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You missed a very common station name: It's the 1840s and you're building a railway between 2 major cities. The major landowner en route will let you build your railway on his land, but only if you build him a station so he can catch a train straight to London (or whichever city) from his country estate. You have no intention of diverting your line to accommodate this, so you build the station at the line's closest approach to the road past his house, and name it after the tiny village 3 or 4 miles away. In the 20th century, the village grows into a commuter town, and the locals grumble every morning that they have to walk over a mile to the station to get to work.
1:44 Llandudno junction is a rare case of a town being named after a station. Llandudno Junction was originally called Tremarl. When the railways arrived it was on the junction of the branch to Llandudno and so it was renamed Llandudno Junction. (So the video was also slightly wrong. Llandudno Junction is named so not because it is a junction in Llandudno, but because it was the junction FOR Llandudno)
yeah makes sense. i'm pretty sure i said in the video that the station is named after the junction, not the town with just the "junction" suffix. But i didn't know this so thanks for pointing it out!
Meanwhile NYC: 1. Name it after a street. ( 23rd Street, Prospect Avenue, Bay Parkway ) 2. If it is near a landmark or important place, you may choose to add that to the station name ( 34th Street - Penn Station, 161st Street - Yankee Stadium, Eastern Parkway - Brooklyn Museum ) 3. Alternatively, just name it after said landmark or important place ( South Ferry, Aqueduct Racetrack, City Hall ) 4. You may choose to either have the name of the neighborhood included. This can be with the street name ( Newkirk Avenue - Little Haiti, 63rd Drive - Rego Park, Kew Gardens - Union Turnpike ) or without street name ( Sheepshead Bay, Parkchester, Morris Park ). This is especially common with terminals ( Woodlawn, Coney Island - Stillwell Avenue, Jamaica - 179th Street ) 5. Is it connected to airport via AirTrain? Why not include that in the name ( Howard Beach - JFK Airport , Sutphin Boulevard - Archer Avenue - JFK Airport ) 6. Feeling spicy? Why not name it after two streets ( 174th - 175th Streets, Bushwick Avenue - Aberdeen Street, 74th Street - Broadway ). This can be especially useful to avoid disambiguation if other stations share the name ( 5th Avenue - 53rd Street, Cathedral Parkway - 110th Street, Myrtle - Willoughby Avenues ) or if it's a station complex of two formerly separate stations ( Myrtle - Wyckoff Avenues, Lexington Avenue - 59th Street, 4th Avenue - 9th Street ) Please keep in mind, station names are subject to change for various reasons! 57th Street - 7th Avenue and East Broadway were former terminals and were called Midtown - 57th Street and Lower East Side - East Broadway. Street names can change, resulting in 23rd Street - Ely Avenue becoming Court Square - 23rd Street and Manhattan Street becoming 125th Street or causing weird dual naming oddities like 33rd Street - Rawson Street and East 143rd Street - Saint Mary's Street with two street names referring to the same street. Sometimes they'll change for seeming no reason like 180th Street - Morris Park Avenue becoming East 180th Street and Mott Haven becoming 138th Street - Grand Concourse. Or they'll change due to stations merging into station complexes like Atlantic Avenue - Pacific Street into Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center and Broadway - Nassau Street into Fulton Street. Or they might just be inaccurate like Harlem - 148th Street actually being on 149th Street and Junius Street not actually reaching Junius Street and being on Livonia Avenue between Powell Street and Sackman Streets. Definitely very simple and has not caused confusion, I can assure that
@@lolermosskoss1834 It's very common to have numbered streets, at least in the US. Regardless, in NYC, numbered streets happen for various reasons. For Manhattan ( and the Bronx as a result, since the Bronx used to be a part of the same county as Manhattan ), it was originally from the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 that laid the gridwork for Manhattan streets. Queens didn't have numbered streets until much later, many of its streets used to be named ( as you can see in various station names ). Other neighborhoods/areas in NYC also have their own mini numeral systems like Williamsburg, Rockaways, Southeastern Brooklyn, Brighton, Paerdegat, Flatlands-Canarsie, Southwestern Brooklyn, and Broad Channel. There are also neighborhoods that used to have numbered system streets but changed to named streets like Williamsbridge ( at least according to History of Asphalt ). In short, NYC has a whole bunch of numbered street, including prefixed ones, because NYC used to be a collection of cities, towns, and villages that were separate until 1898.
0:22 This might sound like a good idea, but beware this place having the same name as a different place that is well-known. Bootle station isn't in Bootle but in some obscure little place in Cumbria also called Bootle. 1:07 True, many stations end in Park or Parkway, but the purposes are very different. A station named X Park is just named after a park. But X Parkway indicates that it's a parkway station --- one catering for a lot of passengers driving to it.
