Station Names

[will derbyshire]

My model railway is still in pieces all over the loft, i have designed a farly good layout and am just finnishing off the base boards!
However i am stook for station names to use! can you guys offer any help?

A brief description of the layout.
The layout is going to be a horse shoe shape, one end a station terminus with a medium sized freight yard, turntable and loco sheds . at the other side, a two platformed station with a few siding to allow storage of local freight (Eg. Milk,Coal ECT). at the other end of the station, A tunnel which leeds to ,in Therory, main line stations such as York, London and edinbrough. However on the model railway it will lead to the fiddle yard.

[chaz harrison]

You could get yourself an OS map of the area that railway is set in, check through the villages that never had a railway until you find a name that appeals.

Or take a name from your locality. If you continued my line through the wall and on it would eventually reach a Barton Road - so my fiddle yard is Barton Road Junction.

I take a name that has personal significance - When I was a kid I used to go to Ridley Rd street market with my nan. So my layout is Ridley Wharf. I changd it because at one time I planned to have a canal basin - I didn't have space for this but I retained the name.

I'd personally avoid the awful puns which will have you wincing everytime you operate.

Best of luck!

[will derbyshire]

Thanks for the help Chaz! im 14, and ever since i was about 4 my mum,dad, uncles, aunts ECT used to take me to "darley dale station" here i would be fasinated by the steam engines. And once while i was down there there was a big double tendered apple green Locomotive sat next to the platform, the train was Flying Scotsman No 4472.
I could use this station, however i probibly would not make the station exactlly perfect.
for the Station terminous, i will look on the map!
The Railway is set in a place that is very simalar to the Derbyshire Dales, However the Surrounding towns and villages are all minning based, They were planed to be Cornish Tin mines however now i have chosen that they should be collierys because they soot the Area.
I hope this helps,


will

[PinzaC55]

Will, check out my photos of Darley Dale being restored - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinzac55/s ... 778491878/

[will derbyshire]

There are some great pictures there PinzaC55! that is the same station iam talking about without a dought!!!

[PinzaC55]

Cheers! It was a real blast when we got the first train into the platform "sigh".