Trivia: Stations with the same name in other countries

[delt1c]

Helensburgh
Kings Cross
Lewisham
Richmond
Penshurst
Croydon
Stanmor
Scarborough
In NSW Australia

Interestiung though that Helensburgh in NSW is pronounced Helensburg

 

[Calthrop]

Interestiung though that Helensburgh in NSW is pronounced Helensburg

Foolish upside-down people, can't talk proper ...

 

[krus_aragon]

There's a University station on the Moscow metro.

Universities being commonplace worldwide, there are of course many of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_station

 

[Spandau]

You can find a Montrose and an Argyle (Argyle St) on the Chicago L system

And a Southport!

 

[43096]

Longfield = Langenfeld (Rheinland). A small station on lines S6 and S68 of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn.

There is also Hamburg Langenfelde which is an S bahn stop, but also the location of DB Fernverkehr’s enormous maintenance depot (which contains both Langenfelde and Eidelstedt sites).

 

[D6130]

Not sure whether this has been mentioned already but there's a Dormans on the Paris-Strasbourg classic main line in the Marne valley to the East of Paris, as well as on the East Grinstead branch.

 

[Journeyman]

Not sure whether this has mentioned already but there's a Dormans on the Paris-Strasbourg classic main line in the Marne valley to the East of Paris, as well as on the East Grinstead branch.

In that neck of the woods, Hever on the Uckfield line has a namesake in Belgium, and it has a station too.

 

[johnnychips]

Annoyingly, there is a Ham station in the Somme, but we just have West Ham, East Ham and Ham St.

We are stretching things here, but Kaliningrad South was oriiginally called Koningsburg in German/Prussian. This evidently equates to Conisbrough. (The King’s Fortification).

 

[b0b]

Found a Kensington on the MARC in Maryland, also on the Chicago Metra commuter rail. Also an Aberdeen on MARC as well.

 

[AM9]

There's a St Albans town/city/district in Melbourne with a rail station of the same name, as there is in Vermont US with its Amtrak station and in NYC Queens there's a St Albans with an LIRR station.

 

[Calthrop]

We are stretching things here, but Kaliningrad South was oriiginally called Koningsburg in German/Prussian. This evidently equates to Conisbrough. (The King's Fortification).

(My boldings) -- irritating-pedant hat on: re this city; now, as stated, Russian Kaliningrad; correct German spelling is Koenigsberg (am using alternative spelling, with first e; should most properly be with, over the o, a double-dot "Umlaut" sign -- am not equipped to do foreign-language accents). "Fortification" in German, is indeed Burg; the city name's final syllable is however Berg = mountain or hill. Meaning thus, "King's Hill": name bestowed in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who during the 13th-Century Prussian Crusade against the pagan inhabitants of this area, paid for erecting the first fortress at this location -- thus a fortification in fact, but not in name. (Wiki supports this info.)

 

[Garmoran]

There was once a railway halt in Alberta called Mallaig, although the railway it was on has now been lifted. My understanding was that it was named by a railway engineer who had previously worked on the West Highland Railway's Mallaig Extension. This sounds more likely than the Wikipedia reference to "many swamps and low-lying areas".
Mallaig, Alberta - Wikipedia

 

[raetiamann]

Before the line from Sydney to Newcastle was truncated and became light rail, I took a train from Newcastle to Cardiff, both in NSW and the journey was ~23 minutes. Now if only Cross Country could do that

 

[Calthrop]

There was once a railway halt in Alberta called Mallaig, although the railway it was on has now been lifted. My understanding was that it was named by a railway engineer who had previously worked on the West Highland Railway's Mallaig Extension. This sounds more likely than the Wikipedia reference to "many swamps and low-lying areas".
Mallaig, Alberta - Wikipedia

@Garmoran: reading your post pre-clicking on your link, I'd imagined (daftness on my part, here) a scenario of the name's being seen as derived from a word in the local First Nations language meaning "many swamps and... etc." -- however, having done the link, "get it" that it was bestowed for whatever reason, by the Scottish guy on the spot.

One might wonder whether incongruous names from far away, are a particular Canadian railway thing. I've always relished the business of the system running northward from Vancouver -- now part of the Canadian National -- originating a bit more than a century ago, and continuing for many decades, under the name of "Pacific Great Eastern Railway"; when it was about as far west in Canada, as you can get ! I understand that the "Pacific G.E." name derives from the railway's being launched with much financial backing, plus overall "goodwill", from Britain's then Great Eastern Railway.

