Railway General Knowledge.

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A very easy one for you.

With which particular locomotive was Oliver Postgate associated with?

 

[Buttsy]

Ivor the Engine

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct...over to you.

 

[Buttsy]

Which London Underground station has none of the letters of the word 'mackerel' in it?

 

[Marton]

Brixton?

 

[steamybrian]

My guess is..

St Johns Wood.

(There is an "r" in both Brixton and mackerel)

 

[Marton]

Indeed there is.

 

[southern442]

My guess is..

St Johns Wood.

(There is an "r" in both Brixton and mackerel)

You are correct... I remember this piece of trivia from an episode of I'm Sorry I haven't A Clue

 

[Buttsy]

My guess is..

St Johns Wood.

(There is an "r" in both Brixton and mackerel)

Correct

 

[steamybrian]

...open floor...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In what year was The Federal Possession and Control Act introduced by an American President in order to invoke railway nationalisation and who was the President?

 

[Springs Branch]

1948 and Harry S. Truman ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

No...much earlier than that.

 

[krus_aragon]

No...much earlier than that.

Civil war era, perhaps? I'll plump for Lincoln and 1861.

 

[theageofthetra]

1917 during WWI under Wilson.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

1917 during WWI under Wilson.

This is the correct answer.

Over to you.

 

[theageofthetra]

Keeping a US theme- what was unusual about President Lincolns presidential railroad car?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

First rail carriage to carry the dead body of a head of state?

 

[Marton]

It was horse drawn through Baltimore on 22/23 February 1861 as railway engines were subject to a curfew.

 

[theageofthetra]

Paul is closest- need to be more specific.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maybe going off at a tangent...

President Lincoln's funeral train, with a Guard of Honour around the body and a large pictorial image of the late President affixed to the front of the locomotive over the cowcatcher, retraced the 1,654 miles that Lincoln had travelled as President-Elect in 1861.

 

[Springs Branch]

Maybe going off at a tangent...

President Lincoln's funeral train, with a Guard of Honour around the body and a large pictorial image of the late President affixed to the front of the locomotive over the cowcatcher, retraced the 1,654 miles that Lincoln had travelled as President-Elect in 1861.

Am I succumbing to an urban myth, or did Lincoln's funeral train also carry a coffin containing the body of his son Willie, who had died several years earlier at the age of 11 of typhoid fever? Willie’s body had been buried in Washington DC, as he died during Lincoln's presidency, and was disinterred after the President's death so he could be buried alongside his father at the family tomb in Springfield, IL.

(Presumably this isn't the unusual feature of the presidential railroad car)


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OK... back to the quiz.
Is it that Lincoln only ever made one journey in the presidential carriage, and that was in his coffin after his assassination?

 

[theageofthetra]

Correct- he thought the presidential car ostentatious and never travelled in it alive. It wasn't until the 1940's that another official presedential car was built. Until then the Presidents used one of 4 or 5 special Pulmans owned by individual railroads for visiting heads of state, railroad executives etc. Your floor.

 

[Springs Branch]

In which year was the first high-voltage AC overhead electrification scheme implemented in Britain, and which city did it serve?

 

[Whistler40145]

I'll have a go at Glasgow in 1960?

 

[Springs Branch]

No - earlier.

 

[Whistler40145]

I'll go with London in 1909, being the South London line, from London Bridge to London Victoria via Denmark Hill of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, electrified at 6600v AC?

 

[Springs Branch]

No - a bit earlier than that

 

[theageofthetra]

Lancaster to Heysham. Think it was slightly earlier.

 

[Springs Branch]

Close enough. 1908 & the city was Lancaster

The Lancaster Green Ayre - Morecambe - Heysham line was electrified by the Midland Railway in 1908 at 6,600 V AC 25 Hz

(The spur from Green Ayre to Lancaster Castle was also electrified, but I'm unsure whether this occurred at some later date)

Your go.