Dear all I'm trying to come up with a name for my new "intermediate" through station. Located in the south / southwest of England, and needs to be shortish as I have to fit it on a peco nameboard so about 8 - 10 letters. There is a big duckpond and a steep hill nearby, and im stumped. Any ideas? Ta much Rob
Station name
Aug 14, 2006
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Marsh Hill ???
Badger.
Hosbronn - literally "duck hill" in the Cornish language
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Or more likely some kind of Anglicisation like Horsebrown.
"Drake's Knob".
(kim)
In message , Rob Kemp writes
Pond Hill
What's the name of the nearest village, real or imagined?
-- Cheers
Roger T.
Home of the Great Eastern Railway
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Oh no. I hadn't even though about naming the village!! Thanks a lot.................... Rob
Stumpton? Cheers, Bill.
Ponder's Hill.
of course, there is a town in Somerset where it is up hill both ways to school.
David
Try "Penpol" this is of Cornish derivation and means "pen" a steep hill or headland, "pol" a pool or lake! It actually exists close to the A39 north of Falmouth! The nearest station in real life is Perranwell Station not sure what line this is, it terminates at Falmouth Good luck ry-trains (Nigel Gostick)
Fishponds ?
peter abraham said the following on 15/08/2006 11:03:
Fishponds was Midland territory :-)
Will you dare to state that it is not in the South West? in any case it started life under Brunel and died in the Western Region.
Peter A
Problem solved then, name it after the village ;-)
Thanks all Marsh Hill it is, but loved some of the funny suggestions..
Rob
Sounds a bit of a lame duck to me...
How about "Fawkham Hall"?
One of the Carry On movies had a seaside resort called Fircombe.
There's a village called Faccombe in Hampshire. It has a Hall.
And one of them featured the ultra-rare Oozelum bird, which promptly disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a single blue feather.
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