East-sleigh: Hampshire train operator will be renaming some stations for Christmas

Hampshire train operator South West Trains will renaming some of its station over Christmas to help passengers get into the festive spirit.

The company has called out to its followers on Twitter for their festive suggestions, using #SWTChristmas.

We'll be altering some of our station names this #SWTChristmas. Can you think of any sleight alterations we can make?

— South West Trains (@SW_Trains) December 13, 2016

However many of the responses so far online have been a dig at the state of the country's rail network, including "Rich-executives-don't-care-if-trains-run-at-weekends-mond?" and "Wands-not-worth-the-extortionate-price-of-a-season-ticket Town?" from @DapperDanHart.

@Robbie_McMullen tweeted: "Earls-field of shattered dreams as commuters are late for work again."

Some of the Daily Echo reader suggestions so far have included Sho-ho-holing (Sholing), Christmas-church (Christchurch) and Santa Deny's (St Deny's).

@SW_Trains Amazing job with the station name changes. boarded at Winchester and thought my train was cancelled then realised :) @dailyecho pic.twitter.com/M8qDYcbnvc

— Encrypti0n (@Encrypti0n5) December 19, 2016

Or how about some of our own: East-sleigh (Eastleigh), Mistletoe-dever (Micheldever) or Winter-chester (Winchester)?

Think you do better? Send us your suggestions.