asdf wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:18:00 -0000, John Rowland wrote:

Aldgate East station is in Whitechapel High Street. It should
probably be called Whitechapel, and Whitechapel should be called
something else!

Forgot to add - Whitechapel is in Whitechapel Road. So by that logic
maybe they should be called Whitechapel West and Whitechapel East.

Surely Whitechapel Road means the road *to* Whitechapel, and a Londoner
going to Whitechapel Road would (rightly) not assume that Whitechapel was
the right station, anymore than anyone going to an address in Edgware Road
would expect Edgware to be the right station. However, anyone going to
Whitechapel High Street would quite reasonably expect it to be around
Whitechapel station.