Layout Names

yelloboyuk · July 19, 2011, 10:32:21 PM

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.

Lawrence · July 20, 2011, 09:22:05 AM

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

I hae ma doots that Brawoot disnae get a muckle look in

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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

scotsoft · July 20, 2011, 10:12:21 AM

I hae ma doots that Brawoot disnae get a muckle look in

(Translations for non Fifers are available at a small charge

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"small charge"

Ye canny be feelin richt

poliss · July 20, 2011, 01:10:48 PM

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!

Claude Dreyfus · 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'?"

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...

cookiescrumble · July 20, 2011, 01:47:57 PM

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.

EtchedPixels · 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'

A current era suburban concrete hell is on my design list for the future - working title Chaverton Parkway

Alan

Dock Shunter · July 20, 2011, 03:36:12 PM

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'

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.....?

porkie · July 20, 2011, 07:26:43 PM

I named my layout on the street i live in.......
I know its a borring excuse but it has a nice ring to it

longbridge · July 20, 2011, 09:35:45 PM

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.

EtchedPixels · July 20, 2011, 10:45:34 PM

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.

Dock Shunter · July 21, 2011, 03:03:02 AM

3 smashing little layouts Alan.....

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......

grastairs · 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.

Lawrence · July 21, 2011, 05:55:58 PM

Good grief Graham, just how big are your stairs

Newportnobby · July 21, 2011, 06:57:51 PM

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.

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