Given that Bootle Station is actually in the neighbouring village of Hycemoor, I don’t know why they didn’t just name it after that instead to avoid confusion.
Fun one is when you have a station in a town which shares a name with another town. For example, you have Rainham (Kent) and Rainham (Essex) - which are fun examples, because both of them are not shown on maps or station signs with those names, but are in databases and route-finding etc. Whats even more confusing, is that Rainham (Essex) is not even located in Essex - but rather is the station before crossing the border to enter Essex.
When making my rail maps I just take random prefixes and join them with common suffixes like -ton, -ford, -ham, -hithe, -ston(e), -ley, -ney etc. based on what the surrounding area is like (eg if it’s a rural village, seaside town, busy suburb, park or hill) Adding quirky or rare suffixes to the place name, like Green, Newton, Abbots, Chipping, cardinal words and size words like upper/lower/little etc makes it sound realistic and give character to the area.
There's also the practice of completely original names for stations. The station after Kingsbury, built by the Metropolitan Railway in open fields with no settlement nearby, was called Queensbury and Verney Junction was named after one of the Metropolitan's Directors, Lord Verney. Again, there was no settlement nearby, except for the Lord's family home in Calvert villiage (Calvert was his family name), a couple of miles away, which had it's own station. The Great Western Railway often called stations (XXXX) Road, where the villiage of (XXXX) was sometimes a few miles away. Sometimes stations were named so as not to be easily confused with other stations nearby. For example, your choice of Leighton could easily be confused with one of my local stations, Leyton.
Neat little video, lots of fascinating tid bits in there. I could be wrong but I think Birmingham International is the only place that uses 'International' relating to an airport (the others relate to the CTRL / Eurostar International services that used to stop there) They are also building the Moseley Village station is this the only station that uses 'Village' as part of its full name?
3:44 I feel like if it’s named after a street in the place, you could just call it the street if passengers already know where it is. For example Stepford Whitefield Street could just become Whitefield Street.
In Vancouver Transit System: TransLink almost every station ends with a street or road but you take the street out of the stations name. For example Granville Station in Vancouver there's a road called Granville street. If they wanted to make this stop at Granville street they will name it Granville. Same thing at Waterloo
2:07There were quite a few Victorias, the Great Central Raillway was particularly fond of them, like Nottingham and Sheffield, because they were built around the time of the jubilee of the Queen of that name. And Manchester of course
Rotherham Central is unique as it is a "Central", but there isn't another railway station in the town. The other station (Rotherham Marsborough) closed in the 1980s.
Come on, you just made that video so you could flex your pronunciation of Llandudno Junction. In the old days, you could also name your station after something that wasn't there in order to bait people to use your station.
Thought this was just a random video from a train enthusiast channel I'd not heard of before, the "Cambridge Street Parkway" fakeout really got me, I wish I hadn't come down to the comments and seen that there's more SCR references (only at 1:25 so far). Also interesting bit of Trivia, there's now a town called "Rainford Junction" by "Rainford" train station, becuase it used to be "Rainford Junction", but when the "Rainford" where the main town is shut (Beeching), the remaining one was no longer a junction, and got renamed.
Traditionally a station with the suffix Junction is named for the less significant branch, like "by the way, here's where this junction goes". In America and Australia, directionals can also be prefixes instead of suffixes depending on aesthetic preference.
London underground uses both for directional stations. Like for north, North Acton, North Ealing, North Greenwich, North Harrow and North Wembley have it before, and Clapham North and Lambeth North have it after.
@@DC4444 Perhaps it would be good if it were consistent, that directional prefixes were for stations on the same line and directional suffixes for stations on different lines.
@@DC4444 This is common on the National Rail network too. You have Canterbury West and Canterbury East, but also East Worthing and West Worthing. The weirdest example of this has to be a pair of stations on the West Highland lines - Tyndrum Lower and Upper Tyndrum, where they don’t even agree with each other, let alone the rest of the country!
Note also that the GWR used to use the suffix "General" when there were more than one station in a city. Examples include: Wrexham General, Cardiff General (renamed Cardiff Central in modern day) Shrewsbury General (now just Shrewsbury since its the only station left) Chester General (now just Chester since its the only station left) Which I suppose means that Wrexham General now fits your "anomaly" category, being the only one left of its kind
There are also a few stations with Spa in spa towns and cities, those being Bath Spa, Cheltenham Spa, Droitwich Spa and Leamington Spa. In Bath this used to be to distinguish it from Bath Green Park (even though there's no such park in Bath, it was called Bath Queen Square which made sense given it is near Queen Square) but now there's no real need to differentiate Bath Spa from any other station
The most bizarre station name I can think of is 'Glenrothes with Thornton'. For starters, I don't know why there isn't an 'and' in the middle, plus the 'Thornton' part should come first as it's much closer to there.
