On 8 Nov, 15:21, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Mr Thant wrote:
On 7 Nov, 13:38, thoss wrote:
There is another map of the London Overground. It's in Ken's free
newspaper The Londoner. But this one shows not only Shepherd's Bush
station but also Imperial Wharf on the WLL.

That appears to be a version of the original geographic map from the
launch last year:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/resources/corp...ages/rez-high/...

Looking at this map, I can't help thinking that now is a good time to rename
Wandsworth Road station, especially since it will be on the tube map but
Wandsworth Town won't.

Well, the station's on Wandsworth Road innit?

Knowing the area somewhat, I have to say I found it difficult to come
up with a decent alternative name given that the station's location is
on the edge of Battersea, Clapham and Stockwell (just about).
Wandsworth Road, like many other main thoroughfares, is certainly
spoken about as a location identifier almost in it's own right - i.e.
x, y or z house/shop/flat is "just off Wandsworth Road".

If I was a Victorian railway entrepreneur I might have called the
station North Clapham, but since a certain subterranean railway line
has used a similar name for their nearby station I'd suggest that
using that name would be a pretty bad idea!

Larkhall is the 'wildcard' name that I came up with - see The Friends
of Larkhall Park's website, in particular the "Naming of the Park"
section on this page...
http://www.larkhallparkfriends.org.uk/history.html
....but the station isn't in quite the right place for that as the
location of the old Lark Hall, and the current Larkhall pub and
Larkhall park are all a half-mile to the north east (though Larkhall
Primary School on Smedley Street is closer). Plus I really don't think
Larkhall is actually used as a name for the area.

Nonetheless I see your point John, it could lead to confusion. But,
perhaps, in a city such as London, cest la vie - after all I'm sure
people get confused about Edgware and Edgware Road stations as well as
East/West/Central Finchley and Finchley Road stations, and I'm sure
that at some point tourists have ended up paying a visit to Elephant &
Castle shopping centre as opposed to the Victoria & Albert after
muddling up Kennington and Kensington.