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Isn't Watford Gap best known for motorway services?
Similarly Halwill / Halwill Junction (separate locations a mile apart), the latter well-known when the LSWR then Southern served the north Devon and Cornwall coasts.Hardly anyone would know of Evercreech beyond the immediate area, were it not for Evercreech Junction (albeit it was south of the village).
Only since around 1959.Isn't Watford Gap best known for motorway services?
That could be a whole other thread, 'settlements primarily know for the road infrastructure which bears it's name', you could probably include half the motorway service stations in the country.Isn't Watford Gap best known for motorway services?
Hangar Lane is most (in)famous as a road junction!Some underground stations named after specific roads have made the place well-known where the road itself isn't of much significance otherwise, even locally. For instance Rayners Lane - it's now seen as a kind of district in one corner of Harrow, though it only has that name and status because of the underground station on the road of that name. Similarly Goldhawk Road, Hanger Lane, and others.
Wasn’t Fenchurch Street LMS?Flying off at a tangent, I wonder if the LNER paid Waddington's to use its four London termini on the Monopoly board!
If I'm not mistaken, Fenchurch Street was shared by both the LNER and the LMS post-grouping.Wasn’t Fenchurch Street LMS?
Owned by the LNER, but most services provided by the LMS through the Midland's takeover of the London, Tilbury and Southend in 1912.If I'm not mistaken, Fenchurch Street was shared by both the LNER and the LMS post-grouping.
Not my area of expertise by any stretch of the imagination, so cheers for that.Owned by the LNER, but most services provided by the LMS through the Midland's takeover of the London, Tilbury and Southend in 1912.
Camborne is quite famous - even has its own song "Going Up Camborne Hill" a rugby, male voice choir and folk song favourite.There are a few places in Cornwall which I would never have heard of if not for the railway.
Par has been mentioned. St Erth is another, along with Lostwithiel, St Germans, and Gunnislake.
Also, Camborne, which is probably most famous for a Jethro joke. Similar to Cockfosters mentioned above, which is best remembered for a Max Miller joke!
There are a few places in Cornwall which I would never have heard of if not for the railway.
Par has been mentioned. St Erth is another, along with Lostwithiel, St Germans, and Gunnislake.
Also, Camborne, which is probably most famous for a Jethro joke. Similar to Cockfosters mentioned above, which is best remembered for a Max Miller joke!
To be fair, that will apply to lots of smaller stations, particularly those which for operating convenience ( or whatever) get served by long distance services.In the case of Lostwithiel, it's surely only the fact of the railway station that means non-locals have heard of it.
I visualise Lostwithiel as a remote moorland station surrounded by mist. Descending from the London train in the early morning, the sole passengers are Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, the latter rubbing sleep from his eyes and looking around him in bewilderment. Don't tell me it's not like that.Lostwithiel is also famous for its castle.
Not to be confused with Box Hill near Dorking, which has its own station.Box Hill, between Chippenham and Bath Spa on the Great Western Railway.
I think that King's Cross as an area was called Battle Bridge before the station was built.Some underground stations named after specific roads have made the place well-known where the road itself isn't of much significance otherwise, even locally. For instance Rayners Lane - it's now seen as a kind of district in one corner of Harrow, though it only has that name and status because of the underground station on the road of that name. Similarly Goldhawk Road, Hanger Lane, and others. As for main line stations in London - yes, Victoria station has given its name to the district, though the district is surely itself well-known now*; but Kings Cross isn't such a clear-cut case. And the St Pancras area doesn't get its name from the station - it's the other way round; the St P name, in that part of London at least, isn't seen as synonymous with the station.
*And hence perhaps doesn't fit the criteria, since the topic is what's known by the name, not which came first.
Best known for the football club.Newton Heath
I would add Norton Bridge to that list.On the West Coast Main Line: Hanslope Junction, Watford Gap and Kilsby Tunnel. All far better known than the villages they take their names from.
Where is Hanslope / Hanslope Junction?On the West Coast Main Line: Hanslope Junction, Watford Gap and Kilsby Tunnel. All far better known than the villages they take their names from.
I imagine much the same. I also imagine Lostwithiel as midway between Lowestoft and Listowel.I visualise Lostwithiel as a remote moorland station surrounded by mist. Descending from the London train in the early morning, the sole passengers are Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, the latter rubbing sleep from his eyes and looking around him in bewilderment. Don't tell me it's not like that.
HangEr Lane. As in a wood clinging to a hillside. Nothing to do with aircraft.Hangar Lane is most (in)famous as a road junction!
Street name > station > Road junction
A name that came from the depot, which is why I included it.Best known for the football club.
Manchester United, as they are now called.
Barnetby is a good example for those familiar with Cleethorpes trains (South Transpennine).There are several stations named after villages/suburbs which also serve larger nearby settlements where the station is more known than the place it's named after.
Some examples include Seamer, Thornaby, Hordon, Hartford, Longport and Markinch.
Is that the Stenson south of Derby?Stenson is better known in railway circles for its junction, and in canal circles for its "bubble", than the nearby hamlet.
Crewe and Swindon are the two many people will think of but if the railway had not chosen the location for large scale workshops which other places would probably be far smaller now?
My first thoughts are Darlington and Eastleigh.
I visualise Lostwithiel as a remote moorland station surrounded by mist. Descending from the London train in the early morning, the sole passengers are Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, the latter rubbing sleep from his eyes and looking around him in bewilderment. Don't tell me it's not like that.