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Miss 16 and I were chatting the other day about the old layouts we made when she was younger. We were trying to remember the name of the fictional station that was on the Faller or Kibri or Vollmer platform sign. I know that the original station and platform are safely stored in a big box in the garage (about 20 years until first Grandchild we estimate  ) so we could go looking for it. But we digress. Around this point of the conversation, we realised that there are some really good reasons why you would not want to use real station names on your layout. Many of these are around the practical side of scaling down the real world. That Basel station is not around the bend from Hamburg station is one that comes to mind. But you could run a small countryside layout where a train (like the ICE or more practically the Tegernsee Bahn) services small towns. Then we started to think about the station names we could use: - One Tree Hill - Max's Lament - Foul Bay (Actual place in OZ) - Yorkeys Knob (Another real place - been there too!). With the power of modern printers and some small scale lamination it should be very easy to make some cool and original station name signs. Does anyone use unique station names on their layout? Perhaps this could be a new show topic for the legendary MartinT enterprises. Edited by user 06 April 2016 21:51:12(UTC)
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Yes, I do:
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This is something that has been on and off my mind for around a year now and about a month ago I stumbled across a Dymo USB label printer (Label Manager PnP) for Au$45 brand new. It even came with 2 tape spools that are a thin adhesive backed plastic. Can not recall ATM where I found them but I downloaded a pile of German fonts for it and I'm quite impressed how small it will print.... certainly smaller than I can read without my glasses  . Will come in very handy for naming all my stations and businesses on my layout sometime down the track........ asides from "Shamu Stadt or "Shamu Hauptbahnhof" for one of the main stations I'll have to come up with one for the second station plus 2 for a rural/mountain line. One of the grandkids suggested "Erbrochenem Berg" for a mountain station but I don't think that is going to happen. Anyhoo I definitely think for the price of a wagon one of those Dymo label printers (with German fonts) is excellent value for money, assuming you have at least a dozen or more names to be printed. Thinking about it just now you could even do street names as well. |
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That's a good point.. It is not just stations that need a name, but each town's small businesses.. Like "Let's Meat" the butcher shop in Max's Lament..  |
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Adrian, yes this has always been on my mind, Bonn Station with SBB or French loco's but at the end of the day who gives a you know what.
my layout was named Moosburg, (there are actually towns called Moosburg) but the idea behind it was quite simple: Moos = moss, Burg = castle, I have a castle and most of my scenery add ons exists or consists of moss.
we have a few smaller station (HOe) and I can't remember what they are called, I think one is a replica of a Swiss railway station.
I know it can be somewhat annoying but what can you do about it ? you just have to live with it and concentrate more on trains than station names. some of my video viewers mentioned I've got Swiss trains with German catenary. but there is nothing I can do, my loco collection started of with German and Austrian trains and than I got the bug for Swiss locos and it is still in me. one day I may change a section to Swiss catenary but there are many other priorities than changing the catenary.
there are many layouts who have specific locations may be a bit crammed but prototypical for a specific area or region. I don't think I'll ever go into business names other than what is provided by carriages or trucks and some commercial street signs, although its a good slogan "Let's meat", I like to meet my deadlines which are well overdue.
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You could even attach the name of someone you care for on a wagon, or the name of the person who gave you that wagon or loco. If you are a narcissist, you can also name the station with your own name: Silvano Central  |
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Hi all,
I designed my layout around a fictive border area between Denmark and Germany.
My industrial small, older town is Karlstad and then a small, newer Danish town is Rosenby (named after my daughter Rose).
So in that way I can get the best of both worlds! The German area is mainly Faller and Kibri buildings and the Danish town is mainly Heljan and Auhagen.
I found is actually quite fun trying to model 2 different areas, even though the layout is relatively small.
