Railway General Knowledge.

[EM2]

Which locomotive or train was named after a life-long card-carrying member of the Communist Party of Great Britain?

 

[ole man]

150 268 Benny Rothman- The Manchester Rambler

 

[EM2]

Is correct!
All yours, sir.

 

[ole man]

Open Floor

 

[Welshman]

OK - What happened in 1912 to make the life of the North Wales pilgrim a little easier?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In 1912, the London and North Western Railway constructed the Holywell branch line from Holywell Junction station to a station in Holywell Town, with an intermediate station named St Winefride's Well, which served the historical pilgrimage site.

 

[Welshman]

Absolutely correct!

Well done.

I would love to have had a ride on that 1 in 27 branch!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What closed station was constructed in 1883 as the terminal station on a short branch line to serve a dock on the Lancashire coast that was constructed by a city in 1782, which also was served by a branch of a historic canal.

 

[Welshman]

Glasson Dock?

{where have I come across that before?!!}

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Absolutely correct.

Your turn to set the next one.

 

[Welshman]

What use did the Midland Railway have for linseed oil at an East Midlands complex, and what hints remain of its use?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I can hazard a guess by saying that the Midland Railway had a carriage and wagon works at Litchurch Lane in Derby. Linseed oil has three uses I can think of there as a paint binder used in the external painting of the coaching stock produced there, the use of this oil as a wood finish treatment in the internal finishes of the coaching stock and finally, as part of the process used in the manufacture of linoleum that was used in certain sections of flooring of the coaching stock.

However I am at a loss to answer the second part of your conundrum, unless any company that has since been established on that site uses linseed oil in their manufacture of cricket bats.

 

[Welshman]

A very good try, but, sorry, no.

The complex was near Derby.
Think of a related use for linseed oil, in connection with wagons.

 

[Old-School]

possibly Linseed oil could have been used in tail-lamps placed on rear of last wagon in train.

 

[Welshman]

Possibly - but not what I had in mind.
I'm referring to manufacturing process by the Midland Railway at a site near Derby.
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Perhaps time for another clue:-

This has nothing at all to do with Sleeping Car requirements!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

There was one use for linseed oil which was that once refined in a certain way, it could be used to waterproof industrial cloth. The Midland Railway had sheet store premises (Trent Sheet Stores) near to Trent station where such a coating could be used to waterproof the tarpaulins that were used to protect goods carried in open-topped wagons.

 

[Welshman]

You've got it!

Boiled linseed oil added to red or black dyes gave a "tarpaulin dress" ensuring the sheets were waterproofed.

The manufacture and repair of wagon sheets was a large business in the early 20th century, servicing the whole of the Midland Railway, and was situated in the Sawley/Long Eaton triangle.

With the demise of wagon traffic in the 1960s, the business folded [no pun intended!].

I am aware of two hints as to what went on here. I've read the floor of the industrial estate now occupying the site still has the marks of the tracks of the narrow-gauge railway the MR used for internal transport. Secondly, visible to anyone paying attention from the carriage window of Derby-Nottingham/London trains, is "Sheet Stores Junction" - the beginning of the Castle Donington line to Stenson Junction.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sorry for the long delay in being off-line for most of the day.. I have only just recovered from a bad reaction to my new medication......


Before the conjoining of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Manchester and Leeds Railway at Manchester Victoria as the new joint railway station, what were the two original seperate terminii in the Manchester area of both those two companies?

 

[clagmonster]

Was it Exchange and Victoria, which were linked by a particularly long platforms?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Was it Exchange and Victoria, which were linked by a particularly long platforms?

Not so, unfortunately.

 

[Whistler40145]

Was it Manchester Liverpool Road & Manchester Oldham Road stations?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Was it Manchester Liverpool Road & Manchester Oldham Road stations?

Absolutely and utterly 100% correct.

Thanks for your earlier PM reminder.....the preamble to my setting this question gave the answer to my long absence.



Please set the next one.

 

[Whistler40145]

There are at least five different routes from Birmingham New Street to Stafford without reversing, what are they & how many of them can you return back through Birmingham New Street?

 

[clagmonster]

New St-Soho-Dudley Port-Wolves-Stafford
New St-Soho-Bescot-Wolves-Stafford
New St-Soho-Bescot-Cannock Chase-Stafford
New St-Aston-Soho-Wolves-Stafford
New St-Aston-Bescot-Wolves-Stafford
and others, I'm sure.

I don't understand the second part of the question.

 

[Whistler40145]

The second part. Which routes out of Birmingham New Street can a train travel in a loop?

 

[clagmonster]

All of them. From Stafford, continue north, round the curve from Basford Hall to Grest Lane in Crewe, down to Shrewsburys and back to Wolves and New St.

 

[Whistler40145]

Yes, but the three routes are quite short in distance.

 

[Whistler40145]

Are we giving up with the second part of the question?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Are we giving up with the second part of the question?

You are not having much luck on this quiz over the last 48 hours, with myself being the first offender in being off-line yesterday for over 12 hours..:roll:

 

[D6975]

Well you can go out through 5 ways, turn left at Kings Norton and come back via Camp Hill.
Or you can go out towards Bescot then turn left after Perry Bar towards Soho and come back in that way.
Or you can go round the Sutton Park loop.