Reading the thread about Watton Erith got me thinking about layout names. My main N gauge layout began in 1989 and although it had a name never had it officially 'stamped' i.e. no station name boards. It was only a couple of years ago when I gave the layout a total revamp that I got my self some station name boards and named my layout in honour of still not being finnished as LONGLAST. What is yours called - and why?
Elmo
Many years ago I embarked on an affair with a lady who was separated from her husband. Trouble was her husband then told her he would commit suicide if she didn't go back to him. I lost her. My layout will be called Kimbolted and is loosely based around the Oxford area so I can run stuff from many regions. :'(
As I live in Cornwall and wanted to create a Cornish WR branchline scenario I decided to call my layout Port Perran (a fictitious Cornish seaside town based somewhere on the North coast twixt Hayle and Perranporth). My intermediate branchline station is named Lanharrack which is an amalgam of my own village Carharrack and Lanner which is just down the road.
Hi,
When I was building my main layout the name Kenmore stuck in my mind. Don't know why. Don't think I'lll really understand my mind. :smiley-laughing:
My US layout doesn't have a name yet, although one section is called Snake Pass and another section is simply known as The Tunnel.
Alex
My last layout was called New SouthEaston. For those who haven't guessed, it's a play on Network SouthEast. :thumbsup:
I'm not sure on what to call my latest MOD test layout. :-\
Quote from: Tank on July 19, 2011, 09:44:01 PM
I'm not sure on what to call my latest MOD test layout. :-\
How about Lambretta or Vespa :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: newportnobby on July 19, 2011, 09:49:02 PM
How about Lambretta or Vespa :smiley-laughing:
No, this has nothing to do with bicycles with chainsaw engines! ;) :smiley-laughing:
Mine's called The Buffalo Pass, Scalplock & Defiance RR after the one in the 60s tv series Iron Horse.
Vespa is a contributer on the Hornby forums.
Layout names are a weired thing for a weird person like myself, I start off with a name I like but as my layout is a work in progress I very often change the the name, I have been know to change the name of a layout up to four times because it starts of looking like the place I intended and finishes up looking like somewhere else, I guess that is one reason why I build freelance railways modelled on nowhere in particular.
I was thinking of naming my layout with a long name like those in Wales and the first that came to mind was "Llnofrigginplaceinparticular" . :thumbsup:
Quote from: poliss on July 19, 2011, 09:53:08 PM
Vespa is a contributer on the Hornby forums.
I remember his curries and chow mein very well
Quote from: oldrailbug on July 19, 2011, 09:55:15 PM
I was thinking of naming my layout with a long name like those in Wales and the first that came to mind was "Llnofrigginplaceinparticular" . :thumbsup:
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: Or how about "Cwdbeblyddyanyware"
Vespa, not Vesta. Sheesh! ::) I'm a Lambretta man myself.
I have a cunning plan to use up some spare track and points on a small file-box style layout so I can run my Dapol Terrier "Boxhill" somewhere appropriate.
I though I might call it "Boxhill for Leftover"
My 'real' layout is boringly called "Garsdale Joint and Junction" because that's where it is set on the Settle and Carlisle.
Brian
I am doing a shelf most of the way round my spare bedroom and run a single shuttle line between two ficticious Scottish villages called Peeindoon and Brawoot :beers:
I nicked a name off the telly (Holby) for my two layouts Holby St Georges and Holby Central !
There was some logic to it though: I wanted to base the layouts in a fictional western city and the BBC base Holby on Bristol.
Quote from: scotsoft on July 19, 2011, 10:26:09 PM
I am doing a shelf most of the way round my spare bedroom and run a single shuttle line between two ficticious Scottish villages called Peeindoon and Brawoot :beers:
I hae ma doots that Brawoot disnae get a muckle look in ;)
(Translations for non Fifers are available at a small charge ;))
My Old B&O layout was called Evolution, Ohio; mainly because it was my first proper attempt at a layout and it continually evolved during construction, plus it was not without the bounds of possibility that someone in the US would give somewhere such a strange name, on a road trip out there we even saw signs for Lawrenceville, I ask you ::)
:smiley-laughing:
I hae ma doots that Brawoot disnae get a muckle look in ;)
(Translations for non Fifers are available at a small charge ;))
"small charge" ???
