On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Phil Clark wrote:

it more clearly locates the station - TCR is quite a long road and
has two other stations on it. Personally I think that street names
should only be used if they are very short streets and therefore the
position of the station is fairly obvious.

Good point. A passer-by asked me the other day which way to Great
Western Road. I could have given them three convenient routes from
where we were standing, depending on where they really wanted to get
to.

Or maybe we should adopt the American convention and call such
junctions by both names - "Tottenham Court Road & Oxford Street"

I suspect the "American convention" would really give you
"Tottenham Court and Oxford", which might be a bit confusing :-}

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 17:03:15 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
wrote:

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Phil Clark wrote:

it more clearly locates the station - TCR is quite a long road and
has two other stations on it. Personally I think that street names
should only be used if they are very short streets and therefore the
position of the station is fairly obvious.

Good point. A passer-by asked me the other day which way to Great
Western Road. I could have given them three convenient routes from
where we were standing, depending on where they really wanted to get
to.

Or maybe we should adopt the American convention and call such
junctions by both names - "Tottenham Court Road & Oxford Street"

I suspect the "American convention" would really give you
"Tottenham Court and Oxford", which might be a bit confusing :-}

If you want to use an American convention, call the station "Centrepoint
Station" after the landmark building on top of it.
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Alan J. Flavell wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Phil Clark wrote:

it more clearly locates the station - TCR is quite a long road and
has two other stations on it. Personally I think that street names
should only be used if they are very short streets and therefore
the position of the station is fairly obvious.

Good point. A passer-by asked me the other day which way to Great
Western Road. I could have given them three convenient routes from
where we were standing, depending on where they really wanted to get
to.

Or maybe we should adopt the American convention and call such
junctions by both names - "Tottenham Court Road & Oxford Street"

I suspect the "American convention" would really give you
"Tottenham Court and Oxford", which might be a bit confusing :-}

There are several Métro stations in Paris named in just that way, for
example Strasbourg St-Denis at the junction of the Boulevard de
Strasbourg and the Boulevard St-Denis, which I doubt if many people
confuse with the towns of Strasbourg or St-Denis.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Richard J. wrote:

There are several Métro stations in Paris named in just that way, for
example Strasbourg St-Denis at the junction of the Boulevard de
Strasbourg and the Boulevard St-Denis, which I doubt if many people
confuse with the towns of Strasbourg or St-Denis.

....any more than people confuse Tottenham Court Road (here we go again)
with Tottenham Hale. Ditto Edgware Road and Edgware, which are equally
far apart.

Rupert Candy wrote:

...any more than people confuse Tottenham Court Road (here we go
again) with Tottenham Hale.

I know that happens.

Ditto Edgware Road and Edgware, which are
equally far apart.

I know that happens a lot, along with Finchley/Finchley Road.

In article ,
(John Rowland) wrote:

Rupert Candy wrote:

...any more than people confuse Tottenham Court Road (here we go
again) with Tottenham Hale.

I know that happens.

Ditto Edgware Road and Edgware, which are
equally far apart.

I know that happens a lot, along with Finchley/Finchley Road.

We get confusion between King's Lynn and King's Cross at Cambridge as we
used to with the choice of London Liverpool Street and Liverpool Lime
Street.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:38 +0100 (BST), Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article ,
(John Rowland) wrote:

Rupert Candy wrote:

...any more than people confuse Tottenham Court Road (here we go
again) with Tottenham Hale.

I know that happens.

Ditto Edgware Road and Edgware, which are
equally far apart.

I know that happens a lot, along with Finchley/Finchley Road.

We get confusion between King's Lynn and King's Cross at Cambridge as we
used to with the choice of London Liverpool Street and Liverpool Lime
Street.

I've lost count of the number of people I've had to tell that Brentford
really isn't in essex.

Steve

In article ,
Steve wrote:
I've lost count of the number of people I've had to tell that Brentford
really isn't in essex.

And that Loughborouch Junction isn't in Leicestershire...

Dave
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John Rowland wrote:
Rupert Candy wrote:

...any more than people confuse Tottenham Court Road (here we go
again) with Tottenham Hale.

I know that happens.

Really? It's not as if either are major tourist destinations...

Ditto Edgware Road and Edgware, which are
equally far apart.

I know that happens a lot, along with Finchley/Finchley Road.

....with hilarious consequences. (I always used to think the area
immediately north of Swiss Cottage was Finchley, on account of that
station name.) At least with those two examples, the stations are on
different lines. I can't think of any examples on the same line at the
moment.

Rupert Candy wrote:
John Rowland wrote:
Rupert Candy wrote:
...any more than people confuse Tottenham Court Road (here we go
again) with Tottenham Hale.
I know that happens.

Really? It's not as if either are major tourist destinations...


Oh, I don't know - one of them is the intersection of two of the busiest
lines right next to one of the busiest shopping areas, whilst the other
one is very often by far the most convenient interchange to get to
Stansted Airport. Tourist use of those stations must be pretty sizeable.