In message , Ben Nunn
writes

Lyndhurst Road sufficed perfectly well for over 100 years.



So what was the reason the name was changed - no doubt at a great
expense - unless everyone thought it was a good and necessary reason.
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"Martin Summerfield" wrote in message
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In message , Ben Nunn
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Lyndhurst Road sufficed perfectly well for over 100 years.

So what was the reason the name was changed - no doubt at a great
expense - unless everyone thought it was a good and necessary reason.

You're forgetting the modern trend: change for the sake of change!

In article m, (Martin Underwood) wrote:

Some Roadal etc stations are named after roads which have changed their
name since the station was initially named. You may find that what was once
called Preston Road is now Preston Street or Preston Avenue - I think
quite a lot of roads were renamed in the mid 1900s to avoid duplicate road
names (and hence confusion of postal addresses).

Queen's Road Battersea became Queenstown Road, both in fact and as a station name.

--
Peter Beale

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:49:51 +0100, "Ben Nunn"
wrote:

If anyone is interested, I set up a petition to get the historic and proper
station name reinstated.

http://www.petitiononline.com/lyndhurs/petition.html

BTN


For what reason? The new name makes much more sense!

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:48:12 +0100, "Ben Nunn"
wrote:

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Kat ), in
message who said:
"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
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If anyone is interested, I set up a petition to get the historic and
proper station name reinstated.

http://www.petitiononline.com/lyndhurs/petition.html

It would cause far too much confusion and cost too much; I'd prefer
to see money going to improve other aspects of the service...


The renaming in the first place would've cost needless money too.

I'd settle for an 'organic' renaming - as signage and timetables are
replaced, the name can evolve back to what it used to be.

(Of course, most people still seem to call it Lyndhurst Road anyway, which
makes it more confusing for visitors.)

'Redbridge, Totton, Lyndhurst Road, Bealieu Road, Brockenhurst, Sway, New
Milton, Hinton Admiral, Christchurch, Pokesdown and Bournemouth'

I always feel that having two successive 'road's is somehow aesthetically
satisfying. So much more pleasing to the ear than 'Ashurst New Forest'.

BTN


Errr... I've worked for SWT on the line for four years, and NO ONE
calls it Lyndhurst Road, at least no one *I've* ever spoken to.

Ashurst (New Forest) describes the location pretty well. Lyndhurst
Road might be a name from history, but then so is bubonic plague ;-)

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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:49:51 +0100, "Ben Nunn"
wrote:

I set up a petition to get the historic and proper
station name reinstated.

For what reason? The new name makes much more sense!

Amen! I just looked at the map... http://tinyurl.com/r333

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Queen's Road Battersea became Queenstown Road, both in fact and as a station name.

With a 40 year gap before the railway caught up with the road.

Does anyone know where Preston Road is?

It's in Preston, a London suburb with a more famous namesake up north. The
"Road" helped distinguish, when built, the station in Preston Middx from the
stations in Preston Lancs and Preston Sussex. I think it's a bad name for
the station - "Uxendon" would have been more distinctive, and equally
geographically valid. The name Uxendon seems to have largely disappeared
from maps.

I grew up there, but I never heard anybody call the area "Preston",
always jsut "Preston Road." I understand that historically the village
was called Uxendon, but nobody uses that name either.

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"Michael C.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Martin Underwood ),
in message who said:
"John Rowland" wrote in
message ...

"Road" stations are a bad thing IMO. The fact that there are others
doesn't mean it is a good idea to reintroduce one that has already
been "fixed".

They are a bad thing when they are used to disguise the fact that the
station is nowhere near the place in the station name: the "Road" in
"Wantage Road" and "Beaulieu Road" means (but only to the initiated)
"it's bloody miles away from X"!


And why didn't they rename 'Beaulieu Road' at the same time? That's just as
'inappropriate' as Lyndhurst road, surely.

At least that would've been a swift and decisive measure, killing both
names, rather than letting one half of an aesthetically perfect pair linger
on alone.

BTN

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And why didn't they rename 'Beaulieu Road' at the same time?
That's just as 'inappropriate' as Lyndhurst road, surely.

At least that would've been a swift and decisive measure, killing
both names, rather than letting one half of an aesthetically
perfect pair linger on alone.

An 'aesthetically perfect pair'? I really think you're overstating it a
bit there. But if it's so important that station names sound nice
together, perhaps I should start a petition to rename Fenchurch Street
as Larking and rename Upminster as Parking.

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