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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd North of England editor

‘Slou-wit’, not ‘Slaithwaite’: Northern Trains to re-record mispronounced station names

A Northern rail class 142 pacer train at Darlington railway station working the 1906 Bishop Auckland
Northern Trains passengers have until the end of the month to provide feedback on pronunciations. Photograph: John Stephens/Alamy

There are many things wrong with the north of England’s railway network: 11th-hour cancellations, dilapidated Victorian infrastructure, two-carriage trains that ought to be six.

To this list, we can now add: mispronunciation of stations. It is a problem that Northern Trains has promised to remedy – with passengers’ help.

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