Oxenholme

[mikestone1952]

Although still in publicity as Oxenholme Lake District, some, if not all, the signs now have just "Oxenholme", with Gateway to the Lake District below.
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From google it would appear that the signs had previously read "Oxenholme" with "*The* Lake District" below.
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Have the signs ever agreed with the timetable?

 

[thenorthern]

Whenever I have been there most signs have read "Oxenholme The Lake District", They may have changed since then though. I don't think there have ever been signs saying "Oxenholme Lake District" though.

There is occasionally press releases by Kendal Council calling for the station to be re-named Kendal Junction or something similar although given that this has been mentioned since the 1990s its safe to say its not going to happen.

 

[driver9000]

The Gateway to the lakes signage is relatively recent before then it was either Oxenholme or Oxenholme the Lake District depending on which sign you looked at.

The timetables generally show it as Oxenholme Lake District omitting 'the' presumably for space constraints but for a while in the early 90s it was simply Oxenholme: Lakes.

 

[yorksrob]

I seem to recall it always being announced as "Oxenholme the Lake District" whenever I've been that way.

 

[QueensCurve]

There is occasionally press releases [sic] by Kendal Council calling for the station to be re-named Kendal Junction or something similar although given that this has been mentioned since the 1990s its safe to say its not going to happen.

I believe the original name for the station was Kendal Junction but it has been Oxenholme for a very long time.

I think "The Lake District" epithet was introduced in the mid 1980s. It always made me cringe.

 

[davetheguard]

I believe the original name for the station was Kendal Junction but it has been Oxenholme for a very long time.

I think "The Lake District" epithet was introduced in the mid 1980s. It always made me cringe.

Yes, I think it was introduced by the then Inter-City (or INTERCITY) sector of B.R.

 

[Joseph_Locke]

The ultimate authority (the Sectional Appendix) has it as Oxenholme.

The rest of the text on the station signs is just marketing froth.

 

[QueensCurve]

The ultimate authority (the Sectional Appendix) has it as Oxenholme.

The rest of the text on the station signs is just marketing froth.

And you are the authority for this since you built the mainline over Shap.

 

[davetheguard]

The ultimate authority (the Sectional Appendix) has it as Oxenholme.

The rest of the text on the station signs is just marketing froth.

Agreed.

But then again, the Sectional Appendix can be slightly conservative when it comes to spellings. For instance, I wonder if they've finally caught up with the fact that, it is "Hanborough" station on the eastern end of the Cotswold Line line near Oxford, and no longer the archaic "Handborough" with a D. They certainly hadn't when I last looked, admittedly a few years ago .

I believe the spelling was changed by the then Train Operating Company (Thames Trains) in the mid 90's and has appeared as such on tickets, pocket timetables, and journey planners ever since.

 

[Joseph_Locke]

Agreed.

But then again, the Sectional Appendix can be slightly conservative when it comes to spellings. For instance, I wonder if they've finally caught up with the fact that, it is "Hanborough" station on the eastern end of the Cotswold Line line near Oxford, and no longer the archaic "Handborough" with a D. They certainly hadn't when I last looked, admittedly a few years ago .

I believe the spelling was changed by the then Train Operating Company (Thames Trains) in the mid 90's and has appeared as such on tickets, pocket timetables, and journey planners ever since.

So? All that means is that they're all wrong!

That said, It can't seem to get Fiddlers Ferry (or Fiddler's Ferry, or Fiddlers' Ferry) right, but that's what happens when you employ grocer's'.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Agreed.
But then again, the Sectional Appendix can be slightly conservative when it comes to spellings. For instance, I wonder if they've finally caught up with the fact that, it is "Hanborough" station on the eastern end of the Cotswold Line line near Oxford, and no longer the archaic "Handborough" with a D. They certainly hadn't when I last looked, admittedly a few years ago .

No D in the 2012 SA, so they've got it right now.

Unlike Masborough Jn in Rotherham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_Masborough_railway_station

The station, designed by Francis Thompson, was opened by the North Midland Railway between Derby and Leeds, and named simply 'Masbrough', without the 'o', since Rotherham had not yet grown to surround the village. The station was renamed 'Masbrough & Rotherham' in 1896, 'Rotherham Masborough' in 1908 (misspelt by the railway company: the name of the district has always been 'Masbrough'), then simply 'Rotherham' in 1969

 

[edwin_m]

That said, It can't seem to get Fiddlers Ferry (or Fiddler's Ferry, or Fiddlers' Ferry) right, but that's what happens when you employ grocer's'.

Should employ gricer's instead.

 

[swt_passenger]

Should employ gricer's instead.

Nice one...

 

[thenorthern]

I find the maps at Oxenholme rather strange as at stations such as at all other Virgin Trains stations they show the City Centre or Town Centre but at Oxenholme they show the village which as as whole isn't very big and is mostly residential and quite a contrast to the maps at stations such as Preston.

 

[Radedamer]

I've only been there once. In my memory it was "Oxenholme for the Lakes" but as this was about 1979 and I was a small child at the time, my memory might well have distorted it.

 

[mikestone1952]

Since this thread has veered widely off topic I'll just point out that many of the roads on the local area map at East Midlands Parkway largely showed internal roads in Ratcliffe power station - and initially was accompanied by an OS extract that didn't show the station at all!"""""