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Post by mandgc on Jul 17, 2006 0:30:43 GMT
Browsing through the London Railway Atlas I was surprised to to see how many London Transport stations retained their name while other BR stations had a suffix added. For example:
Stanmore Village
Leyton Midland Road
Leytonstone High Road
Rickmansworth Church Street.
Others,where there were other stations with a similar name became:
Kilburn (K & Brondesbury)
Croxley ( C. Green)
West Ruislip ( R & Ickenham)
Just before LT took over :
Heathway became Dagenham H. (Maybe it had become the Town Cantre)
Dagenham became D. East.
and on electrification Chigwell Lane became Debden. (Apparently Edgware and Edgware Road did not cause confusion) :-)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2006 7:32:53 GMT
Well in the case of Leyton Midland Road and Leytonstone High Road remember that both these stations are some distance from the respective tube stations (in fact Midland Road is on the other side of Leyton from the tube station, which effectively borders on the Stratford area) so to avoid interchange confusion I guess the names of these two lightly used stations were changed, where Leytonstone and Leyton carry more passengers so it makes sense to keep the names of the tube stations.
I suppose Debden was changed from Chigwell Lane to possibly reflect that the area was developing, since in the mid 1800s when the line was built there was likely next to no development at Debden.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2006 10:28:57 GMT
BR changed a lot of station names not long after nationalisation when there were two stations in one town. With BR running both stations, they could not be called "Bedford (LMS)" and "Bedford (LNER)" any more. So they got names like "Bedford, Midland Road".
So maybe, having got the bit between their teeth, the BR planners also changed names when there was a clash with LT (which at the time was also run by the British Transport Commission).
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Post by mandgc on Jul 25, 2006 23:52:20 GMT
BR appears to have wanted a unique name for each of their stations both for the benefit of the public and for their own convenience.
The "Midland Road" suffix is rather interesting. Presumably when the station was opened the Midland Railway built an Approach Road and called it 'Midland' rather than the usual 'Station Road' At Leyton the line was on a viaduct through a built up area and Midland Road was possibly a new road diversion.
Many years later BR chose "their " own name for the suffix!
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Post by Phil on Jul 28, 2006 8:31:36 GMT
The "Midland Road" suffix is rather interesting. Wasn't 'Midland Road' merely short for Midland Railroad? |
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Post by mandgc on Jul 29, 2006 0:01:23 GMT
Why - 'Midland RAILroad' ?
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Post by Phil on Aug 1, 2006 11:05:27 GMT
As opposed to 'vehicle' road - just repeating that it was the Midland station rather than a GCR station etc.
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Post by mandgc on Aug 3, 2006 0:48:06 GMT
The Great Central, on their London Extension, used the suffix 'Central' where neccesary.
( Brackley, Rugby, Leicester and Chesterfield.)
The stations were not neccesarily the nearest to the Town Centres. :-)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2006 7:22:38 GMT
The Great Central, on their London Extension, used the suffix 'Central' where neccesary. ( Brackley, Rugby, Leicester and Chesterfield.) The stations were not neccesarily the nearest to the Town Centres. :-) Although doubtless the GC wanted people to think that they were. An early example of "spin"? |
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