Your nicknames for stations

[Whistler40145]

Birmingham New Street aka The Hole

 

[Trackman]

Nobody's mentioned Liverpool Crime Street yet!?!

I've heard it called 'Limey' with locals.

I'll throw another one in, Manchester Oxford Road -Occy road.

One of my own, 'Where are you trackman?' I'm at London Useless station. caller: 'Oh, you mean Euston?'

 

[PGAT]

Wandsworth Common -> Waco

 

[Horizon22]

I've hard more than one person refer to London Charing Cross as "The Cross".

 

[zwk500]

I've hard more than one person refer to London Charing Cross as "The Cross".

I usually heard "The Cross" more commonly used to refer to London King's Cross.

 

[Horizon22]

I usually heard "The Cross" more commonly used to refer to London King's Cross.

Probably a bit of both depending on which side of the river you are used to!

 

[mcnw35282]

Dunno if you could class it as a nickname...but most people I know shorten Fazakerley to "fazak".

A lot of my older family members still call Rice Lane "Preston Road"

 

[brad465]

I've hard more than one person refer to London Charing Cross as "The Cross".

My personal nickname for Charing Cross has for some reason been "Chuxie", which I derived from its CHX station code.

 

[Techniquest]

I usually heard "The Cross" more commonly used to refer to London King's Cross.

Absolutely! I'm so familiar with 'The Cross' for Kings Cross that it almost feels weird hearing it called by its proper name!

Aberystwyth being shortened to 'Aber' is one I'm used to as well, but that's in general terms and not just for the station. Similar for Llandrindod being 'Landed' which was and as far as I know is still popular in the area.

 

[Pseudonym]

Not sure it's still used, but Knottingley used to be Dog**** City!

 

[RPI]

Also "Snives" St Ives
"Snozell" St Austell
"Druth" Redruth
"Mens pants" Penzance!

 

[MrJeeves]

Wivelsfield is Wivvy for a lot of people locally.

 

[Purple Train]

My nicknames (which I generally only use to myself to avoid confusing people):

Milk and Beans Central (Milton Keynes Central)
Anythingbutford (Castleford)
Sydney Opera House (Leeds)
Leisure Centre (Bristol Parkway)
A444 (Coventry Arena)
Wigwag Central (Lincoln Central)
Writing (Reading)

 

[Pinza-C55]

Castleford = Cas Vegas.

Pontefract = Ponte Carlo.

 

[Class800]

St Davids, St Thomas, Cen'ral - regularly used in Exeter to refer to the stations without saying 'Exeter'

Pinhoe gets said like Pinner sometimes

You can also 'Wurzelise' Exeter, Taunton, Tiverton Parkway!

Ocean City = Plymouth

The Hoe = Plymouth, by extension - refers to a part of the city

 

[CharlieSpotted]

Perhaps a bit random, but for me Shenstone will always be Phentond...

... In my youth living in Lichfield, if I went out into Birmingham I would always text my mum to let her know when I reached Shenstone on my way back (and therefore wasn't far from home... and if she was going to pick me up from the station she could set out...) I once drunkenly utterly failed to type the word Shenstone and sent it as Phentond... and added it to the phone's dictionary. Subsequently every time I typed the word Shenstone my phone corrected it to Phentond and, much as I tried, I could not work out how to remove the erroneous entry in the dictionary.

Thus Shenstone will forever be Phentond.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Castleford = Cas Vegas.

Pontefract = Ponte Carlo.

Aren't those nicknames for the towns, rather than the stations?

"Rave-o" = Ravensthorpe. Would also be a name for the area... but there's nowt there of note besides the station, so it doesn't really come up.

 

[Peacehaven]

Burglar Bill - Burgess Hill. (Sussex)

 

[Class800]

I usually heard "The Cross" more commonly used to refer to London King's Cross.

Yes I grew up in London and The Cross is always Kings Cross - and it has this meaning in Sydney too

 

[Strathclyder]

• Most of the Manchester stations I cut • ‘Manchester’ out, so just call them by their suffix e.g. Victoria. I also do the same with London stations.

I often do the same with Glasgow's two existing mainline termini e.g. Queen Street & Central. Though on this forum, I need to add 'Glasgow' back in, as there are countless stations with 'Central' in their name across the network (5 others in the Strathclyde network alone for example).

 

[Bedwyn32]

Basingrad for Basingstoke.

 

[Class800]

Basingrad for Basingstoke.

Or Blazing Smoke?

 

[Bedwyn32]

I have heard someone call it amazingstoke ‍

 

[Class800]

Staines - Ali G, Westside, Aiii

 

[James185]

Sh*tley - Shipley

 

[John Luxton]

Talking to a guard the other year and he referred to Gunnislake as "Gunni"

 

[Class800]

Sh*tley - Shipley

Ooh a bit harsh! I'd say the same about Brat ford for Bradford, but that's the local pronunciation

 

[xotGD]

Smelly Oak

We called it Smelly Poke when I was a student.



Doing a train to "The Blocks" would have you arriving at The Cross.


A number of forum members appear to call B.N.S. (note the full stops) Barnes for some reason.

 

[Bevan Price]

Not of my origin, but many years ago, at the long closed Manchester Exchange one announcer used to announce trains calling at what sounded like:
'Culls (Eccles), 'Croft (Patricroft) and 'Ewillows (Newton Le Willows)

 

[alistairlees]

Pompey for Portsmouth Harbour
Dogsbody for Dewsbury (sorry to anyone living there)
Darlo of course
Lanky for Lancaster...