Railway General Knowledge.

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cinque Terre, Luguria

 

[theageofthetra]

Correct. When I was there last I counted at least 5 or 6 of these incredibly steep rack systems. Most consisted of the tractor unit with one truck but one did have a second one. Your floor

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In song, who serves on the Danville train?

 

[Welshman]

Virgil Caine.
The night they drove old Dixie Down.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct....over to you.

 

[Welshman]

Which of these dates is the odd-one out, and why:-

6th November 2004
17th July 1984
5th March 1967
28th February 2001

 

[Marton]

5 March 1967. No recorded train crash.


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[Welshman]

5 March 1967. No recorded train crash.


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I thought there was a rail crash on the 5th March 1967 at Connington South.

However, you're in the right area.

 

[Llama]

All except 1967 were fatal rail accidents caused by trains striking obstructions?

Open floor if correct.

 

[southern442]

1984 was a controlled crash involving nuclear flasks and a rather unlucky 46. All the others were accidents.

 

[Welshman]

1984 was a controlled crash involving nuclear flasks and a rather unlucky 46. All the others were accidents.

Yes - that was the answer I was looking-for.
3 crashes were accidents and 1 was staged.
Over to you.

 

[southern442]

Apologies - I completely forgot about this.

On the Brighton main line between Victoria and Brighton, the platforms are numbered east to west, until a certain point, when they are numbered west to east. What is the station where they switch over?

 

[martinsh]

East Croydon ?

 

[southern442]

East Croydon ?

Correct

 

[martinsh]

Correct

That was a complete guess !! [ Based on the fact that the original line was London Bridge - Brighton ]

New Question
Name two pre-grouping railways in Great Britain which never reached one (or more) of the places in their title.

[e.g. if Ireland was included (it isn't), then you could have the Ballymena, Cushendall & Red Bay - which never reached Red Bay ]

Hint : some of these railways were taken over prior to the grouping.

 

[steamybrian]

Manchester and Milford Railway

 

[martinsh]

Manchester and Milford Railway

That's fine, but the question was name two

(there are more obvious ones that Manchester & Milford as well)

 

[Spamcan81]

1. Lancashire, Deryshire & East Coast Railway. IIRC It reached neither Lancashire nor the East Coast.
2. Manchester & Milford Rly.

 

[martinsh]

1. Lancashire, Deryshire & East Coast Railway. IIRC It reached neither Lancashire nor the East Coast.
2. Manchester & Milford Rly.

Correct. Your turn.

You could have also had the following

Didcot, Newbury & Southampton (never reached Southampton)
Hull & Barnsley (never reached Barnsley)
Leek & Manifold (never went anywhere near Leek)

There are probably others

 

[Spamcan81]

L.S. Lowry's painting "The Crossing" features which railway crossing.

 

[Welshman]

Is this the one where it's hard to say to be sure?
He is thought to have been inspired after a visit to Burton-on-Trent, but it could also have been based on scenes in Trafford.

Apparently, the locomotive could also have been modelled on a toy train.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not only have we seen the original in the Lowry Gallery, but also have a fridge magnet with the image that we purchased from the gallery shop. The marking "LNER" appears on the locomotive and in true industrial fashion, where roads were crossed on the flat with no other form of protection, there is a man with a red flag acting as a flagman to warn traffic and pedestrians in the area. An example of this that I saw in the 1950's was waggons with a small locomotive coming to and fro from Manchester Oldham Road goods depot and crossing the A664 (Rochdale Road) to the Gould Street gas manufactory plant, but in that case, men with red flags were positioned on either side of the train.

The imagery on the painting would suggest more of a built-up housing area rather than the more industrial scenes of Trafford Park, which was not too far from his Salford homeland, so Burton on Trent with its noted beer production output may well be the town in question.

 

[Spamcan81]

The painting I am on about has level crossing gates and no man with a red flag, nor does the loco have LNER on it. I have just viewed an image of the one Paul has mentioned and that is not the painting in question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The painting I am on about has level crossing gates and no man with a red flag, nor does the loco have LNER on it. I have just viewed an image of the one Paul has mentioned and that is not the painting in question.

I have spoken to the gallery this morning and was told that the picture that I had described was called "The Crossing" when Lowry had first displayed it.

There is another picture with a gated level crossing with a small red industrial locomotive crossing the road with a number of people in the foreground and if this is the one to which you allude, the location is High Street, Burton on Trent.

 

[Spamcan81]

Welshman was the first to mention the Burton on Trent connection but Paul has given the fuller explanation. To whom do I award the "prize?"

 

[Welshman]

As I'm going to be away from the forum over the weekend, I'm happy to let Paul have the honours.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In what town was a brick sculpture called "train" unveiled in June 1997?

 

[southern442]

Darlington?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct....over to you.

 

[southern442]

What station of the London Underground has the lowest overall off-peak frequency (including NR services if any)?