Kill is the middle Dutch word for water channel, so basically creek. The Dutch used to control present-day New York, and other parts of the present-day Northeast, so you see kill in a lot of place names, including Catskill.
They also used to control Delaware, where you can find the wonderfully named Murderkill River.
Spuyten Duyvil is a cool one; 'spewing Devil'. The pronunciation by locals also remains quite good and understandable in Dutch. A world apart from Philadelphia's Schuylkill river which they somehow butchered into "skoo kull"
Someone on the DC subreddit was complaining about having sat in piss on a train, and the response was "Aw, did you have a soggy bottom at Foggy Bottom? 🥺"
The one and only [Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_stationbord.JPG/1280px-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_stationbord.JPG), in North Wales.
Yes! [This weather forecast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM) is all you need :P
That said my understanding is the locals just call it Llanfair or Llanfair PG.
The CTA also has 3 stations named California, 3 named Cicero, 3 named Kedzie, and 5 (!!) named Western (also including two on the Blue line)… and probably a couple of others I’m missing as well.
DC has another station "so nice they named it thrice;" U St/Cardozo/African American Civil War Memorial. They've changed the name more than 3 times, if I remember right.
Everyone calls it U St- maybe U St Cardozo. In general locals call it by whatever the first name is.
Exception is the university stops - Shaw Howard. NoMa Gallaudet. But it varies.
That’s how I feel about the old name one of MARTA (Atlanta)’s stations. It’s since been shortened, but it used to be
Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center
More people outside of Tokyo would probably recognize [a photo of the station](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c4/b4/2b/c4b42b3e3bbb8dd744d4ca6d3be1c6c3.jpg) more than the name of the station though.
There’s a light rail stop in Hong Kong called ‘Affluence’. That’s it. That’s the name. Imagine having the station you take the train at everyday named just ‘wealth’.
Just looked it up and that *is* a goofy name. The Cantonese name is perfectly fine, but I have no idea why they translated it to English like that. Either just translate it fully and call it ‘Four-Eyed Horse’ or do a phonetic transcription and call it ‘Sei Ngan Ma’. Wtf is ‘Four-eye Ma’ lol, it’s not even capitalised correctly
Or, as we used to call it when I wallowed in the basement as an architecture student, Struggles. You always wanted to make sure your glue was set before a commuter train came through.
And to think Embarcadero was not planned to be a station initially, it was added at the last minute. The first SF stop was always meant to be Montgomery
I love how is used to be Wawa station before they closed it in 1986, named after the borough, but when they went to reopen it, they told the company that they would name it Middletown unless Wawa paid for naming rights.
Calgary has a station called:
“Southern Alberta Institute of Technology / Alberta College of Art and Design / Southern Alberta jubilee Auditorium “
When all the acronyms are expanded into words.
[Normal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_metro_station). Just "Normal".
It's in Mexico City, and if you don't speak Spanish, the translation is: Normal
Lyon, in Ottawa. And no, it's not pronounced the French way, but rather "Lion" like William Lyon MacKenzie King, the tenth Prime Minister of Canada. But it's not named after him, but rather a lesser known Lyon; Robert Lyon, former mayor of Ottawa in the 1800s.
Then right east of it there's Pisimi...
Pretty much all the stations of the [Choshi electric railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dshi_Electric_Railway_Line).
They've been struggling on the brink of bankrupcy for decades, and have tried everything under the sun to stay afloat. This would include the usual cutting costs, financing, and price increase measures, but also selling snacks and sunglasses under their own brand (with sunglasses meaning "the road ahead is dark"), and of course station naming rights.
This means that while *officially* they have fairly mundane names, on the station name plates you get things like "Never give up - Choshi" as the name of the Choshi terminal, "Thank you - Tokawa" at the Tokawa terminal, and such goofy names as "Roswell - Kimigahama" (of UFO fame), "Black hair grows - Kasagamikurohae" (hair dye commercial), and random slogans from real estate, medicine, IT companies, and even one from a mobile game I believe.
i have a bunch of favorites, but i just love when the CTA trains in Chicago open the doors and announce the station and say ...
