"James" writes:
There's one name that really ought to go, however:

Tottenham Court Road.

The problem is that both Goodge St and Warren St also are on Tottenham
Court Road. ... if you had no idea where a house number was on TCR
- you'd be far better off starting at Goodge St.

In fact, when Goodge Street station opened in 1907 as part of the CCE&HR
(now part of the Northern Line), it was *called* Tottenham Court Road.

The trouble is that the present Tottenham Court Road station had
already opened in 1900 with the CLR (now Central Line) -- under the
same name. Back then, since it was at the place where the line
*crossed* the named street, that name made sense and was unambiguous.
When the CCE&HR opened, they built an adjacent station (later combined
with the CLR station to form the present layout) and similarly named
it after the street crossing the line there, Oxford Street.

But this situation was just too confusing -- having two TCR stations
might have been all right, but having one of them adjacent to a
differently named station on the same line as the other was too much.
So the following year the CCE&HR conceded to the senior line's precedent
and switched their two stations to the present naming.

In other words, James should put the blame the for this one on all
those people who declined to invest in HStP&CCR shares (as the CCE&HR
was originally known) back in 1894. If they had, construction on the
line (later called the CCE&HR) might have begun immediately and the
CLR might not have completed its TCR station first.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Those who cannot Google the past are destined
to repost it." -- Huey Callison

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