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Originally Posted by: xxup  Miss 16 and I were chatting the other day about the old layouts we made when she was younger. We were trying to remember the name of the fictional station that was on the Faller or Kibri or Vollmer platform sign. I know that the original station and platform are safely stored in a big box in the garage (about 20 years until first Grandchild we estimate ) so we could go looking for it. But we digress. Around this point of the conversation, we realised that there are some really good reasons why you would not want to use real station names on your layout. Many of these are around the practical side of scaling down the real world. That Basel station is not around the bend from Hamburg station is one that comes to mind. But you could run a small countryside layout where a train (like the ICE or more practically the Tegernsee Bahn) services small towns. Then we started to think about the station names we could use: - One Tree Hill - Max's Lament - Foul Bay (Actual place in OZ) - Yorkeys Knob (Another real place - been there too!). With the power of modern printers and some small scale lamination it should be very easy to make some cool and original station name signs. Does anyone use unique station names on their layout? Perhaps this could be a new show topic for the legendary MartinT enterprises. Hello Adrian, Not actually unique or original, but when deciding on a name for my town and station I wanted to choose something that was somehow related to Australia. Given that there are a lot of "outback stations" in Australia, I chose to use the German namelabels "Altbach". So now we have an "Outback" station that has locomotives, not sheep or cattle!     The street behind the station is of course Hauptbahnhofstrasse.    The main street on the upper level in the oldtown is "Kunststoffstrasse"   Regards, PJ
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And in addition to the contemporary Den City there had been in chronological order other fictional station names, as: Oberhafen (= Port Superior), 2004 Hohlberg (= Hollow Hill), 2008 Slumburg-Dummtor (dumm = dumb & Tor = fool), 2011 (not to be mistaken for Hamburg-Dammtor, where Dammtor = Causeway Gate) Slumburg-Alltoofar, 2012 (not to be mistaken for Hamburg-Altona) (Pfeilerbahn (= Pillar Railway), Thunder Mountain and Blue River use(d) to be rather layout names.) Edited by user 05 March 2016 19:51:15(UTC)
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I have named my towns and stations after places I have visited in Germany and the home towns of my parents. One is also named Luginsland for the home town of one of my friend's home town. Two of my industries use the last names of two other friends, Smolka & Finkel. I have to associate someday something for my three daughters who, unfortunately, express little interest in the hobby. Perhaps that will change when grandchildren arrive.
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Hi Adrian,
Thanks for introducing this topic.
I think we all have a lot of fun with names.
I painted a flour mill on the Club layout, W.E.Avil and Co, in the script used by a local milling company.
My layouts (built, part built, or in my imagination), are:
USA- Pennsylvania RR: Harristown - (my high school in Queensland) which word happens to be a combination of Harrisburg and Hagerstown, both on the Pennsy.
USA- West Virginia: Kimball and North Fork - yes both towns exist.
Germany - south: Altkloster not a real place, but not far from the French border.
France: Saint Rufus la Roche. - Saint Rufus is linked to Mainz Germany, but I am sure his travels took him to the Vosges region of France, where rocks are a plenty.
Australia 1: Grafton and Deepwater (G&D) in northern New South Wales. The letters will always remind me of John Allens' legendry Gorre and Daphetid model layout.
Australia 2: Lockyer Siding - I have built a 1910 HO scale bridge to complement this.
UK: Great Ashfield - a Suffolk name forever associated with my English ancestry.
Denmark: Taulov - a town in Denmark, happens to be the northern and eastern European spelling of my surname, pronounced 'towel-oh'.
Denmark: Gamleby - means old town, pronounced 'gam-le-boo'.
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Hi Adrian, I called my station Holtum HBF. Holtum is the village where my uncle lived, from which I inherited a large part of my collection of trains. In reality there is no station, not even a railway close. And being a dutch village, the station would not be called HBF.  I printed the label on normal paper, soaked it with NOCH fixating spray, and applied it on the sign. Best regards, Gregor
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Originally Posted by: xxup It is not just stations that need a name, but each town's small businesses.. On my penultimate layout the upper return loop represented the suburban station of "Llwnmwr", while the run down half-relief warehouses in the background represented the "Sledgehammer" industrial district. ;o) |
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Or for a US setting, how about the below fictional station names?
Sandwichita, KS
Lake Wannabee, NY
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Originally Posted by: Gregor And being a dutch village, the station would not be called HBF. Nice station.  But why did you say the above? |
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Originally Posted by: baggio Originally Posted by: Gregor And being a dutch village, the station would not be called HBF. Nice station. But why did you say the above? A railway station in the Netherlands would probably be "Centraal" or "Spoorwegstation", but never "Hbf", i.e. the German "Hauptbahnhof"...  Peter |
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Originally Posted by: PeFu A railway station in the Netherlands would probably be "Centraal" or "Spoorwegstation", but never "Hbf", i.e. the German "Hauptbahnhof"... Peter Indeed... Although Holtum Centraal would be hilarious for a village with 1100 inhabitants...
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Do cities in the Netherlands have more than one train station? The reason I ask is that in Italy they do and once I almost got taken in Genoa when I needed to take another train and almost got off at the wrong station  (the next train would have come the next day!). The wording "centrale" is normally what governs: Milano Centrale, for example. |
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Hauptbahnhof = Main Station = Gare Centrale = Stazione Centrale and so on…
Many Swiss modellers take the common endings of town names "wil", "kon" or "au" and make their station names sound Swiss
My theme is a hybrid of the Zurichsee line, the Gotthard and other lines, so it has elements of Pfaeffikon Schwyz (SZ), Arth-Goldau SZ and Interlaken Bern (BE).