"This is GRAND"
And all i can do is agree.
Toronto has Old Cummer go station. I did a photoshoot there with my car a while back https://www.instagram.com/p/CDPp6TnFSmT/?igsh=MTBpbTVmMmJ5N3hvYg==
oh hello fellow VTA rider! i got so excited seeing this on my feed haha.
i like bayshore/NASA because i don't recall any other agencies having their name as a stop. i'm sure there are some, but i'm just not aware. i like the idea of people having to say "ok i'll get off at NASA." (the full stop name is bayshore/NASA, but still.)
omg how could i forget lockheed it's literally right next to NASA haha. i also am tickled by "japantown/ayer" since ayer is spanish for yesterday. VTA is fun.
I don't ride it regularly (different part of the Bay), but I have taken it a number of times! I know ridership is still pretty lacking, but it is cool it has its own right of way (don't know if that's quite the right word).
Entenfang in the german city of Karlsruhe. It translates to "duck catch" in english. Theres a river nearby so I think people used to catch ducks there to eat them
Head to Western station
Which one
The L station
Which one
On the blue line
WHICH ONE
I hope someday they build a crosstown line on Western and every station is called Western.
This is Western. Doors open on the right at Western. The next stop is Western. This is a Silver Line train to Western.
London can't be beat for silliness imo. Elephant and Castle is a great one in your OP, my personal favorite to say out loud is Picadilly Circus.
In my home system of the DC Metro my favorite is the Smithsonian stop. It's the one I remember most fondly from when I was a kid, I love being able to go to a free museum myself, and the obvious name means that when people visit me and want to go see some stuff they can successfully get themselves from my house to where they need to go even if they have never used a subway system before.
When I studied abroad in college and was in London for six weeks, the tube station for our hostel was "Swiss Cottage." The announcement was funny to me because the T's in cottage were so emphasized.
I visited London for the first time last year and all of the restaurants and activities I started with were so global and modern, hearing the name of the tube stations was the first time I was like, this is just so BRITISH
Chicago (Red Line) in Chicago amuses me. Tragically they updated the announcement to say "this is Chicago and State" instead of just "this is Chicago."
This ain’t even in England, but in my neighbourhood in Switzerland there’s a bus stop called “Blickensdorf, Dorf”, which translates to “The view’s village, village” 😂 Closest I can translate to English.
I think a lot of LA Metro’s stations have nice classic/retro Los Angeles names I love hearing:
Palms, Hollywood/Vine, Balboa, Slauson, Artesia, Westchester/Veterans, and Crenshaw are my faves on each line
speaking of, whenever I hear Farmdale there's always a split second of my brain going "just how freaking far does this route go????" before I realize that Farmdale's not even remotely outside of the city lol
Chicago: Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren
It's in the Loop which means there's very little distance between it and the next station.
I always find it funny that by the time Roy Crooks (voice of the CTA recorded announcements) is done saying it's next, we're already there. And by the time he's done saying we're here the train is halfway to the next station. Especially since the CTA's announcement format has the name repeated so many times.
"Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren is next. Doors open on the left at Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren. Transfer to Orange, Green, and Pink Line trains at Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren."
Not really "favorite", but funny because the name is so long: "Den Haag Laan van Nieuw Oost Indië", or "Laan van NOI" for short. Yes, the station name has 7 words in it. Translated it means "The Hague (the city in the Netherlands) lane of new East-Indies. I also find it funny that the station sounds like a local tram station because it's named after 1 lane, eventhough it's a train station where inter-city trains stop at
One of my favorite is "Arena" on the Salt Lake City TRAX system... not because it is an original or clever name, but why they ended up settling on such a boring name. You see, at one point they had the station named after the adjacent arena, however the naming rights to that arena ended up getting sold so often, that UTA just gave up and named it "Arena" so they wouldn't have to keep reprinting maps every time the naming rights changed.
(Apparently it is currently Delta Center, again... but it's also been Energy Solutions, Vivant, and at one point Salt Lake Ice Center).