Hi, PotatoLemon! I loved your video and, as a yank, I felt inspired to make this guide for naming U.S. stations below. Most of this video’s advice can also be applied to American stations, but with some key differences: 1. The terms “city,” “town,” “village,” and “parkway” are almost never used in U.S. station names, so avoid these terms when naming your station. 2. Most U.S. towns with a train station (which is rare because of our poor public transit system) only have one station, so in most cases you can include only the town name in the station name and nothing else. 3. If your station is large, located in a big city, and was built to serve multiple railroads, then include “union” in the name (i.e. Chicago Union Station, Los Angeles Union Station). 4. If your station serves multiple transportation modes in addition to heavy rail, such as taxis, buses, light rail, and/or subways, then call it a “transportation center” (i.e. Ogilvie Transportation Center, Norristown Transportation Center). 5. Stations named after streets are also common in large cities (i.e. Newark Broad Street, Philadelphia 30th Street). 6. Some stations are named after important people (for example, the aforementioned Ogilvie T.C. is named after former Illinois governor Richard B. Ogilvie). 7. If a station has a cardinal direction in its name, it will usually come before the proper noun (i.e. West Trenton), but not always (i.e. Boston South Station). 8. Finally, if the station is located in a large city and was built by the former Pennsylvania Railroad, then put “Penn” in the name (i.e. New York Penn Station, Baltimore Penn Station).
In Japan, there are many (and I mean many) railway companies that can serve the same area, so one strategy they've used is to prefix the station name with the operator, so you'd end up with instances such as Kawasaki (run by JR East) and Keikyū-Kawasaki (run by Keikyū)
5 ways to name a metro station: Method 1: you care-name of something around you or the area it is: example: Stepford Victoria Square or Farleigh-University Method 2: name it fast: you have then this: James Street (like it doesn’t even suggest Where it is) Method 3: u Wanna feel cool and Important so you name it like a train station, take note Toronto and Newcastle
N.B. If your station is in a tiny place (Wormley), name it instead after a slightly bigger place nearby, preferably with a confusably similar name (Witley). Conversely, if a larger, closer place already has a station (Burgess Hill), use the name of a tiny place that's actually further away (Wivelsfield). Another strategy: Use a locality name that nobody uses (Aldrington) instead of a much more locally understood term (e.g. Poet's Corner). You're welcome 😅
@@MattijsVandebroek They keep changing the names of the stations?? That sounds very confusing! (Netherlands judging by your name, or somewhere else, if you're happy to say?)
@@JfromUK_ Belgium. Most stations keep their name though, but Charleroi - Sud became Charleroi - Central as it is their major station. Brussel National Airport became Brussels Airport Zaventem. There are a few more examples. Its hard to make any choice over here to be honest, there's always someone against a decision. That's why some station names are confusing here. Also, if a station is on the property of town A, but it's meant to serve town B, it gets named after town B, even though it's in town A. Pretty confusing, right?
What about -On-Sea or -By-Sea? 2 stations near me, one has -By Sea, the other On-Sea. One has changed it's name from (town name) to -By-Sea before the -On-Sea was built.
Wrexham *General* says shwmae. At least in the UK you don't reach a level of confusion in German-speaking countries where the main station or "Hauptbahnhof" can be (but isn't always) separate from the central or "Mitte" station.
Hertford East got the name as I was on the Great Eastern Railway. The other station in the town was Hertford North on the Great Northern Railway. The naming didn't always refer to the cardinal points.
My hometown of Worthing has five stations. East Worthing, Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington-on-sea and Goring-by-sea. The last two are obviously named after outer districts but I do kinda love the laziness in naming the other three though.
Great Video! here in Canada (and also the US) we have them differently Instead of Central, we use the term "Union Station" sometimes it can be a bit different like for Example: "Boston South Station" and "New York Penn Station" but the Union Station word is mostly used for big stations. for any other station names we refer them to the road it's near or the region/area it's in (though it's not always like that.) I'll use GO Transit as a example here "Eglinton GO" station is used as it's beside the road "Eglinton Ave" and another example "Streetsville GO" Station as it's in the small village called Streetsville in another city. Sometimes It can be named on a person like for example "St George" Station on the TTC Subway Line 1.
