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Trivia: Stations in settlements named after the Station

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Grecian 1998

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There are settlement named Seaton Junction and Chard Junction after the former stations, although both closed in the 1960s with their respective branch lines.
 

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Rainford Junction - before the station name was simplified to just Rainford. The main part of Rainford is almost a mile from the station.
 

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Lostock is in the area known as Lostock Junction (the name of the previous station before closure).

Is this an example where the old area name has stuck, but the station name hasn't (when it reopened in 1988)?
 

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Crewe.
A complicated one - the station was named after a local hamlet, not close to the station, the current town then built up around the station and was named after it, thus 'pinching' the name.
 

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Ratho Station west of Edinburgh, about a mile from Ratho itself which is the other side of the M8. The actual station has long since been closed though.
 

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Crewe certainly is complicated. Despite coming about only because of the railways, they still managed to get the town centre nowhere near the rail station!
 

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Woody Bay, on the north Devon Coast, not quite a settlement, but worth mentioning I think.

When the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway opened in 1900, the cove was called Wooda Bay and the corresponding station was also named Wooda Bay (despite being 1.5 miles away and, in true L&B fashion, about 600ft higher up.) In 1901 the railway decided that ‘Woody Bay’ would be more marketable and therefore changed the name of the station, and correspondingly the landowner changed the name of the cove and nearby pier. However it was all to fail as the location never made any progress as the resort, the landowner ended up bankrupt and in debtors prison for 12 years and the L&B was closed in 1935.

The cove, however, is still now called Woody Bay.
 

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Locations within most of London are referred to by the nearest Tube station. I admit some of those were named after pre-existing settlements, but a lot are named after other local features that wouldn't have been very useful for navigation until the Tube appeared.
 

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I’d have thought the area and station were named after the bridge?
My understanding is that the subway station (and once upon a time the railway station opposite) gained that name from the bridge, but the area took on the name from the stations as that is how they were identified on a map. Six and half a dozen I suppose at the end of the day
 

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Another complicated one: Ben Rhydding. The station of course was named after the nearby hydro rather the name of the area at the time, Wheatley.

Over time the area became to be known as Ben Rhydding, whether that’s primarily down to the name of station or the hydro is to be debated.
 

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Seamer, should have been called Crossgates but that would have got confused with Crossgates near Leeds. Its over a mile to Seamer village, and people locally now refer to the immediate area as Seamer Station
 

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Langwith Junction is a named village originally being called after its station. The village is attached to but not part of Shirebrook. The station was subsequently renamed Shirebrook North, but the village and the loco shed therein retained the Langwith Junction name.
Not too far away, Sutton Junction is a part of Sutton-in- Ashfield where the former station of that name was situated. The area of Sutton was not so named officially but the name remains in popular use.
When the Robin Hood Line reopened Sutton Junction did not reopen with it. Instead a new station was built a few yards to the south, and was named Sutton Parkway, although I believe it is actually over the border and just within Kirkby-in-Ashfield which also has its own station close to the town centre.
 

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I’d have thought the area and station were named after the bridge?
The bridge next to the station is called Great Western Bridge. The name Kelvinbridge only came about after the Subway (and Glasgow Central Railway) station located there.
 

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New Milton I believe was not really near anything when it first opened and was named after a nearby sub post office with the town of New Milton gradually building up around the station
 

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Windermere. The proposed route of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway was successfully opposed by the Wordsworths and their Cronies in Grasmere (of Wordsmiths of Gorsemere fame). A station was built just outside the town of Bowness and named Windermere. A town of the same name grew up around.
 
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