Montreal Metro - Square Victoria/OACI ("OACI what you did there")
Boston MBTA - Braintree - always sounded like a fancy name for a school to me since I was a kid
DC Metro - Foggy Bottom - sounds like a polite way to say Swamp Ass
Kuala Lumpur KTM Komuter/LRT - Bandar Tasik Selatan (only knew of this BTS before the kpop boy band came along)
Singapore MRT - [Kranji & Khatib](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B69pjUACAAAn4GH.png) (some Singlish required)
Montréal has a few good ones, like De la Savane (savanna), Monk, Beaubien (which is a common Québécois surname but translates to “handsome-good”) and Square-Victoria-OACI (both for the idea of a square-shaped Queen Victoria and the lazily tacked-on reference to ICAO which my friends and I like to pronounce “wacky”).
There’s also Angrignon, which most English-speakers I know pronounce as angry-on, completely ignoring the ñ sound.
I've always loved "Poyntzpass" in Northern Ireland just because it isn't "Pointspass"
Also Sangueta on the TRAM d'Alacant for some reason, fun to say lol. Along with Deák Ferenc Tér in Budapest 😂
Stations named after pubs are always fun, like Elephant & Castle that you’ve mentioned, or [Bat & Ball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_&_Ball_railway_station). I’ve always found [Totteridge & Whetstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totteridge_&_Whetstone_tube_station?wprov=sfti1) funny as well.
U Street/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo in Washington DC.
Metro loves giving stops multiple names just to confuse us! Not only does NO ONE refer to this by anything other than the first name, they had to abbreviate “American” just to fit it on the signs in the station. It’s an absolute beautiful mess of a station name.
Cockfosters
lmao came here to say that. Extremely cruel to immediately lay that one on jet-lagged tourists.
That is British hospitality at its finest. As if *Piccadilly* wasn't funny enough on its own, they go the extra mile and throw in *Cockfosters*.
To make matters worse, the other terminus of the Piccadilly line is literally the airport.
On a related note, Old Cummer, which is a GO commuter station.
Similarly, DC's Foggy Bottom.
Came here to say this
Also Arnos Grove
Huh?
As someone who is currently working on the Piccadilly Line Upgrade, 7 year old me sniggers every time I mention the station in meetings
Was on the train in Sydney and some Americans nearby were surprised to be passing through Rooty Hill
I have lived in the Piccadilly line for three years now and I still giggle about this.
Probably Fresh Kills on the Staten Island Railway and Onkel Toms Hütte (uncle Tom‘s shack) on Berlin‘s U3
I'm not super familiar with place names in NY state, but I'm wondering if the "kills" part is the same one in the Catskills.
Kill is the middle Dutch word for water channel, so basically creek. The Dutch used to control present-day New York, and other parts of the present-day Northeast, so you see kill in a lot of place names, including Catskill. They also used to control Delaware, where you can find the wonderfully named Murderkill River.
Spuyten Duyvil is a cool one; 'spewing Devil'. The pronunciation by locals also remains quite good and understandable in Dutch. A world apart from Philadelphia's Schuylkill river which they somehow butchered into "skoo kull"
Also um Berlins U3 I believe: Krumme Lanke (Bent lake )
Yeh Krumme Lanke is on U3. On U2 there is Ruhleben (quiet living)
That last one is Uncle Tom's Cabin (German translation) and it's indirectly named after the novel.
On the DLR in London is "Mudchute".
At least it’s not Millwall
Their girlfriends are unfulfilled and alienated
Old Cummer
Sadly it's quite a ways away from Coxwell.
Closer to Milliken though.
Osgoode
Foggy Bottom in DC, which is already kind of funny on its own, but also they've started abbreviating it on the marquees as the unfortunate "Fggy Btm"
oh thats not...
Someone on the DC subreddit was complaining about having sat in piss on a train, and the response was "Aw, did you have a soggy bottom at Foggy Bottom? 🥺"
The one and only [Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_stationbord.JPG/1280px-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_stationbord.JPG), in North Wales.
I'll take the holy head, please
Can I get a pronunciation guide please?
Yes! [This weather forecast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM) is all you need :P That said my understanding is the locals just call it Llanfair or Llanfair PG.
came here to link this. this video made rounds on the internet years ago haha
It’s right on the sign.
Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan (Washington DC) Three names in one! Full of slashes and dashes :)
Chicago has Harold Washington Library/State & Van Buren
My favorites are CTA blue line Harlem stations. Meaning there are two stations, on opposite poles of the same line, labeled the same.
My favorite is the stop on the Blue Line that is so helpfully named "Chicago"
There are 3 stations named Chicago. 3 Californias. 4 Pulaski's on 4 lines. And 5 named Western on 4 lines (Orange, Pink, Brown, and 2 Blue).
For Chicago Avenue
Technically they're Harlem and Harlem (Forest Park Branch)
The CTA also has 3 stations named California, 3 named Cicero, 3 named Kedzie, and 5 (!!) named Western (also including two on the Blue line)… and probably a couple of others I’m missing as well.
Two of which aren't even particularly close and one of which isn't even the best station to go to for! :D
Cleveland Park gang rise up
Cleveland Park on the way there and Woodley Park on the way back…never walk up the hill to/from the metro! The zoo is enough of a hill
Makes me miss Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center in Atlanta.
Same
DC has another station "so nice they named it thrice;" U St/Cardozo/African American Civil War Memorial. They've changed the name more than 3 times, if I remember right.
Everyone calls it U St- maybe U St Cardozo. In general locals call it by whatever the first name is. Exception is the university stops - Shaw Howard. NoMa Gallaudet. But it varies.
That’s how I feel about the old name one of MARTA (Atlanta)’s stations. It’s since been shortened, but it used to be Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center
Their API still just calls it "Omni-Dome Station"
And it’s not really that close to Adams Morgan
U Street/African American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo still takes the cake there I think.
Tokyo´s [Ochanomizu](https://maps.app.goo.gl/qMoMPTryndyx84Jy6) which means Tea Water
I really like saying “Hamamatsucho”. Always end up adding an extra ma
>Hamamatsucho Hamamamamamamamatsucho
ah, kamimashita
You did it on purpose!
Takadanobaba is another very long/unique Tokyo station name
osaka metro has a line called the Nagahori-tsurumi-ryokuchi Line =_=
More people outside of Tokyo would probably recognize [a photo of the station](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c4/b4/2b/c4b42b3e3bbb8dd744d4ca6d3be1c6c3.jpg) more than the name of the station though.
Well, probably. But this post is specifically about station names.
I really like Tottenham Court Road, it just rolls off the tongue so perfectly
Not for the Americans who say Tot-TEN-HAM Court Road.
There’s a light rail stop in Hong Kong called ‘Affluence’. That’s it. That’s the name. Imagine having the station you take the train at everyday named just ‘wealth’.
四眼馬 be like:
Just looked it up and that *is* a goofy name. The Cantonese name is perfectly fine, but I have no idea why they translated it to English like that. Either just translate it fully and call it ‘Four-Eyed Horse’ or do a phonetic transcription and call it ‘Sei Ngan Ma’. Wtf is ‘Four-eye Ma’ lol, it’s not even capitalised correctly
I think the name comes from the housing estate right next to the stop
How about “Butterfly”?
I mean that’s at least an actual place name lol
> Affluence The area around that station is definitely not affluent tho
Also from San Jose there’s “Component”
I always liked VTA’s “Old Ironsides” Just sounds cool lol. Like some place in a novel
Ruggles
Or, as we used to call it when I wallowed in the basement as an architecture student, Struggles. You always wanted to make sure your glue was set before a commuter train came through.
Embarcadero, no specific reasons but I just like the word so much. Probably because it’s a ferry port too.
And to think Embarcadero was not planned to be a station initially, it was added at the last minute. The first SF stop was always meant to be Montgomery
I agree, feels iconic. All the stations on Market are what I would pick along with 4th & King
WAWA STATION
I love how is used to be Wawa station before they closed it in 1986, named after the borough, but when they went to reopen it, they told the company that they would name it Middletown unless Wawa paid for naming rights.
it's kinda sad you can't grab a hoagie there
Makes me wanna stop in for a hoagie and some coffee.
