Talk:Trumpers Crossing Halte railway station
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Inappropriate meaning
[edit]What was the 'inappropriate meaning'? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 18:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- It's sourced to Frank Booker's The Great Western Railway: A New History, and looking at that book I see "this French spelling, says Mr C. R. Clinker, was probably decided on because there was then no suitable meaning to the English term 'halt'". Presumably this refers to Clinker's 1960s revision of MacDermot's History of the Great Western Railway, volume II (1931). --Redrose64 (talk) 20:17, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- So what was the inappropriate meaning? 'Halt - who goes there?' or what? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't have Clinker's revised edition, only MacDermot's original - MacDermot (p. 428) merely says '... and "Halts" came into being' with the later spelling and no explanation of the meaning. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:11, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
- So what was the inappropriate meaning? 'Halt - who goes there?' or what? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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