Tube station names
Croydon has, I believe, the distinction of being the only place in London with a public transport system with a station named for a commercial enterprise: Centrale, a shopping mall. Given that the raison d'etre of the tram stop is to serve that particular mall, it would have been rather silly to have called it anything else.
Anyway, passing through it the other day I was reminded of a vague idea of some years back - flogging off naming rights for tube stations. I don't suppose that there would be much interest or value in the stations outside Zone 1, but I could forsee quite the bidding war for the likes of Oxford Circus, Bond Street and sundry places in the City. Good idea, bad idea?
Croydon has, I believe, the distinction of being the only place in London with a public transport system with a station named for a commercial enterprise: Centrale, a shopping mall. Given that the raison d'etre of the tram stop is to serve that particular mall, it would have been rather silly to have called it anything else.
Anyway, passing through it the other day I was reminded of a vague idea of some years back - flogging off naming rights for tube stations. I don't suppose that there would be much interest or value in the stations outside Zone 1, but I could forsee quite the bidding war for the likes of Oxford Circus, Bond Street and sundry places in the City. Good idea, bad idea?
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croc hunter steve irwin has been killed this morning , by a stingray, nothing to do with tube stations but an interesting and sad thing , all those years handling poisonous snakes and crocodiles and fish gets him
on the names thing bad idea.I can't stand the way football clubs have allowed their tradition to be pissed up the wall by letting mulitnats rename the grounds after tehmselves.
On steve irwin,sad,but he died with his boots on so to speak and let's be honest,he'd been running his odds down for years.Bit like motor bikers doing the isle of man TT,sooner or later you'll clip a garden fence at 136mph
Tescogate? Not really, but as rigger mortice says, it's not the best fun idea.
Rigger - yup, I make you right on renaming grounds. I hope Arsenal fans persist in calling the new place Highbury. Incidentally, the UAE owns the airline, and doesn't recognise Israel and yet as a mate pointed out that although Arsenal is on various boycott lists for having a deal with the Israeli Tourist Board.
I'd like to see Liverpool Street renamed as Bishopsgate for two reasons : 1, because Liverpool St is so small and 2, because it would enrage the Scousers. I suspect it is named for the Prime Minister of that name. An ex boss of mine who hailed from Detroit would insist on referring to the station as 'Liverpool', and I think it was extremely decent of the staff at Shenfield not to take him overly literally....
Good idea, bad idea? I fear for your safety from the train spotters and LU map mad people.
Its The abandoned tube stations fascinate me, in fact all underground workings are a source of fascination. Many many years ago when I was a mere lad and in the territorial army as part of an exercise I got to see part of subterranean manchester, a nuclear bunker complex 125 feet under ground in the city (not telling where) and also an abandoned ww2 command centre under st peters square (the site of the peterloo massacre) it was flooded by then but still full of all the original furniture.
Under a dept store called lewis's (they spelt that way) they had the remains of a victorian street with shop fronts, not unlike the royal exchange, they have a cobbled street that is till there in the basement, at the top of it is a large revolving wooden platform, it for the delivery of coal, a horse would be walked along the cobbles onto the platform with its cart, the platform was turned around, with the horse facing back in the direction it came from and after the coal had been unloaded set of back they way it came in.
I would also love to get into some of those caves under paris.
I wouldn't go there peter,that's where the phantom lives!!
I dont think it would help the tourists or cab drivers much, but that may be part of the fun. (Renaming tube stations, not tunnels in Paris.)
"Croydon has, I believe, the distinction of being the only place in London with a public transport system with a station named for a commercial enterprise: Centrale, a shopping mall"
Are you sure ?
Heathrow Central and Heathrow Terminal 4 serving the very commercial Airport
Olympia serving the Kensington Olympia Exhibition Centre
Bank - Bank of England, Stock Exchange, Lloyds etc.
Kempton Park overground railway station only open on horse racing days.
What about the Docklands Light Railway stations named after the commercial enterprises like Canary Wharf, Heron Quays or London City Airport ?
I stand corrtected. Thank you for your input.
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