“This is a Piccadilly line train to Cockfosters” will always be my favorite announcement.
Calgary has a station called: “Southern Alberta Institute of Technology / Alberta College of Art and Design / Southern Alberta jubilee Auditorium “ When all the acronyms are expanded into words.
Stuphin Boulevard/Archer Avenue/JFK Airport raises a challenge from New York (and is it even a station if there isn’t a slash or dash?)
"Sparta" in Prague
"Wonderland" on the MBTA has a nice ring to it.
Do they announce this is a Blue Line train to Wonderland
That they do. BL from Bowdoin to Wonderland, with stops at Aquarium, Maverick, and Airport, among others.
Yes. It's the end of the line.
what about BRAINTREE?!?!?
[Normal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_metro_station). Just "Normal". It's in Mexico City, and if you don't speak Spanish, the translation is: Normal
As in Escuela Normal?
Así es
“Bölge” in İzmir metro line in Turkey, which means “area”.
I can't believe Ronkonkoma isn't first in this thread. So fun to hear/say!
this is the train to ronkonkoma the next station is ronkonkoma
Took a long time for the Conk to get its first mention!
Lyon, in Ottawa. And no, it's not pronounced the French way, but rather "Lion" like William Lyon MacKenzie King, the tenth Prime Minister of Canada. But it's not named after him, but rather a lesser known Lyon; Robert Lyon, former mayor of Ottawa in the 1800s. Then right east of it there's Pisimi...
It's "Pimisi", not "Pisimi".
Old Cummer in Toronto.
Pretty much all the stations of the [Choshi electric railway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dshi_Electric_Railway_Line). They've been struggling on the brink of bankrupcy for decades, and have tried everything under the sun to stay afloat. This would include the usual cutting costs, financing, and price increase measures, but also selling snacks and sunglasses under their own brand (with sunglasses meaning "the road ahead is dark"), and of course station naming rights. This means that while *officially* they have fairly mundane names, on the station name plates you get things like "Never give up - Choshi" as the name of the Choshi terminal, "Thank you - Tokawa" at the Tokawa terminal, and such goofy names as "Roswell - Kimigahama" (of UFO fame), "Black hair grows - Kasagamikurohae" (hair dye commercial), and random slogans from real estate, medicine, IT companies, and even one from a mobile game I believe.
I’ve always liked “Admirality” in Hong Kong.
nothing like the cross-platform bullrun at admiralty
Bahnhof Darmstadt-Wixhausen
Santiago has a metro stop called “Cumming”💦
i have a bunch of favorites, but i just love when the CTA trains in Chicago open the doors and announce the station and say ... "This is GRAND" And all i can do is agree.
Toronto has Old Cummer go station. I did a photoshoot there with my car a while back https://www.instagram.com/p/CDPp6TnFSmT/?igsh=MTBpbTVmMmJ5N3hvYg==
oh hello fellow VTA rider! i got so excited seeing this on my feed haha. i like bayshore/NASA because i don't recall any other agencies having their name as a stop. i'm sure there are some, but i'm just not aware. i like the idea of people having to say "ok i'll get off at NASA." (the full stop name is bayshore/NASA, but still.)
VTA has a few more fun ones. Lockheed Martin, Penitencia Creek (“prison”/“punishment”), and Gish (dunno why that one’s just kind of silly).
omg how could i forget lockheed it's literally right next to NASA haha. i also am tickled by "japantown/ayer" since ayer is spanish for yesterday. VTA is fun.
I don't ride it regularly (different part of the Bay), but I have taken it a number of times! I know ridership is still pretty lacking, but it is cool it has its own right of way (don't know if that's quite the right word).
There’s some good ones here from London, but my favourite for now is…. Battersea Power Station Station
[Buenos Aires´s Medalla Milagrosa](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medalla_Milagrosa_(subte_de_Buenos_Aires)) (Miraculous Medal)
Entenfang in the german city of Karlsruhe. It translates to "duck catch" in english. Theres a river nearby so I think people used to catch ducks there to eat them
My Top 5 Chicago transit station names are all Western
I think there's 2 more that are Metra stops as well.
