort rather than a "true" settlement, and the other two named villages are administrated as a single commune. There are also several stations on the route with two settlements named, including the termini at each end.

I was trying to quote this post when I asked "where else would the termini be?"

 

[wilbers]

ah OK, fair enough. I was reading it as termini couldn't be in the middle in general.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Pedant alert... where else would the termini be?

I'd initially just written "termini", but it felt like an incomplete sentence so I added the "at each end" bit so it flowed better. Also to emphasise that the situation applies at both ends of the line, not just one end.

Funny that Ormskirk was mentioned in defence of my wording, as the station at Villefranche-de-Conflent is a little bit like Ormskirk in that it's technically a through station, but services from either direction terminate there and those travelling through are required to change. The key difference (besides the weather) being that the station in French Catalonia involves a change of gauge as well as electrification.

 

[Dr Hoo]

I've got the three of them as 'Engine Pool', 'Windmill Pool' and 'Terry's Pool'. But yes, canal feeder reservoirs.

Geograph says only two, although there are indeed three named pools. The two are separated by a causeway but one of them is crossed by a bridge arbitrarily splitting it into two ‘pools’.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Geograph says only two, although there are indeed three named pools. The two are separated by a causeway but one of them is crossed by a bridge arbitrarily splitting it into two ‘pools’.

Isn't there a overspill weir underneath the footbridge, making Terry's Pool and Engine Pool separate, albeit obviously connected, as one pool flows into the other?

 

[Dr Hoo]

Isn't there an overspill weir underneath the footbridge, making Terry's Pool and Engine Pool separate, albeit obviously connected, as one pool flows into the other?

Fair enough. Thanks.
Still not ‘lakes’ though.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Still not ‘lakes’ though.

Agree. Was tenuous at best. Certainly not three or more different settlements.

 

[MichaelAMW]

Gerrards Cross for the Chalfonts