Trivia: Zoological Stations

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Adderley Park

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Swineshead

 

[Rescars]

The most species you'll find at any one station would presumably be at Regents Park!

 

[4COR]

Oxted

Maybe when it hatches, we could consider Eggham? Might have had something to do with Acocks Green?

Bearsden

Another couple of ursine entries:

Bearley
Bearsted

 

[Bryson]

The most species you'll find at any one station would presumably be at Regents Park!

Belle Vue was also built to serve a Zoological gardens.

 

[Peter0124]

Oxted

Maybe when it hatches, we could consider Eggham? Might have had something to do with Acocks Green?


Another couple of ursine entries:

Bearley
Bearsted

What's cool about Bearsden is it's the Bears Den!

 

[Rescars]

Perhaps you can hear a horse at Neyland (if your spellchecker will allow it)!

 

[4COR]

What's cool about Bearsden is it's the Bears Den!

An ideal habitat!

 

[snowball]

Belle Vue was also built to serve a Zoological gardens.

But unlike Regents Park it doesn't contain an Ark.

 

[4COR]

A pair of SR Corvids:

Crowhurst
Crowborough

 

[pne]

Penzants

 

[Strathclyder]

Would Carfin count here?

Sticking with Glasgow, Gilshochill on the Maryhill Line would count if it retained it's original name: Lambhill (linked image copyright of Flickr's 6089Gardener).

150256 GSC 1221 MYH-GLQ 29-5-95

Gilsochill station was originally named Lambhill and sporting that name, we see 150256 stopping on the 1221 Maryhill - Glasgow Queen Street on 29 May 1995.

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Hawkhead

Hawkhead

Something of a twofer here (sticking with birds), as Hawkhead station is located in Paisley's Seedhill area.

One last avian-related example would be the long-since closed Crow Road in Glasgow, on the line between Stobcross and Maryhill Central.

 

[randyrippley]

how about Bear Lane???

 

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Not a station, but there is Hare Park Junction near Wakefield.

 

[greyman42]

Surprised Canary Wharf has not yet had a mention.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Throstle Nest Jn (removed).
Gleneagles
Walvis Bay (Namibia)

 

[RSimons]

Another twofer, if you aren't too bothered about spelling!

(Martins Heron) Surely a threefer - martin, marten, heron

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Sheep's Wool?

 

[leytongabriel]

Beeston
Swanage if you allow preserved railways
Swansea must have been done before
Paddington (named after the bear of course)
Felixstowe ( Latin for cat as well as Disney's)
Weston super Mare
Canterbury West and East
Huddersfield
Ramsgate
Woolwich Arsenal..... better stop now

 

[xotGD]

Cramlington gives Ram and Ling

Newton Aycliffe
Newton Abbot

Finchley Road & Frognal

Skipton means "Sheep Town"

 

[snowball]

Skipton means "Sheep Town"

During the foot and mouth disease there was a newspaper headline "Sheepless in Settle".

 

[Mikey C]

Woolwich Arsenal.....

Woolwich Flockyard

 

[adamedwards]

Shepreth as in a dog on Blue Peter AND there it is a rail zoo interchange station!

 

[Islineclear3_1]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Barking

There is also Falconwood and White Hart Lane

And if we're including London Underground and DLR we have:

Buckhurst Hill
Blackhorse Road
Canary Wharf
Cockfosters
Finchley Road and Central
Goldhawk Road
Lambeth North
Ravenscourt Park

 

[SCDR_WMR]

Has Stratford been mentioned? And of course the -upon-Avon one too?

 

[xotGD]

Quite a few bats:

Battle
Batley
Bat & Ball
Bathgate
Bath

 

[D6968]

Catford?
Sort of animal related Dudley was right next door to the towns Zoo very useful for trainspotting, I can recall being told off for taking more interest in a class 56 going past in the early 1990’s than the animals during a school trip.

 

[norbitonflyer]

SHREWsbury
SWANsea
SWANAGE
FISHguard
PADDINGTON (bear)
aBIRDeen (!)
SNAILbeach
WOOL
Weston super MARE

 

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Think we might have covered all of them now, judging by the number of repeats...

All of them in English anyway. In German there's Chafford Hundred Lakeside.

To our Welsh-speakers, are there any in Wales that include animals in Welsh?

 

[Deafdoggie]

Kidsgrove is actually named after an area where baby goats used to graze.