A man walked into Stockport
Station recently and asked the guard if he was in the right place – he was due
to pick up his friend from the London train arriving that evening at Edgeley
Station. The guard laughed and said he
was in the right place, but he was about 40 years too late. In answer to the
man’s puzzled face, the guard explained that the station was called Stockport
station, but it had once been known as Stockport Edgeley station, to
avoid confusion with the nearby Stockport Tiviot Dale station - which had
closed in 1967.
And it is confusing. The modern
front of the station is called Stockport, but at the back of the station
(where the short stay car park is), this wonderful mosaic sign remains - to the
confusion of some visitors.
