There are several stations on the tube map that reflect places in their name that can be located outside of the network
For example Amersham Station is in Amersham, Bucks so would not be included
Here is the list I have compiled, please feel free to add any I may have missed or comment on any that should be included
BOSTON Manor
CANADA Water
CYPRUS
DENMARK Hill
DEVONS Road
East INDIA
GLOUCESTER Road
Great PORTLAND Street
HOLLAND Park
LANCASTER Gate
LEICESTER Square
LIVERPOOL Street
NEWBURY Park
OXFORD Circus
PRESTON Road
RICHMOND
STAMFORD Brook
STRATFORD
STRATFORD High Street
STRATFORD International
SUDBURY Hill
SUDBURY Town
SWISS Cottage ??
WARWICK Avenue
WATERLOO
West INDIA Quay
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What's the precise criteria required for a station to be on the list?Going Underground wrote:There are several stations on the tube map that reflect places in their name that can be located outside of the network
For example Amersham Station is in Amersham, Bucks so would not be included
Here is the list I have compiled, please feel free to add any I may have missed or comment on any that should be included
BOSTON Manor
CANADA Water
CYPRUS
DENMARK Hill
DEVONS Road
East INDIA
GLOUCESTER Road
Great PORTLAND Street
HOLLAND Park
LANCASTER Gate
LEICESTER Square
LIVERPOOL Street
NEWBURY Park
OXFORD Circus
PRESTON Road
RICHMOND
STAMFORD Brook
STRATFORD
STRATFORD High Street
STRATFORD International
SUDBURY Hill
SUDBURY Town
SWISS Cottage ??
WARWICK Avenue
WATERLOO
West INDIA Quay
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SURREY Quays.
CALEDONIAN Road? If so, then CALEDONIAN Road and Barnsbury as well.
I could put forward a case for Kensington OLYMPIA as well.
Great Portland Street to Stratford International. That sounds like a chance to use a mode of transport that has never been used before... I can see quite a nice route already.
CALEDONIAN Road? If so, then CALEDONIAN Road and Barnsbury as well.
I could put forward a case for Kensington OLYMPIA as well.
Great Portland Street to Stratford International. That sounds like a chance to use a mode of transport that has never been used before... I can see quite a nice route already.
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If you are allowing Stratford, because there is somewhere else of the same name, then there are lots of other examples. For example, there is a Redbridge near Southampton and a Woodford near Manchester.
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There must be a Town/City/County/State/Country elsewhere in the world....tractakid wrote: What's the precise criteria required for a station to be on the list?
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Nigel wrote:If you are allowing Stratford, because there is somewhere else of the same name, then there are lots of other examples. For example, there is a Redbridge near Southampton and a Woodford near Manchester.
Thanks Nigel I thought there might well be few others that I wouldn't know straight off...
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Well, that gives you everywhere on this map for starters!Going Underground wrote:There must be a Town/City/County/State/Country elsewhere in the world....tractakid wrote: What's the precise criteria required for a station to be on the list?
I'd guess you'd be hard-pressed to find a station that doesn't share at least part of its name with a settlement somewhere else in the English-speaking world. Many place-names in our former colonies are derived from English ones.
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