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Posted by Rail Blue on Wed Sep 13 10:12:04 2006, in response to Re: London Overground, posted by New Brunswick Station on Wed Sep 13 10:01:41 2006. why do they call it North Pole Junction?Because there was a pub next to the railway called the North Pole, after which North Pole Road and North Pole Junction were named (it could equally well have ended up as Rifle Pavilion Junction). Anyway, the pub was so called as a bit of a joke - in the mid 19th Century, Scrubs Lane did not exist, and North Kensington was not built up yet. Latimer Road and Wood Lane came to a crashing halt in the middle of nowhere, from which you could only head south. A small street linking the two appeared and naturally the pub that sprung up was named the North Pole. |
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