Bizarre Station Names

[Maggot]

It's where we meet for Griff's Epping Forest tours. An ordinary small town with lots of woods nearby.

 

[Japey]

Aspatria
Penistone
Redcar British Steel
Gypsy Lane
Hall i' th' Wood

 

[Loki]

Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta (train station in India)

 

[davgraham]

Cefn y bed

or Seven in a Bed

and

Caegwrle

which my two sons can never pronounce correctly

both on the Bidston Wrexham line

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PS plus Hope and Penyfford, although the station is actually at neither of those two places

 

[Harold Hill]

Theydon Bois - end of the central line I think.

Sounds so un-London like, sophisticated almost. What's it like, anyone know?

It isn't pronounced 'Theydon Bwa' if thats what you were thinking.

 

[golightly]

Hob's End

Wasn't that the tube station in 'Quatermass & the Pit'?

 

[laptop]

Wasn't that the tube station in 'Quatermass & the Pit'?

Can't dispute it's bizarreness!

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

he stuck his
wapping
great
monument
up her
mudshute
she had a tight
arsenal



/appropriates coat

 

[DrRingDing]

Kunst Wet

It's a station on the Brussels metro

 

[laptop]

Kunst Wet

En waarom lacht u bij dit?










It'd never struck me...

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Winnersh Triangle: where south-west trains disappear, never to be seen again...

 

[R.I.C.O.]

Besses 'o 'th Barn.

Its a MetroLink station in Manchester.

Whoever "Besses" was, I don't know what the fuck he/she was doing in the name of "'th barn"....

 

[Jayshat]

It isn't pronounced 'Theydon Bwa' if thats what you were thinking.

You're ruined it for me now. Is it pronounced "Theydon Boyce"...?

 

[Harold Hill]

You're ruined it for me now. Is it pronounced "Theydon Boyce"...?

Theydon Boys is correct I believe.

Faydon Boyce is how most people in Essex pronounce it.

 

[starfish]

IBM, its the station just before Greenock.

 

[PacificOcean]

IBM, its the station just before Greenock.

Does it stand for anything? How is it pronouced?

 

[comstock]

Does it(IBM) stand for anything? How is it pronouced?

I think there really was/is an IBM factory there.

If thats the case, it stands for International Business Machines.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Sole Street.

 

[comstock]

I think there really was/is an IBM factory there.

Factory now owned by another company, but station name remains

http://www.eetuk.com/bus/news/showA...Q4CTKWUQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=18402422

 

[red rose]

cockfosters, i've no idea where it is or what line but it always makes me laugh when i see it

Theres a signpost near my house for cockfosters but someone's altered it to say cockfesters, that makes me smile.

Biggleswade is a silly station name.

 

[parallelepipete]

Ramsgreave and Wilpshire (in Lancashire)

Why do they grieve and don't they know there's no such county?

 

[tollbar]

There was one in Cornwall called Praze An Beeble.

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

feltam/feltham, how they ever manage to say it without laughing i don't know

 

[knopf]

Another vote for Mudchute, not least because as I travel through it on the way to/from lovely Lewisham, one song & one song only invariably goes through my mind: - Mudchute City Limits.

 

[Phototropic]

cockfosters, i've no idea where it is or what line but it always makes me laugh when i see it

http://www.krysstal.com/londname.html

"Cockfosters D estate of the chief forester 1524"

Though not sure how accurate that sight is as I have always been taught "ham" means farm.