RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted January 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2023 It would be Cocker 1 and.... Cocker 2 taxi!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium t-b-g Posted January 30, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2023 I recall an article in Railway Modeller that played with the idea of named pairs of locos. They suggested that two Class A3s, Salmon Trout and Sandwich would be a good double header and that the next loco after "Happy Knight" should have been named "Morning After". 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Downer Posted January 30, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 30, 2023 Profumo and Keeler 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2023 Posh and Becks McCartney and Asher Anthony and Cleopatra Romeo and Juliet Bonnie and Clyde Starsky and Hutch Dastardly and Muttley Tom and Jerry Margot and Jerry Tom and Barbara Galton and Simpson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2023 Alex and Ice Cold In. Mike. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frobisher Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Johnson and Johnson (no relation) Sam and Ella Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2023 Being serious, consider the way in which industrials were named, often at the whim of a factory/mine owner or manager. They seem to fall into distinct categories; children, The Classics ,honouraries, localities, accountants, descriptive characteristics, or science. From the NCB in South Wales for example, Linda (Maesteg NCB system, named after a manager's daughter, there was also Maureen, a tradition carried over from the Nixon empire who owned the mines and the railway system here prior to nationalisation). also Nora at Blaenavon, Menelaous (Cwm colliery near Ebbw Vale), classical, Lord Camrose (Mountain Ash), an honourary. Fonmon (Rhoose Cement Works) would be a locality. Forest no.1 must surely have been named by an accountant, and the Ffestiniog's Welsh Pony and Mountaineer would be descriptive characteristics. Some defy categorisation (go you rebelllious heroes, go!) So, for the OP's purposes, Alex is obviously a son or daughter and it's running mate, the same model so probably ordered at the same time, would probably be a sibling (can you imagine the family discord if it wasn't!), and shortened names are in play here, so Jim, Babs, Liz, Bill. One might want to avoid nicknames, but familiarities seem ok. Locos were traded and bought second-hand of course, and not usually renamed, maybe it was considered bad luck like renaming ships or firms cash-strapped enough to buy secondhand locos couldn't be bothered, so one might have a fleet of engines named to a theme and then an obvious secondhand interloper. Not uncommon for ex-GW locos sold to the NCB to retain their GW numberplates (9600) and keep the numbers even when the plates were discarded (7754). I rather like classical names. I already have Cyclops, and am considering Prometheus, not original but a great steam engine name. How about three identical locos called Cerebus... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 How about "Dretta". Then you would have Alex and Dretta (Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail, starting point for Henry Jones Senior's map for the location of The Grail...) John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted January 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2023 Thing 1 and Thing 2 Minnie and Mickey (Pretty sure the Fox Walker at Mangapps is called Minnie) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 Some interesting and amusing suggestions - I knew the hive-mind of RMWeb could come up with many many combinations! I did think of Eric & Ernie, but more so as “Andrew” and “Preview” 😄 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2023 17 hours ago, Metr0Land said: Starsky and Hutch Or their Morecambe & Wise alter egos - Starkers & Krutch 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2023 Very high-brow Victorian: Scylla and Charybdis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold k22009 Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2023 Egg + Bacon Banger + Mash Bread + Butter Fish + Chip Bubble + Squeek Salt + Pepper Mild + Bitter 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2023 On 30/01/2023 at 17:20, The Johnster said: Menelaous (Cwm colliery near Ebbw Vale), classical, I wonder if this is actually classical - Menelaus being a character in the Illiad - or named after William Menelaus the works manager at Dowlais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Menelaus . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2023 According to the Preserved British Steam Locomotives website, Menelaus was indeed named to honour William Menalaus the Dowlais works manager, in his capacity as president of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, a post he took up in 1857. The loco dates to 1913, a Peckett B3, and was one of the last 'working' steam locos in the area, still in operation at Cwm Colliery in 1985. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2023 Pluto and Charon. Hubble and Kepler (my cats as it happens). Vesta and Ceres. Eris and Dysnomia. No prizes for guessing what my other hobby is.😎 Regards Lez. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) Duncan/Disorderly for another pair of Thomas the Tank Engine ‘twins’. Edited February 1, 2023 by pH 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 You’re all very creative, thank you! Had a thought for a pair of steel works locos - Hellfire & Brimstone And another pair that might raise a chuckle … Tooyoo & Toomee HOURS OF FUN! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldhawk Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Many years ago at a depot open day, l think it was Old Oak Common, there were a pair of 08 shunters named ‘Victor’ and ‘Margaret’ after the Meldews in One foot in the grave. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2023 20 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said: I wonder if this is actually classical - Menelaus being a character in the Illiad - or named after William Menelaus the works manager at Dowlais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Menelaus . Menelaus also was the name on the 1846 2-2-2 No.29 of the Manchester, Sheffield & Licolnshire railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2023 I suppose you could have 60536 Trimbush, with 61249 Fitz Herbert Wright.🙂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 1, 2023 (edited) A little more obscure, some may get it. A trio: L&Y railway 291 "Wilson", LMS Jubilee 5673 "Keppel", Dean Goods (War service) WD 171 "Betty" Edited February 1, 2023 by melmerby 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Hawkeye & Trapper Margaret & Frank Blake & Potter 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jeremy Cumberland Posted February 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2023 Really there is no shortage of railway-related pairs of names. May I suggest ALTRINCHAM and MANCHESTER SOUTH JUNCTION Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2023 About 60 years ago, the London Underground car cards (cantrail sort of level inside each car) included an imaginative campaign by a firm of tubing manufacturers. This consisted of paired names, which were not theirs, as in "It's not Shackles & Wedlock", but there were several others. They were really called Accles and Pollock. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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