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Ben Rhydding? Originally being named after the Hydrotherapy resort of the same name and not after the then name of the area, Wheatley.
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Trivia: Stations with non-geographical names
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If we are including closed stations, then Verney Junction must be a candidate. When opened it was named after the local landowner Harry Verney as there was no local village nearby. A very small settlement of a few houses and pub (Verney Arms) grew up at the side of the station. Road signs to Verney Junction can be seen on the A413 between Aylesbury & Buckingham. Verney Junction's platforms still existed until East West Railway works removed them.
Calvert on the former Great Central line nearby (platform still there until obliterated by HS2 works) was also named after Harry - whose surname was Calvert before he became a Baronet. Once again a settlement grew up next to the station - this time augmented by a sizeable new housing estate built long after the station closed in 1963.
Calvert on the former Great Central line nearby (platform still there until obliterated by HS2 works) was also named after Harry - whose surname was Calvert before he became a Baronet. Once again a settlement grew up next to the station - this time augmented by a sizeable new housing estate built long after the station closed in 1963.
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And most directly after the gargantuan sewing machine factory (the largest in the world at one point) it was built to serve. It was so large that the prexisting ailgnment had to be replaced by a new (the current) one as the former ran right through the factory site, the latter was known (within the North British Railway at least) as the Singer Deviation. It's course in relation to the original line at either end can clearly be seen in this aerial view from railscot.co.uk.
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JBuchananGB
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Town Green deserves a mention
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Well if the River Severn is non-geographic, then my years as a Geography student have been well and truly wasted.
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Bede on the Tyne & Wear Metro, located in the Bede Industrial Estate in South Shields, itself named after the local historian and saint.
And Northumberland Park on the Metro serves an area of modern housing flung up by the eponymous duke.
And Northumberland Park on the Metro serves an area of modern housing flung up by the eponymous duke.
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