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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:42:39 -0700 (PDT), Andy Kirkham
wrote:

On Jul 24, 7:06*pm, Ian Jelf wrote:
In message , Christopher A.
Lee writes

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:48:33 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Christopher A. Lee wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:38:56 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Basil Jet wrote:

Several stations are named after pubs: IIRC the Angel pub at Angel is
not the original, which is gone.

Wasn't that a cake shop rather than a pub? Oh, i see it was a pub before
that.

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,
which has not one but four stations named after it!

Heathrow was a village on Hounslow Heath, which gave its name to the
airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He...War_II_Map.jpg

Firstly, i believe that was called Heath Row, not Heathrow, and secondly,

Not according to the map in the above URL.

More correctly, the village/locality/whatever was named from an actual
"row" of houses alongside the Great West Road on Hounslow Heath. * The
locality was apparently once especially notorious for highwaymen and
footpads.......

Might this be why the highwayman in the Beggars' Opera is named
Captain Macheath?

There are lots of period references, as well as later stories. I
remember reading one as a boy in the 1950s.
Andy

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On 23 July, 14:35, "

And don't forget Centrale in Croydon.

It is actually "CentraaAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrle".

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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Bruce wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:48:33 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Firstly, i believe that was called Heath Row, not Heathrow

Funny, I posted to that effect yesterday.

Yes, we posted within a few hours of each other, ISTR. Aren't we both
clever?

tom

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"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
rth.li...

Yes, we posted within a few hours of each other, ISTR. Aren't we both

Yes, and you both speak Dutch! ;-)

Ian

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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Ian F. wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
rth.li...

Yes, we posted within a few hours of each other, ISTR. Aren't we both

Yes, and you both speak Dutch! ;-)

Unrelated, but ij thought van another staation - Kew Gardens. You have to
pay to get in, which makes it a commercial entity in my book.

Is the Bank of England a commercial entity?

tom

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(Neil Williams) wrote in
:

On 24 Jul 2009 06:18:14 GMT, James Farrar
wrote:

Really? Weird. Why do they have a second "e"?

So it is trademarkable?

Makes sense.

Either that or they're being poncey, like the original operators of the
"San Francisco Shopping Centre", which maintains its erratic spelling under
its current operators: http://westfield.com/sanfrancisco/

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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, James Farrar wrote:

(Neil Williams) wrote in
:

On 24 Jul 2009 06:18:14 GMT, James Farrar
wrote:

Really? Weird. Why do they have a second "e"?

So it is trademarkable?

Makes sense.

Either that or they're being poncey, like the original operators of the
"San Francisco Shopping Centre", which maintains its erratic spelling
under its current operators: http://westfield.com/sanfrancisco/

Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

tom

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There's no future.

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On 23 July, 14:35, "
wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:

I see that the DLR has "Custom House for ExCel", the latter being
somewhere that might not survive in its current form during an extended
recession.

Why would that be a problem any more than the fact that there hasn't
been a working Customs House there for ages either?

And I don't think another famous DLR station is anywhere near a
working Wharf for ships from the Canary Islands...

*Although the same could be said for Olympia.

And don't forget Centrale in Croydon.

Arsenal?

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In message . li, at
17:21:26 on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".
--
Roland Perry

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Roland Perry wrote in
:

In message . li, at
17:21:26 on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

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Tom Anderson wrote in
rth.li:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, James Farrar wrote:

Either that or they're being poncey, like the original operators of the
"San Francisco Shopping Centre", which maintains its erratic spelling
under its current operators: http://westfield.com/sanfrancisco/

Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

*lol*

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In message , at
08:00:25 on Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Farrar
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?
--
Roland Perry

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Roland Perry wrote in
:

In message , at
08:00:25 on Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Farrar
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping
Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

What appears to have escaped you is that Tom didn't need that explaining.

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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

In message . li, at 17:21:26
on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

Yes, i know. In the UK, my comment would normally be a 'joke'.

tom

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Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

In message . li, at
17:21:26 on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping
Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

Yes, i know. In the UK, my comment would normally be a 'joke'.

A rather good joke IMO!

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Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
08:00:25 on Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Farrar
remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

A: The first two. (Since it seems you haven't noticed.)


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Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

In message . li, at 17:21:26
on Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tom Anderson remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

Yes, i know. In the UK, my comment would normally be a 'joke'.

Reminds me of the one about the bloke stealing wheelbarrows. ;-)

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(50 009 at Exeter St Davids, 1985)

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In message , at 17:24:48 on
Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Chris Tolley remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

A: The first two. (Since it seems you haven't noticed.)

I have no sensible comment to make, given that various people now assure
me it was a joke in the first place.
--
Roland Perry

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Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 17:24:48 on
Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Chris Tolley remarked:
Yes, weird spelling - what's wrong with 'St Francis Shopping Centre', eh?

In the USA it would normally be "Center".

*whoosh*

You've got me there. With a choice of four words that might be spelt
weird, which of the other three would you nominate?

A: The first two. (Since it seems you haven't noticed.)

I have no sensible comment to make, given that various people now assure
me it was a joke in the first place.

Oh dear. Let's try to explain.

The first comment was that, because of the spelling, it was "poncey" to
say "San Francisco Shopping Centre" (presumably because Americans don't
spell "center" that way.)

The second comment was jokily to agree, correcting the spelling, to say
"St Francis Shopping Centre" (because that's how Brits (and Americans,
when speaking English) spell "San Francisco")

Is that any clearer?




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(51411 (Class 117) at Ludlow, 11 Jun 1985)

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It's a sign of the times look at your local football jerseys eg AIG
for Man U etc Stadiums Emirates Stadium for Arsenal CitiField for the
NY Mets etc. Its a Money Maker I can see you taikng the Bakerloo
from Weetabix Piccadilly Circus To Carling Waterloo maybe the line
will be the HSBC Bakerloo :)

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In message
" wrote:

It's a sign of the times look at your local football jerseys eg AIG
for Man U etc Stadiums Emirates Stadium for Arsenal CitiField for the
NY Mets etc. Its a Money Maker I can see you taikng the Bakerloo
from Weetabix Piccadilly Circus To Carling Waterloo maybe the line
will be the HSBC Bakerloo :)

Gillespie road got renamed a long time ago.

--
Graeme Wall

This address not read, substitute trains for rail
Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

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In message
, at
13:21:32 on Mon, 10 Aug 2009, "
remarked:
It's a sign of the times look at your local football jerseys eg AIG
for Man U etc Stadiums Emirates Stadium for Arsenal CitiField for the
NY Mets etc. Its a Money Maker I can see you taikng the Bakerloo
from Weetabix Piccadilly Circus To Carling Waterloo maybe the line
will be the HSBC Bakerloo :)

But people would be stuck if there had been a Setanta Stadium, or a
"Woolworths" tube station. That's the point really.
--
Roland Perry

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Roland Perry wrote in
:

But people would be stuck if there had been a Setanta Stadium, or a
"Woolworths" tube station. That's the point really.

Well, there was an Enron Field.