Railway General Knowledge.

[Trainfan344]

8? then?

 

[Eagle]

Still no.

 

[Trainfan344]

it's 10 then...

 

[Eagle]

Noooo.

 

[Buttsy]

9????

 

[Eagle]

9????

We have a winner!

 

[Buttsy]

Which market town ceased to be accessable by rail in 1976?

 

[Eagle]

Full answer: between April and October 2004 NX TOCs were:

• c2c
• One Railway
• WAGN
• Midland Mainline
• Central Trains
• Silverlink
• Wessex Trains
• Gatwick Express
• ScotRail

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Which market town ceased to be accessable by rail in 1976?

Alston (in Cumbria)

 

[Welshman]

Also, Ripon, with its famous Market Place, was closed to passengers on the 6th March 1967.

 

[Buttsy]

Alston (in Cumbria)

Sorry for the delay in replying.

This was the answer I was looking for.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In 1909, a railroad company in a state of the USA built a 51 mile line from Seward to Turnagain Arm, but went into administration in 1909.

What was the name of this railroad ?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

The Rotating Dame Railroad

(Alaska to Turnagain)

(If not correct it oughta be)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Rotating Dame Railroad

(Alaska to Turnagain)

(If not correct it oughta be)

I had the answer as the Alaska Central Railroad, but will give it to you.

Please set the next one.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Where would the name Joyce Whitchurch normally be found at a station?

 

[Welshman]

On the face of the station clock.

 

[Ivo]

accidental post

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Station Clock is correct.

 

[Welshman]

What device was often used by enginemen on an ailing steam locomotive?
What did it do, and why was its use prohibited by some companies?

 

[LE Greys]

Hopefully not a lead weight (as in Macphail of the Vital Spark)!
Put it on the safety valve to prevent it lifting. Gives you more steam pressure, but at major risk of a boiler explosion.

 

[Welshman]

No - not that, fortunately.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

A "jimmie", i.e. a piece of metal lodged in the chimney in order to narrow or divide the blastpipe. Supposed to improve steaming.

 

[Welshman]

A "jimmie", i.e. a piece of metal lodged in the chimney in order to narrow or divide the blastpipe. Supposed to improve steaming.

Yes - it was a "Jimmy" or a "razor" [I suppose because some looked like the old cut-throat razors], which was fitted across the blastpipe of an ailing engine. It splitted the exhaust blast, resulting in a better draught. So you've answered almost all of the question - can you say why it was prohibited by the authorities?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

I'll have a guess that it increased coal consumption, and was frowned upon for that reason.

 

[Welshman]

I'll have a guess that it increased coal consumption, and was frowned upon for that reason.

It might have done that, but I gather the main reason the authorities banned them was the danger of vibration from the engine causing it to work loose, fall down the blastpipe, and do much damage to the valves. So some were fixed with a chain, and others were made from a copper tube, which would not do too much damage.

However, the official line was they were prohibited, yet I gather in their desire to keep the service running with the ailing locomotives they had, the authorities turned a blind eye to their use.

So, well done. Please set the next question.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Which pre-grouping railway company served Portsmouth station?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The London and South Western Railway.


Not sure of which grouping you refer to so my answer is the earlier 1923 one, rather than the later 1948 one.

 

[Buttsy]

Lancashire & Yorkshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancashire & Yorkshire

I forgot about that station on the Copy Pit line. Could it also be the pre-1948 grouping of the London Midland and Scottish Railway ?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Buttsy is correct with the L&YR.

The Hampshire settlement is served by Portsmouth & Southsea or Portsmouth Harbour stations, not Portsmouth station...