Ye canny be feelin richt :smiley-laughing:
Ma granda came from Dumfries and ma grannie was from Sanquhar. I was brocht up reading the Broons and Oor Wullie. Ya canna fool me. Crivens help ma boab! ;D
The naming of our layout was a little tricky with it being set in Japan. You have to be really careful you don't pick a name that sounds cool, but translates either to something stupid - "This is my layout, it's called broom handle" - or potentially offensive - "Are you aware that your layout translates as 'Blow it out of your Ass'?"
In the event, the safest option was taken. Both Yamanouchi and Oshika are small towns in the area we wished to set the layout. Both names sound pretty good together, and are easily translated into Kanji. At least if something gets picked up by a Japanese speaker, we have something to refer to!
The name is a bit of a mouth-full, so it tends to be referred to simply as YO...
My layout will be called Moorings Way, when I originally planned building a layout I bought a job lot of Fleischmann track on ebay. The woman I collected it from lived in Moorings Way. The name seemed to suit a station name, serving the small town of Mooring.
The microlayouts I've done are a bit of a mix
Llanast which is a small piano line plank. Llan-xxx in Welsh is roughly 'the parish of', but Llanast is an unrelated Welsh word whose nearest translation is probably 'a right pigs ear of/a mess'
The 1980s Londonesque Thatcherite wasteland microlayout is called 'East Portillo' after a certain politician of the time.
The pregrouping microlayout is called 'Aeonian Hills (change for Bidden)' which is a poetry reference
The little Cornish scene is 'Kammneves' (the sheep jump - or in poetic form 'the rainbow') although I'm thinking of doing the final signs as Camneves as an anglicised form - and because it avoids getting into arguments with all the Cornish orthography nutters who have been fighting over spelling of the language for 90 years rather than reviving it.
Oh and the shoebox microlayout is logically enough 'Boot Lane Goods' 8)
A current era suburban concrete hell is on my design list for the future - working title Chaverton Parkway
Alan
Quote from: EtchedPixels on July 20, 2011, 02:20:30 PM
The microlayouts I've done are a bit of a mix
Llanast which is a small piano line plank. Llan-xxx in Welsh is roughly 'the parish of', but Llanast is an unrelated Welsh word whose nearest translation is probably 'a right pigs ear of/a mess'
The 1980s Londonesque Thatcherite wasteland microlayout is called 'East Portillo' after a certain politician of the time.
The pregrouping microlayout is called 'Aeonian Hills (change for Bidden)' which is a poetry reference
The little Cornish scene is 'Kammneves' (the sheep jump - or in poetic form 'the rainbow') although I'm thinking of doing the final signs as Camneves as an anglicised form - and because it avoids getting into arguments with all the Cornish orthography nutters who have been fighting over spelling of the language for 90 years rather than reviving it.
Oh and the shoebox microlayout is logically enough 'Boot Lane Goods' 8)
A current era suburban concrete hell is on my design list for the future - working title Chaverton Parkway
Alan
Do you have any pictures of your micro layouts E P.....?
I named my layout on the street i live in.......
I know its a borring excuse but it has a nice ring to it :smiley-laughing:
I just renamed my layout after the English Parish where I was born so not only will the name be on one of my stations it is also on my birth certificate, "Cofton Hackett", nearest trains would have been at Bromsgrove and the Lickey Banker.
Quote from: Dock Shunter on July 20, 2011, 03:36:12 PM
Do you have any pictures of your micro layouts E P.....?
http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/BootLaneGoods/
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=37569&p=575952&hilit=llanast
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=43872&hilit=aeonian
Aeonian Hills has moved on a bit further - now has more detail done but not yet finished the far side of the level crossing. I've tried a couple of ideas for that but they didn't really work out.
3 smashing little layouts Alan..... :thumbsup:
This is what i love about railway modelling.Trying to build a convincing scene in a small space.
Boot Lane is fantastic........untill you see the picture from above you would not believe it was only
28cmx18cm.Thank's for posting...... :thumbsup:
My layout (which at present is just a half-constructed baseboard) is named "Grastairs". That's on account of my name being Graham and the layout beinng situated half-way up the stairs. It'll actually end-up being named "Grastairs West" allowing me to build North, South and East layouts later on, if I can find the space for them.
