37255 Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Not a layout name but if you wanted to build a model brewery that's home to Dickens Cider. The tag line could be: Ladies just love a ........ Liquor? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Not a layout name but if you wanted to build a model brewery that's home to Dickens Cider. The tag line could be: Ladies just love a ........ That's truly awful. Instead of a brewery though, imagine a 1970s billboard beside a banger-blue era station. Photographed with brown tones and dark background shadows; a leering 'gent' pouring a glass for a woman in a 'Farrah do' in the background; ... and that caption (or equivalently "She loves a ...") in white Helvetica lettering. Tastless? Certainly. Amusing? For some. Lamb's Rum ad and the Martini and Rossi ad have the vibe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted August 11, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2011 In conversation with a friend regarding his medical condition we have inadvertently christened Carple Tunnel B) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestPines Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 It's mildly disappointing how many of the people upthread have said "aah, Llamedos, that's a Pratchett reference isn't it" but don't seem to have heard of Sir T's inspirer, D. Thomas of Swansea (or Richard Burton for that matter). Having said that, I'm sure I've seen a Llareggub layout somewhere. To be honest, the faux-Welsh names grate on my ears somewhat, because they don't actually resemble real Welsh. It would be like calling an English layout "Lower Uioehagcock" or something similarly nonsensical. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calnefoxile Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Hayley Mills Hayley Mills exists, well sort of anyway. Currently being stored whilst a decision is made of what to do with it. As a Club we can't decide whether to call our new N Gauge layout, Bojjery Junction or Slutters Gussett. Regards Neal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
22xx Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 To be honest, the faux-Welsh names grate on my ears somewhat, because they don't actually resemble real Welsh. It would be like calling an English layout "Lower Uioehagcock" or something similarly nonsensical. I notice that, too, and it can grate. There are even a few out there (pointing no fingers) that manage to mis-spell or otherwise mangle 'real' Welsh place-names, and not in a historically authentic anglicised 'Llanelly/Dolgelley' way, either. That said, there are also many who get it right! I've always liked the idea of a Welsh branchline station called Pontymython, which not only looks Welsh (I imagine it would be somewhere in Brycheiniog) but does actually work in Welsh if you take 'mython' to be an archaism for some geographical feature. Naturally it would have to have a flying circus. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted August 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11, 2011 To be honest, the faux-Welsh names grate on my ears somewhat, because they don't actually resemble real Welsh. It would be like calling an English layout "Lower Uioehagcock" or something similarly nonsensical. Agreed - not sure it's been mentioned earlier, but "Aberwristwatch" was a particularly bad offender. Not a bad layout, though, just a bad name. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGN Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Real place names to conjour with include: 1. The village of Ugley, in north Essex. The Women's Institute there has, apparently, a unique special dispensation to depart from the normal naming formula of "The [place name] Women's Institute" and is, instead, called The Women's Institute (Ugley Branch). 2. Six Mile Bottom, in Cambridgeshire (the Eastern Counties Railway put it on the railway map, too!). So named because it is six miles from Newmarket. Lots of places near Newmarket are callled so-many-miles-this-or-that, for the convenience of the racehorse trainers. If they thought a particular horse needed a twelve mile run, they'd tell the lad to ride it to Six Mile Bottom and back, whereas if it only needed a four mile run ... well, you get the idea! 3. My brother's history teacher swore blind that, out for a drive in the country one weekend, he was forced to choose between the road to Pissil and the road to Assendon. As for puns, how about the branch line terminus of Ellenbach? (Do they sell single tickets to that one, or can you only get a return?) Then there's the truly inspirational Nether Giffin A personal favourite, though, is the name of a cabin cruiser I once spotted on the Great Ouse at Ely. It was called Never Again II. Says it all, really, doesn't it ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 11, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2011 Real place names to conjour with include: 1. The village of Ugley, in north Essex. The Women's Institute there has, apparently, a unique special dispensation to depart from the normal naming formula of "The [place name] Women's Institute" and is, instead, called The Women's Institute (Ugley Branch). As for puns, how about the branch line terminus of Ellenbach? (Do they sell single tickets to that one, or can you only get a return?) Then there's the truly inspirational Nether Giffin A personal favourite, though, is the name of a cabin cruiser I once spotted on the Great Ouse at Ely. It was called Never Again II. Says it all, really, doesn't it ... Yet the village of Loose near Maidstone has a Women's Institute without any special dispensation, hence the 'Loose Women's Institute'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold John B Posted August 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11, 2011 Not a pun, but a great name: Wetwang. Even had a station, on the NER Malton - Driffield line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Don't think this has been mentioned - Pengwynn Crossing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37255 Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Not a pun, but a great name: Wetwang. Even had a station, on the NER Malton - Driffield line. Well if we're moving on to real ones, the Czech (or possibly Slovak, can't remember off the top of my head?) town of Wanklova has a station... I do like the Pontymython idea! