Best layout name puns

[Jon Fitness]

Remember seeing a P4 layout called Cwm Presor a few years ago and believe it or not, there's actually a place near where I live called Pant-Y-Stain

[37114]

There is also a Layout called Nichtun borred which was at Cheltenahm a few years ago.

 

 

[Oldddudders]

If we didn't know better would we in a million years get away with modelling places called Penistone, Scunthorpe or Clitheroe? Reality is as strange as invention sometimes.

Quite so. In my yoof, there were three communities nearby, where some delicious young ladies dwelt - Bookham, Fetcham and - wonderfully, oh, yes please! - Effingham! What happened just down the road at Horsley was open to some discussion, too!

[Horsetan]

Fort Kinneil

[45568]

I believe a former member in times past, who hailed from Telford, suggested a Welsh Valleys layout called "Pant-y-Snyffyn"

Cheers, Peter C.

[Coombe Barton]

Wonder if anyone's built a layout and nicked the villiage name from just south of Llandrindod Wells - Cwm Bach. It means Little Valley.

[Ramblin Rich]

I remember there was a big tailchaser at an exhibition about 30 years ago called Long Suffren...

There was a small Welsh-based layout in a Model Railway Constructor about 1980 (EM I think) with a station called Pwsllab (read it backwards & remember the Welsh substitute "w" for "u" sometimes )

[Mr Brunel]

Hi,

 

Goods ones I've seen are; 'Standandwatchit'

I thought it was 'Standen Watchett'?

[Markeg]

A friend built a layout called "Stuckondore" (Stuck on Door) and it was. Stuckondore ran small tank locos including Thomas with small coaches and wagons and the kids loved it at our Bendigo Australia exhibition a few years back.

 

Mark

[49395]

I'm fairly sure I saw a layout at York show one year called Eckerslike Mill, no doubt run by a bloke called Willie..

[Poor Old Bruce]

Wonder if anyone's built a layout and nicked the villiage name from just south of Llandrindod Wells - Cwm Bach. It means Little Valley.

I think there is a Cwm Bach, which used to have a station, somewhere in the South Wales valleys. Imagine the fun (or frustration) you could have by going to the booking office and asking for a "Return ticket to Cwm Bach please"

 

Richard

[johnb]

I do recall seeing 'Bow Locks'

[Phatbob]

seven d'wharfs

 

Thanks Mike! I'll give you the money next time I see you!

 

As the owner of "Severn D'wharves" I have to confess that my all time favourite was Roger from Wakefields Wild-West shunting plank that rejoiced in the name of "East Clintwood"

We are not worthy.................

 

A late friend of mine built a Welsh terminus set in the village of "Cwm Dansyn" and Jamie Mitchel has proposed an East coast of Scotland branch to "Kirk Douglas". Apparently everybody who lives there is called Sparticus.

[shortliner]

A certain gent on here had the Much Chatterin & Little Werk, and RM has seen several appearances of Aversac & Bivouac.

[28XX]

The wayside halt on my childhood layout was called, simply, Brunswick Green.

[Dick Turpin]

I remember there was a big tailchaser at an exhibition about 30 years ago called Long Suffren...

 

That is one that I have always remembered. Quite funny I thought at the time. It had a branch to a place called Theworse. The station nameboards read:

Long Suffren

Change for Theworse

[Ceptic]

Farkham springs to mind

 

Andi

 

Next station down the line from Far Corfe, IIRC.

[shortliner]

I designed - a good while ago - a double 4' long layout that had 2 different South American scenes assembled opposite way around, where one formed the fiddle yard for the other, called "Ocho Pies" ( a bi-lingual pun - it means Eight Feet) There were also a series of Central American HOn30 ideas for layouts, that were all designed to be made for the least possible expenditure. They were called by names like Xipas Ican, Xipas Canbe, Xipli Biltun, Xipas Xet, Xiparan Xipa and similar - again these are bi-lingual puns - when you realize that in Mexican/Mayan spanish "X" is pronounced as "CH" - the result of a 6 month tour in Belize

[Steve K]

I've mentioned it before, but when (hopefully not "if") I get around to attempting my West Country layout in 3.5mm, the intention is for it to be called "Westward HO".

[Coombe Barton]

They're talking about Newton Abbot on another thread - Teddy Boston's main station on his layout was called Olton Prior.

[Mallard60022]

Hows about 'Meantto and Haventyet' for all those "I'm going to one day" layouts?

36E

[CullingworthGNR]

I've been thinking of a Scottish layout called 'Glen Campbell' for a while...

[Gwiwer]

I've been thinking of a Scottish layout called 'Glen Campbell' for a while...

 

You could run Hornby's still under-wraps release "Clan Destine" on that

[Ramblin Rich]

There was another in Railway modeller based on Highley with an additional features - called "Highley Unlikely"

 

 

[Coombe Barton]

You could run Hornby's still under-wraps release "Clan Destine" on that

With, no doubt, an intermediate station called Bridge o' Doon.