Good grief Graham, just how big are your stairs :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: grastairs on July 21, 2011, 05:50:27 PM
My layout (which at present is just a half-constructed baseboard) is named "Grastairs". That's on account of my name being Graham and the layout beinng situated half-way up the stairs. It'll actually end-up being named "Grastairs West" allowing me to build North, South and East layouts later on, if I can find the space for them.
Tread carefully :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: Claude Dreyfus on July 20, 2011, 01:39:53 PM
The naming of our layout was a little tricky with it being set in Japan. You have to be really careful you don't pick a name that sounds cool, but translates either to something stupid - "This is my layout, it's called broom handle" - or potentially offensive - "Are you aware that your layout translates as 'Blow it out of your Ass'?"
That always put me off non-UK modelling -getting all the signs right etc. Especially when people like Microsoft goof and name their phone OS release Mango...
If I had a Japanese layout I'd probably call it Kendo Nagasaki. Only older members will understand that. :-)
Quote from: Tank on July 19, 2011, 09:52:00 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on July 19, 2011, 09:49:02 PM
How about Lambretta or Vespa :smiley-laughing:
No, this has nothing to do with bicycles with chainsaw engines! ;) :smiley-laughing:
OI!! I'l have you know my last Lambretta almost hit 90mph.. ;D
Real men ride Lammies.. :thumbsup:
Cuddes
Quote from: poliss on July 22, 2011, 02:11:42 PM
If I had a Japanese layout I'd probably call it Kendo Nagasaki. Only older members will understand that. :-)
:smiley-laughing: ;D.....Did anyone ever manage to get his mask off...?
Yes, he is actually from Scotland. You can find a photo of him on the net wearing a kilt. ;D
Quote from: Dock Shunter on July 22, 2011, 03:01:17 PM
Quote from: poliss on July 22, 2011, 02:11:42 PM
If I had a Japanese layout I'd probably call it Kendo Nagasaki. Only older members will understand that. :-)
:smiley-laughing: ;D.....Did anyone ever manage to get his mask off...?
INDEED THEY DID !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz01e1wB898
Peter Thornley (born October 19, 1946 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a British professional wrestler known as Kendo Nagasaki. He was one of the biggest draws of all time in British Wrestling, especially in the mid-1970s to mid-80s.
Quote from: m1racleman on July 22, 2011, 03:19:43 PM
Quote from: Dock Shunter on July 22, 2011, 03:01:17 PM
Quote from: poliss on July 22, 2011, 02:11:42 PM
If I had a Japanese layout I'd probably call it Kendo Nagasaki. Only older members will understand that. :-)
:smiley-laughing: ;D.....Did anyone ever manage to get his mask off...?
INDEED THEY DID !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz01e1wB898
Peter Thornley (born October 19, 1946 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a British professional wrestler known as Kendo Nagasaki.[1] He was one of the biggest draws of all time in British Wrestling, especially in the mid-1970s to mid-80s.
I remember my Great Gran telling me about him :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: m1racleman on July 22, 2011, 03:19:43 PM
Quote from: Dock Shunter on July 22, 2011, 03:01:17 PM
Quote from: poliss on July 22, 2011, 02:11:42 PM
If I had a Japanese layout I'd probably call it Kendo Nagasaki. Only older members will understand that. :-)
:smiley-laughing: ;D.....Did anyone ever manage to get his mask off...?
INDEED THEY DID !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz01e1wB898
Peter Thornley (born October 19, 1946 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a British professional wrestler known as Kendo Nagasaki. He was one of the biggest draws of all time in British Wrestling, especially in the mid-1970s to mid-80s.
Never saw anyone pull his mask off.....although i do remember a few old dears at the front hitting him with their handbags..... ;D
goseunderton it fits under the bed
:Class37: :Carriage: :Carriage: :smiley-laughing:
kevin 141
Quote from: kevin141 on July 22, 2011, 07:19:26 PM
goseunderton it fits under the bed
:Class37: :Carriage: :Carriage: :smiley-laughing:
kevin 141
PerhapsI should call mine Pi**pot then ;D
Apologies for a very dull entry...
Mine is Reading General. I am modeling Reading station in the early seventies when it was still called Reading General.
My layout is called,wait for it;
Moss Eisley
When I were a nipper,the first Star Wars film hit the cinema's,and as an 8 year old at the time,I was hooked.
Three years later,The Empire Strikes Back came out which in my mind was the best of the original trilogy.