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 As I have mentioned before on this Forum, the late Colin Massingham's Irish layout " Fort Kinnel" Xerces Fobe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBE Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 I vowed never to get involved with pun based names and yet I ended up calling my layout Outon Road in a crazy effort to emphasis in yorkshire speak the ease of which it can be stored. Now I have my extension on the go and plans to make it roundy roundy for ease and variation of operation at exhibitions its far from easy to store making the name somewhat ironic! Cav Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Free George Davis! That brings back memories................................... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 I've always thought a good name for a layout set in the Lake District would be "Dontellym Pike"! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clecklewyke Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 I presume that Bradfield Gloucester Square is a pun on Bradford Forster Square. You know, "Dr Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain..." Incidentally, Clecklewyke is the West Riding town JB Priestley invented as the setting for his play "When we were married". I don't think that Bruddersford, from his "Good Companions", works so well. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted August 13, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 13, 2011 I hadn't set out to use puns on my own layout, which has Cornish-style names for all its locations, but when it came to naming a patch of moorland I found it quite easy to apply the name "Pryce Moor" Few of us here would speak or understand Cornish but the words "prys mor" in that language translate as "the cost of the sea". Not a perfect pun but a typically Anglicised Cornish-style name. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ullypug Posted August 13, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 13, 2011 "Fastest way to Clevedon? Why don't you try the WC&P" That's the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead railway to the uninitiated! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R A Watson Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 It's mildly disappointing how many of the people upthread have said "aah, Llamedos, that's a Pratchett reference isn't it" but don't seem to have heard of Sir T's inspirer, D. Thomas of Swansea (or Richard Burton for that matter). Having said that, I'm sure I've seen a Llareggub layout somewhere. To be honest, the faux-Welsh names grate on my ears somewhat, because they don't actually resemble real Welsh. It would be like calling an English layout "Lower Uioehagcock" or something similarly nonsensical. Dave Rowe used the Dylan Thomas Llareggub station name on his original, seminal, Milk Wood layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Well if we're moving on to real ones, the Czech (or possibly Slovak, can't remember off the top of my head?) town of Wanklova has a station... In Germany, near Garmish PK, there is actually a Wankbahn. Cable car, not railway. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudley Dodger Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I came across this earlier, seemed quite good for bizzare if not always punnish names. http://www.sporcle.com/games/thecheshirecat/thrubwell Also, one full of welsh cockneys could be Llandon. Apologies to the people that actually understand and enjoy the welsh language. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I've always liked the idea of a Welsh branchline station called Pontymython, which not only looks Welsh (I imagine it would be somewhere in Brycheiniog) but does actually work in Welsh if you take 'mython' to be an archaism for some geographical feature. Naturally it would have to have a flying circus. I think it would look better with some hyphens in it, thus - 'Pont-y-Mython' although some tell us there is no 'th' in welsh which normally used 'dd' for the sound but that would probably change the sound of the 'y'. You can't win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted August 14, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 14, 2011 In Welsh, Bruce, the y doesn't sound as "wye" or "ee" anyway. It's more like "uh". The soft sound "thee" is as you say given by the letters dd. Not that all of that would stand in the way of a punny name if someone was so determined. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 In Welsh, Bruce, the y doesn't sound as "wye" or "ee" anyway. It's more like "uh". The soft sound "thee" is as you say given by the letters dd. Not that all of that would stand in the way of a punny name if someone was so determined. ............... and Carmarthen doesn't seem to have a Welsh equivalent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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