caravanman
Engineer
Sugar Loaf station was the least used in Wales, this explains why it lost that "crown". :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46209535
Ed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46209535
Ed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SugarloafIt’s really officially called Sugar Loaf? That is some name.
You beat me to it, greatwestern!The station is located one mile to the north-east of a small but prominent knoll known as Sugar Loaf.
A Sugarloaf was the traditional form in which refined sugar used to be produced and a number of hills/mountains resembling that shape are named/nicknamed because of that resemblance.
So it was basically just a giant sugar cube?You beat me to it, greatwestern!
Indeed, the name of the hill, and hence the station, comes from the shape of old sugar lumps, in the old days one had to hack or break off a small lump of sugar from a larger "loaf".
There is a well known Sugar Loaf mountain in South Africa.
Ed.
More like this shape (this is the actual Sugar Loaf that gave its name to the station):So it was basically just a giant sugar cube?
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