The idea of Moss Eisley came to me whilst thinking,my layout is set in the late 70's,early 80's and the town of Moss Eisley had suffered quite badly from degeneration due to local industry closing down and relocating elsewhere due to not having local rail links to aid product distribution,even though the main east/west coast mainline runs very close to the town.
I haven't fully decided on which line to model yet,but should Dapol or Farish do an APT-P,then it'll be west coast.At the moment its east coast.
It is a fictional town and that allows me a huge amount of modellers licence to.be applied although not a lot of modelling is being done due to having to install point motors,wire them up then I have to extensively pl,sorry test it all to the point of exhaustion,me that is not me trains.
Never thought I'd name a layout,never thought I'd start to build one for that matter,though my mates still call it a train set which it most definately isn't,not at 9'6" by 4'.
The name of our layout is Northallerton
because it is .. err... Northallerton ;D
Its only a plan and some boards under conconstruction. You can see the plan here:
http://www.modelrailforum.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=blogentry&id=2552
cheers
Kirky
Quote from: kirky on July 26, 2011, 07:44:01 AM
The name of our layout is Northallerton
because it is .. err... Northallerton ;D
Its only a plan and some boards under conconstruction. You can see the plan here:
http://www.modelrailforum.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=blogentry&id=2552
cheers
Kirky
Come on Kirky, couldn't you have made the fiddle yard a bit bigger :smiley-laughing:
Come on Kirky, couldn't you have made the fiddle yard a bit bigger :smiley-laughing:
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:smiley-laughing:
Dammit, I tried, but there just isnt enough space. ::)
Kirky
My layout is a shelf mounted around the room which I started last week, It is called Caprice why well if you look at the definition of the word in a dictionary it means on a whim and Changeable, as I have no plans on paper (I hate doing things normally) :thumbsup:only an image in my head, :-\ me thinks that the defination will be well met.
Will post some build log when there is something to show.
Quote from: Broken Neck on July 31, 2011, 01:12:44 AM
My layout is a shelf mounted around the room which I started last week, It is called Caprice why well if you look at the definition of the word in a dictionary it means on a whim and Changeable, as I have no plans on paper (I hate doing things normally) :thumbsup:only an image in my head, :-\ me thinks that the defination will be well met.
Will post some build log when there is something to show.
Looking forward to seeing something. What location/era/liveries are currently in your head for the layout?
Well now you mention it the picture of the layout will be in no specific area but will incorporate land marks from a wide area linked together by feilds,cliffs or housing. It will be DCC, 2 mainlines with continuous running fed by a automatic fiddle yard, with a DC preservation line running round the room as well fed from a seperate fiddle yard also there will be a branchline with small platforms, this will also split for a goods yard and seperate lines for an equestrian centre and canal loading/unloading facillity.
Part 2 of the project (the other side of the room) will be mulled over while I construct all of the above.
The liveries will be mainly Sectorisation and Modern image Diesel with some Steam LNER,LMS and GWR on the preservation line, the era as you can imagine can be anything but the main layout will be 1982 to present day but run as seperate periods at one time.
Hope this gives you a good picture of what I am trying to do. It will take a while due to my disability but it will be good therapy (thats my excuse to the little lady) pictures will follow soon but again will be slow.
Regards
Broken Neck
Thank for the further detail. It sounds like you have your work cut out, to say nothing of the bashing your wallet will get (or has had if all the stock has been bought). Probably like me, you think you have everything you need then someone goes and brings out summat else on your wish list ;D
Hello,
My latest layout is called Trial & Error as it describes the process I went through to build it. The baseboard is styrofoam and I wasn't at all sure if it would work.
Another name I had thought of was Trainset Curves as it is very compact and uses set track.
Regards,
Veronica :Class31:
Quote from: silly moo on August 01, 2011, 05:18:30 PM
Hello,
My latest layout is called Trial & Error as it describes the process I went through to build it.
Regards,
Veronica :Class31:
Hi Veronica - does the layout work on Styrofoam, and are there 2 stations (Trial and Error). Have you any pics :camera:
I've a confession to make, Trial & Error is an 00 layout. The styrofoam works very well. It is about 50 mm thick and has a light wooden frame around the edges. There are a few snags though, the points are all hand operated as I didn't think point motors would be easy to install. The track is laid on Woodland Scenics foam roadbed which is excellent.
It is a double track oval with one station so we'll have to assume that the other station is behind the backboard.
