Richard J. wrote:
victormeldrewsyoungerbrother wrote:
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article .com,
(victormeldrewsyoungerbrother) wrote:
although logically Goodge Street should be more properly called
TCR as the station lies on that latter thoroughfare.
Wasn't it actually called that at first?
--
Colin Rosenstiel
My whole supposition was wrong. I've checked Leboff & Demuth's 'No
Need to Ask' which is the story of the Underground map. In 1907,
when the CEHR was opened Goodge Street was, in fact, called
Tottenham Court Road, shown as such on a number of reproduced maps
of that year. The present TCR was called Oxford Street. By 1908 the
Goodge Street name was being used and Oxford Street had turned
into TCR. Apologies for this - I should have checked first. I have
no information why the name changed.
Later
Or did it - as I type this I've checked backwards in the book to a
map of 1902, CLR only. and TCR is called that, as it is on a map of
1904. The book has 2 1906 maps published for what was to become the
Bakerloo. Those show both names. One, indeed, shows 2 stations
called Tottenham Court Road - one as now and the other the current
Goodge Street. This is all very odd. I've never picked up on this
before. Does anyone know the what happened and why?
The CLR station was always TCR. The CEHR (now Northern Line) named
theirs in isolation, and produced the confusion you describe, hence
presumably the reason for the change.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)
I'd been thinking about his, and guessed such was the case - but why
the maps showing TCR as Oxford Street? Was there a renaming, or was a
renaming proposed which didn't go ahead - it being realised that to
have Oxford Circus and Oxford Street next to each other would cause
total confusion? Or did the (now) Northern line have a proposal for its
own station at St Giles Circus without the interchange which it was
going to call Oxford Street?