 

[XAM2175]

Before the line from Sydney to Newcastle was truncated and became light rail, I took a train from Newcastle to Cardiff, both in NSW and the journey was ~23 minutes. Now if only Cross Country could do that

It also created the amusing co-incidence that FreightCorp's 90 class locomotives were built in London (Ontario) and delivered in Cardiff (NSW).

 

[43096]

It also created the amusing co-incidence that FreightCorp's 90 class locomotives were built in London (Ontario) and delivered in Cardiff (NSW).

And have been employed taking coals to Newcastle!

 

[CentralTrainer]

Vauxhall in London and pretty much everywhere in Russia.

In 1837 the first Russian railway ran from St Petersburg to the Pleasure Gardens and the station was called ‘Vokzal’. And this name became the generic word for all Russian stations.

 

[vlad]

This factoid tends to be mentioned regularly on this forum....

"Voksal" is the Russian word for a major station - the Russian equivalents of the London terminals, Birmingham New Street, Glasgow Central, etc. "Ordinary" stations - and all stations on metro and light-rail systems are referred to by the word "stantsiya".

 

[Jamesrob637]

Lanžhot in the Czech Republic could be Landshut (Bayern)

 

[krus_aragon]

I've always relished the business of the system running northward from Vancouver -- now part of the Canadian National -- originating a bit more than a century ago, and continuing for many decades, under the name of "Pacific Great Eastern Railway"; when it was about as far west in Canada, as you can get !

In fairness, if it was any further west, it'd be in the Orient.

 

[oldman]

Lanžhot in the Czech Republic could be Landshut (Bayern)

And South-eastern Poland's Łańcut. The Germans got around a lot in those parts.

 

[Calthrop]

In fairness, if it was any further west, it'd be in the Orient.

Paging Mr. Kipling...

 

[Birkonian]

Spital (Wirral)
Spital am Semmering (Austria)

Stole my thunder. I walked past Spital station this afternoon. Unfortunately not one of the ones in Switzerland.

 

[Jamesrob637]

Stole my thunder. I walked past Spital station this afternoon. Unfortunately not one of the ones in Switzerland.

"Spital" is hospital in Swiss German (Krankenhaus being standard German)

 

[newmilton]

Not quite an exact match, but the former Canadian Pacific terminus in Montreal was named Windsor Station, but the tracks have long since been removed and trains (suburban only now) terminate some distance from the old building at the new Lucien-L'Allier station, named for a former director of the Montreal Transit Commission. When our family moved out to Canada in 1970 (I subsequently moved back in 1999) we spent our first night in the Windsor hotel above the station.

Of course the Toronto area will also give you (off the top of my head) Scarborough, Whitby, Pickering and Aldershot, and probably others.

 

[duesselmartin]

There is a Metro station called Stalingrad in Paris.

 

[67thave]

Not quite an exact match, but the former Canadian Pacific terminus in Montreal was named Windsor Station, but the tracks have long since been removed and trains (suburban only now) terminate some distance from the old building at the new Lucien-L'Allier station, named for a former director of the Montreal Transit Commission. When our family moved out to Canada in 1970 (I subsequently moved back in 1999) we spent our first night in the Windsor hotel above the station.

Of course the Toronto area will also give you (off the top of my head) Scarborough, Whitby, Pickering and Aldershot, and probably others.

Newmarket, Malton, Brampton, and Bradford are some on GO alone.
Of course, my favorite GO station name is a very unique one... Old Cummer.

 

[newmilton]

Newmarket, Malton, Brampton, and Bradford are some on GO alone.
Of course, my favorite GO station name is a very unique one... Old Cummer.

Plus Kingston, of course, half-way between Montreal and Toronto - don't know how I forgot that one. Curiously enough I also discovered the other day that there is a village in County Durham called Toronto (named after the city in Canada rather than the other way round), but it is not on the railway network.

 

[MarcVD]

There is a Metro station called Stalingrad in Paris.

Also Anvers (Antwerp) and Liège...

 

[Taunton]

Asking in my English accent for a ticket from Glasgow to Carmyle when visiting an industrial site there, I had to emphasise it such that I didn't get one to Carlisle.

Compliant to the question, as different countries . I wondered how often confusion actually happened.