I built it to run my 00 locos which include terriers and a Q1 which until a few years ago weren't available in N.
Does anyone else on the Forum model in more than one scale I wonder?
Regards,
Veronica.
Hi Veronica,
I help my father with his 00 from time to time. I'm just about to start out with 5" gauge.
I`m exploring the 'joys' of Z gauge with a few bits of 2nd hand track from ebay and a Vollmer station kit I was given
Quote from: silly moo on August 01, 2011, 06:39:35 PM
I've a confession to make, Trial & Error is an 00 layout.
Oh dear = suitable penances must be made. Cloughie will need at least 2 packs of Hob Nob biscuits. An NGF mug must be purchased and you must recant.
Several :NGaugersRule: must be intoned before Father Lawrence will forgive.
:smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: newportnobby on August 01, 2011, 02:56:04 PM
Thank for the further detail. It sounds like you have your work cut out, to say nothing of the bashing your wallet will get (or has had if all the stock has been bought). Probably like me, you think you have everything you need then someone goes and brings out summat else on your wish list ;D
Most of the rolling stock has been purchased over the last 2yrs but I know what you mean,it has gone from the I need that, to the I would like that, stage. The layout sounds complex but it's not to bad.
Quote from: silly moo on August 01, 2011, 06:39:35 PM
Does anyone else on the Forum model in more than one scale I wonder?
Regards,
Veronica.
Veronica hi, I have to admit that I also have OO stuff but mainly class 37's they live in a case on the wall and sometimes they get a run on an oval of track but no senics, to busy with the N layout. I also kit build O gauge loco's
Regards
Broken Neck
Quote from: newportnobby on August 01, 2011, 07:51:01 PM
Quote from: silly moo on August 01, 2011, 06:39:35 PM
I've a confession to make, Trial & Error is an 00 layout.
Oh dear = suitable penances must be made. Cloughie will need at least 2 packs of Hob Nob biscuits. An NGF mug must be purchased and you must recant.
Several :NGaugersRule: must be intoned before Father Lawrence will forgive.
I don't do forgiveness :evil:
Lawrence, the only thing to do is issue a ticket to go see the padre for conversion :angel:
cloughie
Quote from: silly moo on August 01, 2011, 06:39:35 PM
Does anyone else on the Forum model in more than one scale I wonder?
'Fraid so. Japanese H0 and T gauges, as well as a small but significant 1950s southern region BR collection...
We have also recently dug out our club's Southern Region 0 Guage layout. One of our members has an 0 Gauge Q1...now that's nice!
Quote from: Claude Dreyfus on August 03, 2011, 01:36:01 PM
One of our members has an 0 Gauge Q1...now that's nice!
Mmmmmmmm - I know this is an NGF but any chance of a pic :camera:
Quote from: newportnobby on August 03, 2011, 06:41:57 PM
Quote from: Claude Dreyfus on August 03, 2011, 01:36:01 PM
One of our members has an 0 Gauge Q1...now that's nice!
Mmmmmmmm - I know this is an NGF but any chance of a pic :camera:
How very dare you Nobby :o you should be ashamed of yourself, now go and stand in the corner a repeat :NGaugersRule: 50 times!
;)
Quote from: Lawrence on August 03, 2011, 07:16:07 PM
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How very dare you Nobby :o you should be ashamed of yourself, now go and stand in the corner a repeat :NGaugersRule: 50 times!
;)
Ah, but you've already said on Page 4 you don't do forgiveness so........where's that raspberry button when you need it?
Sorry - but I just like Q1's - maybe the esteemed Claude could PM me with a pic then
Quote from: newportnobby on August 03, 2011, 07:22:50 PM
Quote from: Lawrence on August 03, 2011, 07:16:07 PM
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How very dare you Nobby :o you should be ashamed of yourself, now go and stand in the corner a repeat :NGaugersRule: 50 times!
;)
Ah, but you've already said on Page 4 you don't do forgiveness so........where's that raspberry button when you need it?
