Railway General Knowledge.

[Buttsy]

Open floor

 

[steamybrian]

A nice quick easy question......but no cheating by looking on maps..!!!

Name the five stations (NR or LU) outside the M25 which are served by London Underground trains...?
If you name five and get one wrong then I will not comment.

 

[Buttsy]

Epping, Amersham, Chesham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chorleywood

 

[steamybrian]

Epping, Amersham, Chesham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chorleywood

Correct.

Well done

 

[Buttsy]

Excluding the Waterloo & City line, which 2 of the current Underground lines do not connect with each other?

 

[James Wake]

Metropolitan and District (closest they get is Aldgate and Minories Junction?)

 

[Buttsy]

Metropolitan and District (closest they get is Aldgate and Minories Junction?)

Yes, that's the area they are closest, but do not connect since the invention of the Hammersmith and City Line. In my youth it used to be the Metropolitan Line (Hammersmith & City branch), so they did connect, but that was around the time the Jubilee was being built.

 

[James Wake]

On the London Underground, what is an Inter-Peak Stabler?

 

[deltic1989]

A train that is only used in peak times, so in off-peak times it is put into sidings (or stabled)?
Just a guess, but open floor if correct.

 

[James Wake]

A train that is only used in peak times, so in off-peak times it is put into sidings (or stabled)?
Just a guess, but open floor if correct.

That's right, a train which does the AM peak and comes back out from a depot or stabling point for the evening peak and maybe until the close of traffic.

Open floor it is on deltic1989s request

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In which city would you find Vitebsk station?

 

[theageofthetra]

St Petersburg?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct....over to you.

 

[theageofthetra]

What was the largest diameter wheel used by a rail company on a passenger carrying service.

 

[Welshman]

Patrick Stirling's "Single Wheeler" - 8ft 1in. -for the Great Northern?

 

[theageofthetra]

No larger than that.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not too sure, but will mention the single driving wheel diameter of the LNWR 2-2-2 engine, number 3020 "Cornwall".

 

[theageofthetra]

Still too small.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am not sure if this was an experimental locomotive, but did R & W Hawthorne of Newcastle-on-Tyne produce a 2-2-2 locomotive called "Hurricane" for the broad-gauge Great Western Railway, with the single driving wheel being 10 foot in diameter, but the locomotive had adhesion problems.

 

[theageofthetra]

Bigger than that

 

[Marton]

8ft 10" (2.69m) on a Bristol and Exeter Broad Gauge tank engine built in 1873. Not sure if it was passenger though.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

8ft 10" (2.69m) on a Bristol and Exeter Broad Gauge tank engine built in 1873. Not sure if it was passenger though.

I already have had one with a 10 foot diameter said to be not big enough

 

[Marton]

I realised after I posted. The answer to this might be a little more along the lines of lateral thinking.

The question does not refer to a loco or driving wheel just a wheel.

Is it a rope railway winding wheel?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I realised after I posted. The answer to this might be a little more along the lines of lateral thinking.

The question does not refer to a loco or driving wheel just a wheel.

Is it a rope railway winding wheel?

The diameter of the one at Middleton Top is somewhere in the region of 16 foot in diameter.

 

[theageofthetra]

No bigger than that

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Maybe I'm grasping at straws, but does a railway company have anything to do with the big ferris wheel in York?

 

[Darren R]

This wouldn't be anything to do with railway-owned ships would it? How about the SS Great Western? Being a paddle steamer, I guess that means that technically she had two very large wheels on the side!

 

[theageofthetra]

Getting warmer

 

[Marton]

Great Eastern. 56' 17m. Not sure it was a rail company though.

 

[theageofthetra]

Great Eastern was operated by the GWR. Your floor. As far as the largest ever locomotive wheels then 'Hurricane' is closely followed by the French L'aigle. Both were total failures. More on these and other bizarre things mechanical on this supurb site.http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm