Paul Scott wrote:

However CJ does meet most peoples definition of a 'junction' station I
suspect...

Exactly ... it was the junction for Clapham, in the same way that Limerick
Junction, in Ireland, is the junction for Limerick (which is 22 miles away -
LJ is actually just down the road from Tipperary).

Jack Taylor wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:

However CJ does meet most peoples definition of a 'junction'
station I suspect...

Exactly ... it was the junction for Clapham, in the same way that
Limerick Junction, in Ireland, is the junction for Limerick (which
is 22 miles away - LJ is actually just down the road from
Tipperary).

No, the two cases are different. CJ is (or was) the station for
Clapham, but not the junction for Clapham, because none of the lines
that meet at the junction go to Clapham. It was called Clapham Junction
because Clapham was at the time the nearest place that was worth naming
a railway station after. Limerick Junction was so named because you had
to change there to catch a branch train to Limerick.

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Richard J. wrote:

No, the two cases are different. CJ is (or was) the station for
Clapham, but not the junction for Clapham, because none of the lines
that meet at the junction go to Clapham.

Were there never any services from CJ via the Ludgate lines to High Street?

Jack Taylor wrote:
Richard J. wrote:

No, the two cases are different. CJ is (or was) the station for
Clapham, but not the junction for Clapham, because none of the
lines that meet at the junction go to Clapham.

Were there never any services from CJ via the Ludgate lines to High
Street?

I doubt if any such services were ever run, but I'm not sure. What is
now Clapham High Street station (originally just Clapham) was opened
after Clapham Junction station was named.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:38 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:


You'll be telling us that Clapham Junction is in Clapham next!

Or that there's such a place as "Dalston Stoke" (you need to be at least
as old as me to understand that one).

--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

In message , Richard J.
writes

What is now Clapham High Street station (originally just Clapham) was
opened after Clapham Junction station was named.

I suspect that when a station was eventually opened at the junction, it
was called Clapham to attract higher class development around the
station. Battersea was working class and industrial, whereas Clapham
(particularly around the common) had attracted a number of more wealthy
residents.
--
Paul Terry