Route and line sections - "cool" names

[70014IronDuke]

Again, not a running line but 'Green Meadow Junction' on the Rose Hill branch is a lovely name

Agreed. Glad it isn't a modern name, because then it would smack of corporate PR, sound-nice 'made-upism'.

It made me think of Bay Horse, but I've forgotten where it is. WCML, somewhere near Lancaster, perhaps?

 

[70014IronDuke]

"Uncool name" - Gas Factory Junction ?

I offer you Oldham Mumps - that has to trump most out there, surely?

 

[ChiefPlanner]

I offer you Oldham Mumps - that has to trump most out there, surely?

Raise you Oldham Clegg Street (can imagine a gas light , run down station , with wooden footbridge and soot stained walls) ....was this true.

Enroute to Vitriol Works ....*


(*some nasty chemical which I believe was used by Victorian footpads on robbery missions)

 

[snowball]

Yes but mumps is actually a disease.

 

[yorksrob]

Hunting Butts tunnel (always makes me chuckle).

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Enroute to Vitriol Works ....*
(*some nasty chemical which I believe was used by Victorian footpads on robbery missions)

Sulphuric Acid to be precise - car battery acid

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Yes but mumps is actually a disease.

Apparently named after the archaic word "Mumpers" (i.e. a person who "mumps", such as a beggar or sponger) who frequented that area of Oldham in the past.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Boar's Head Junction feels very Old English (was on the WCML north of Wigan).
I also liked Whitchurch Cambrian Jn as the start of an exotic line into Wales.
There's still Daisyfield Jn at Blackburn (no fields in sight!).
And Skew Bridge Jn near Preston.

Throstle Nest Jn on the CLC at near Cornbrook was named after the adjacent bridge over the Bridgewater Canal, dating from a century earlier - and still there, it's name visible from Pomona Metrolink station.
It's difficult to believe that was the site of Pomona Pleasure Gardens, intended to rival Vauxhall Gardens in London.

In Warrington, Quail has a New Found Out siding (OOU) near The Hole, and on the opposite side of the WCML is Grid Iron Feeding Jn.
Down past Arpley Jn is a Jockey Lane siding.

Of course we have a good new name on the WCML with Searchlight Lane Jn, which is effectively Norton Bridge Jn, on the new deviation.

 

[GW43125]

Hunting Butts tunnel (always makes me chuckle).

That reminds me of many other "funny" locations, most of which are not repeatable here!

 

[snowball]

Stoat's Nest and Throstle Nest have already been mentioned. There's also Crow Nest Junction (not named after the late Bob).

 

[PeterY]

I always thought the London Overground line between London Euston and Watford Jct was called the "new lines", nowadays referred to as the DC lines.

 

[neilb62]

Bobby and Charlie Goods lines at Carlisle often raise a chuckle, and how far from Wapping are Carlisle High Wapping Sdgs?