Thread: London Broadgate station and that old fashioned 'junction' suffix
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Old May 30th 08, 10:07 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default London Broadgate station and that old fashioned 'junction' suffix
On Fri, 30 May 2008 13:02:33 -0700 (PDT), 1506
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On May 30, 12:23*pm, Mr Mappy wrote:
I noticed that there was a piece in Rail magazine proposing the
renaming of London Liverpool Street to London Broadgate*. I suggested
this last year in a letter published in Rail**, but maybe it's not an
original idea, anyone know of any earlier proposals to lose that
confusing Liverpool Street?

Eminently sensible.

Oh?
What about :-
Oxford Street (not in Oxford)
Victoria (not in Australia)
Kings Cross (ditto)
Waterloo (not in Belgium)
XXXXXX Road (usually not in XXXXXX)
Dozens of Underground stations not in the place of the same name.

Anyway, there's already a Broadgate in Oldham (and Nottingham and
Lincoln and ...) so by your own reasoning that name can't be used for
a London station.
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