There's a similar Throstles Nest Junction near Manchester, where the old Midland route met the old Cheshire Lines Committee, just outside what was Manchester Central station.
It used to be the case that some junctions were named after the destination of the branching line, although nowadays it is normally a nearby geographic location.
There are still quite a few like that.
Perhaps the most famous is Llandudno Junction, which then became a station, and then became a town. If you were to do the location-based naming now, it would have to be Llandudno Junction Junction.
Not to be confused with Cambridge Jn, which is in Hitchin.There's still a Cambridge Line Jn at Bletchley, . . . . .
Not to be confused with Cambridge Jn, which is in Hitchin.
One that's always puzzled me is Tollerton Jn in Yorkshire. It's at Tollerton so that part of the name is reasonable, but has there ever been any more of a junction than a siding?
And in Cambridge there's Shepreth Branch Jn, where the 'branch' is now the main through route to London. :roll:Not to be confused with Cambridge Jn, which is in Hitchin.
Indeed, there are plenty of similar examples on the Midland too: both connections between running lines on the four (or 3 nowadays!) track sections of the main line, and also at the ends of loops on other lines.I might be getting confused with Tallington, but is there a set of crossovers there too, or anything similar? On the West Coast Main Line, there are the likes of Bourne End, Hanslope and Ledburn Jns: to the best of my knowledge only the former has ever been a junction in the traditional sense - all of them now however are just a series of crossovers between the Fasts and Slows.
Didcot Chester Line Jn is named because the GWR managed its northern main line through Birmingham as the "Didcot and Chester Line".
Yes, there ARE crossovers at Tollerton Jn, and just to maximise the confusion, there are also crossovers at Tallington - both on the ECML, but with about 110 miles between them.I might be getting confused with Tallington, but is there a set of crossovers there too, or anything similar?
There's also Dr Days Junction in Bristol too. Branching off here is the amusingly named Rhubarb Curve.
That line still has an engineers' line reference of DCL, although nowadays it only refers to the section between Didcot and The Hawthorns, and the Metro from there to where it leaves the original alignment in Wolverhampton. (The continuation to Chester now has the code WSJ2, for Wolverhampton to Saltney Junction.)
Same as at St Helens Junction (but there's no junction any more...).
A lot of junctions take their name from the connecting railway name (like Whitchurch Cambrian Jn above).
Eden Valley Jn on the WCML in Cumbria connected to the Eden Valley Railway.
Grand Junction in Birmingham was the joining of the London & Birmingham and Grand Junction railways.
Didcot Chester Line Jn is named because the GWR managed its northern main line through Birmingham as the "Didcot and Chester Line".
The signal box has gone now, but Carnforth had a Furness and Midland Jn, the name of the railway from Wennington.
Sometimes the initials of the railway got into the junction name, so there is still a Calvert LNE Junction, Hartford CLC Junction etc.
There's still a Cambridge Line Jn at Bletchley, and a Uttoxeter Line Jn at Stafford, despite the through lines being closed 50-odd years ago.
Rugby still has a Peterborough Branch Siding.
One that's always puzzled me is Tollerton Jn in Yorkshire. It's at Tollerton so that part of the name is reasonable, but has there ever been any more of a junction than a siding?
Wow, well done for knowing about Didcot's Chester Line Junction! Not many have heard about it (even some of the station staff), but there it is, in plain view, at the end of platform three at Didcot station.
Also on the Weston region between Reading and Twyford, is
Twyford west
Also know as "Lands End" ?
CGJ is in fact Carlisle Grand Junction Line (the GJR being the predecessor of the LNWR). It doesn't extend as far as Gretna Junction; north of Carlisle is much more simply named WCM.