I guess the same rules could apply to French "ville" or "bourg" or German "stadt", "dorf" or "au"
I guess that you can name your town, city, hamlet, village or signpost whatever you want to call it.
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Originally Posted by: baggio Do cities in the Netherlands have more than one train station? The reason I ask is that in Italy they do and once I almost got taken in Genoa when I needed to take another train and almost got off at the wrong station (the next train would have come the next day!). The wording "centrale" is normally what governs: Milano Centrale, for example. There are some interesting info here... https://en.m.wikipedia.o...tions_in_the_Netherlands...however I have no clue how strict they are on the "40000 daily passenger" rule for Centraal, if only one station in the city. Near the place where I live, there is the city Fagersta having less than 12000 residents with both an Central and North railway station for passengers: The Central is where the railway line junction is, and North is where the actual center of Fagersta is... Peter |
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My layout (still being planned) will have names after my pets and house :-)
Peacock Central
Lillebo
Little Sabre
Pixel City
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My layout has a small German resort town for reformed meth addicts. Groan.  Howard.
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Originally Posted by: baggio You could even attach the name of someone you care for on a wagon, or the name of the person who gave you that wagon or loco. If you are a narcissist, you can also name the station with your own name: Silvano Central Or a real station called Johannesburg in the state of Gauteng, South Africa.
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There's a town here in Washington state in the US that would apply well to many layouts I've seen in youtube videos and images: Woodenville. So from that one can
- Add a lake or spring: Bad Woodenville
- Have a stream near by: Woodenvilbach
- Have a river near by: Woodenville a.<river abbreviation>
- If its on or near a mountain: Woodenvilleberg
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That's an excellent idea. I think that I will name the new station - Saebon bakken jernbanestasjonen (hopefully it translates to Saebon Hill Railway station) after our good friend Svein who passed away just over a year ago. |
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Excellent idea...... will have to name one of the stations after old uncle Thorsten. He got me many brilliant deals on trains from the fatherland before he passed  it will be very appropriate |
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I'm not 100 % convinced about PJ's station name Altbach = outback, I cannot relate the 2 names if you translate the name from German into English Altbach means "oldcreek" so the name outback has no link to Altbach. however I couldn't give 2 hoots what anybody calls their railway stations and Altbach isn't a bad name at all. may be call it Alice Springs, the river Torrens is always dry anyhow.  |
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Not sure if these have been suggested yet, but a sleepy Australian backwater station could be called Kickatinalong. It's NZ equivalent could be called Waikikamoocow.
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Originally Posted by: ozzman Not sure if these have been suggested yet, but a sleepy Australian backwater station could be called Kickatinalong. It's NZ equivalent could be called Waikikamoocow.
Or Midlanowhere. But the locals call it Middie. |
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Originally Posted by: river6109 I'm not 100 % convinced about PJ's station name Altbach = outback, I cannot relate the 2 names........ (Say it 17 times quickly whilst you listen in the other direction )
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Originally Posted by: PJMärklin Originally Posted by: river6109 I'm not 100 % convinced about PJ's station name Altbach = outback, I cannot relate the 2 names........ (Say it 17 times quickly whilst you listen in the other direction ) It worked for me after the 18th time |
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Originally Posted by: xxup That's an excellent idea. I think that I will name the new station - Saebon bakken jernbanestasjonen (hopefully it translates to Saebon Hill Railway station) after our good friend Svein who passed away just over a year ago. Hi, I think that would be "Saebon the Hill the Railway station" without being a Norwegian expert. "Saebon Bakke Jernbanestasjon" is probably better. Is Saebon a name? |
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Wow! Thanks for the help with the translation.. Now there are less letters too! |
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A real-life station in Norway is named "Hell". Since the place where travellers' luggage is handled is named "godsexpedition" in norwegian (and swedish), a very interesting sign says "Hell - God's Expedition". Hell (Wikipedia)
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Originally Posted by: xxup Wow! Thanks for the help with the translation.. Now there are less letters too! In Scandinavian languages, "the" is appended to the noun, hence: Bakke = Hill Bakken = The Hill It get's fun when you start mixing plural and "the" (definitive? My grammar is getting rusty...): Cat = Kat The cat = Katten Cats = Katte The Cats = Kattene |
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Originally Posted by: Karl Gunnar Sjöqvist A real-life station in Norway is named "Hell". Since the place where travellers' luggage is handled is named "godsexpedition" in norwegian (and swedish), a very interesting sign says "Hell - God's Expedition". Hell (Wikipedia) New slant on the saying "Go to Hell".. "Hell of a place".. I see that it is only up the road from Lillehammer, which is one of the places we plan to visit next time we go to Norway. It could be a Hell of a holiday..  |
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