JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 25, 2019 21:56:11 GMT
It's well documented on my 70047 build thread that I have named my Britannia after my grandfather.
So what have you called your locomotives and why? Tell me a story!
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dave f
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Must focus on the Princess, resist temptation to tinker with new toy...
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Post by dave f on Mar 25, 2019 22:17:08 GMT
I’m going to name my Dart ‘Dusty’, a nickname I gave my father many years ago.
He got me into steam from a very young age, yet he’d never driven a loco until I bought my Princess Marina and got involved with my local club.
He’s a big fan of 7 1/4 narrow gauge but the realities of me owning and storing a 7 1/4 engine of that size aren’t possible at this point in my life, so this seemed a great compromise.
Just need to pull finger to get it finished by time I return to the U.K.
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smallbrother
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Post by smallbrother on Mar 25, 2019 22:18:28 GMT
My Holmside will eventually have name-plates. Just so many things on the go at the moment, very few of which are related to this hobby.
The name will be "Velindre", which is the name of the hospital which seems to have successfully treated my prostate cancer.
Pete.
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mbrown
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Post by mbrown on Mar 26, 2019 7:36:09 GMT
Only two of my locos have names and one of those - "Lyn" - was the name of the prototype so was a foregone conclusion.
The other is the Bagnall 0-4-2T modelled on "Jack" and "Mary" of the Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway. If it had been as close to prototype as my later models I might have felt obliged to call it "Jack" - but I didn't care for such a mundane name.
In the end, I remembered that the house where I then lived was beside the old Southern Railway, just about the point where the "River" class loco started to derail in the Sevenoaks accident of 1927. That led me to think of rivers, and the village where I lived was on the River Darent. Hence the loco got to be called "Darent" . On one side, it has a Bagnall builders plate but the other side reads "Dunton Green - 1979-1983" for the place and dates of construction.
It helps to choose loco names wisely. When I was building the Lynton and Barnstaple Baldwin, a clergyman friend who visited one day was greeted by my young son saying, "Come and see what daddy is doing to Lyn in the garage!" . Caused a few raised eyebrows... One to bear in mind for all you builders of Doris or Juliet.
Malcolm
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Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Mar 26, 2019 8:19:45 GMT
My SAR Class 2C is named 'Touche' but doesn't yet have nameplates.
Keep going guys .... I need some ideas for naming the Maid!
Geoff
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 26, 2019 8:27:10 GMT
.... I need some ideas for naming the Maid!
Well apparently the original Maid of Kent was a nun called Elizabeth Barton. I quite like the name Elizabeth, although the shorter the name the cheaper the plates! Liz it is! 
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Post by andyhigham on Mar 26, 2019 9:07:25 GMT
My sweet pea is named "Manny Gardner" after my great granddad who was a signalman in Bolton
The Traction engine "Demdyke" and Hunslet "Chattox" are named after Pendle witches, my club RVLS at Clitheroe is in the shadow of Pendle Hill
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barlowworks
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Post by barlowworks on Mar 26, 2019 13:06:10 GMT
My Britannia will be Flying Dutchman (70018) because the nameplates came with the part built loco. 👍 I know I could name it differently and there are some fine names in the class but somehow that wouldn't be right. It already has an identity and I thing that to change it would be bad luck.
Mike
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denis M
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Post by denis M on Mar 26, 2019 17:46:37 GMT
My Sweet Pea is named Sweet Sue after the wife.
My Romulus is named Polly by my kids when they were very young after our dog that passed away just before I finished the loco.
My Baldwin 2-4-2, a Model Works kit is named Per Ardua as it was a bugger to build and get running.
Charles is named after the prototype.
Still working on a name for my Sweet William I am building.
Denis M
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Post by 92220 on Mar 26, 2019 17:49:27 GMT
.... I need some ideas for naming the Maid!
Well apparently the original Maid of Kent was a nun called Elizabeth Barton. I quite like the name Elizabeth, although the shorter the name the cheaper the plates! Liz it is!
Now there's a name to create discussion........'Lizitis' !! Bob. |
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Post by andyhigham on Mar 26, 2019 19:21:47 GMT
I have also named bikes. The Greeves in my avatar is called "Blue Meanie", My Aprilia is called "Lo Stregone" (Italian for the sorcerer), My Kawasaki is "Kuro no senshi" (Japanese for black warrior), the bike I will be racing at Pendine sands is "Llareggub" (from under milk wood), my GM powered sprint bike is "Deofol" and my BSA is called "Stargazer"
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Midland
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Post by Midland on Mar 26, 2019 20:01:06 GMT
My Aspinal will be 1309, just a number but what a suck as it is my wife's birthday!!
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 26, 2019 21:33:35 GMT
My Aspinal will be 1309, just a number but what a suck as it is my wife's birthday!! D It needs a name even if it never wears a nameplate... these are breathing machines with personality.... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 21:57:17 GMT
Well, as everyone must know mine is 4472 Flying Scotsman. You may not know Nobby, but the reason I love 4472 so much is my late grandfather was very much a LNER follower with 4472 being the loco he loved the most. I grew up from a very young age marvelling at his large collection, his layout as it was built and the London ME exhibitions T various venues that he took me too as a child still in shorts. I had a lot of fun and teaching's from those wonderful times spent with him....  |
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Post by Jim on Mar 27, 2019 1:59:34 GMT
I picked "Boadicea" as I had a few photos of it running on the old Great Eastern up to Colchester where my grandmother was born and lived along with her sister who was a housekeeper at the Great Eastern Rly's Liverpool St hotel in London. It all seemed a great fit. I must admit to much preferring to have the back ground story to a model as it makes it much more 'real'.
Jim.
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Post by David on Mar 27, 2019 6:21:54 GMT
I put 'Firefly' nameplates on my 0-4-0 because the design is called 'the blowfly' and it's red and I needed to show people I could make loco nameplates on the Tormach. But it's real name is 'red train' - that's what me and everyone else in the house have called it since it was painted that colour. Other people call it 'the blowfly'. No-one actually calls it Firefly.
The mogul is called 'the B class' or 'the 24 class'.
There was a model of a 38 class in the family that was immediately called 'black Henry' by my youngest son. So there are also 'green Henry's around the place. I'm surprised it wasn't black Gordon but for whatever reason he thought of Henry first.
I don't put much time into naming my vehicles or machines. I have 'the lathe', 'the mill', 'red car', 'the van', and 'that b*stard machine' for the Tormach. None of my bikes or cars had names except 'Eggbert' my Datsun 1600 which was white on the outside and yellow-ish on the inside. That was named by my flatmate at the time, to go with my girlfriend's green 1600 he called Kermit. I spend more effort naming my computers and WIFI networks!
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Geoff
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Post by Geoff on Mar 27, 2019 7:48:07 GMT
I don't put much time into naming my vehicles or machines. I have 'the lathe', 'the mill', 'red car', 'the van', and 'that b*stard machine' for the Tormach. None of my bikes or cars had names except 'Eggbert' my Datsun 1600 which was white on the outside and yellow-ish on the inside. That was named by my flatmate at the time, to go with my girlfriend's green 1600 he called Kermit. I spend more effort naming my computers and WIFI networks! I tend not to name too many of my machines either ... although I personified the pool vaccuum by calling it Krawpy (said with a strong South African accent) and we have a sandgroper that sings to us every evening called Weinstein. Elisabeth for the Maid? Half of the western world is called Elisabeth already but I'll give it some thought! |
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Post by 92220 on Mar 27, 2019 13:51:09 GMT
I have also named bikes. My Kawasaki is "Kuro no senshi" (Japanese for black warrior) Nah!! I don't believe that Andy. I'm sure I heard that it meant 'Carries no sense'........Ooops.........sorreee! Bob. |
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Post by andyhigham on Mar 27, 2019 13:55:57 GMT
You may mock but it is the most sensible and comfortable bike I have ever ridden. BUT at the same time the maddest when you open the throttle wide. 197BHP and 200MPH capability
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Post by silverfox on Mar 27, 2019 14:51:09 GMT
I have moments whenever i see a miniature locomotive ( Peppa Pigs granddad has a lot to answer for!!!) that was named in full size and carries something completely different.or a livery not applicable to it. If it is Freelance or industrial it doesn't bother me, but a false number or name on a named loco does make my teeth itch, Even David Shepherd did it with Black Prince
However It is their engine and they can do as they wish, and i will defend their right, as i did when some neds started getting irate about the Fairburn tanks in Cally blue.
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