I came up with a station name for my (future) model railway, I’m gonna call it “schnitzel station” because schnitzel is an epic choice of food and yeah-
2:08 Victoria isn't unique I can think of Manchester, Southend and London Victoria. There's also loads of closed stations ending in victoria like Sheffield and Nottingham.
One pair I can think of that's a little different from the others you've mentioned is Heath High Level and Heath Low Level in northern Cardiff. Though arguably that's similar to the cardinal directions, but on an orthogonal axis to any of those.
theres a very unique station on the fife circle in scotland (not dunfermline city, one of the only train stations to have the word ‘city’ in it [in scotland anyway]) called glenrothes with thornton. the station itself is located in a small village called thornton, while it served glenrothes too. i dont know of any other station name like this
On a semi-related note, Glenrothes with Thornton is also unusual in its track layout - looks like a normal double-track line but it’s actually two bidirectional single tracks!
@ yeah, i believe its getting battery operated trains in the coming feature too that will charge through until dalmeny, run to glenrothes, charge there, then return. finally the sprinters and turbostars get a break lol
But it doesn't explain why Didcot Parkway needed to be called Didcot Parkway when it's the only station in Didcot and it's not right on the motorway, like Bristol Parkway
This is a completely different type of video to what I normally post, and in a completely different style too.
Please put your feedback/ideas in the comments!
Also, due to a rendering error, this video is set to 30fps instead of 60fps. Sorry!
Good video🗿👍
what editing software do you use?
@@soapyslice this video was made in davinci resolve
@@PotatoLemons1 ty
Can you name it to absoulutly anything?
"Ill only put 1 SCR reference in here, only one"
Lol, Beaulieu park
1:11 lol 1:16 they know what they’re doing 2:45 ok you can stop now. 3:23 ok please stop.
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"I promise not to add another one"
it’s not meant to be a reference
“We can’t call it Leighton Town because they’re both in the town”
Edenbridge Town station: _nervous sweating_
1:10 BEAULIEU PARK?
1:17 CAMBRIDGE STREET PARKWAY?
3:21 STEPFORD?
3:42 STEPFORD WHITEFIELD?
There is actually a real Beaulieu Park station
beaulieu park is actually a real station!
leighton🤓
LEIGHTON?
This is more like " How to copy an SCR station name in real life "
Thanks for this tutorial! Just built my 15th station in the UK and i didn't know how to call it! Thanks for the help!
bros a builder?
@@kingfinley-cs1wcNo, that's a joke
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You missed a very common station name:
It's the 1840s and you're building a railway between 2 major cities. The major landowner en route will let you build your railway on his land, but only if you build him a station so he can catch a train straight to London (or whichever city) from his country estate. You have no intention of diverting your line to accommodate this, so you build the station at the line's closest approach to the road past his house, and name it after the tiny village 3 or 4 miles away. In the 20th century, the village grows into a commuter town, and the locals grumble every morning that they have to walk over a mile to the station to get to work.
1:44 Llandudno junction is a rare case of a town being named after a station. Llandudno Junction was originally called Tremarl. When the railways arrived it was on the junction of the branch to Llandudno and so it was renamed Llandudno Junction. (So the video was also slightly wrong. Llandudno Junction is named so not because it is a junction in Llandudno, but because it was the junction FOR Llandudno)
yeah makes sense. i'm pretty sure i said in the video that the station is named after the junction, not the town with just the "junction" suffix. But i didn't know this so thanks for pointing it out!
The district around Clapham Junction is also known as Clapham Junction as it's some way from the actual Clapham
Yes Clapham Junction is in Battersea rather than Clapham.
I love that this plays as a training video that somebody watches then plans a railway line XD
Also excellent choice of music
thanks for becoming a member!
