Doctor Fegg
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It doesn't, though. The Greater Anglia franchise really is just East Anglia. At a pinch I guess you could cite Liverpool Street and that Bishop's Stortford is not quite East Anglia - but then BR used to call that bit West Anglia, and it's not like people have trouble understanding that Paddington is not actually in the West nor Kings Cross in the North-East.Or it is like Greater Manchester - ie applies to the area around Manchester not just Manchester.
No, it stems from the time when the SRA were using the word "Greater" to describe their new enlarged, single franchises. Greater Western is another one; GWR's holding company is still First Greater Western. But they don't use that as a consumer-facing brand.