Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 No recent travel & transport from BBC stories as at 11:15 05 Dec 2025
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]		 today - TWSW AGM
13/12/25 - Inspiration, Paddington
17/12/25 - Interrail pass sale ends
31/12/25 - Photo competition closes

On this day
5th Dec (1927)
Post Office Underground opens to Paddington (link)
Train RunningCancelled
10:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
10:26 Frome to Bristol Temple Meads
10:59 Gatwick Airport to Reading
11:03 London Paddington to Plymouth
11:09 Gloucester to Weymouth
11:23 London Paddington to Oxford
12:50 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
13:00 Oxford to London Paddington
13:32 Reading to Basingstoke
14:33 Basingstoke to Reading
Short Run
08:35 Plymouth to London Paddington
08:52 London Paddington to Great Malvern
09:49 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
09:53 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
09:54 Reading to Gatwick Airport
09:56 Great Malvern to London Paddington
10:36 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids
10:59 Great Malvern to London Paddington
11:29 Gatwick Airport to Reading
11:30 Weymouth to Gloucester
11:58 Great Malvern to London Paddington
13:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
Delayed
06:40 Truro to London Paddington
07:49 Truro to London Paddington
08:03 London Paddington to Plymouth
08:38 Bristol Temple Meads to Worcester Foregate Street
08:54 Truro to London Paddington
09:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
09:32 Weymouth to Gloucester
10:53 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
13:42 Exeter St Davids to London Paddington
•
PollsThere are no open or recent polls
•
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
•
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
•
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
•
Train companiesSelect from:
GWR
SWR
XC
Chiltern
TfL
TfW
WMR
Southern
• Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street
December 05, 2025, 11:25:30 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[100] Cars getting bigger - is this a concern?
[92] Estimates of station usage 24-25 - North Cotswolds line
[69] Passengers locked inside Hartlepool station
[55] Historic black and white pictures - where were they taken? - 3...
[49] Swindon <-> Westbury service updates and amendments, ongoing d...
[49] Looking to reopen the spur to Falmouth docks
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > Journey by Journey > Shorter journeys in South and West Wales > And the name next year will be ...
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: And the name next year will be ...  (Read 2059 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 45676



View Profile WWW Email
« on: September 23, 2024, 22:29:26 »
From the Daily Post

Quote
A station on a beautiful North Wales rail route to set to return to a name it last used 50 years ago. Despite its relatively small size the market town of Llanrwst has two train stations.

Its original one is situated towards the north of the town and was opened in 1863 as part of the Conway and Llanrwst Railway. Being the only stop in town it was named Llanrwst Railway Station.

This station was renamed Llanrwst and Trefriw in April 1884 following the formal opening of the Gower pedestrian road to Trefriw in May 1881. But was back to Llanrwst in 1974 under British Rail.

Then, after the opening of a new more central station (Llanrwst) in 1989, it became Llanrwst North, and later North Llanrwst (hope everyone is still keeping up).

Now though, following a campaign the name will become North Llanrwst and Trefriw. Senedd member for Aberconwy Janet Finch-Saunders announced the news.

The change was wanted to show that the station is an ideal place to get off the train to travel on to Trefriw by foot or bike - with the hope it will attract more visitors on public transport.

Is there anywhere else that has changed its name more often?
Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Transport User Group, West Wiltshire Rail User Group Committee and TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member
Chris from Nailsea
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 20756



View Profile Email
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2024, 23:51:43 »
My local station has some previous for changing it's name, more than once.  Roll Eyes
Logged
William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
Ralph Ayres
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 464


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2024, 22:40:27 »
Ah, happy memories of trying to get a contractor to spell the station names correctly on the shiny new Crossrail ticket machines when TfL» (Transport for London - about) first took over some GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) stations pre-Elizabeth line. So many ways for the non-Welsh speakers of far away Surrey to get it wrong.  Whaddya mean, only one vowel?  I think there may have been a long-unnoticed typo when the station was last renamed and that was still in the file supplied to them by RDG▸ (Rail Delivery Group, or Reading station, depending on context).  At one stage Llanrwst was spelt wrongly in two different ways on the buttons!

The bit about travelling on to Trefriw by foot or bike appears to be because the only direct road access is via a ford, presumably with a footbridge.  By car Llanrwst station is best.

I'm inclined to think that any compass point in a station name should use the order [Place] [Direction] unless the area served is actually called for instance North Llanrwst, which it isn't so far as I can tell from the OS▸ (Ordnance Survey) map.  A station name can end up being adopted by the local area though, so that might happen.

...Slight pause before posting to check I've not mis-spelt Llanrwst anywhere in this...
Logged
Chris from Nailsea
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 20756



View Profile Email
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2024, 22:57:28 »
Quote from: Ralph Ayres on September 24, 2024, 22:40:27

Whaddya mean, only one vowel? 


I've no problem with that: grahame does it all the time. I just follow his posts, tidying up where necessary.  Grin
Logged
William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page