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Old May 1st 04, 07:21 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Solar Penguin wrote:

wrote ...

In article ,
(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.


Perhaps it was to avoid association with the Godless Institution of Gower
Street?

tom

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