Trivia: Stations that sound nice but really aren't

[Bletchleyite]

On this thread:

Most hated non-UK station

Fully agree with NY Penn - just hideous. Would also like to nominate Osaka Station - compared to most other Japanese stations it's an incomprehensible mess of a place. Despite using it every day for a week I never actually found the same route in or out when using the Thunderbird services to...

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...we have had a bit of discussion of station names that sound nice but aren't, I felt this deserves a thread of its own.

Flowery Field (and Primrose Hill) were suggested by @LNW-GW Joint (the former actually a fairly run down housing estate in east Manchester), while @duesselmartin suggested Cherry Orchard in Dublin.

Anyone got any more?

 

[xotGD]

Meadow Well on the Tyne & Wear Metro.

Lovely spot!

 

[Horizon22]

Forest Gate on TfL Rail - sounds lovely but on more than one occasion I've run into some undesirable characters.

 

[Barnsley]

If we can have closed stations, I'll say Brightside, platforms still there, the only difference from when it was open is the shelters have been removed

 

[61653 HTAFC]

A closed station these days of course, but Brightside in Sheffield doesn't really live up to its name.

EDIT: Great minds haha

 

[Ianno87]

Mount Florida

Cherry Tree

Rose Grove

 

[Merseysider]

Belle Vue is anything but.

 

[InOban]

There's certainly no park at Edinburgh Park...

 

[Kilopylae]

Torre

 

[Glenn1969]

Pleasington
Burley Park
Berry Brow

 

[Kilopylae]

An obvious one - Snow Hill

 

[ValleyLines142]

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

 

[6862]

Manors - a very grand sounding name but rather an anticlimactic station!

 

[DB]

Belle Vue is anything but.

Many towns have a road called Belle View, and/or Mount Pleasant. They are normally not as described by their name!

Berry Brow

Ah come on, it's highly picturesque with those low-rise tower blocks next to it! In fairness you can be in open country five minutes' walk away.

The place naming seems rather confused round there - Berry Brow is at the bottom of the valley, when Brow would normally indicate on a hill, whereas nearby Netherton (nether of course means lower) is on the top of a hill.

 

[Philip Phlopp]

Blackpool (both North and South). There's sadly no sign of the entire resort having fallen into a pool of black fetid water.

 

[hexagon789]

Coatbridge Sunnyside - it ain't very sunny to put it mildly.

 

[Ianno87]

Pleasington

Pleasington is quite... pleasant!

 

[yorksrob]

Conversely, Battersby Junction sounds like a soot blackened mill town - but really isn't !

 

[CC 72100]

Mantes-la-Jolie sounds like a textbook French village.*

It isn't. It's the single biggest collection of rough suburbs about 30 miles west of Paris.

*Also applicable to Chanteloup-les-vignes on the same line.

 

[Ianno87]

Mantes-la-Jolie sounds like a textbook French village.*

It isn't. It's the single biggest collection of rough suburbs about 30 miles west of Paris.

*Also applicable to Chanteloup-les-vignes on the same line.

Villeneuves-St-George sounds like some sleepy rural village with a pretty church. It's actually the main TGV Sud-Est depot in suburban Paris.

 

[Spandau]

Sandhills - you would struggle to find any

 

[Clip]

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

That's a bit harsh and not quite true.

 

[Ianno87]

That's a bit harsh and not quite true.

I know. It's a bit of a walk to the actual beach

 

[ScottGallagher]

Gare Du Nord in Paris sounds grand enough in French but its just dreadful, Andy Street had it right when he described it as the Squalor pit of Europe, and I live near Euston and Kings Cross.

It was my one and only time in Paris. Just a dump, why it has a 'romantic' tag is beyond me.

 

[Clip]

I know. It's a bit of a walk to the actual beach

Ha ha yeah but was made for the funfair only though

 

[507 001]

Gare Du Nord in Paris sounds grand enough in French but its just dreadful, Andy Street had it right when he described it as the Squalor pit of Europe, and I live near Euston and Kings Cross.

It was my one and only time in Paris. Just a dump, why it has a 'romantic' tag is beyond me.

I think you must have been to a different Paris to me!

 

[ScottGallagher]

I think you must have been to a different Paris to me!

Admittedly It was only a day trip but first impressions count!!!

 

[AlastairFraser]

1) Aldermaston
2) Sunbury
3) Hall i' th' Wood

 

[Gathursty]

Daisy Hill
Blundellsands & Crosby

 

[yorksrob]

1) Aldermaston
2) Sunbury
3) Hall i' th' Wood

Aldermaston just makes me think of nuclear weaponry !