On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:03:37 +0200, "Alan \(in Brussels\)"
wrote:

One solution would be to adopt the 'army' practice of putting the generic
name first : eg 'brush, hair' followed by 'brush, paint' ; so that a list of
station names would have eg Acton followed by Central, East, North, South,
Town and West, regardless of the presentation on station nameboards. Or
would that only compound the confusion?

Which is fine until there is a cock-up involving orders for hangars,
coat and hangars, aircraft :-)

On parts of the Continent mainline stations within a town are called
town identifier, so we might have, say, London Victoria, London
Clapham Junction, etc, which can sometimes be slightly confusing for
visitors.
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK