London Banter - View Single Post - Which UK railway station names do you feel are anomalous?

Mizter T · January 13th 14, 09:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 13/01/2014 20:52, wrote:

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 13:31:13 on Sun,
12 Jan 2014, Robin9 remarked:
The title of this thread is "Which UK railway station names do you feel
are anomalous?" I'm not sure what this has to do with the history of
London's boundary changes.

Some names are regarded as anomalous because they don't match
(geographic) boundaries...

There are many inappropriate station names. In London the two most
striking are Clapham Junction which is in Battersea, not Clapham and
Willesden Junction which is in Harlesden.

... as in those examples you quote.

But if (eg) the border between Battersea and Clapham had changed at
some point, then a discussion arises.

Clapham Junction was always the junction /for/ Clapham, that one anyway.
There is another Clapham Junction in England, though.

I'm fairly sure Clapham Junction was so named because it was deemed more
upmarket than a Battersea derived name. (Same rationale with Willesden Jn.)