On Jul 23, 3:52*pm, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:

I see that the DLR has "Custom House for ExCel", the latter being
somewhere that might not survive in its current form during an
extended recession.

Why would that be a problem any more than the fact that there hasn't
been a working Customs House there for ages either?

And I don't think another famous DLR station is anywhere near a
working Wharf for ships from the Canary Islands...

*Although the same could be said for Olympia.

And don't forget Centrale in Croydon.

Several stations are named after pubs: IIRC the Angel pub at Angel is not
the original, which is gone.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Would that be the Blue Angel by any chance between the old tube
station and the RBS offices?

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:27:44 -0400, Christopher A. Lee
wrote:

Heathrow was a village on Hounslow Heath, which gave its name to the
airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He...War_II_Map.jpg


Earlier maps had it as "Heath Row".

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:43:01 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 15:27:44 on
Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Christopher A. Lee remarked:

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,

That was the guy I responded to, not I.

I merely pointed out that the airport took its name from the village
on Hounslow Heath.

cough except I ruled out airports in my original posting.

In message , at 17:26:07 on
Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Christopher A. Lee remarked:
Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,

That was the guy I responded to, not I.

Yes, that's why it had two chevrons. I must have changed my mind and
deleted whatever my other comment was to yourself.
--
Roland Perry

Tom Anderson wrote in
rth.li:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Basil Jet wrote:

Several stations are named after pubs: IIRC the Angel pub at Angel is
not the original, which is gone.

Wasn't that a cake shop rather than a pub? Oh, i see it was a pub before
that.

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,
which has not one but four stations named after it!

Four? I count either three or five: H123 and Heathrow Central; two T4s; and
a T5.

"David Morgan" wrote in
o.uk:


"James Farrar" wrote in message
. 1.4...
How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

Just plain central.

Really? Weird. Why do they have a second "e"?

Christopher A. Lee wrote in
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On 23 Jul 2009 18:23:26 GMT, James Farrar
wrote:


How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

"It"

Well done.

TimB wrote:
On Jul 23, 7:23 pm, James Farrar wrote:
Arthur Figgis wrote :

Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
06:35:07 on Thu, 23 Jul 2009, "
And don't forget Centrale in Croydon.
What's that named after?
The Centrale shopping centre. Sorry, "shopping and lifestyle
destination"http://www.centrale.co.uk
Tram information systems pronounce it as in Amsterdam, but buses seem to
say it as in Milton Keynes.
How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

And I was assuming it was meant to be Italian - Chentralay

That's one variant I've not heard. It also seems that the "innit" isn't
written

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 24 Jul 2009 06:18:14 GMT, James Farrar
wrote:

Really? Weird. Why do they have a second "e"?

So it is trademarkable?

Neil

--
Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:35:07AM -0700, wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
I see that the DLR has "Custom House for ExCel", the latter being
somewhere that might not survive in its current form during an extended
recession.
Why would that be a problem any more than the fact that there hasn't
been a working Customs House there for ages either?

And it's not as if it's the only one either. How about "Cutty Sark for
Maritime Greenwich"? The station isn't called "Custom House for Excel",
it's Custom House, the "for Excel" bit being a useful description to
help the vast number of visitors who don't know the area and for whom
the name of the station isn't helpful.

--
David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave
-- Fergus Henderson