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Ken Wheatley · May 4th 14, 12:03 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2014-05-03 23:50:56 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

When was the loop also called "Turkey St"?

When I said "It was renamed as Turkey Street", I was referring to the
station (originally Forty Hill), not the loop. No idea if that name
was ever given to the loop.

I've more than once heard the loop given alternative names of "Southbury
Loop" and "Turkey St Loop". It was re-opened at a time when the general
trend was closures.

I've never heard the Turkey St. Loop, but it's often been called the
Churchbury Loop.

[email protected] · May 4th 14, 10:36 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Ken
Wheatley) wrote:

On 2014-05-03 23:50:56 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

When was the loop also called "Turkey St"?

When I said "It was renamed as Turkey Street", I was referring to the
station (originally Forty Hill), not the loop. No idea if that name
was ever given to the loop.

I've more than once heard the loop given alternative names of
"Southbury Loop" and "Turkey St Loop". It was re-opened at a time when
the general trend was closures.

I've never heard the Turkey St. Loop, but it's often been called the
Churchbury Loop.

That as well, no you mention it.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Richard J.[_3_] · May 4th 14, 03:50 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Ken Wheatley wrote on 04 May 2014 01:03:58 ...
On 2014-05-03 23:50:56 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

When was the loop also called "Turkey St"?

When I said "It was renamed as Turkey Street", I was referring to the
station (originally Forty Hill), not the loop. No idea if that name
was ever given to the loop.

I've more than once heard the loop given alternative names of "Southbury
Loop" and "Turkey St Loop". It was re-opened at a time when the general
trend was closures.

I've never heard the Turkey St. Loop, but it's often been called the
Churchbury Loop.

Churchbury appears to have been the original 1891 name of the loop, and
of the southernmost station on the loop. Churchbury station was renamed
as Southbury when passenger services restarted in 1960, and the loop
name changed to Southbury at the same time. (Info from H.P.White's
Greater London volume of the Regional History of the Railways of Great
Britain, 1963.) The reason for the short reopening of the loop in
1915-1919 was to run workmen's trains to and from munitions factories.
Otherwise, local journeys were more convenient by tram at that time.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

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