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« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2019, 10:33:25 »
Returning to the original idea, I'm surprised we've not had this one, if only to meet the requirement for platform balance:

Maybole

Going back a bit, there are several more on similar lines...

Davenport (or Camelon?)
Blair Atholl
Smitham
Llantwit Major
Croftfoot
Eden Park

...and even...

Gobowen
British Steel Redcar

...with a special encore by popular request for

Scunthorpe
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« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2019, 10:45:21 »
Quote from: stuving on February 24, 2019, 10:33:25
Returning to the original idea ...

Not quite - I gave you a needle in a haystack and I think you have given me a haystack in a needle.
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« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2019, 12:34:26 »
My home town, Port-is-head gives you three for the price of one !
If you really want to stretch the point of the  original post you could have We... West...ton...sup... per....ma...mar....mare all without rearranging any letters !
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« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2019, 12:39:29 »
Quote from: Clan Line on February 23, 2019, 13:24:15
Lots of station names inside others:

acton bridge
basingstoke
ardwick
chorleywood
rochester

Round here we're greedy, and have two in ours:
Wokingham
Wokingham
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« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2019, 14:29:46 »
Quote from: grahame on February 24, 2019, 10:45:21
Quote from: stuving on February 24, 2019, 10:33:25
Returning to the original idea ...

Not quite - I gave you a needle in a haystack and I think you have given me a haystack in a needle.

Hmmm - the question as posed was ambi...whatever. And the rider was slanted the other way - unless you do think there are well-known examples of rude words containing station names (and not just innuendos; far too easy).

But back in the sheep-fold, all we've got is Ashdown.

PS: for personalities floreatting before Beeching, are we allowed the longer list of contemporary station names?
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« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2019, 15:01:59 »
Quote from: stuving on February 24, 2019, 14:29:46
PS: for personalities floreatting before Beeching, are we allowed the longer list of contmporary station names?

Hey - it's the lighter side - frankly almost anything goes!
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« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2019, 15:03:13 »
Quote from: plymothian on February 23, 2019, 11:27:59
Scunthorpe

That one foxed the first issue of spam and virus protection at the House of Commons. The member for Scunthorpe (I think a Mr Morley) wondered why he wasn't getting any emails, weeks after everybody else started receiving them.
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« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2019, 16:18:19 »
Let's go a bit further afield................ Roll Eyes

"One word in another"............it has a rail museum too !
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« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2019, 16:22:24 »
Quote from: RA on February 23, 2019, 20:36:58
Quote from: Clan Line on February 23, 2019, 13:24:15
Lots of station names inside others:

acton bridge
basingstoke
ardwick
chorleywood
rochester

Parkstone gives you two for the price of one.
It also lets park in the P-Ark (that's the one 14 places below the B-Ark).
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