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Re: Pronunciation of Station Names





Barry <one@microsoft.com> wrote in article
<69bi7f$8i9$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>...

> >Marion                MARRY-on
> 
> 
> 
> I don't know where Marion is but in Qld there is also a station (Well
it's
> only a terminus at a sugar mill now) called Marian.
> 
> This town is always known locally as MERRY-on.
> 
> 
> Barry Campbell

Marion is in suburban Adelaide on the line to Noarlunga Centre.  Another
piece of station name trivia about this one is that it is an anagram of
another station on that same line only a few miles further South: - Marino.