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Colin Rosenstiel · March 10th 07, 02:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article .com,
() wrote:

On 9 Mar, 21:40, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:
Wikipedia does says it's normally called plain old Letchworth, so
I wonder why the train announcement changed ? Perhaps the great
and the good of Letchworth got jealous of Welwyn ? :-)

Locally everyone refers to it as just "Letchworth", whilst in the
case of WGC the full name is normally used. I've always understood this

to be because there is a separate village called just "Welwyn",
therefore the name WGC is used to avoid confusion.

Apart from maybe a few purists, nearly all of the population of
Letchworth call it just that.

The station name plates have used Letchworth Garden City for some years
now. There is also a train in the WAGN picture trains series of the
Hertfordshire Garden Cities, featuring WGC and Letchworth.

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Colin Rosenstiel