Meanwhile NYC:
1. Name it after a street. ( 23rd Street, Prospect Avenue, Bay Parkway )
2. If it is near a landmark or important place, you may choose to add that to the station name ( 34th Street - Penn Station, 161st Street - Yankee Stadium, Eastern Parkway - Brooklyn Museum )
3. Alternatively, just name it after said landmark or important place ( South Ferry, Aqueduct Racetrack, City Hall )
4. You may choose to either have the name of the neighborhood included. This can be with the street name ( Newkirk Avenue - Little Haiti, 63rd Drive - Rego Park, Kew Gardens - Union Turnpike ) or without street name ( Sheepshead Bay, Parkchester, Morris Park ). This is especially common with terminals ( Woodlawn, Coney Island - Stillwell Avenue, Jamaica - 179th Street )
5. Is it connected to airport via AirTrain? Why not include that in the name ( Howard Beach - JFK Airport , Sutphin Boulevard - Archer Avenue - JFK Airport )
6. Feeling spicy? Why not name it after two streets ( 174th - 175th Streets, Bushwick Avenue - Aberdeen Street, 74th Street - Broadway ). This can be especially useful to avoid disambiguation if other stations share the name ( 5th Avenue - 53rd Street, Cathedral Parkway - 110th Street, Myrtle - Willoughby Avenues ) or if it's a station complex of two formerly separate stations ( Myrtle - Wyckoff Avenues, Lexington Avenue - 59th Street, 4th Avenue - 9th Street )
Please keep in mind, station names are subject to change for various reasons! 57th Street - 7th Avenue and East Broadway were former terminals and were called Midtown - 57th Street and Lower East Side - East Broadway. Street names can change, resulting in 23rd Street - Ely Avenue becoming Court Square - 23rd Street and Manhattan Street becoming 125th Street or causing weird dual naming oddities like 33rd Street - Rawson Street and East 143rd Street - Saint Mary's Street with two street names referring to the same street. Sometimes they'll change for seeming no reason like 180th Street - Morris Park Avenue becoming East 180th Street and Mott Haven becoming 138th Street - Grand Concourse. Or they'll change due to stations merging into station complexes like Atlantic Avenue - Pacific Street into Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center and Broadway - Nassau Street into Fulton Street. Or they might just be inaccurate like Harlem - 148th Street actually being on 149th Street and Junius Street not actually reaching Junius Street and being on Livonia Avenue between Powell Street and Sackman Streets.
Definitely very simple and has not caused confusion, I can assure that
Why are your streets numbered?
@@lolermosskoss1834 It's very common to have numbered streets, at least in the US. Regardless, in NYC, numbered streets happen for various reasons. For Manhattan ( and the Bronx as a result, since the Bronx used to be a part of the same county as Manhattan ), it was originally from the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 that laid the gridwork for Manhattan streets. Queens didn't have numbered streets until much later, many of its streets used to be named ( as you can see in various station names ). Other neighborhoods/areas in NYC also have their own mini numeral systems like Williamsburg, Rockaways, Southeastern Brooklyn, Brighton, Paerdegat, Flatlands-Canarsie, Southwestern Brooklyn, and Broad Channel. There are also neighborhoods that used to have numbered system streets but changed to named streets like Williamsbridge ( at least according to History of Asphalt ).
In short, NYC has a whole bunch of numbered street, including prefixed ones, because NYC used to be a collection of cities, towns, and villages that were separate until 1898.
@ alright
The four “23rd Street”s.
I like those SCR Refferences
This feels like an actual training video you’d send to rail planning companies.
The fact this is somewhat related to SCR is quite funny, Keep the funny stuff coming!!
What is this SCR everybody is talking about? Selective catalytic reduction?
0:22 This might sound like a good idea, but beware this place having the same name as a different place that is well-known. Bootle station isn't in Bootle but in some obscure little place in Cumbria also called Bootle.
1:07 True, many stations end in Park or Parkway, but the purposes are very different. A station named X Park is just named after a park. But X Parkway indicates that it's a parkway station --- one catering for a lot of passengers driving to it.
Given that Bootle Station is actually in the neighbouring village of Hycemoor, I don’t know why they didn’t just name it after that instead to avoid confusion.
The GWR used to name the station closest to the centre "(place) Town", which is why Kettering Town on the SVR has the name it does.
Fun one is when you have a station in a town which shares a name with another town.
For example, you have Rainham (Kent) and Rainham (Essex) - which are fun examples, because both of them are not shown on maps or station signs with those names, but are in databases and route-finding etc.
Whats even more confusing, is that Rainham (Essex) is not even located in Essex - but rather is the station before crossing the border to enter Essex.
When making my rail maps I just take random prefixes and join them with common suffixes like -ton, -ford, -ham, -hithe, -ston(e), -ley, -ney etc. based on what the surrounding area is like (eg if it’s a rural village, seaside town, busy suburb, park or hill) Adding quirky or rare suffixes to the place name, like Green, Newton, Abbots, Chipping, cardinal words and size words like upper/lower/little etc makes it sound realistic and give character to the area.
yeah town names are a whole other thing
There's also the practice of completely original names for stations. The station after Kingsbury, built by the Metropolitan Railway in open fields with no settlement nearby, was called Queensbury and Verney Junction was named after one of the Metropolitan's Directors, Lord Verney. Again, there was no settlement nearby, except for the Lord's family home in Calvert villiage (Calvert was his family name), a couple of miles away, which had it's own station.
The Great Western Railway often called stations (XXXX) Road, where the villiage of (XXXX) was sometimes a few miles away.