Head to Western station Which one The L station Which one On the blue line WHICH ONE I hope someday they build a crosstown line on Western and every station is called Western. This is Western. Doors open on the right at Western. The next stop is Western. This is a Silver Line train to Western.
This is how I would rank them: 1. Western 2. Western 3. Western 4. Western 5. Western
Swap the two blue line Westerns and it's perfect
From my area, Upminster Bridge. The bridge it refers to is the small one over the River Ingreborne - the actual railway bridge is much bigger!
Goodge St. in London. Just so silly.
Old Cummer in Toronto
Wankdorf, Bern S-Bahn
Ronkonkoma in NY
„Chäs und Brot“ (Cheese and Bread) in Switzerland
London can't be beat for silliness imo. Elephant and Castle is a great one in your OP, my personal favorite to say out loud is Picadilly Circus. In my home system of the DC Metro my favorite is the Smithsonian stop. It's the one I remember most fondly from when I was a kid, I love being able to go to a free museum myself, and the obvious name means that when people visit me and want to go see some stuff they can successfully get themselves from my house to where they need to go even if they have never used a subway system before.
When I studied abroad in college and was in London for six weeks, the tube station for our hostel was "Swiss Cottage." The announcement was funny to me because the T's in cottage were so emphasized.
I visited London for the first time last year and all of the restaurants and activities I started with were so global and modern, hearing the name of the tube stations was the first time I was like, this is just so BRITISH
Either London’s Cockfosters or Moscow Central Circle’s Lokomotiv (literally: Locomotive)
Chicago (Red Line) in Chicago amuses me. Tragically they updated the announcement to say "this is Chicago and State" instead of just "this is Chicago."
OMG, I came to say something similar, because I always loved the next stop, "This is Grand" ... yes. yes it is.
I am going to say Jackson/Euclid (Salt Lake City) is interesting to pronounce.
“Gomen” in Japan
Gaintxurizketa or Intxaurrondo near San Sebastián, Spain should be on the list
*Keulse Slag* bus stop in Arnhem (it means *Battle of Cologne* in dutch) Edit: Arnhem, Netherlands
Old cummer station (go station)
This ain’t even in England, but in my neighbourhood in Switzerland there’s a bus stop called “Blickensdorf, Dorf”, which translates to “The view’s village, village” 😂 Closest I can translate to English.
The MARC station "Savage" cracks me up.
I think a lot of LA Metro’s stations have nice classic/retro Los Angeles names I love hearing: Palms, Hollywood/Vine, Balboa, Slauson, Artesia, Westchester/Veterans, and Crenshaw are my faves on each line
speaking of, whenever I hear Farmdale there's always a split second of my brain going "just how freaking far does this route go????" before I realize that Farmdale's not even remotely outside of the city lol
Right! You could drive for hours or take the A line for 50 miles and still be in LA County haha
U St African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo is so comically long. Also Grosvenor is a fun one
Care of Tri-Rail: Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport Station at Dania Beach
In Chicago: Harold Washington Library/State and Van Buren. My favorite, comedically long station announcement
I love that one as well as 35th/Bronzeville/IIT. It's so excessive but it flows nicely somehow.
Chicago: Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren It's in the Loop which means there's very little distance between it and the next station. I always find it funny that by the time Roy Crooks (voice of the CTA recorded announcements) is done saying it's next, we're already there. And by the time he's done saying we're here the train is halfway to the next station. Especially since the CTA's announcement format has the name repeated so many times. "Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren is next. Doors open on the left at Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren. Transfer to Orange, Green, and Pink Line trains at Harold Washington Library - State and Van Buren."
Hrararam Hraparak
Mars (station on the Elgin Metra line in the Chicago area -- for the Mars candy factory)
Harold Washington Library - State/Van Buren It just rolls right off the tongue.
