Layout names

[PeteW]

As I've started reading more widely around the hobby, I've come across several layout names that made me laugh out loud. Up in Preston, the club is following up its Askham Nowt layout with a new one called Tellem Summit. And just spotted one (a beautiful winter layout in 2mm FS) called Witney Euston - took me a moment or two before the chuckle arrived! Also liked Upson Downs by a club in the correct part of southern England.

What have you got?

[Dorsetmike]

Nicton Borrud, Ins & Outs, Olpharts Crossing, Upper Loft  -  to be going on with while the memory gets trawled.

[Sprintex]

Since my layout has a river lock on it I originally considered calling it Bow Locks but thought I might not get invited to exhibitions if I did


Paul

[Drakken]

Wideopen, Oh hang on that's an actual place lol

[Zogbert Splod]

Mine, when it happens, is gonna be where the Scottish/Welsh border happens (see the thread for the back story), is the North And West Alliance (N&WA). Pronounced Nay Way!

ps: I think the station will have Achterellweit on the name boards.

[broadsword]

There is a station in Coatbridge , Lanarkshire  called Sunnyside. Years ago it was
an area of old heavy industry in decline, decrepit works, chimneys belching black
smoke, sunshine in short supply amidst all the pollution.

[ColinH]

Our club double-sided layout has been named Wyre Moor and Runswell.



We did (and still are) and  it doesn't  (at the moment)

[PeteW]

Thanks chaps, but I think ColinH is too modest - Much Puffindun certainly belongs in this thread .

In the Small World Dept, I know Wideopen - my wife comes from Gosforth and her parents still live there; have driven through Wideopen a few times while exploring the beauty of Northumberland. And I was once engaged to a girl from Coatbridge (long story, narrow escape!)

[Cutter]

I've always wanted to build a layout called Troublat with a windmill, so I could say "there's trouble at Mill." (Bad Monty Python reference.)

[joe cassidy]

Going on holiday to Devon as a kid it always made us laugh when we drove through two Dorset villages, Piddleinton followed by Puddletown.

Best regards,


Joe

[PeteW]

Actually, Trubblet Mill would be a great name!

[ntpntpntp]

As a young lad back in the 70s,  I was proud of my little N layout layout I'd built myself.  With its later extension, it was named

Allmiownwerk (change for Newpeace on Ende)

[Yet_Another]

Never done anything about it, but I've always liked the Isle of Lucy.

[Byegad]

There is a station in Coatbridge , Lanarkshire  called Sunnyside. Years ago it was
an area of old heavy industry in decline, decrepit works, chimneys belching black
smoke, sunshine in short supply amidst all the pollution.

And my layout is called Sunnisyde! Not anything to do with the Scottish Station, but a name taken from my Grandparents' house in Commondale North Yorkshire. Many of my happiest days of childhood were spent exploring the very large garden, and now at the other end of my life many happy days are spent in a Sunnisyde again.

[Dorsetmike]

Going on holiday to Devon as a kid it always made us laugh when we drove through two Dorset villages, Piddleinton followed by Puddletown.

Best regards,


Joe

So you missed Piddletrenthide (translates as thirty hides of land on the river Piddle - Domesday book) The Victorians objected to the name of the River Piddle so renamed it the Trent and changed the Piddle village names to  Puddle, hence Puddletown, Turners Puddle, Affpuddle and Bryants Puddle. Somehow Piddlehinton and Piddletrenthide escaped.