Literary station names
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1thorold
We all know about Edinburgh Waverley, of course, but I was surprised to discover that there is at least one more railway station in the world named after the protagonist of a novel, Higashi-Saigawa Sanshirō in Kyushu, Japan - the station is in the real village that was the basis for the fictional one from which the young student in Natsume Soseki's classic 1908 novel was supposed to have started his journey to Tokyo.
That made me wonder if there are any more, and if not, whether there should be?
Švejk and Anna Karenina both sound like obvious candidates for having stations named after them - Švejk must have visited most of the Austro-Hungarian railway network in the course of his complex travels, and Tolstoy's novel wouldn't have been the same without the train...
(No, Paddington doesn't count, that's a protagonist named after a station...)
That made me wonder if there are any more, and if not, whether there should be?
Švejk and Anna Karenina both sound like obvious candidates for having stations named after them - Švejk must have visited most of the Austro-Hungarian railway network in the course of his complex travels, and Tolstoy's novel wouldn't have been the same without the train...
(No, Paddington doesn't count, that's a protagonist named after a station...)
2John5918
Interesting question. A quick Google search turned up the following:
Game of Thrones author "flattered" as Melbourne's metro stations could be named after series
Game of Thrones author "flattered" as Melbourne's metro stations could be named after series
3RobertDay
Not just a station name, the one that immediately came to mind was Westward Ho!, so named after the Charles Kingsley novel of the same name (including the exclamation mark).
The railway that served the town, the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway, was not connected to any other part of the railway system, so it remains an interesting historical byway for a number of reasons.
The railway that served the town, the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway, was not connected to any other part of the railway system, so it remains an interesting historical byway for a number of reasons.
4thorold
>3 RobertDay:
Yes - but I think that comes under a separate heading, marketing names for housing developments. Westward Ho! station wasn't named for the novel, but for the village, which grew out of a holiday development cashing in on the fashion for Devon holidays created by Kingsley's novel. And developers are far less restrained than railway companies when it comes to naming things. John's mention of Australia reminds me that Sydney has a district called Waverley, sandwiched between Bronte and Clovelly...
Yes - but I think that comes under a separate heading, marketing names for housing developments. Westward Ho! station wasn't named for the novel, but for the village, which grew out of a holiday development cashing in on the fashion for Devon holidays created by Kingsley's novel. And developers are far less restrained than railway companies when it comes to naming things. John's mention of Australia reminds me that Sydney has a district called Waverley, sandwiched between Bronte and Clovelly...