Talk:Lostock railway station

Lostock or Lostock Parkway?
Although the station signs say Lostock, electronic destination boards at other stations (such as Bolton) refer to it as Lostock Parkway. Paypwip (talk) 21:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The National Rail journey planner has it as Lostock, as does the GMPTE site . There is an image at the Geograph British Isles site, number 747731, shows it too as only called Lostock. When the station was opened in 1988 it was called Lostock Parkway, but at some unknown date the Parkway part was dropped, possibly to prevent confusion with Horwich Parkway railway station, the next station on the line. Cayden (talk) 17:06, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 'Lostock Parkway' is still being used at Bolton Station - See this Image Paypwip (talk) 10:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Just looking at latest station usage figures and the station is listed as 'Lostock Parkway' there too. Someone in the Rail Industry needs to make their mind up. Hopefully it will revert to its original name of Lostock Junction if they ever reinstate the Wigan platforms they should never have removed. Paypwip (talk) 09:52, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Whats going to be really confusing is their planning a station called Lostock Parkway on the Trafford Metrolink line. WatcherZero (talk) 17:27, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

The area is called Lostock Junction on maps (even the National Rail station guide map) - I lived near there for 50 years and the area is still Lostock Junction even for young people. The obession of British Rail (and the new companies it seems) with the removal of the word Junction started about 1974 when stations such as Clifton Junction (the area) became plain Clifton. Presumably "Junction" sounds so "old fashioned" and dull industrial (new housing developments similarly do not use the word "street" instead its Waye or Avenue etc.). The process (save for Clapham Junction and a few others) did not recognise the fact that some areas took the name of the station. So Lostock Junction now has a station which is named plain Lostock (a different area). Clearly Clapham Junction was just too daft to change, and even the BR gurus could not get away with that (as the area is plainly not Clapham but Clapham Junction). The result of not calling the station Lostock Junction is that people do not know where it is and confusiion arises with other stations (Lostock Hall, Lostock Grahlem and probably others) for passengers and rail bookers alike. I really do think BR had an obsession with a "new image" which did away with the word Halt and Junction. I cannot help laughing as in the North West I had relatives who lived in "Industrial Street" and so on. There is even a "Crippen Street" in Atherton - presumably not named after the famous murderer, but all the same doubly worrying as it includes the dreaded word "street" which is probably even more reviled that a poisoner. I think we should change the name of Lostock station to Lostock Junction For Leg-irons,Rickets and Boils. That would get the PC people going no end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.101.7.165 (talk) 09:36, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

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