I'm thinking of a train class..

[David Goddard]

59?

Yep, Cl59 it is. The design of course developed into the Cl66.

 

[Schnellzug]

Danke.

Der floor ist open.

 

[Nym]

OK then, I was the last class to be built by the company that built them, and operate in two very distinctive areas, I also make 'nice' noises...

 

[Schnellzug]

I think i can guess, but I'll let some others take a punt.

 

[Ivo]

[insert angry response here]

Knowing very well that I am right and that I don't even need to declare the Class in question on the grounds of it being me who gave such a marginal response (check the link if you insist; the answer is in its title), I shall be claiming the floor

This Class is not more than 20 years old and operates on two separate routes, which have no immediate physical connection but do have an interchange available. One of the two routes requires the units to be half their full size, but also requires far fewer of the Class than the other to operate.

 

[Nym]

How anoyed would you be if I said it was actually something made by ABB rather than Hunslet TPL?

 

[Ivo]

You confirm that, and I won't be annoyed any more than I would be otherwise.

(Is it? If yes, the clue is too vague because 323s - there, I said it - fit too.)

 

[Nym]

Nooo... It is Hunslet TPL's last swan song... The 323..

 

[Schnellzug]

[insert angry response here]

Knowing very well that I am right and that I don't even need to declare the Class in question on the grounds of it being me who gave such a marginal response (check the link if you insist; the answer is in its title), I shall be claiming the floor

This Class is not more than 20 years old and operates on two separate routes, which have no immediate physical connection but do have an interchange available. One of the two routes requires the units to be half their full size, but also requires far fewer of the Class than the other to operate.

199- something Tube stock? The ones used on the Central and Waterloo & City line.

 

[Ivo]

Correct - apart from the "-" obviously (1992)

 

[Schnellzug]

All right. I shall think up a few for the next time I happen to get this right, assuming that I do. Until then, the floor is, like on Strictly Come Dancing, open.

 

[Temple Meads]

To keep the quiz moving along then:

We are part of a large family.
We have an obscure UK first.
We have always operated on the lines for which we were designed.

What are we?

 

[Nym]

DLR Stock, the first 'driverless' trains in the UK, only ever operated on the DLR.

 

[Railguy220]

Tyne And Wear Metro Stock? They run on the UK's first modern light rail system.

 

[hmp455]

Class 313?

Part of the 'PEP' family

Have always run on the Moorgate Line

Multi-Function couplers?

 

[Temple Meads]

Oh bother I'd forgotten about this!

It's none of those three anyway!

 

[Ivo]

357?

Electrostar
First to have a DDA-compliant toilet fitted as standard (I think )
LTS route

 

[Temple Meads]

No, 357 however is the closest guess thus far..

 

[Ivo]

378

De facto Electrostar (technically a Capitalstar)
Articulated carriages (for walking through more easily)
LOROL routes

 

[Temple Meads]

378

De facto Electrostar (technically a Capitalstar)
Articulated carriages (for walking through more easily)
LOROL routes

Getting closer still...

I should add that the obscure first is very obscure, possibly too obscure to waste brainpower over..

 

[Ivo]

379; not a clue why

Last answer I'm offering. Both of the answers I've given match the criteria.

 

[Temple Meads]

379; not a clue why

Last answer I'm offering. Both of the answers I've given match the criteria.

379 is correct!

1) Electrostar.
2) Has a light in the front obstacle deflector (a UK first!).
3) Has always operated on the Stansted airport and Cambridge runs.

Your floor Scott

 

[Ivo]

Very obscure (!)

I'll pass on this one. Open floor.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'll take the floor with an easy one. Might need a bit of "out of the box" thinking, though.



This class of unit never broke down, but instead would be said to "fail to proceed".

 

[Nym]

The ATP-E

 

[Peter Mugridge]

No, not the APT-E. There is a big clue in the wording "fail to proceed"....

Think of where this phrase is officially used to pretend something hasn't broken down when in actual fact it has.

 

[Schnellzug]

Something to do with Rolls-Royce... now what had Rolls-Royce engines...
Class 127?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

They did indeed.

As did the 110s and 111s.

Your floor.

 

[hmp455]

It's been over a month, so I am going to take the floor. Here goes:

We're a EMU
We are long (in terms of carriages) by the standards of our operating area
We are very similar to another class which operates in a completely different are of the country

 

[Temple Meads]

Class 333?