Sometimes stations were named so as not to be easily confused with other stations nearby. For example, your choice of Leighton could easily be confused with one of my local stations, Leyton.
You can't tell me what to do! I'm going to name all my train stations after Muppets
1:17 Cambridge Street Parkway 😅
Neat little video, lots of fascinating tid bits in there. I could be wrong but I think Birmingham International is the only place that uses 'International' relating to an airport (the others relate to the CTRL / Eurostar International services that used to stop there) They are also building the Moseley Village station is this the only station that uses 'Village' as part of its full name?
Great video! You've earned yourself a like! :)
1:11 SCR is real
Beaulieu Park: can't get rid of me :)
In Real Life, Beaulieu Park station is under construction
3:44 I feel like if it’s named after a street in the place, you could just call it the street if passengers already know where it is. For example Stepford Whitefield Street could just become Whitefield Street.
Dundee station was Dundee Tay Bridge until 1965. It survives Dundee West and Dundee East.
“How to name a UK train station”
*6900+ missed calls from Minister of Wales*
You can name them after the local pub too. Swiss Cottage, Berney Arms etc
"Parkway" is used for "miles from".
In Vancouver Transit System: TransLink almost every station ends with a street or road but you take the street out of the stations name. For example Granville Station in Vancouver there's a road called Granville street. If they wanted to make this stop at Granville street they will name it Granville. Same thing at Waterloo
2:07There were quite a few Victorias, the Great Central Raillway was particularly fond of them, like Nottingham and Sheffield, because they were built around the time of the jubilee of the Queen of that name.
And Manchester of course
Rotherham Central is unique as it is a "Central", but there isn't another railway station in the town. The other station (Rotherham Marsborough) closed in the 1980s.
Come on, you just made that video so you could flex your pronunciation of Llandudno Junction.
In the old days, you could also name your station after something that wasn't there in order to bait people to use your station.
Thought this was just a random video from a train enthusiast channel I'd not heard of before, the "Cambridge Street Parkway" fakeout really got me, I wish I hadn't come down to the comments and seen that there's more SCR references (only at 1:25 so far).
Also interesting bit of Trivia, there's now a town called "Rainford Junction" by "Rainford" train station, becuase it used to be "Rainford Junction", but when the "Rainford" where the main town is shut (Beeching), the remaining one was no longer a junction, and got renamed.
There’s Arrochar and Tarbet (An t-Arthar agus An Tairbeart) that’s in between both villages and named after both since it serves them both
missed that one!
Traditionally a station with the suffix Junction is named for the less significant branch, like "by the way, here's where this junction goes". In America and Australia, directionals can also be prefixes instead of suffixes depending on aesthetic preference.
London underground uses both for directional stations. Like for north, North Acton, North Ealing, North Greenwich, North Harrow and North Wembley have it before, and Clapham North and Lambeth North have it after.
@@DC4444 Perhaps it would be good if it were consistent, that directional prefixes were for stations on the same line and directional suffixes for stations on different lines.
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This is common on the National Rail network too. You have Canterbury West and Canterbury East, but also East Worthing and West Worthing.
The weirdest example of this has to be a pair of stations on the West Highland lines - Tyndrum Lower and Upper Tyndrum, where they don’t even agree with each other, let alone the rest of the country!
Note also that the GWR used to use the suffix "General" when there were more than one station in a city.
Examples include:
Wrexham General,
Cardiff General (renamed Cardiff Central in modern day)
Shrewsbury General (now just Shrewsbury since its the only station left)
Chester General (now just Chester since its the only station left)
Which I suppose means that Wrexham General now fits your "anomaly" category, being the only one left of its kind
High Street suffix is another one, like Watford High Street
There are also a few stations with Spa in spa towns and cities, those being Bath Spa, Cheltenham Spa, Droitwich Spa and Leamington Spa. In Bath this used to be to distinguish it from Bath Green Park (even though there's no such park in Bath, it was called Bath Queen Square which made sense given it is near Queen Square) but now there's no real need to differentiate Bath Spa from any other station
The most bizarre station name I can think of is 'Glenrothes with Thornton'. For starters, I don't know why there isn't an 'and' in the middle, plus the 'Thornton' part should come first as it's much closer to there.
3:29 stepford central
lolol scr
Too obvious
This will surely help me when I'll become mayor of a random town. Thanks PL!
Hi, PotatoLemon! I loved your video and, as a yank, I felt inspired to make this guide for naming U.S. stations below. Most of this video’s advice can also be applied to American stations, but with some key differences:
1. The terms “city,” “town,” “village,” and “parkway” are almost never used in U.S. station names, so avoid these terms when naming your station.
