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In message , at 02:30:31 on Sat, 28
Feb 2015, Michael R N Dolbear remarked:
Transport things named after a person from long ago.

Mark Lane.

That's named after a nearby Mart/Market.
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In message , at 10:01:12 on Sat, 28
Feb 2015, Roland Perry remarked:
I'll offer St Pauls's and 604 as the oldest yet. Can anyone beat that?

London Wall?
Aldgate?
Aldersgate?
London Bridge?
Tower Hill?
City Thameslink?
I'm not sure I understand the question.

Transport things named after a person from long ago.

Christ's Hospital

The station only dates from 1902, and the hospital's not as old as St
Paul's. But if are going to drill back, then St Paul was born in 5AD
(and Hadrian in 76AD)

On second thoughts, I'm going to narrow the definition to things
commissioned by the person. So Boris/Wellington/Belisha/Hadrian count,
but St Paul's and Christ's don't.

Nor does Cleopatra's Needle (and it's not transport related either).
Thutmose's Needle doesn't have quite such a ring to it...
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Roland Perry wrote:
On second thoughts, I'm going to narrow the definition to things
commissioned by the person. So Boris/Wellington/Belisha/Hadrian count,
but St Paul's and Christ's don't.

Nor does Cleopatra's Needle (and it's not transport related either).
Thutmose's Needle doesn't have quite such a ring to it...

I don't think it's meaningful to count places in this definition.

It's natural for humans to name places. Commonly places are named after
geographical features (South Bend, Midhurst) or people (Pennsylvania,
Edinburgh). In the British Isles they're frequently named in languages we
don't speak any more, but that's beside the point. Some places with
'people' names are actually 'feature' names - St Mary Cray is named after
the church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, which is a thing not a person.

So Baker St, Russell Square and so on may have been commissioned by those
people - but the stations aren't named after people, they're named after
places named after people. There are an awful lot of things named after
people, many of whom had some hand in the place that bears their name, and
most of those places will have some transport connection (eg a bus stop).

So, anyway, back to things commissioned by people (that are still in common
usage)...

Theo

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In uk.transport.london message ,
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:08:15, Roland Perry posted:


Transport things named after a person from long ago.

Adam and Eve Mews, London W8 6UJ, http://goo.gl/maps/n3yIS - unless
you wish to be pedantic about your "a".


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On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:01:12AM +0000, Roland Perry wrote:

The station only dates from 1902, and the hospital's not as old as St
Paul's. But if are going to drill back, then St Paul was born in 5AD
(and Hadrian in 76AD)

The Via Flaminia was named after Gaius Flaminius and built around 220BC.
There are numerous tram stops and a railway station named for the road.

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In message , at 12:31:35
on Mon, 2 Mar 2015, David Cantrell remarked:
The station only dates from 1902, and the hospital's not as old as St
Paul's. But if are going to drill back, then St Paul was born in 5AD
(and Hadrian in 76AD)

The Via Flaminia was named after Gaius Flaminius and built around 220BC.
There are numerous tram stops and a railway station named for the road.

The Appian Way (after Appius Claudius Caecus) is about 90 years older.
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