Railway General Knowledge.

[D6975]

Fair call, but as I've found out before, the person to get teh last one right has been declared winner even though I've done the donkey work (47 of 51 English cities only to be thwarted with Ely at teh death...)

My point is that I got 3 and Martinsh got the fourth...
And you then awarded the win to Welshman.

 

[Buttsy]

My apologies, I missed your 3rd answer, hence why I gave it to him. As you will see from my following post, you had only 2 noted when I saw it and I hadn't realised you had edited it (I think we probably posted at the same time). Martish should have probably got it.

 

[martinsh]

Is it my floor then ?

What was unusual about the three routes that it used to be possible for a train to take between Denton and Stalybridge ?

NB - one of the routes has now closed

 

[Trainfan344]

All 3 required a reversal?

 

[Welshman]

Didn't one of the routes avoid the junctions at Guide Bridge, using embankments, viaducts and the line at a higher level?

 

[martinsh]

Didn't one of the routes avoid the junctions at Guide Bridge, using embankments, viaducts and the line at a higher level?

Yes - you're halfway there ...
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All 3 required a reversal?

None of them required a reversal !!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Three different railway companies...??





Open floor if so.

 

[Welshman]

Yes - you're halfway there ...
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None of them required a reversal !!

They used different company's metals:-

The route via Hooley Hill [avoiding Guide Bridge], was LNW;
The route via Guide Bridge used MS&L metals from Guide Bridge;
The route via Droylesden used L&Y metals from Droylesden.

You could also go through three different stations serving Ashton-under-Lyne:-
Dukinfield & Ashton on the LNW line via Hooley Hill;
Ashton Park Parade on the MS&L line via Guide Bridge;
& Ashton Charlestown on the L&Y route via Droylesden.

P.S. Ah - I see Peter got in while I was typing all that!

 

[martinsh]

They used different company's metals:-

The route via Hooley Hill [avoiding Guide Bridge], was LNW;
The route via Guide Bridge used MS&L metals from Guide Bridge;
The route via Droylesden used L&Y metals from Droylesden.

You could also go through three different stations serving Ashton-under-Lyne:-
Dukinfield & Ashton on the LNW line via Hooley Hill;
Ashton Park Parade on the MS&L line via Guide Bridge;
& Ashton Charlestown on the L&Y route via Droylesden.

P.S. Ah - I see Peter got in while I was typing all that!

But it's not the correct answer.

Very big clue - how did the Hooley Hill route cross the MS&L ?

 

[Welshman]

I'm obviously missing something here, but I thought it went underneath it.

 

[martinsh]

I'm obviously missing something here, but I thought it went underneath it.

Correct.

One line (Droylsden) went over the MS&L, one (Guide Bridge) went across it on the flat, and one went underneath it.

 

[Welshman]

What do Axminster and Ardlui stations have in common? [apart from obviously both beginning with the same letter of the alphabet!]

 

[Ivo]

Right hand running?

 

[Welshman]

Right hand running?

Correct. Yes.

 

[Ivo]

With the big day just a few sleeps (to use my niece's term) away, I thought I would do one for LUL's 150th.

When Wood Lane opened in 2008 it was promoted as being the first new station on an existing stretch of line for 70 years. What came before it?

 

[ls2270]

On that basis, I would go for Elm Park on the District Line (opened 1935).

However, it could be argued that it was actually Pimlico, which opened in 1972, a little over a year after the section of the Victoria Line on which it is located.

 

[Ivo]

On that basis, I would go for Elm Park on the District Line (opened 1935).

However, it could be argued that it was actually Pimlico, which opened in 1972, a little over a year after the section of the Victoria Line on which it is located.

Pimlico is a good answer, and easily beats the usually cited stations, but it was still built as part of the Brixton extension and therefore cannot be accepted - it was just approved after construction had already begun and thus opened later than the rest of the extension. In other words, even though it was behind the rest of the extension, both "elements" were still under construction at the same time.

Elm Park is older than the station I had in mind, although not by much.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Wasn't there some opening and closing of stations on the Bakerloo line in the Lords are round about then?

I'll have a guess at Warwick Avenue as the answer...

 

[Ivo]

Warwick Avenue opened in 1915 as part of the Queen's Park extension of the Bakerloo line. Thus, I am sorry to say that it fails to satisfy the criteria, and even if it did it would still be nearly 25 years older than the station in question.

You may be referring to the stations on what was the Bakerloo line between Baker Street and Finchley Road (now the Jubilee line), which opened shortly after the Second World War commenced. These were built in new deep-level tunnels, and so do not meet the criteria either. They are however slightly younger than the station I am thinking of.

 

[steamybrian]

My answers are-

Highgate opened 1941 after line opened to East Finchley in 1940
It was technically a new tube station despite the LNER station above it.

 

[Ivo]

I honestly didn't know that Highgate was separate to the older station. However, if Pimlico is disallowed then I have to disallow Highgate as well - it was built as part of a new route but simply opened later than the rest of it.

The station I am thinking of is more central than Highgate - and opened in the late 1930s. And if anyone disagrees, then, well, so be it!

 

[steamybrian]

second guess
White City opened in 1947
replaced Wood Lane (Central Line station)

 

[Ivo]

Hmm. I can't find any reason why that should be disallowed, and yet it's nine years younger than the station I was thinking of. It's also conveniently close to the station that inspired this question in the first place (i.e. Wood Lane).

My answer was Aldgate East, opened in 1938 and replacing the stations either side of it (one of which was Aldgate East).

 

[steamybrian]

Hmm. I can't find any reason why that should be disallowed, and yet it's nine years younger than the station I was thinking of. It's also conveniently close to the station that inspired this question in the first place (i.e. Wood Lane).

My answer was Aldgate East, opened in 1938 and replacing the stations either side of it (one of which was Aldgate East).

I was ignoring station resitings because a new Tower Hill station was opened in 1967 on a completely different site.


...open floor....

 

[Welshman]

Try this:-

Which now major station started life as "Store St station"?

 

[D6975]

There's a Store St just off the Tottenham Court Road.
Nearest big station is Euston, but it's not that close really.

 

[Welshman]

No, sorry.

 

[martinsh]

Manchester Piccadilly ?

 

[Welshman]

Yes - Manchester Piccadilly it is.

 

[martinsh]

open floor