Sorry - but I just like Q1's - maybe the esteemed Claude could PM me with a pic then
::) ::) Oh go on forgive him...........he`s Scottish and we all know what that means :-X
I never mentioned forgiveness, that is just your punishment for your moment of weakness which will guide you back on the path of :NGAUGE:
Quote from: Lawrence on August 03, 2011, 10:08:25 PM
I never mentioned forgiveness, that is just your punishment for your moment of weakness which will guide you back on the path of :NGAUGE:
Ok Ok - I am typing this from the naughty step :(
I have a few layouts - BR(M) based loosely on St Alban's Abbey is called "St Alban's Priory". "Swallow Street" (BR Blue S) because that is the name of the street I live on (and my wife named it!). "Swallow's End" an small, first essay in 2mm FS which is a terminus (but not based on any particular region but will have green 108 and 24 running on it) with plans for W&B "Elm Road" (cause that is what we are modelling), "St Alban's Abbey" (done proper this time) and "Fairford" all in 2mm FS. I am investigating the possibility of "Ais Gill Summit" and an Australian one called "Didjabringabeeralong" or "Wherethebloodyhellarewe".
Quote from: Sithlord75 on August 04, 2011, 07:34:48 AM
I am investigating the possibility of "Ais Gill Summit" and an Australian one called "Didjabringabeeralong" or "Wherethebloodyhellarewe".
Very amusing Sith !
May the FARCE be with you ;D ;D
Several thoughts once Moorcock Junction is dismantled. Sadly most of them unprintable ;D :-X
Re Q1 in 0 Gauge...very naughty I know. I cannot get a picture right now as the 0 gauge layout is currently packed away. The layout will come out again in mid-September, and hopefully the Q1 will come out to play. I'm sure a picture of some sorts will be available then...
If I was a GWR steam fan I might have gone for St Eam. :smiley-laughing:
Quote from: N Gauge Bob on August 30, 2011, 10:51:25 AM
If I was a GWR steam fan I might have gone for St Eam. :smiley-laughing:
Churchward Deane perhaps 8)
I have a challenge, as my layout will run European / Japanese and British.. and I'm thinking of how to use view blocks to have different country flavours, but a name
now I'm struggling there (Quinntopia is a good one, but I don't want to be a copycat!) All I can think of is Bad Daisen on the wold!
Graham
Quote from: grumbeast on August 30, 2011, 08:38:28 PM
I have a challenge, as my layout will run European / Japanese and British.. and I'm thinking of how to use view blocks to have different country flavours, but a name
now I'm struggling there (Quinntopia is a good one, but I don't want to be a copycat!) All I can think of is Bad Daisen on the wold!
Graham
Nippon Briteec?
Quote from: N Gauge Bob on August 30, 2011, 09:01:52 PM
Quote from: grumbeast on August 30, 2011, 08:38:28 PM
I have a challenge, as my layout will run European / Japanese and British.. and I'm thinking of how to use view blocks to have different country flavours, but a name
now I'm struggling there (Quinntopia is a good one, but I don't want to be a copycat!) All I can think of is Bad Daisen on the wold!
Graham
Nippon Briteec?
Blitainwelt?? Sorry :-[
I like that .. Blitainwelt .. its a bit un-pc , but it sounds pretty convincing .. top marks so far!
Graham
My new British layout I have named Cofton Hackett and the new American layout that resembles NW California I have named Santa Enscala, both freelance setups.
I've had loads of layouts over the years, I started with mk1, mk2 etc... Only recently have I named any - here's what I came up with...
Ellswork - 'L' shape corner layout
Whitsend - Actually a cross between Whitby and Sandsend as suggested in recent peco track plan booklet
Dore Marsh - Current layout built on a £20 b&q door
Dore marsh has run into size issues (it won't fit in the car :-[) so i'll have to modify or start again (after i measure the boot this time !). Any suggestions about the name welcome, or i may leave it as it is...
As a teenager, my OO layout was an recognisable adaptation of Burnham on Sea.
Since I went N Gauge everything has been a just supposing.
Ambleside - the Windermere branch was extended to Keswick. Never anything like finished, and I sold it.
Then daughter No 2 arrived and I had to abandon a continous layout.From now on they all hit the exhibition circuit:
Grasmere - as above but only to a terminus before geography proved difficult. Scrapped 1989
Morfa Nevyn - joint LMR/WR terminus. Scrapped 1994
Abersoch - again joint LMR/WR. This made it to Aly Paly in 2001. Sold in 2003
Portpatrick Town - assumes a different ending for the short sea crossing. Only have space for a small town station, so boat traffic goes through. This got to Aly Paly in 2008.
No immediate plans for another. Thinking of extending PP. But also pondering a more contemporary layout perhaps inspired by the Great Glen - another never happened.
