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Evening all,
I don't know if anyone else here reads the (generally ****-poor) 'London by London' e-newsletter thing; if they do, they may have noticed the following query from a reader: On the district line platform map at Mile End station they have invented a new stop. On their map between Putney Bridge and East Putney they show a 'Putney Green'. Is this LU being stupid, or is it just a really old map still showing a now defunct station? I keep peering out of the window on the way through, but can see no evidence of a disused station. I think it's just them being stupid... It's not there now, and Clive doesn't mention any such station having closed, so i'm inclined to think it's a mistake. Anyone know different? A bit of a google does turn up some references to a Putney Green, but it usually seems to be a thinko for Parsons Green or East Putney. tom -- The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel |
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I don't know if anyone else here reads the (generally ****-poor) 'London by London' e-newsletter thing; if they do, they may have noticed the following query from a reader: On the district line platform map at Mile End station they have invented a new stop. On their map between Putney Bridge and East Putney they show a 'Putney Green'. Is this LU being stupid, or is it just a really old map still showing a now defunct station? I keep peering out of the window on the way through, but can see no evidence of a disused station. I think it's just them being stupid... It's not there now, and Clive doesn't mention any such station having closed, so i'm inclined to think it's a mistake. Anyone know different? A bit of a google does turn up some references to a Putney Green, but it usually seems to be a thinko for Parsons Green or East Putney. Some of the central line maps have 'Shepherds Bush Green' on them. Perhaps it is that misremembered. |
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I don't know if anyone else here reads the (generally ****-poor) 'London
by London' e-newsletter thing; if they do, they may have noticed the following query from a reader: On the district line platform map at Mile End station they have invented a new stop. ... between Putney Bridge and East Putney they show a 'Putney Green' Some of the central line maps have 'Shepherds Bush Green' on them. Perhaps it is that misremembered. As the reader mentioned the adjacent stations, this seems unlikely. Anyone in a position to visit Mile End sometime soon, preferably with a digital camera? -- Mark Brader | "The problem with waiting for a 'smoking gun' is Toronto | that it means the gun has already been fired." | --Michael Chance |
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:09:40 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote: Evening all, I don't know if anyone else here reads the (generally ****-poor) 'London by London' e-newsletter thing; if they do, they may have noticed the following query from a reader: On the district line platform map at Mile End station they have invented a new stop. On their map between Putney Bridge and East Putney they show a 'Putney Green'. The sign I looked at is a large, free-standing one on the west-bound platform. The order of the stations shown is: Fulham Broadway Parsons Green Putney Green Putney Bridge East Putney which puts the missing station on the north side of the river. |
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In message , Roger
writes The sign I looked at is a large, free-standing one on the west-bound platform. The order of the stations shown is: Fulham Broadway Parsons Green Putney Green Putney Bridge East Putney which puts the missing station on the north side of the river. In which case, it would seem very peculiar to call it Putney anything. Are you sure it couldn't have been Walham Green (the old name for Fulham Broadway until 1952)? -- Paul Terry |
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Paul Terry wrote: In message , Roger writes Fulham Broadway Parsons Green Putney Green Putney Bridge East Putney which puts the missing station on the north side of the river. In which case, it would seem very peculiar to call it Putney anything. Maybe the sign writer got distracted halfway through Putney Bridge, restarted in the middle of Parsons Green without realising, then continued with Putnet Bridge, etc.? PhilD -- |
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On the district line platform map at Mile End station they have invented
a new stop. On their map between Putney Bridge and East Putney they show a 'Putney Green'. Is this LU being stupid, or is it just a really old map still showing a now defunct station? I keep peering out of the window on the way through, but can see no evidence of a disused station. I think it's just them being stupid... Isn't this one of those phantom stations that people put on maps, to detect whether someone has copied it against copyright. They do this on the London A-Z and on logarithm tables. Richard [in PE12] |
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On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Endymion Ponsonby-Withermoor wrote:
On the district line platform map at Mile End station they have invented a new stop. On their map between Putney Bridge and East Putney they show a 'Putney Green'. Is this LU being stupid, or is it just a really old map still showing a now defunct station? I keep peering out of the window on the way through, but can see no evidence of a disused station. I think it's just them being stupid... Isn't this one of those phantom stations that people put on maps, to detect whether someone has copied it against copyright. They do this on the London A-Z And in other maps - they're called 'trap streets'. A trap *station* seems like going a bit far, though! It's not as if LU jealously guard the list of their stations ... and on logarithm tables. Eeek. That seems like a bad idea, or at least would have been when such things were actually in use for building things, navigating things, etc. There are also fake entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, known as nihilartikels, which serve the same purpose. At least, according to Wikipedia they do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilartikel They could, of course, be making it up. The weirdest example of this sort of thing they mention is that the German bundestag has a fake *member*, Jakob Maria Mierscheid, who appears on official documents and everything. tom -- Yulava? Niob Yam! |
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