Railway General Knowledge.

[steamybrian]

Ferry Meadows
opened as Overton then became Orton Waterville when it was closed by LMS in 1942

 

[Mvann]

Ferry Meadows
opened as Overton then became Orton Waterville when it was closed by LMS in 1942

Correct.

 

[steamybrian]

Open floor

 

[317666]

Ok, I'll take the open floor: What did Oakwood station on the Piccadilly Line originally open as?

 

[Schnellzug]

bowled by the 317.

 

[Welshman]

Post deleted

 

[steamybrian]

Ok, I'll take the open floor: What did Oakwood station on the Piccadilly Line originally open as?

Enfield West

(open floor if correct)

 

[Welshman]

Enfield West?

EDIT: - pipped to the post yet again!

 

[steamybrian]

OK - try this:-

How did rats help to ruin a railway and which was the railway concerned?

Atmospheric Railways
London-Croydon
also I believe South Devon Railway- Starcross area.

Rats ate the rubber seal around the vaccuum tube

 

[Welshman]

Correct. I gather they also had a taste for the tallow[made from animal fat], which was supposed to seal the joint.

 

[StoneRoad]

Atmospheric Railways
London-Croydon
also I believe South Devon Railway- Starcross area.

Rats ate the rubber seal around the vaccuum tube

It was rats, but they ate the greased leather strips that sealed the slot in the top of the vacuum/air pipe.

 

[steamybrian]

Here is a question-
Apart from Paddington what other still open London Terminal Station was laid with 7 foot Brunel Broad Gauge track which carried broad gauge passenger trains..?

 

[clagmonster]

Moorgate (I believe in conjunction with through running from the GWR over the Met)?

 

[steamybrian]

No-- The Paddington- Moorgate line was built by the Metropolitan Railway
The through services operated by the GWR would have been standard gauge.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

I'll guess at Victoria - the GWR had through services for a while.

 

[steamybrian]

I'll guess at Victoria - the GWR had through services for a while.

Correct.

Victoria had 5 mixed gauge platforms for services via Longhedge Jn and the West London Line to places such as Southall, Reading and Windsor.
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Another one from me-
What was the last BR station to have gas lighting.? What year was it discontinued?
(excludes present heritage railway stations)

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Knowing how BR and its successors work, its probably somewhere that had had electric trains for years - so I'll take a wild stab at Addiscombe, 1986.

Or, second guessing myself, and with vague memories of reading on a forum somewhere about a deltic basher encountering gas lighting on his travels, I'll also go for Chathill, 1982!

 

[Welshman]

Ilkley, until 1988?

 

[steamybrian]

Ilkley, until 1988?

Correct with both answers


The last station in London to have gas lighting was Selsdon when closed in 1983 so D841 Roebuck was close with Addiscombe and being served by electric trains.
In the South East it was Tunbridge Wells West until closure in 1985.

 

[Welshman]

Can you give, in one go, 3 examples of Railway Bridges now used by road traffic? If you can, please name the ex-Railway line concerned.

 

[Mvann]

I can think of two, but one was used by both road and rail when built and the other one was road one half, rail the other half, when built but the rail half was turned into a road when the line closed

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Edinburgh - part of the line to Princes Street (Caledonian Rly) is now a road which bridges various roads and the Waverley to Carstairs line to the west of the city.

Bishop Auckland - doesn't the road to Consett and Durham utilise a former railway viaduct to the Northeast of the town (presumably NER) .

For the third, I'll have a stab at Potter Heigham (M&GNR - most of which has been converted to a road.

 

[Johnuk123]

Connel bridge over Loch Etive was a railway bridge originally.

Later it was converted to road and rail combined now it's just road.

 

[Welshman]

Edinburgh - part of the line to Princes Street (Caledonian Rly) is now a road which bridges various roads and the Waverley to Carstairs line to the west of the city.

Bishop Auckland - doesn't the road to Consett and Durham utilise a former railway viaduct to the Northeast of the town (presumably NER) .

For the third, I'll have a stab at Potter Heigham (M&GNR - most of which has been converted to a road.

Those three will do very nicely.

[I also had in mind Greyhound Bridge over the Lune in Lancaster, which used to carry the ex-Midland line from Lancaster Green Ayre to Morecambe, and Lady Bay Bridge over the Trent in Nottingham, which also used to carry the Midland Railway from St Pancras via Melton Mowbray.]

So the winner is D841 Roebuck, but a consolation prize to Mvann. I think the bridge you were referring to was the Crosskeys Bridge at Sutton Bridge, which was designed to carry road and rail over the River Ouse,but when the railway closed, it was converted to just road use.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

What was the name of the locomotive which Queen Victoria underlined in red after her first ever train journey, to Windsor in 1841?

 

[Johnuk123]

What was the name of the locomotive which Queen Victoria underlined in red after her first ever train journey, to Windsor in 1841?

Her first ever rail trip was from Windsor by road then Slough to Paddington by rail behind an engine called Phlegethon.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Her first ever rail trip was from Windsor by road then Slough to Paddington by rail behind an engine called Phlegethon.

Phlegethon is correct. Over to you...

 

[Mvann]

Yes it was Sutton bridge I was thinking of.

 

[Johnuk123]

Who was responsible for laying a cable across to America in addition to his railway work here ?

 

[Schnellzug]

The answer, you'd think, would be Isambard K., with the Great Eastern, but you might also argue it was Daniel Gooch, who was the chief engineer of the Telegraph Construction Company, the company that bought her for cable laying.