Took me ages to think of an original name for mine, but eventually I came up with "Hasford Blacklock". Might seem a weird name, so I'll explain how it came about . . .
The most important things in my life are my misses (fiancée technically but we're only missing a piece of paper ;) ) and our cars, seeing as that's what brought us together in the first place. Playing with different names whilst bored at work I thought about the cars - since they're Fords it made sense to use this as a lot of places end in -ford due to them growing out of settlements around river crossings. Our cars are like children to us, and our original two have been christened "Helen" and "Sophia" . . . don't ask! :smiley-laughing: So Helen and Sophia and ford gave me "Hasford". This didn't sound that memorable to me, especially if the layout was ever to make it to an exhibition, so I needed a second name. My other half's surname is Blacklock, which sorta sounds like a place in itself, and again places the layout on a river, so I adopted this as the second word. Also it means her family name won't be completely lost when we get married :)
I even invented a complete history for the town that you can read on my website if you really have nothing better to do ;D. Even the eventual destination at the end of the branch line has a link to one of our cars ;).
Paul
Good story, Paul. At least you know if you ever decide to model a USA layout you can call it 'Sierra something' :thumbsup:
My layout is called BURSTON. It is supposed to represent a medium sized town somewhere between Birmingham and Derby on the Midland cross country line in the late 1950s/early 1960s. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHlcKF80ofA for a short video
Quote from: mmcsadler on September 05, 2011, 12:24:58 PM
My layout is called BURSTON. It is supposed to represent a medium sized town somewhere between Birmingham and Derby on the Midland cross country line in the late 1950s/early 1960s. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHlcKF80ofA for a short video
Very nice layout Mike. I especially like the oil terminal.
Cheers, Bob
A lovely layout Mike, as a matter of interest what is the make of the footbridge, it looks just like the one I want to model based on Athenry Station here in Co Galway, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Paul
Lovely layout Mike and the long trains look great.
The Oil Terminal is made up of mainly 3 Faller kits I obtained second hand already made up so I had to modify them to suit. The road tanker loading structure is made from PECO rail and Scalescenes corrugated iron paper has been used for the roof - I got the idea from photos I found searching the Internet. The rail tanker loading structure is made from bits of wire. The vehicles are Fleetline whitemetal kits and are in the correct REGENT livery for the late 1950s.
The station footbridge was made from a couple of P&D Marsh whitemetal footbridge kits suitably adapted.
The layout is 22ft x 10ft in my loft so I can run scale length trains just as I remember them.
Quote from: mmcsadler on September 06, 2011, 10:08:00 AM
The Oil Terminal is made up of mainly 3 Faller kits I obtained second hand already made up so I had to modify them to suit. The road tanker loading structure is made from PECO rail and Scalescenes corrugated iron paper has been used for the roof - I got the idea from photos I found searching the Internet. The rail tanker loading structure is made from bits of wire. The vehicles are Fleetline whitemetal kits and are in the correct REGENT livery for the late 1950s.
Thanks Mike. A definite thought for the new layout. Cheers, Bob
Quote from: mmcsadler on September 05, 2011, 12:24:58 PM
My layout is called BURSTON. It is supposed to represent a medium sized town somewhere between Birmingham and Derby on the Midland cross country line in the late 1950s/early 1960s. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHlcKF80ofA for a short video
That layout's got a nice realistic open and spacious look and feel to it.
H.
Quote from: mmcsadler on September 06, 2011, 10:08:00 AM
The station footbridge was made from a couple of P&D Marsh whitemetal footbridge kits suitably adapted.
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Thanks for that very helpful.
Paul
Mine is called Old Warren TMD, named after the road that leads to my estate as it seemed a quite appropriate name. The town names on my road signs also come from nearby street-names.
My under-construction layout is called "Swanford Pool." The reason is that at the Ally Pally exhibition a couple of years ago my wife saw a couple or white-metal swans but in OO scale. She very much wanted me to find a use for them even though they are out of scale. So they will be eventually mounted at the entrance to the station, unpainted but polished-up. There they can represent twice-life-sized statues of swans. I've invented a history where swans have been regarded as sacred creatures in the village since Anglo-Saxon times; so the name was eventually developed from getting "swan" into it somewhere. I will find space for a pool somewhere or other as well. And maybe a ford.