Re: London Broadgate station and that old fashioned 'junction' suffix



On 31 May, 20:02, Chris Tolley <cj...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Martin D. Pay wrote:
What *is* this mania for renaming places?

It was proposed (on this occasion) by someone in the business of selling
maps. Maps have to be redrawn when names change. Whether those two facts
are connected is anyone's guess.
--http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9632956.html
(43 084 at Basingstoke, May 1995)

Chill out baby! The whole point is to make the railways more relevant
for today's user. And its about time the TOCs did something useful,
after all, they're supposed to know about 'Marketing'. At least BR
were good at it - Piccadilly is so much better than London Road up
here in Manchester.
.



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