Poor Old Bruce Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Been to Bakewell exhibition this morning. One of the layouts was of a transport museum with all sorts of thing going on including a bandstand on which there was a colliery brass band playing from "Upper Sheepsbottom". Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 A winning addition to the 49xx class Arsen Hall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R A Watson Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Back in the mists of time a couple of lads in the Exeter club built a freelance African layout called Entende, the stations were Unende and Tuva. Wally Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hightower Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Off on a tangent Having Penistone as part of your address can make some websites very hard work with their naughty word filters! We used to have fun trying to research things for school with the filtered internet browsing coming from Scunthorpe! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Terry Pratchett has already done Llamedos. Cheers David You can also add, not used for layouts as yet though, - Didjabringabeeralong and Djelibeli! Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I sometimes feel that a good name for a made-up Scottish town would be Inveracity. Andy What about Inverapenny and Inverapound? Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Dayz Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 On a World Cup Theme; Dropaclanger Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 15, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 15, 2010 I have just started on a Colonel Stevens type layout that I am going to call 'Little Barlamb' after a certain child of my acquaintance. I had contemplated a military depot layout called 'Wealby Avenue' but lack of space has put that on the back burner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 15, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 15, 2010 We used to have fun trying to research things for school with the filtered internet browsing coming from Scunthorpe! There is a forum that will not accept Essex, Middlesex and Sussex! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Bill stickers will be banned - Fox's Sake, the well known anglo-saxon spirit from Japan, Wear the Fox's Hat, and The Noble Ox public house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Bill Stickers is innocent, OK! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted June 15, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 15, 2010 Bill Stickers is innocent, OK! A slogan which can be incorporated into almost any urban layout of the 1970's and 80's. It was seen graffitied onto many a wall and railway bridge! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr45144 Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I have just started on a Colonel Stevens type layout that I am going to call 'Little Barlamb' after a certain child of my acquaintance. I had contemplated a military depot layout called 'Wealby Avenue' but lack of space has put that on the back burner. At Mount Pleasant airport (Falklands) the MP's live on Letsby Avenue and you fill your Landrover at Petrel Close. You couldn't make it up. Kev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted June 16, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2010 A slogan which can be incorporated into almost any urban layout of the 1970's and 80's. It was seen graffitied onto many a wall and railway bridge! Free George Davis! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 We used to have fun trying to research things for school with the filtered internet browsing coming from Scunthorpe! The Guardian daily e-mail, The Fiver, refers to Scunthorpe Utd as Firewall FC... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Dayz Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Here's a selection. Felldownhead - Devon Willey - Shropshire Tittensor - Staffordshire Sniggers End - Gloucestershire Kilmahog - Scotland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWales Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 You could always have a wharfside layout called Far Canal......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 You could always have a wharfside layout called Far Canal......... Close by is a firm of Solicitors and Commissioners of Oaths, Farr, Corfe and Dye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted June 18, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2010 A music teacher over here ran the Blood Sweat and Tears Railway, with a number of musical terms. I think he enjoyed when I reached the town of Da Capo and said, "Heck, I've got to start over again." How about an Italian branch line terminus called "Dal Segno Al Fine"? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phixer64 Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 How about in the Southampton area, working for cunrad...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted June 18, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2010 Here's a selection. Felldownhead - Devon Willey - Shropshire Tittensor - Staffordshire Sniggers End - Gloucestershire Kilmahog - Scotland The UK is full of amusing or double-entendre place names. While not quite on the OT of puns here's a further selection in no particular order. Thrashbush, Three Cocks, Devil's Dyke, Fingringhoe, Horsey Windpump, Cocklick End, Pratt's Bottom, Mount Harry, Muffworthy, Knockenshag, Cowbottom Hovel, Asick Bottom, Cocking, Matching Tye, Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor, Old Wives' Lees, Maidenhead, Penistone, Scunthorpe, Clitheroe. Many of those have had railway stations. One nice pun has been overlooked so far. Fairlie in Scotland used to have two stations. Fairlie Pier closed when steamers ceased to call and the current station was renamed plain Fairlie at the same time. It used to be Fairlie High and it still is ..... There used to be a good listing on the CareerBreak website but it has recently been removed with the rebuild of that site. That also gave some fascinating World-wide names including: Hell, A**s (I'm surprised the filter rejects the correct word for that opening), Burrumbuttock, Iron Knob, Fannie Bay, Koolyanobbing, Phucket, the Austrian village named F***ing which the profanity filter will definitely reject and many more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted June 19, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19, 2010 Newfoundland has places (that probably never had railway) like ######, Conception Bay and Placentia Bay. Also Joe Batt's Arm. (One of them fell foul of the censor -- term for an artificial male member.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWales Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 We've overlooked Nether End in Derbyshire...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste234 Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Heard costa-plenty somewhere before, but don't know where! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Geeee Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 I have just returned from holiday in Scotland and there is one place sign I passed everyday and could not stop myself adding "for" to it ... Kinnaird I have been thinking of names for the stations on my layout for 3 years and the best I have come up with so far is Northinere or Northinear and Northayre or Northaire etc. John Geeeee Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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