2. Most U.S. towns with a train station (which is rare because of our poor public transit system) only have one station, so in most cases you can include only the town name in the station name and nothing else.
3. If your station is large, located in a big city, and was built to serve multiple railroads, then include “union” in the name (i.e. Chicago Union Station, Los Angeles Union Station).
4. If your station serves multiple transportation modes in addition to heavy rail, such as taxis, buses, light rail, and/or subways, then call it a “transportation center” (i.e. Ogilvie Transportation Center, Norristown Transportation Center).
5. Stations named after streets are also common in large cities (i.e. Newark Broad Street, Philadelphia 30th Street).
6. Some stations are named after important people (for example, the aforementioned Ogilvie T.C. is named after former Illinois governor Richard B. Ogilvie).
7. If a station has a cardinal direction in its name, it will usually come before the proper noun (i.e. West Trenton), but not always (i.e. Boston South Station).
8. Finally, if the station is located in a large city and was built by the former Pennsylvania Railroad, then put “Penn” in the name (i.e. New York Penn Station, Baltimore Penn Station).
I like how it randomly turns into an SCR video halfway through lmao
In Japan, there are many (and I mean many) railway companies that can serve the same area, so one strategy they've used is to prefix the station name with the operator, so you'd end up with instances such as Kawasaki (run by JR East) and Keikyū-Kawasaki (run by Keikyū)
2:21 temple meads is actually also the name of the area of bristol the station is located in
This video surprised me in the best possible way! Great stuff
5 ways to name a metro station:
Method 1: you care-name of something around you or the area it is: example: Stepford Victoria Square or Farleigh-University
Method 2: name it fast: you have then this: James Street (like it doesn’t even suggest Where it is)
Method 3: u Wanna feel cool and Important so you name it like a train station, take note Toronto and Newcastle
N.B. If your station is in a tiny place (Wormley), name it instead after a slightly bigger place nearby, preferably with a confusably similar name (Witley).
Conversely, if a larger, closer place already has a station (Burgess Hill), use the name of a tiny place that's actually further away (Wivelsfield).
Another strategy: Use a locality name that nobody uses (Aldrington) instead of a much more locally understood term (e.g. Poet's Corner).
You're welcome 😅
thank you, next time i play with toy/model trains i will be naming stations like this
As someone from outside the UK, this video was helpful in my country where they change the names every years
@@MattijsVandebroek They keep changing the names of the stations?? That sounds very confusing! (Netherlands judging by your name, or somewhere else, if you're happy to say?)
@@JfromUK_ Belgium. Most stations keep their name though, but Charleroi - Sud became Charleroi - Central as it is their major station. Brussel National Airport became Brussels Airport Zaventem.
There are a few more examples.
Its hard to make any choice over here to be honest, there's always someone against a decision. That's why some station names are confusing here.
Also, if a station is on the property of town A, but it's meant to serve town B, it gets named after town B, even though it's in town A.
Pretty confusing, right?
Cambridge Street ... oh maybe not 😂 😂
I admit this completely went over my head and I still don't get it 😂
@@JfromUK_ This is an SCR reference, there is a stop there called Cambridge Street Parkway
@chandlerbstransport422 Thanks, saw people mentioning that but I have no idea what that is -- "SCR" means two other things to me!
I like how you put references from other roblox transport games, like canterbury west at 1:33
(And ofc SCR)
What about -On-Sea or -By-Sea? 2 stations near me, one has -By Sea, the other On-Sea. One has changed it's name from (town name) to -By-Sea before the -On-Sea was built.
Loved this video, great job!
What about the ones that have hyphens like "Llyn-by-the-sea"
nice SCR reference there it would probably be called Llyn
1:17 is a TOTAL OFFENSE for Stepford Zone.
I love how this feels like an actual tutorial for a simulation
I really liked the way this video was presented! :)
Wrexham *General* says shwmae.
At least in the UK you don't reach a level of confusion in German-speaking countries where the main station or "Hauptbahnhof" can be (but isn't always) separate from the central or "Mitte" station.
Hertford East got the name as I was on the Great Eastern Railway. The other station in the town was Hertford North on the Great Northern Railway. The naming didn't always refer to the cardinal points.
Hertford East is to the east of Hertford North but not really any further south.
@trickygoose2 and Rugby Central was not central in Rugby either. The LNWR station was.
I thought for a second this was going to devolve into a rant on scr devs not choosing good station names or something, but no, it was just normal.
lol makes sense though because icl aslockby and carnalea are terrible names
I enjoyed this too much
1:11 there is a beaulieu park station under construction in the east of England on GMR
i know, thats why i said it...
1:45 the town renamed to Llandudno after the other station closed
Rare time when town named after station
My hometown of Worthing has five stations.
