brack Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Then watch "The Train" with Burt Lancaster True, I haven't seen that for a couple of years. Good film. I quite like the 230s, but I'm sure I spied a 141R in the back of a scene... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10000 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 OK not humour but should raise comments if used on an exhibition layout http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/16219370.Witnesses____horrified____by_double_skip_lorry_stack/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted May 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 11, 2018 OK not humour but should raise comments if used on an exhibition layout http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/16219370.Witnesses____horrified____by_double_skip_lorry_stack/ I noted this line in the report. Eye-witness Bee Fudge. What were her parents thinking. . . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 I noted this line in the report. Eye-witness Bee Fudge. [/size] What were her parents thinking. . . . . Could have been worse- she could have married the lead singer of The Police. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted May 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 11, 2018 Could have been worse- she could have married the lead singer of The Police. Bee Sumner ? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Much as I love Carry On and seaside postcard humour, I've always liked the gentle humour of the names of the places and stations in Trollope's Barchester Chronicles - Winter Overcotes is spot on for a GWR station, with Winter Underclose just down the line and not forgetting Shearing Junction for the line to Worsted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Has anyone done a model based on Dylan Thomas's Llareggub? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted May 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 11, 2018 Has anyone done a model based on Dylan Thomas's Llareggub? Yes. ISTR it was by Arthur and Chris Towers from Bradford MRC. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharrc20 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 On the Hazel Grove club layout Smethurst Junction that I help to build/maintain/operate there are several local companies that bear the name of several club members and either current or former jobs in or outside of the club.. all in good humour.. plus now we have our very own newspaper offices making fake news just to keep things topical. I used to run a train of Daleks in OBAs with a suitable 'Exterminate!' alert from a sound gizmo that I got in an easter egg once... the audience enjoyed it so long as it wasn't done too often mind you. Cheers Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
E3109 Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Last train to Skaro Central? What would Davros think! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 surprised warmington on sea has not been modeled lots of potential for humour there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted May 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2018 Yes. ISTR it was by Arthur and Chris Towers from Bradford MRC. Cheers, Mick Dave and Shirley did a model of this name many moons ago. It was exhibited at York Sow.Baz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Dave and Shirley did a model of this name many moons ago. It was exhibited at York Sow. Baz And featured in Railway Modeller - 1972? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invicta Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Many many moons ago I was watching the Manchester Model Railway Society's "Gransmoor Town" 2mm finescale layout at a show. Completely dead-pan, a train of private owner wagons passed through, behind a lovely Midland loco. "Pugh. Pugh. Barney. McGrew. Cuthbert. Dibble. Grub." Now that's worthy... From vague memory, at some point has a model shop somewhere done these as a commission, as I've definitely seen a similar set on a layout from one of the local clubs in Leics? In a similar vein, Copenhagen Fields features the characters from 'The Ladykillers' getting out of a taxi on the forecourt of the NLR station building, and a set of PO wagons liveried with the names of the actors in the adjacent coal yard. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_11_2013/post-8055-0-47010100-1384886852.jpg There's also a 7mm German layout around with businesses in a row of shops along the backscene named for the German characters in 'Allo 'Allo - "Flick & von Smallhausen, Privatdetektive" etc... I have to admit, I quite enjoy that kind of thing on a layout, so long as it's not too 'in your face' or overdone 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 I'm surprised no one has mentioned gnomes. Or was I imagining them..... Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 For short sighted US railfans I have always wanted to do Onion Pacific on the side of a Big Boy(stop sniggering at the back) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderforge Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 I've toyed with the idea of making some UNTIED DIARIES tankers myself! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
souwest Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 I'm surprised no one has mentioned gnomes. Or was I imagining them..... Jason David Lowry and his gnomes on the 4mm models of London and North Western Branches? I have not heard if they are adorning his 7mm models. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 That's the one. An excellent LNWR branch line in the Railway Modeller and Model Railways, modelled to a very high standard with little gnomes. Bevleys was it? I bet quite a few of the "finescale" modellers spat out their morning cuppa after seeing that. Jason 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2018 surprised warmington on sea has not been modeled lots of potential for humour there I presume you mean this ironically (not about the humour, about there not being any). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted May 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2018 One of Ian Futers' EM layouts sported some ducks at York once...then he told us the varnish was still wet.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 (edited) I presume you mean this ironically (not about the humour, about there not being any). Humour is subjective though. Plenty of people think Charlie Chaplin is funny. I think root canal surgery is preferable. Likewise, Eric and Ernie, Mrs Browns Boys, Last Of The Summer Wine (after 1980ish), French And Saunders, Victoria Wood, Absolutely Fabulous, Outnumbered, Are You Being Served?, Bread, Butterflies, etc. Yet these shows had tens of millions of people watching them. However I quite like Dad's Army. It's nice gentle humour about something that could have gone spectacularly wrong. It has a sense of schadenfreude about it. Jason Edited May 15, 2018 by Steamport Southport Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Dave and Shirley did a model of this name many moons ago. It was exhibited at York Sow. Baz And featured in Railway Modeller - 1972? Also shown at one of the Model Railway Club exhibitions at the Central Hall, Westminster IIRC. An early "compact" layout (was it in a fish tank or something similar?), a simple oval of track, but it was the detail in the buildings - as well as the characters - that were the fascination. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Here's a link to a photo of Llareggub - sadly I don't seem to be able to get it to come up in the post https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.0XPkZ61cx73JDy6Z6Nch-gHaGs&pid=15.1&P=0&w=168&h=152 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invicta Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Could be if they were under armed escort, though. (See post #112) There's a famous WW2 photo of just such a situation taken at Paddington IIRC, about 1940. The looks on bystander's faces - well, you can imagine! I can't bring to mind when and where, but I'm sure I've seen a WW2-period layout in 7mm which features a little scene of a downed German pilot standing in the station yard- under guard by Capt. Mainwaring and the Warmington-on-Sea platoon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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