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(Clive D. W. Feather) wrote:
There's probably information on the reason for the change somewhere,
possibly to try and attract passengers travelling to / from Euston.
IIRC it was renamed after a famous murder (either Crippen or one of the
"brides in the bath" or something like that) took place in one of the houses
on Gower Street. Residents on neighbouring streets didn't want their local
station reminding people of the notorious Gower Street murder, so it was
changed.
(OTOH this is all based on something I dimly remember reading years ago, and
might just have been an urban legend anyway. FWIW Google doesn't turn up
anything useful for "Gower Street murder".)