Edgware Road

Maybe just call it Edgware to differentiate.

Doesn't stop tourists confusing the two (and getting stung for a 5-zone fare for a 1-zone journey).

The same tourists seem to dislike the words "Road", "Square", etc, and so also refer to "Leicester", "Gloucester" or "Oxford". Imagine the fun if Crossrail services through OXO ever get extended to the City of Dreaming Spires.

Of course Finsbury Park is a long way from Finsbury, and Tottenham Court Road a long way from Tottenham - another reason for renaming TCR station as Centre Point (along with saving space on a cramped part of the tube map and on bus destination blinds, and not confusing people who actually want to go to those addresses in that thoroughfare (the majority) for which the nearest stations are Goodge Street or Warren Street).

edited when I realised which zone Edgware is in.

Blame Brunel!! Twas he that started the concept of "........Road" for stations such as Bodmin Road, more than 5 miles from the town of Bodmin. Has been so for 150 years or more, so, in modern parlance, 'live with it'!!!!

Since when

Edgware is at the top of the northern line, many miles away from Edgware Road, which starts at Marble Arch and goes west, not north!

I know it's very OTT but locally the virtual 'ghost station' Beaulieu Road is indeed on Beaulieu Road but is about 3 miles south of Lyndhurst, and 3 1/2 from Beaulieu. There are no buses to Beaulieu, and no taxis. Ashurst (New Forest) was originally Lyndhurst Road, as it's on that road (A35) but it's three miles from Lyndhurst and now very few buses run.

St. Giles Circus would be a more accurate name for Tottenham Court Road station, though unlike Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus, this name is much less well known.

Another pair of inaccurate names are Holborn and Chancery Lane. Holborn station is on the corner of High Holborn and Kingsway, whilst Chancery Lane is at the junction of Holborn / High Holborn / Grays Inn Road, with Chancery Lane located 100m to the west. When the respective stations were opened, the names were more accurate.

All of the stations along that stretch are like that... Ruislip, Eastcote, many are away from the towns but it's the nearest place so makes sense to name as such.

No it doesn't - it's nearer north than west, about 30 west of north (or north-by-north-west!). But unlike examples such as Lyndhurst Road, it is not, and never has been, the nearest station to its namesake town.

Examples like Ruislip, Acton (ML), Tooting etc were, when opened, the nearest to their namesakes - later arrivals may have got closer but had to use a suffix to distinguish from the earlier example, even if they were closer to the town centre - see for example Tooting Broadway which is much more central than plain Tooting.

Occasionally, place names get hijacked by stations some distance awayfrom their actual location - Holborn is one example, Clapham Junction is another - many people still confuse Clapham station with CJ, even now its been renamed Clapham High Street.




But it would be if the station serving it was named after it. In the same way everyone would know where Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury were if the stations serving those areas were so named.



True for Chancery Lane, because the entrance moved when escalators replaced lifts, but not for Holborn which has always been on High Holborn rather than Holborn proper. Perhaps it should have been named Kingsway.

Except Bodmin Road has not been that for the last 27 years.

It was renamed Bodmin Parkway in 1983.




I don't see any need to rename either Edgware Road (for the argument works both ways) - they are not inconveniently apart, indeed they are probably closer together than different lines platforms at a few single station interchanges.

Regular users know the score, tourists that get it wrong are hardly put out by the 100 m difference are they.


Next someone else will want Queensway and Bayswater to do the opposite and have the same name.

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Nick

hThere has been an Edgware station since 1867 - when the GNR opened its station of that name.

And also Holborn (Kingsway) was what the station used to be called!

What I meant was, the GNP&BR as originally was, crossed the street of High Holborn once, and named the station Holborn. There was no Central Line here until the 1930s. So for Piccadilly passengers, it was the most appropriate station to reach Holborn.

I presume few would have chosen to alight at Holborn, walk to British Museum, and take the CLR to Chancery Lane.

Nononononono. Holborn being holborn makes sense, because kingsway tram tunnel would have caused confusion, so it wouldn't be kingsway, and at that time faringdon was farringdon&high holborn, so holborn is the nearest area to name it after.