Most UK railway stations have a locality-linked name. However, Baloo can think of two that are named purely for commercial businesses. One is only used by the businesses on the site, the other is a normal public station. The company for which it is named is long defunct, but it had railway connections. Can you name that station?

whee	IBM railway station. As the name suggests, it is located within the confines of a large facility formerly owned entirely by IBM. Only employees that work within the compound are able to use this station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_railway_station Mar 08 08, 7:06 PM

davejacobs

IBM station may be the right answer, but the company is far from being 'long defunct'! Mar 09 08, 4:08 AM

Baloo55th

IBM is still up and running - although not on that site, and doesn't have particularly notable railway connections either.... BTW there is another station with a company name in it, but it includes a locality. So forget Redcar British Steel. The one looked for actually looks at first sight like a locality. Closer inspection shows something odd about the name for a locality. By a coincidence, Baloo passed through the Redcar British Steel station on his way home from Redcar on Saturday. Later in the journey (which involved three trains) he passed through the station looked for in this question. The train company he was riding with doesn't stop at this station, but the last train company he rode with does - but not on the line Baloo travelled with them on. This might sound like the start of a long-winded brain-teaser, but it is a clue. Now, how do you find where Baloo lives..... Mar 09 08, 6:17 AM

peasypod

Peasy thinks this could be the Wedgwood Station which is not too far out of reach for Baloo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgwood_railway_station Mar 16 08, 5:32 PM

Baloo55th

That makes three not the two I thought of (and checked out...) Missed Wedgwood. Sorry. Probably because when I go through it, the train is going rather fast. No, Wedgwood wouldn't be on my way back from Redcar - and Wedgwood is still up and running. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ might help a bit for non-UK residents on this question. (No use to them the rest of the time......) Mar 17 08, 6:50 AM

queproblema

Well, then, it must be Ashburys. (Not a typo--for some reason there's no apostrophe.) "There is no actual place of this name. It was named after the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd which built it for £175 in 1855. This company flourished from 1841 until 1902 when it moved to Saltley in Birmingham, merging with the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashburys_railway_station It's not exactly defunct, having merged rather than shutting down. (I realize that could be a mere euphemism.) People are working to resurrect the business under its old name by 2009. Go near the bottom of this page and click on "THE TRAIN." Even further down "Ashbury" occurs twice. http://www.heritagetrain.co.uk/ Apr 03 08, 5:55 PM

Baloo55th

Yay! (With cream on for persistence...) Actually, it is well defunct, as Metro Cammell Weymann (MCW) or Metro Cammell which were the end of the line (sorry!) went rather legs-up some years ago anyway. And the Saltley works is closed and no trains are made there any more. Sad. Enthusiasts are trying to revive the Ashbury name for old-style carriages for preserved railways (makes them sound pickled... the new term heritage isn't accurate really but avoids that). Apr 04 08, 1:47 PM