In message , at 11:17:19
on Fri, 24 Jul 2009, David Cantrell remarked:
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 it's not as if it's the only one either. How about "Cutty Sark for
Maritime Greenwich"? The station isn't called "Custom House for Excel",
it's Custom House, the "for Excel" bit being a useful description to
help the vast number of visitors who don't know the area and for whom
the name of the station isn't helpful.

I was using a London Connections map which has the "for ExCel" on it.
--
Roland Perry

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,
the stations aren't named after the village, they're named after the
airport.

tom

--
Formal logical proofs, and therefore programs - formal logical proofs
that particular computations are possible, expressed in a formal system
called a programming language - are utterly meaningless. To write a
computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that
whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly
follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. --
Dehnadi and Bornat

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 15:27:44 on Thu,
23 Jul 2009, Christopher A. Lee remarked:

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,

cough except I ruled out airports in my original posting.

Dear god man, you say that as if you expected me to read before posting!
The very idea!

tom

--
Formal logical proofs, and therefore programs - formal logical proofs
that particular computations are possible, expressed in a formal system
called a programming language - are utterly meaningless. To write a
computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that
whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly
follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. --
Dehnadi and Bornat

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, James Farrar wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote in
rth.li:

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!

Four? I count either three or five: H123 and Heathrow Central; two T4s;
and a T5.

Ah, i was single-counting the T4s. My bad.

tom

--
Formal logical proofs, and therefore programs - formal logical proofs
that particular computations are possible, expressed in a formal system
called a programming language - are utterly meaningless. To write a
computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that
whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly
follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion. --
Dehnadi and Bornat

And it's not as if it's the only one either. *How about "Cutty Sark for
Maritime Greenwich"? *The station isn't called "Custom House for Excel",
it's Custom House, the "for Excel" bit being a useful description to
help the vast number of visitors who don't know the area and for whom
the name of the station isn't helpful.

Last time I was there it was called "Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich
for the University of Greenwich",
with the "CSfMG" in big.

On 24 July, 08:58, Arthur Figgis wrote:
TimB wrote:
On Jul 23, 7:23 pm, James Farrar wrote:
Arthur Figgis wrote :

Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
06:35:07 on Thu, 23 Jul 2009, "
And don't forget Centrale in Croydon.
What's that named after?
The Centrale shopping centre. Sorry, "shopping and lifestyle
destination"http://www.centrale.co.uk
Tram information systems pronounce it as in Amsterdam, but buses seem to
say it as in Milton Keynes.
How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

And I was assuming it was meant to be Italian - Chentralay

That's one variant I've not heard. It also seems that the "innit" isn't
written

It's a while since I last visited Croydon, but in my mind's voice, I
always assumed that it would be pronounced "cent-rail".

Robin

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.


the stations aren't named after the village, they're named after the
airport.

tom

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.

"Ian Jelf" wrote in message



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.......

Presumably their descendants became baggage handlers at 'Thiefrow'?

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?

Andy