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

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.

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

In article ,
(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'. 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.

As someone brought up in Putney who has taken a bit of interest in the
local railway history I think I can say for certain that there has never
been a District station between Putney Bridge and East Putney.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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.

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

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

--

In article ,
(Roger) wrote:

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.

One of the stations (Fulham Broadway? was one called Walham Green. There
is not other former station on the line from Earl's Court.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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]

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!