Happy Valentine's Day. Or rather:
Welcome to Valentines Day. Where, erm... Nothing happens.
— Au Morandarte (@L1Group) February 14, 2015
Oh I was so wrong about that! South West Trains decided to celebrate Valentine's Day in a very interesting way, with using the hashtag #SWTValentine, Twitter users suggested name changes to stations for SWT stations. This was a very interesting process, but in the end, South West Trains at London "Waterlove" got it working ready for the 14th February:
London Waterlove (taken at Brentford)
Going to Clapham Junction (or rather, "Cupid Junction" (Twitter link)!) meant that boards got quite popular and many people were taking photos of the boards, including me!
Hounslove instead of Hounslow
Gorgeous Guildford instead of Guildford
Beautiful Basingstoke instead of Basingstoke
Breakfast at Twickenham instead of Twickenham (this is a Breakfast at Tiffany's reference)
Kissington South instead of Chessington South
Wonderful Woking instead of Woking
Richmond was renamed "Rich (in love) mond" (Twitter link)
Darling Dorking instead of Dorking.
Goregous Guildford instead of Guildford.
Strawberries and Champagne Hill instead of Strawberry Hill
Lost in Teddington vice Teddington (taken by a friend of mine, Cesare Pizzingrilli)
Lovers Road Guildford (Cause Baby when I heard you for the first time, I knew we were meant to be as one) instead of London Road (Guildford)
Hampton Courting instead of Hampton Court
The Apple of my Isleworth instead of Isleworth
This train calls at Flirtwell (vice Fulwell)
All of my photos taken of #SWTValentine shown on Flickr
The rest that haven't been mentioned include (some were in "crib notes" for SWT) and other sightings (links to associated photos on Twitter pages, credit to them for seeing them today!:
EDIT 23:08:
"Sweet Surbiton" vice Surbiton
"Love Ascotly" vice Ascot
"The Reading Singer" vice Reading
Thanks South West Trains for making many people smile, even though it possibly got some confused. This proved to be a very interesting highlight today, and probably the only thing romantic I saw today.
South West Trains gave a change today, and this post is a change from what's usually on the blog (don't worry, the usual stuff will come back), but this deserved a special mention. Well done South West Trains PR Department and National Rail for allowing and getting this to happen, you have made many travellers very happy.
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