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There's also Three Oaks, on the line between Hastings and Rye.

Jonathan Wadman | 04.05.18 - 9:13 a.m. | #

Three oaks. On the Hastings to Ashford line.

David | 04.05.18 - 9:17 a.m. | #

<slaps spreadsheet very hard>

Updated, thanks.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.05.18 - 9:24 a.m. | #

Go to any westbound Piccadilly line platform and the people shouting out the next trains still say Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3.

Greg S | 04.05.18 - 9:26 a.m. | #

Does Four Marks station count?

dg writes: Heritage railway.

Debster | 04.05.18 - 10:15 a.m. | #

Twenty Station closed in 1959

http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#515,320,1

timbo again | Homepage | 04.05.18 - 11:13 a.m. | #

Although terminal 1 at Heathrow is closed, the station signage (and on train announcements) is still "Heathrow terminals 1, 2 and 3"

IslandDweller | 04.05.18 - 11:45 a.m. | #

The TFL website also still refers to the central Heathrow station by it's old name, although the tube map, produced by TFL, has the new name.

cjw714 | 04.05.18 - 12:24 p.m. | #

There used to be a station at Six Mile Bottom (between Cambridge and Newmarket) but it closed in 1967. Also, Turkey Street station on the London Overground used to be called Forty Hill. It closed to passengers in 1919 and reopened under its new name in 1960.

michaelH | 04.05.18 - 12:48 p.m. | #

There was a Three Counties Stn. on the ECML north of Hitchin - closed 1959.

Still Anon | 04.05.18 - 1:09 p.m. | #

British *and Irish*

/pedant and /paddy ;-)

THC | 04.05.18 - 1:37 p.m. | #

There was once a Five Mile House station in Fiskerton.

Tetramesh | Homepage | 04.05.18 - 4:52 p.m. | #

I just created a spreadsheet and validated your research. Then I used it to find out that there are six stations that contain all the letters of the word Mackerel.

cark & cartmel
clapham (north yorkshire)
milton keynes central
oxenholme lake district
pontefract monkhill
smethwick galton bridge

John McIntyre | Homepage | 04.05.18 - 5:32 p.m. | #

... and 43 that do not contain any of the letters in the word Mackerel. Including St Johns, as you would expect.

John McIntyre | Homepage | 04.05.18 - 5:54 p.m. | #

now that Mr McIntyre has given us this definitive summary of the problem, I expect dg will turn off commenting.

amber | 04.05.18 - 6:10 p.m. | #

Thanks John very handy info to have but surely the stations should have both the e’s in Mackerel - so only half of the 6 stations have all the letters!

Brian | 04.05.18 - 7:15 p.m. | #

As someone reluctantly born in Brentwood, (one of few places totally unknown to the rest of the world), I would like to point out that the station was called "Brentwood and Warley for Billericay"; obviously a much more appropriate and convenient title.

Could Mr McIntyre please apply his technology to the Badger/Pimilico issue.

Kev | 04.05.18 - 7:57 p.m. | #

Huddersfield local here: Deighton isn't pronounced with an "eight", it's pronounced "Dee-ton", and I severely doubt Sleights is pronounced with an "eight" either.

TheLupineOne | 04.05.18 - 10:28 p.m. | #

Sleights is pronounced so that it rhymes with 'heights', according to eskvalleyrailway.co.uk. Doesn't invalidate it though.

BarryD | 04.05.18 - 11:10 p.m. | #

Manchester PIccadilly - as pi is a number.

Jimmy | 05.05.18 - 7:08 a.m. | #

I can't be the only one who is irritated by the way that Sonia announces Marylebone on the Underground announcements.

It's not Marley Bone - it's Marry le Bon. Named after Mary le Bon, who featured recently on one of your heritage maps of London.

Petras409 | 05.05.18 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Brentwood? Famous for Amstrad and one of Britain's most splendid Art Nouveau buildings.

Max Roberts | 05.05.18 - 8:25 a.m. | #

For Nine, try “SherburN-IN-Elmet”

Mike | 07.05.18 - 1:30 p.m. | #

That's brilliant Mike, thanks.
Post updated.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.05.18 - 9:14 p.m. | #

If you had visited Three Oaks, you might have been a Guest(ling).

There was once a station at Nine Mile Point, up one of the valleys from Newport.
Location: here (somewhere near the footbridge over the Sirhowy River, south of Wattsville).

Notts_Railman | 08.05.18 - 5:34 p.m. | #











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