ess1uk Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 apart from the Welsh to English, can anyone think of stations that are not spelt the same as the town they serve? start you off with Whittlesea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Does Ebbsfleet International count? It serves Northfleet. At least there's no placename called Ebbsfleet on the OS map, and I'd never heard of Ebbsfleet when I grew up in that part of Kent. I think they made up a new name because Northfleet didn't sound nice enough, and with the recession, all the new construction that would have been called Ebbsfleet hasn't happened. Although the local football team (Gravesend & Northfleet Football Club) changed their name to match the new. non-existent regeneration! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philately Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Reedsmouth Junction (at the mouth of the Rede) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 According to Wikipedia Eaglescliffe is allegedly a mis-spelling of the nearby village of Egglescliffe, and the community of Eaglescliffe later grew up around the station. Then there's Newhey/New Hey, and I recall a debate many years ago about whether Tooting Bec had a full stop or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 12, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2011 I'm sure in my yoof there was a station called Lyghe Halt which is now called Leigh, in common with the village not far from Tonbridge that it serves. Not a station mis-spelling, but the town of Cranleigh, on the Horsham - Guildford line closed in the mid-60s, had, shortly before the railway was built, had its spelling changed from Cranley to Cranleigh. The story is that the Post Office were getting fed up with confused mail between Cranley and not-far-away Crawley due to poor writing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted May 12, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2011 It might not be a little harsh to suggest that the GWR were masters of this, frequently sighting stations in one location then saying that the station served somewhere else. A good example of this being Wrangaton station in South Devon. This was called Kingsbridge road (suggesting that it served Kingsbridge, yet the station was more than 11 miles from Kingsbridge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted May 12, 2011 Author Share Posted May 12, 2011 Lyndhurst Road in the New Forest is similar, it changed it's name to Ashurst (New Forest) in 1997 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trog Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Hemel Hempsted on the MR branch from Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rods_of_Revolution Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Not a different spelling but "Patney and Chirton" station on the Berks/Hants line was originally called "Patney Bridge" but after confusion regarding "Putney Bridge" station in London it was changed to "Patney and Chirton". 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 A place I used to live, and probably well-known to Coachmann; I give you Upper Mill (it's really one word) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 There's a village in Derbyshire which can't seem to make up it's mind whether it's Youlgeave or Youlgrave, there are signposts spelt either way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 apart from the Welsh to English, can anyone think of stations that are not spelt the same as the town they serve? start you off with Whittlesea The railway and brick company could agree on the name.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsOatcake Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Leek Brook is the correct railway spelling and the village is Leekbrook Bramshall nr Uttoxeter was Bromshall on the railway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 I think one that could reopen skirmishes of long ago is Scotch Dyke, the miscegenation of Scots Dyke, heading out of England on the Waverley line. But maybe that's one for the Waverlophiles and pedants such as I Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Dudding Hill signalbox in Dudden Hill NW London is another that got lost in translation. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Lyndhurst Road in the New Forest is similar, it changed it's name to Ashurst (New Forest) in 1997 and so I suppose is Paddock Wood, which started life as Maidstone Road. The little wrinkle with this is that there was no settlement there before the railway. The name changed in Victorian times as the village grew up - according to the Kentrail site it changed names as early as 1844 when the Maidstone Branch opened. I was also going to offer Slades Green as an example, as the area as far as I know is actually Slade Green, but I can't confirm this. Also there is no Lee (on the Dartford loop via Sidcup); the place is Lee Green. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 ... Slades Green... Older maps certainly show it as Slades Green with the extra S. (The location, not the station) And don't let's get started on whether Kings/King's Cross and similar names should have an apostrophe or not. Mind you, I did once see a handwritten notice for Leed's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenman Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk was called Wells-by-Sea by both the LNER and BR (BR later changed it). Watlington, also in Norfolk, started life as Watlington before becoming Magdalen Road, the name I knew it by when I was growing up and that survived through the NSE era. It's now Watlington again. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk was called Wells-by-Sea by both the LNER and BR (BR later changed it). Actually, to be a rivet counter again, it was Wells on Sea until BR finally got it right. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Older maps certainly show it as Slades Green with the extra S. (The location, not the station) thanks for this And don't let's get started on whether Kings/King's Cross and similar names should have an apostrophe or not. Mind you, I did once see a handwritten notice for Leed's. Completely OT but that reminds me of the big advert in Leeds station in the mid 80's from the Leeds Permanent Buildings Society. "British rail are getting there. We've been here since 1848." 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
definate maybe Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Not really serving a town of a different name but the signs at Walton in Essex keep changing between Walton-On-Naze and Walton-On-THE-Naze. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenman Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Actually, to be a rivet counter again, it was Wells on Sea until BR finally got it right. You're quite right -- that'll teach me to try to do things by memory instead of looking them up! Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted May 13, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2011 Harringay/Haringey. Also Crossgates or Cross Gates near Leeds, both names are on the platform signs! Newark Northgate or North Gate is another. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 13, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2011 Harringay/Haringey. Well, yes and no. Both Harringay and Harringay Park (Green Lanes) were correctly named as that is the name of the immediate area they serve. It's just that when the new Local Authority was set up in 1965, it was given the name Haringey - presumably to acknowledge that its 11 square miles covers 3 former boroughs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 13, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2011 Well, yes and no. Both Harringay and Harringay Park (Green Lanes) were correctly named as that is the name of the immediate area they serve. It's just that when the new Local Authority was set up in 1965, it was given the name Haringey - presumably to acknowledge that its 11 square miles covers 3 former boroughs. Harringay, Haringey and Hornsey are all variant spellings of the same name (Dictionary of British Place Names) and have been used variously over the years, not one is either correct or incorrect. Haringey is not a modern invention. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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