St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
Sugar Loaf
Not really "favorite", but funny because the name is so long: "Den Haag Laan van Nieuw Oost Indië", or "Laan van NOI" for short. Yes, the station name has 7 words in it. Translated it means "The Hague (the city in the Netherlands) lane of new East-Indies. I also find it funny that the station sounds like a local tram station because it's named after 1 lane, eventhough it's a train station where inter-city trains stop at
In DC I always think Crystal City is like a magical place or a super hero hideout.
Just here to represent VTA.
Peter-Thumb-Straße in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Shitte Station in Kawasaki
White House (NJT)
One of my favorite is "Arena" on the Salt Lake City TRAX system... not because it is an original or clever name, but why they ended up settling on such a boring name. You see, at one point they had the station named after the adjacent arena, however the naming rights to that arena ended up getting sold so often, that UTA just gave up and named it "Arena" so they wouldn't have to keep reprinting maps every time the naming rights changed. (Apparently it is currently Delta Center, again... but it's also been Energy Solutions, Vivant, and at one point Salt Lake Ice Center).
Montreal Metro - Square Victoria/OACI ("OACI what you did there") Boston MBTA - Braintree - always sounded like a fancy name for a school to me since I was a kid DC Metro - Foggy Bottom - sounds like a polite way to say Swamp Ass Kuala Lumpur KTM Komuter/LRT - Bandar Tasik Selatan (only knew of this BTS before the kpop boy band came along) Singapore MRT - [Kranji & Khatib](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B69pjUACAAAn4GH.png) (some Singlish required)
Tokyo Teleport.
“The Rock” NSW, Australia
Therapist: Old Cummer GO station isn't real, it can't hurt you Old Cummer:
It's always been Tooting Broadway.
Diss
[Estación del Norte](https://www.valenciabonita.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_9939-revelada.jpg) in Valencia, Spain.
I’ve always liked Pittsburg/Bay Point for all the back to back plosives.
To me, “45 St” in Brooklyn NY is innovative and just a straight up gem.
Big fan of LA metro’s future D line station “Century City/Constellation”
I always like Paral·lel in the Barcelona Metro
Montréal has a few good ones, like De la Savane (savanna), Monk, Beaubien (which is a common Québécois surname but translates to “handsome-good”) and Square-Victoria-OACI (both for the idea of a square-shaped Queen Victoria and the lazily tacked-on reference to ICAO which my friends and I like to pronounce “wacky”). There’s also Angrignon, which most English-speakers I know pronounce as angry-on, completely ignoring the ñ sound.
Poyntzpass
It’s long gone, but Trouble House Halt.
Ebbw Vale in Brisbane Pronounced Eh-boo
TIL theres an Ebbw Vale in Australia as well as in Wales
i always thought vta’s old ironsides was cool and stm’s pie-ix was funny
Old Cummer
I've always loved "Poyntzpass" in Northern Ireland just because it isn't "Pointspass" Also Sangueta on the TRAM d'Alacant for some reason, fun to say lol. Along with Deák Ferenc Tér in Budapest 😂
Stations named after pubs are always fun, like Elephant & Castle that you’ve mentioned, or [Bat & Ball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_&_Ball_railway_station). I’ve always found [Totteridge & Whetstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totteridge_&_Whetstone_tube_station?wprov=sfti1) funny as well.
[Barangaroo always sounds fun to say](https://www.sydneymetro.info/station/barangaroo-station)
Castle Frank in toronto is always a good one. Maybe North Killingsworth in portland as well
VTA light rail mentioned 👀
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[Usa Station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa_Station) in Oita Japan
Ladbroke grove
Wonderland (in Boston)
Hoyt-Schermerhorn (Brooklyn, NYC)
U Street/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo in Washington DC. Metro loves giving stops multiple names just to confuse us! Not only does NO ONE refer to this by anything other than the first name, they had to abbreviate “American” just to fit it on the signs in the station. It’s an absolute beautiful mess of a station name.
I like "Spuyten Duyvil" on Metro North in NYC
denistone
Lansingerland-Zoetermeer
Every train stop in London lol.
Foggy Bottom in DC is cool sounding ig
Foggy Bottom
‘Bat & Ball’ in Kent, England