{"id":437496,"date":"2026-02-21T07:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437496\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:09:11","slug":"deansgate-stations-name-has-been-changed-as-baffled-rail-users-dub-it-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437496\/","title":{"rendered":"Deansgate station’s name has been changed as baffled rail users dub it ‘confusing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern has reassured rail users that the name change is temporary<\/p>\n

(Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

The Deansgate train station has had a quirky name change as the city prepares to welcome the UK’s biggest music awards show.<\/p>\n

For the first time in its history, the BRIT Awards will be held in Manchester with superstars like Harry Styles, ROSALIA and Mark Ronson set to perform on the night.<\/p>\n

Promotional material has been spotted all around Manchester, and today train company, Northern, found their own way to mark the forthcoming occasion.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the awards night and one of its nominees, Deansgate<\/a> railway station has been aptly renamed as Olivia Deansgate.<\/p>\n

The move is a clever play on words which references the similarities in the names of the singer, Olivia Dean and the historic Deansgate area of Manchester.<\/p>\n

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The railway station has been renamed ahead of the big night (Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

The new signage was put up this afternoon. Some baffled rail travellers have voiced their frustration at the stunt on social media. One said: “Seems that @northernassist are currently in the process of renaming \u2018Deansgate\u2019 station to Olivia Deansgate.<\/p>\n

“A project designed to confuse tourists and those who rely on these signs including PRM. Silly.”<\/p>\n

Responding to the post on X, one user said: “We’ve just had to suffer London St Pancake, and next month we’ll probably have London St Patrick’s… Doesn’t really help non English speakers or those with disabilities.”<\/p>\n

Responding to the post, Northern confirmed that things will be returned to normal once the BRITs are over, they’re reply read: “I am sorry for any confusion this may cause, this has been done to celebrate the Brit Awards and the signs will change back after.”<\/p>\n

Dean is one of the most nominated artists at the BRITs this year. Best known for singles Man I Need, Nice To Each Other and the Sam Fender duet Rein Me In, Olivia was the first artist to be confirmed as a performer for the 2026 BRITs.<\/p>\n

She will also play Manchester\u2019s Albert Hall just days beforehand as part of an intimate BRITs Week show.<\/a><\/p>\n

The BRIT Awards 2026 will take place at Manchester’s Co-op Live on Saturday, February 28.<\/p>\n

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Olivia Dean (Image: Getty Images for The Recording A)<\/p>\n

The show will feature performances from the likes of Harry Styles<\/a>, Olivia Dean, Sombr, and ROSALIA, HUNTR\/X, Wolf Alice, Alex Warren and more.<\/p>\n

Thousands will be heading to the event with millions more watching proceedings live on TV<\/a>, but the festivities will continue before, after and during the show itself with the next week set to contain an abundance of events, takeovers, specials, and pop-ups. Basically, Manchester is going all out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern has reassured rail users that the name change is temporary (Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News) The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16939,45109,96,59,18142,2461,42728,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-437496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-co-op-live","9":"tag-deansgate","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-harry-styles","13":"tag-manchester-music","14":"tag-northern","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}