Obscure Station Names

blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 7:59 pm

Just thought i'd start a thread to see just how many obscure station names there are, you know, double meanings and all that, add at you leisure, and please, post an explanation, i'll start with Minas Troney Soop...

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 8:01 pm

My ficitional GWR branch will have Little Happening as its end station. Its been done b4 but hey!

Chris

blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 8:06 pm

Then there's Much Piddling in the Bod, Little . on the Moor...

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 8:06 pm

King's Cross

Fawkham Junction (On the new CTRL)

Stains

Hampton

Bedhampton

Martin's Heron

and finally

Effingham Junction

You mean that sort of thing...

blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 8:10 pm

That's the idea!

dilflat · Post by **dilflat** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 8:41 pm

I had a girlfriend who was obsessed with Pokesdown. Then theres that welsh station in Anglesea with the name that probably translates into something like "place that has an impossibly long name that no one can pronounce because we had to think of something to pull the tourists in"
And of course the Isle of Wight has a station at Ryde.

personally I think this thread is Barking.

snowcrashandy · Post by **snowcrashandy** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 8:44 pm

Bat & Ball

(Kent)

Andy

:drinking:

markw · Post by **markw** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 10:59 pm

I always thought Oldham Mumps was a strange name. Whatever next - Rochdale Glandular Fever? Todmorden No, I'm not Putting Youghurt On It, Thank You?

snowcrashandy · Post by **snowcrashandy** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 11:26 pm

Broadbottom..............

no comment!

:drinking:

alexking · Post by **alexking** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 3:55 am

Wot about ramsbottom (i live there

), or summerseat, or, possibly....rawtenstall?

alexking

jklnonesuch · Post by **jklnonesuch** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 7:00 am

Bratton Fleming on the L&B reminded me of a bronchial infection.

Bo-Peep Junction (Kent?)

Besses-o'-th'-Barn (Manchester - Bury). What the hell was that all about?

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 7:17 am

my mates last name is Ramsdale - but everyone calls him Ramsbottom

Electricfox · Post by **Electricfox** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 9:39 am

Isn't there a railway station at Pratts Bottom?

cadet200 · Post by **cadet200** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 3:10 pm

not a railway station but there's a place called twatt in the orkney islands.
rochdale glandular fever sounds good. better than walsden syphillus.

Post by **martinhodgson** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 8:42 pm

Again, not a rail station (I don't think) but there is a Muff somewhere in Scotland, and over in the USA, there is a Frigid and a Gaylord. Who lives in these places?!?!
Just goes to show what I do in my Geography lessons doesn't it? Spend time looking for stupid names!