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Old March 14th 07, 10:43 AM posted to uk.transport.london
R.C. Payne R.C. Payne is offline
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Default Letchworth where ?
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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.

Also, don't forget there is another station, Welwyn North, so using just
"Welwyn" might be confusing.

Robin
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