Railway Stations, Junctions, and other features named after pubs

[editor]

Oh, how I love this super nerdy list.

Examples:

Bat & Ball
Station (SD492530). Sevenoaks station opened 1862, as the terminus of the Sevenoaks Railway. Shortly afterwards, railway changed its name to Sevenoaks, Maidstone & Tunbridge Railway. Line extended 1869 to join the London, Chatham & Dover Railway at their Sevenoaks Tubs Hill station; original station renamed Sevenoaks Bat & Ball. Sevenoaks Bat & Ball renamed Bat & Ball, 1950. A short distance from the Bat & Ball Inn, locate

Chocolate Poodle
Bridge (ST995549). Line from Patney & Westbury Junction to Westbury opened 1900, Great Western Railway, with Lavington station, signal box and adjacent bridge. Station closed 1966. Signal box replaced by ground frame (released from Reading) 1977. Line, ground frame and bridge remain open. Bridge unofficially renamed Chocolate Poodle bridge circa 1970. Next to The Chocolate Poodle, High Street, Littleton Pannell, Devizes SN10 4EL. The pub is closed. The building, located adjacent to the entrance to Littleton Mobile Home Park, now contains rental flats, having previously been a guest house.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Chocolate Poodle

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Surprised Black Boy hasn't been renamed

Bo Peep and Puss in Boots

 

[BlueSquareThing]

I've been to Berney Arms several times, although I'm not entirely convinced the explanation given in the site is completely fair for it existing, more bribery from the landowner and linkage to the lime works there iirc.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

Im sure a pre-1945 railway map of Barton on Trent would have listed some good ones given the amount of railway served breweries that were there

 

[Dogsauce]

There's a bus stop in Leeds called Shaftsbury Junction. The pub it was named after was flattened a few years ago.

 

[el-ahrairah]

There's a Robin Hood Roundabout in Epping Forest, named for a nearby pub. And of course, the Charlie Brown Roundabout in South Woodford, named for a trucker caff long since closed. In South East London is a roundabout known as Chinese Garage roundabout. But that's a garage, not a pub.

 

[el-ahrairah]

thinking about where i grew up, the Green Man roundabout in Leytonstone still exists, but the Green Man is long gone. The Bakers Arms is a small area of Leyton named for the local pub. The Crooked Billet roundabout in Chingford still exists, but the pub no so much.

 

[Spymaster]

Sun In The Sands roundabout on the A2 near Blackheath.

 

[hot air baboon]

...there's a Crooked Billet roundabout near Staines aswell oddly enough....and the Jolly Waggoners on the Bath Rd A4 Hounslow...a particulalry dangerous experience if heading W or E...

 

[Spymaster]

Countless London bus stops are referred to as the nearest pub name.

 

[Dogsauce]

Inns had a long association with roads and travel from the days of the stagecoach. The 'Railway Inn' was an addition to this tradition, by their nature they came after the railway was built so features named after them are not common, it's usually the other way around.

 

[davesgcr]

They missed the Angel Hotel Abergavenny - the upstairs meeting room was where the Newport , Abergavenny and Hereford Rly (later taken over by the LNWR) - held its Board Meetings in the 1840's - in 2003 , I arranged for the SRA meeting on "lessons learnt" from the new franchise for Wales and Borders (now ATW) , to be held in the very same room.