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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2018, 21:47:01 »

Well, Castle Cary is CLC (Castle Cary), which doesn't work in Roman numerals.

I'd obviously like the branch from Chard Junction to reopen, with a station as close to the middle of Chard as possible. Move Tesco out the way, run the tracks through Stringfellow Park (I'll have to walk Finn in Jocelyn Park instead) and terminate in 'The Original Factory Shop' building. A building that looks remarkably like a Victorian station already. This station would of course be Chard Central (CCL). Small matter of a few dozen houses surrounding this building to remove also...

Although I chose CCL I could have gone for a cup of tea instead...
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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2018, 03:28:49 »

This station would of course be Chard Central (CCL).

Although I chose CCL I could have gone for a cup of tea instead...

I suspect that "Chard Central" would be an unlikely name.  Looking elsewhere, places with a "Central" and nothing else like Lincoln and Rotherham have come about where all other town stations have closed.  Milton Keynes Central and Telford Centrals are perhaps more accurately Centres - new town centres, where a major urban area develops out from that centre.    Should Chard's population rise tenfold, I'll give you "Chard CENTRAL"  Cheesy
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« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2018, 09:18:37 »

I'd obviously like the branch from Chard Junction to reopen, with a station as close to the middle of Chard as possible. Move Tesco out the way, run the tracks through Stringfellow Park (I'll have to walk Finn in Jocelyn Park instead) and terminate in 'The Original Factory Shop' building. A building that looks remarkably like a Victorian station already. This station would of course be Chard Central (CCL). Small matter of a few dozen houses surrounding this building to remove also...

But is the old Joint Station really central to the great metropolis that is now Chard? While Furnham, which is where is really is, has been part of Chard (or Greater Chard, if you prefer) administratively for a long time, it's distinctly off-centre. Maybe they missed a trick when the joint station took over as "Chard", and should have called it Furnham Orchard.
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« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2018, 10:58:32 »

After staying for "Just one more" in The George, Crewkerne yesterday, and then having to walk at a very brisk pace not to miss my train I began to wonder why they didn't build the town a bit closer to the station. I think, perhaps that Misterton would be a more accurate name for the said station.
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« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2018, 11:15:51 »

There was a proposed railway in 1848, one of the battle of the gauges, that would have run just to the north of South Street before swinging north neat the town centre.
 However most proposed lines chose the current route
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