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Post by d7666 on Feb 16, 2023 15:09:20 GMT
Largest or most important, at the time, in the eyes of the directors. Makes me wonder what the tie-breakers might have been for things like branches between to main lines. A coin toss may have been involved. Which is precisely why this subject is an endless debate. There is no perfect logic or 100.000% water tight system anyway; when you add directors whims you have no chance to rationalise it. Which in turn is why every time the subject comes up, someone somewhere is able to come along with some exception to oppose whatever has been proposed by stating examples such as Climthorpe on the Sunshine Deserts Junction & Norbiton District Light Railway are different, and so on. |
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Post by rincew1nd on Feb 16, 2023 20:13:39 GMT
Away from the core topic, but still slightly relevant. There are plans in Liverpool to reopen Liverpool St James station. Part of the plans involved a public consultation around the name, many were concerned about potential confusion between Liverpool St James and Liverpool James St; as a result the reopened station will be named to match the the upcoming district in which it will sit Liverpool Baltic |
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Post by Tom on Feb 16, 2023 21:10:07 GMT
WEST PERIVALE would have been even more accurate. Which it now carries as a suffix. Of course, South Greenford was so named because it was to the south of the GWR's Greenford station, itself about a mile north of the town centre. |
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Post by zbang on Feb 22, 2023 16:33:48 GMT
Largest or most important, at the time, in the eyes of the directors. [...] Which is precisely why this subject is an endless debate. There is no perfect logic or 100.000% water tight system anyway; when you add directors whims you have no chance to rationalise it. At least as endless debates go, it can be interesting and amusing. And a "convention" is only a usual way of doing things, not The Iron Fist of Policy, I expect there would be a lot of name changes over time if that was true.
(This is similar in the IT world to corporate username policies, in <many> years involvement I've never seen one that didn't eventually break, and often on an important person.)
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