East Worthing, Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington-on-sea and Goring-by-sea.
The last two are obviously named after outer districts but I do kinda love the laziness in naming the other three though.
i always find it funny how many times the announcer says worthing when there is a train on this line xD
Station managers watching this: ahhhhh alright
This helped me name my transport fever 2 stations
This is actually very very helpful!
1:17 Cambridge Stree- ☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀
Great Video! here in Canada (and also the US) we have them differently Instead of Central, we use the term "Union Station" sometimes it can be a bit different like for Example: "Boston South Station" and "New York Penn Station" but the Union Station word is mostly used for big stations. for any other station names we refer them to the road it's near or the region/area it's in (though it's not always like that.) I'll use GO Transit as a example here "Eglinton GO" station is used as it's beside the road "Eglinton Ave" and another example "Streetsville GO" Station as it's in the small village called Streetsville in another city.
Sometimes It can be named on a person like for example "St George" Station on the TTC Subway Line 1.
we use the same thing here in vancouver
Very usefull, if i ever would to build a statin in the UK ... for some reason.
Or you had the old weird combination of Rochester bridge junction. Which I'm guessing served Strood
_Now arriving at Chubblesworth North_
Hi, im greek, the metro station in the Athens Olympic stadium is called "peace"
Thanks, now I know I to name stations on minecraft effectively and properly 😃
I don't live in the uk but scr station names are so familiar with me
nice video
That one station in Wales.... '
Lanfair
@@IAMSTEVEBECAUSEJACKBLACK pwllgwyn
@averagetrainspotterireland
gyllgogery
I’ve actually been there before (Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobllllantysiliogogogoch)
I came up with a station name for my (future) model railway,
I’m gonna call it “schnitzel station” because schnitzel is an epic choice of food and yeah-
2:08 Victoria isn't unique I can think of Manchester, Southend and London Victoria. There's also loads of closed stations ending in victoria like Sheffield and Nottingham.
You forgot Stepford Victoria
@@minigamers1255 stepford reference
The great orme tramway also has a victoria (Llandudno)
yea man i really just casually js built a train station
Rugby Central was on the ex-Great Central Railway.
Surely "Stepford Whitefield Street" is much too long, when "Stepford South" would do just as well.
It is true National rail to name stations in that order
Cambridge st parkway was the station where Stepford Zone got stuck for 1h and 30 mins
It’s also home to Wondermall By Noel and Liam
Another example of parkway would be Stepford Airport Parkway
One pair I can think of that's a little different from the others you've mentioned is Heath High Level and Heath Low Level in northern Cardiff. Though arguably that's similar to the cardinal directions, but on an orthogonal axis to any of those.
oh yes... forgot. good spot!
Holy shit the Stepford references were so funny 😂
I have a light rail system in America and one is named Newport.
But, oh bloody heck the SCR REFERENCES!!
01:44 eyyyyy they said it right, I was looking forward to it
Exeter st David’s is named as such because it’s in the st David’s area of exeter
thank you tomatoapple for this information
1:10 SCR reference
1:17 almost called Matty(the SCR FBI)
2:47 LEIGHTON!?!?!
is that SPLATOON MUSIC????? (i might be wrong, but i hope im not)
you are right!!
2:47 Leighton North
3:23 Stepford South
Instead of Leighton north why not name it Leighton Stepford Road
@monkeyboo381 lol
Stepford Junction had me dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
theres a very unique station on the fife circle in scotland (not dunfermline city, one of the only train stations to have the word ‘city’ in it [in scotland anyway]) called glenrothes with thornton. the station itself is located in a small village called thornton, while it served glenrothes too. i dont know of any other station name like this
ahh interesting... i knew about this station but i assumed that was the name of the place so didnt include it in the video!
On a semi-related note, Glenrothes with Thornton is also unusual in its track layout - looks like a normal double-track line but it’s actually two bidirectional single tracks!
@ yeah, i believe its getting battery operated trains in the coming feature too that will charge through until dalmeny, run to glenrothes, charge there, then return. finally the sprinters and turbostars get a break lol
did i actually write feature? i meant future
STEPFORD CITY? LEIGHTON CENTRAL? I LOVED UR OTHER REFERENCES BUT THESE ARE MY FAVES
At the junction part you should’ve put Ellesmere Junction
Wooo Lichfield City mentioned!!!
amazing we need more
But it doesn't explain why Didcot Parkway needed to be called Didcot Parkway when it's the only station in Didcot and it's not right on the motorway, like Bristol Parkway
According to Wikipedia it's name was changed to reflect that it is a park & ride railhead.