Naming your layout

[Mustermark]

I have a long project ahead of me with Reading General.  Named after the station it is based on.  Dull name, eh?

Some time in the near future I plan to start another project to give me some variety and that will be called Piccadilly Circus.  It will be a model of the London Underground station of the same name.  Not so imaginative either really.  I plan for it to include tube platforms, escalators, booking hall and street level.

I also think I would like to do something more fictitious, rural and scenic, and fancy building a small narrow gauge layout with station and railway up the side of a Welsh mountain (like the holiday my dad took us on to see the railways in Wales when I was a kid).  I imagine it will have rocks and heather (and sheep).  I think I will call it Mynydd Ddraig, or Dragon Mountain, partly because I like the sound of it, and partly because it will be set on a mountain and the Welsh flag is a dragon... and the station name will look very cool.  That should be a bit more creative too and will be a change from modelling Reading town centre...

[Newportnobby]

Sounds like Mark is going to be a very busy boy for some time to come

[EtchedPixels]

when I was a kid).  I imagine it will have rocks and heather (and sheep).  I think I will call it Mynydd Ddraig, or Dragon Mountain, partly because I like the sound of it, and partly because it will be set on a mountain and the Welsh flag is a dragon... and the station name will look very cool.  That should be a bit more creative too and will be a change from modelling Reading town centre...

Mynydd y Ddraig actually exists - its just off South Stack on Ynys Môn

I always like "Craig y Ddraig" (Drachenfels)

[Mustermark]

Interesting. I will have to do some research. 

[Flakmunky]

I went for Dinsdale Park as a name for my fictional town. Dinsdale is the name of the station in our village...

Why not get a couple of timetables for rural trains and see what happens if you put some of the names together in different ways?

There's a place down the road from me called Middleton St. George which has a station named Dinsdale.

That would be me!

[The Cuckoo]

I went for Dinsdale Park as a name for my fictional town. Dinsdale is the name of the station in our village...

Why not get a couple of timetables for rural trains and see what happens if you put some of the names together in different ways?

There's a place down the road from me called Middleton St. George which has a station named Dinsdale.

That would be me!

My local station is Bank Top so you are just around the corner from me. 

[Anthony Lloyd]

My layout is called "Yvestown" ... after my daughter Yvonne.

Steven 'Bees' (another member on here) has called his layout 'Nathayle Town' after his two children Nathan and Hayley.

[spurno]

I've now changed mine,the original was too long winded.it's now called Ilsham valley railway which is where i live.the valley is there but no railway.nearest mainline would be Torquay.

[Flounder]

Hello,

As I model fictitious settings the layout I am constructing is fairly freelance.  The whole layout will not have a name, but parts will be named after my children - this keeps them interested and they get to suggest little Cameos for the scenes.  So, on the plan is 'Haydn Halt' (into which I have to somehow incorporate a small dinasaur); 'Saffron Sidings' (complete with a pink MINI car); and my youngest's nickname is Pootle so 'Pootle Parkway' - she's not too bothered what goes there as long as trains 'go really fast'.  Modelling has to be fun to justify all the time I spend cursing under baseboards!!   

Bottom line is call it whatever you choose - I think this sentiment is also represented by some of the exhibition layouts across the various gauges.

Cheers,
Flounder.

[weave]

My new layout (french/spanish) is going to be called Sainte Nicole de Tymms or Port Tymms after me girlie's name to thank her for putting up with my hobby and letting me use the spare bedroom.

Her hobby is marine fish which takes a lot of time and effort but not as messy as I seem to be.

Prob get in trouble for this but am a Pompey fan as well as Fratton and thought he could do an irish layout like Moogle's and call it 'Cil Ben Haim'. He'll know what I mean! 

[Pengi]

Very interested in seeing how your French/Spanish layout develops. Great names!

Not a Pompey fan myself but I know what you mean about Ben Haim. I hope that the club survives - the fans do not deserve this sort of treatment of a proud club from those who call themselves owners.

[longbridge]

My new layout is at present called Cofton Hackett after the Parish name on my British Birth Certificate but knowing me there may be a slight change in the future.

[spurno]

hi Dave,
thought you was a heavy smoker for a minute.

[Sprintex]

How did you all come up with the names of your layouts?

Oh dear, you asked for it 

(Takes deep breath . . . )

It was during a bored spell at work that I decided I needed an original name for the layout. The name I chose incorporates my other loves: I thought about our 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 our 'children' to us, and our original two have been christened "Helen" and "Sophia" . . . don't ask! 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 sort of sounds like a place in itself, and again "lock" places the layout on a river, so I adopted this as the second word. I also thought this way the name would live on after we're married (I'm sweet like that). Hasford Blacklock was born.

(Paragraph shamelessly ripped and pasted from my website)


Paul

[weave]

Excellent,

I'm a smoker. Made me laugh, cough and hackett! Got to give up!