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Graham Harrison October 30th 05 02:58 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
Passing through Ruislip (by road) yesterday I kept passing stations. I've
just looked up how many Ruislips there a

Ruislip
Ruislip Manor
West Ruislip
Ruislip Gardens
South Ruislip

That feels like an awful lot of stations containing the town name for
somewhere so (relatively) small. In the same area 4 stations contain the
name "Sudbury"; and if you include Sudbury, Suffolk(?) you get another 5
total but I'm referring to a single town.

Is there another town of a similar size to Ruislip that has more named
stations?



Brimstone October 30th 05 03:06 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
Graham Harrison wrote:
Passing through Ruislip (by road) yesterday I kept passing stations. I've
just looked up how many Ruislips there a

Ruislip
Ruislip Manor
West Ruislip
Ruislip Gardens
South Ruislip

That feels like an awful lot of stations containing the town name for
somewhere so (relatively) small. In the same area 4 stations contain
the name "Sudbury"; and if you include Sudbury, Suffolk(?) you get
another 5 total but I'm referring to a single town.

Is there another town of a similar size to Ruislip that has more named
stations?


Acton



Graham Harrison October 30th 05 03:12 PM

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"Brimstone" wrote in message
...
Graham Harrison wrote:
Passing through Ruislip (by road) yesterday I kept passing stations. I've
just looked up how many Ruislips there a

Ruislip
Ruislip Manor
West Ruislip
Ruislip Gardens
South Ruislip

That feels like an awful lot of stations containing the town name for
somewhere so (relatively) small. In the same area 4 stations contain
the name "Sudbury"; and if you include Sudbury, Suffolk(?) you get
another 5 total but I'm referring to a single town.

Is there another town of a similar size to Ruislip that has more named
stations?


Acton


7, wow!



Peter Masson October 30th 05 03:21 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 

"Graham Harrison" wrote

Acton

7, wow!

8 if you include Bridge ;-)

Peter



thoss October 30th 05 03:26 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
In article , Graham
Harrison writes
Passing through Ruislip (by road) yesterday I kept passing stations. I've
just looked up how many Ruislips there a

Ruislip
Ruislip Manor
West Ruislip
Ruislip Gardens
South Ruislip

That feels like an awful lot of stations containing the town name for
somewhere so (relatively) small. In the same area 4 stations contain the
name "Sudbury"; and if you include Sudbury, Suffolk(?) you get another 5
total but I'm referring to a single town.

Is there another town of a similar size to Ruislip that has more named
stations?


Indeed there is, and not a million miles from Ruislip:

North Acton
South Acton
East Acton
West Acton
Acton Town
Acton Central
Acton Main Line

Any advance on seven?
--
Thoss

Brimstone October 30th 05 04:28 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
Peter Masson wrote:
"Graham Harrison" wrote

Acton

7, wow!

8 if you include Bridge ;-)


Different town. ;-)




Dennis Cooper October 30th 05 06:21 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
"Graham Harrison" wrote in
:

I've just looked up how many Ruislips there a


Means gym slip: there's a big girls' school nearby.

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purple pete October 30th 05 10:37 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
Finchley?



Fig October 31st 05 01:04 AM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:58:46 -0000, Graham Harrison
wrote:

Passing through Ruislip (by road) yesterday I kept passing stations.
I've
just looked up how many Ruislips there a

Ruislip
Ruislip Manor
West Ruislip
Ruislip Gardens
South Ruislip

On a similar theme, West Hampstead has only 3 stations, but all on the
same street and within 300 meters of each other. Can anywhere beat that
for station concentration?

--
Fig

Graham Harrison October 31st 05 05:30 AM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 

"purple pete" wrote in message
...
Finchley?
Only 3!




Peter Masson October 31st 05 07:20 AM

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"Graham Harrison" wrote

"purple pete" wrote


Finchley?
Only 3!


5 if you stretch a point and include Finchley Road (which on uk.r we
understand as 'nowhere near' and Finchley Road & Frognal.

There are 5 Ealings:
South, West, North, Broadway, and Common.

Peter



Helen Deborah Vecht October 31st 05 09:16 AM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
"Peter Masson" typed



"Graham Harrison" wrote

"purple pete" wrote


Finchley?
Only 3!


5 if you stretch a point and include Finchley Road (which on uk.r we
understand as 'nowhere near' and Finchley Road & Frognal.


There are 5 Ealings:
South, West, North, Broadway, and Common.


Peter



Finchley is not Finchley Road.
Finchley Road & Frognal *is* quite a way from Finchley Road LUL.

Edgware is not Edgware Road.

Hampstead has quite a few stations:

Hampstead
Hampstead Heath
West Hampstead x 3 (Thameslink. Silverlink, Jubilee)
South Hampstead

I don't suppose that Finchley Road x 2 Belsize Park and Swiss Cottage
'count'...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Adrian October 31st 05 07:36 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
Graham Harrison ) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

and if you include Sudbury, Suffolk(?)


Why the question mark? There is a Sudbury in Suffolk (I was there over the
weekend), and it has a station. But it's nowhere near the other Sudbury
with lots of stations. There's also a Sudbury in Derbyshire, but that
doesn't have a station. It does have a prison, though.

I grew up in Ashford. A postcard sent to me went via (IIRC) six others
before reaching me, because it didn't have a postcode or county given in
the address.

I don't think it would have taken a great deal to figure out which one it
was for first time, though, because it was from the library in Bakewell,
three miles away, and had "Derbyshire Libraries" in big letters on it.

Peter Masson October 31st 05 08:00 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
"Adrian" wrote

There's also a Sudbury in Derbyshire, but that
doesn't have a station.


It used to.

Peter



David H Wild October 31st 05 08:30 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
In article . 170,
Adrian wrote:
There is a Sudbury in Suffolk (I was there over the weekend), and it
has a station. But it's nowhere near the other Sudbury with lots of
stations. There's also a Sudbury in Derbyshire, but that doesn't have a
station. It does have a prison, though.


Sudbury in Staffordshire did have a station until after nationalisation.

--
David Wild using RISC OS on broadband

[email protected] October 31st 05 09:02 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 

thoss wrote:
In article , Graham
Harrison writes

[cut]
Is there another town of a similar size to Ruislip that has more named
stations?


Indeed there is, and not a million miles from Ruislip:

North Acton
South Acton
East Acton
West Acton
Acton Town
Acton Central
Acton Main Line

Any advance on seven?
--
Thoss


Eight, if you include the late Sir Harold Acton.

K


Jonathan Morton November 2nd 05 09:27 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 

"Adrian" wrote in message
. 244.170...
Graham Harrison ) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

and if you include Sudbury, Suffolk(?)


Why the question mark?


Presumably because Graham wasn't sure if it's in Suffolk or Essex.

There is a Sudbury in Suffolk (I was there over the
weekend), and it has a station. But it's nowhere near the other Sudbury
with lots of stations. There's also a Sudbury in Derbyshire(?)


You mean Staffordshire :-)

Regards

Jonathan



Adrian November 2nd 05 09:34 PM

Ruislip(s) Stations
 
Jonathan Morton ) gurgled
happily, sounding much like they were saying :

There's also a Sudbury in Derbyshire(?)


You mean Staffordshire :-)


Somebody needs to look at a map - and I just have...

There's definitely a boundary on Streetmap between Uttoxeter and Sudbury.

Tricksy things, free-range county boundaries,


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