Station name ideas please...

Started by kierang, January 13, 2018, 09:49:35 AM

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kierang

Looking for some inspiration for station names.

The layout is called Fairway Junction (broadly 80s/90s Network South East) on account of the fact that we live in a house built on what used to be a golf course.

I have a mainline station (2 platforms) and a small branch station (1 platform and a steam preservation society museum)

Any genius ideas ?

Cheers

Kieran

Bealman

#1
How about sticking to golf themed ideas? Don't know about station names (I don't play golf), but you could have a pub called the Hole in One!  :beers:
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

Newportnobby

The branch station could be "Putting Green" and the main line could be "xxxxxxx Links"

weave

Hi Kieran,

Do you want golf related station ideas or something else?

Knowing this lot you might get inundated with first witty, then silly golfing names and get nowhere. Just a thought/warning.

Cheers weave  :beers:

PS. As it's Network South East......

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/d5/03/70/d5037049b733925e5bff984ac04d5176.jpg  :D

Invicta Alec

To keep it believable I'd not follow the golf theme. Things like Handicap Halt or East Bunker would be too twee.

I started by thinking about the prefixes and suffixes of real station names in my area. Grove PARK, WEST Dulwich, Beckenham HILL, Folkestone CENTRAL.

The "something FOR something" can be good i.e. Greenhithe for Bluewater.
Not forgetting "x AND x" i.e. Borough Green AND Wrotham.
Not near me but "Something ST. something" as in Exeter ST. Davids.

I'm soon to start my new layout Saxon Street which will have connections to stations at Cotton Hill  and Farningham Central. So please don't pinch any of those!  :no:

Alec.


You can't beat a nice drop of Southern.




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weave

Hi again,

I agree with Alec not to go down the golf name route but when he suggested "X and X" I couldn't resist.

Pitcham and Puttenham  :D.

Sorry, I'll get me clubs.

Cheers weave  :beers:

Saying that, the real Puttenham isn't too far from me.


Yet_Another

Using golfers' names, how about Norman Cross or Palmerston Road?
Tony

'...things are not done by those who sit down to count the cost of every thought and act.' - Sir Daniel Gooch of IKB

kierang

Quote from: weave on January 13, 2018, 11:14:29 AM
Hi Kieran,

Do you want golf related station ideas or something else?

Knowing this lot you might get inundated with first witty, then silly golfing names and get nowhere. Just a thought/warning.

Cheers weave  :beers:

PS. As it's Network South East......

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/d5/03/70/d5037049b733925e5bff984ac04d5176.jpg  :D

:laughabovepost:

kierang

Food for thought everyone, thanks.

I think I will keep the main station as Fairway Junction.

The little station, I'm still thinking about. I like the golfers names ideas - Ballasteros Parkway ?  :smiley-laughing:

kierang

Quote from: weave on January 13, 2018, 12:35:48 PM
Hi again,

I agree with Alec not to go down the golf name route but when he suggested "X and X" I couldn't resist.

Pitcham and Puttenham  :D.

Sorry, I'll get me clubs.

Cheers weave  :beers:

Saying that, the real Puttenham isn't too far from me.

I quite like that - as it's the end of the line - maybe "Pitcham End" or "Puttenham End"  :thumbsup:


Intercity

if you want a golfers name the I can't resist with "Tiger Wood(s)"

I'll leave now......

themadhippy

bogey halt ,pity your not  modeling green era
freedom of speech is but a  fallacy.it dosnt exist here

fisherman

... greenside.....

set it in  the  north  an  go  fer  *****  on  tees...

what  about  Slicer's  Wood....

or   go  Cotswolds..

with  Chipping ******

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kierang

Fairway Junction to Chipton Green.

Sounds good to me - golf-like but well disguised I think 👍

fisherman

Stableford ???

or if in  Cornwall....

Under Parr....
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