Preservation name changes for stations

As part of the ongoing work to improve what was Ferry Meadows Station on the Nene Valley, it was decided to rename the station back to its original name of Overton.

See http://www.nvr.org.uk/ferry-meadows-re-named-overton-40th-anniversary

We felt it gave the station more historical standing and set it apart from the country park and the Ferry Meadows Railway which is a miniature railway within the park itself.

This got me thinking, have any other stations changed name during their preservation lives?

I can think of Belgrave and Birstall reopening as Leicester North and Bodmin Road reopening for the BWR as Bodmin Parkway. Neither of these have changed again during preservation merely reopening with new names.

 

Strictly speaking, Leicester North is not a renaming, it's a new station on a different site slightly further south of Belgrave's original island platform.
Bodmin Parkway is a national network station which was renamed about 7 years before the BWR started their operations, so not sure they really qualify.
I thought of Robertsbridge Junction, but that's effectively a new station too...

 

Porthmadog from Portmadoc, Crowcombe gaining its Heathfield are the two that spring to mind.

Isn't Overton nee Ferry Meadows not *quite* on the site of the erstwhile Orton Waterville station (which in turn was Overton before 1913).

John

 

"Arley" > "Hatley" > "Arley" (on more than one occasion)


....ok, I'll get my coat.

 

Goathland - Aidensfield.
Grosmont - Ashfordley

 

Crowcombe Heathfield was so named from the opening of the WSR in 1862. This was shortened to Crowcombe in 1889 to avoid confusion with Heathfield in Devon. So the renaming by the modern WSR is merely going back to the original 1862 name.
Porthmadog is interesting as the town was originally named Portmadoc on its founding in the early 19th century - being a contraction of "Port Maddock". The more recent 'welshification" is a relatively modern invention, not a reversion to an earlier name as some would like us to believe.

 

i'm not keen on making up Welsh names any more than I am with the Irish equivalent. The one that always grates with me here is "Diosal" offered as the Irish for "Diesel"fuel. It's someones name and there should not be an Irish equivalent. Rather similar was my kids school trying to tell them my name in Irish is O'Naughton , my kids rebelled at that somewhat , as I'm not Irish, that isn't my name!

 

You are correct. The new station was built slightly further east of the old one to give better visibility of the crossing into the newly built country park.

Without consulting the old maps I believe the old platform finished about where the station building is now.

When we first built the miniature railway by the level crossing about 5 years ago we erected an 'Overton' sign at it's station (which would have been about on the old up platform). This was before the idea of renaming the main station really took off!

 

Robertsbridge Junction was always named as such in the pre-1948 company timetables - in those days K&ESR trains used the back of the main-line down platform, so they didn't put up their own nameboard. At the other end of the line the K&ESR side of Headcorn station was similarly Headcorn Junction.

 

Patience!

 

But enough to cause a delay on a railtour, when the guard for the return working was taken in a taxi to Towyn, rather than Tywyn...!

 

Just like the Americans calling a Metre a meter. For cripes sake, the French invented and named it, who are they (americans) to bastardise the word to cover up for their countrymans lower educational standards !

 

Oh dear. Only the small matter of 68 miles in the wrong direction.

 

When South Devon Railway first opened their Totnes Station, it was christened Totnes (Riverside). It was later changed to Totnes (Littlehempston) to reflect it was in that parish. It has reverted to its original name from January 2017 as it cannot be accessed from that village without trespassing.

 

Is this where someone mentions Concord(e)?

 

I noted - following a trip there the other day - that the OS labels it "Totnes (Littlehempston Riverside) Station" on their maps, thereby covering all the bases!

 

Lydney Lakeside -> St Mary's Halt
Jefferstone Lane -> St Mary's Bay

 

I think a number of stations have been renamed North Pole in the preservation era. For a few weeks of the year, anyway...