Railway General Knowledge.

[t_star2001uk]

Newcastle High Level Bridge....

Open floor if correct

 

[AndyPJG]

None are the one I've got in mind.
It was designed by IKB with an overhead tube as part of the structure, possibly as a preliminary to Saltash, and opened in 1852. The main structure was replaced in 1962.

 

[deltic1989]

In that case you must be referring to the Chepstow Bridge.

Edit: Open floor if correct.

 

[AndyPJG]

Yes, correct it's the Chepstow Railway Bridge

Open Floor, as you declared.

 

[Welshman]

Which later famous bus engineer and writer began his transport career with an apprenticeship at the LNER Gorton Works?

 

[martinsh]

Geoffrey Hilditch

 

[Welshman]

Geoffrey Hilditch

Correct.

Incidentally, I was interested to see that as a tribute, First Calderdale & Huddersfield has repainted one of its Wright Eclipse Geminis into the traditional Halifax colours and named it Geoffrey Hilditch.

 

[martinsh]

Which location in the UK used to have 3 stations, but now has none ?

NB there may be more than one answer to this, so please name the stations.

PS locations where the provision is no longer by NR, but this available (e.g. Oldham) don't count.

 

[steamybrian]

Which location in the UK used to have 3 stations, but now has none ?

NB there may be more than one answer to this, so please name the stations.

PS locations where the provision is no longer by NR, but this available (e.g. Oldham) don't count.

I have thought of three-

Wells had three stations
the first was Wells (East Somerset Rly)
Wells Priory Road
Wells Tucker Street

Chard had three stations
Chard Central
Chard Town
Chard Junction

Selsey had three stations on the Selsey Tramway
Selsey Beach
Selsey Town
Selsey Bridge

 

[Buttsy]

Portishead

Portishead GW
Portishead WC & P
Portishead South Portby Road
Clapton Road
Cadbury Road

 

[steamybrian]

Clevedon
Clevedon All Saints (WC&P)
Clevedon East (WC&p)
Clevedon (WC&p)
Clevedon (GWR)

within the town boundaries of Gosport was
Gosport (closed 1953)
Fort Brockhurst (closed 1953)
Gosport Road (closed 1915)
Stokes Bay (closed 1915)
plus all or part of the branch to Lee-on-Solent (closed 1931)
Gosport with a population of over 85,000 is the largest town in the UK without a rail station

 

[martinsh]

Steamybrian is declared the winner. None of these is where I had in mind however, which was

Killamarsh
Killamarsh West - on original North Midland line
Upperthorpe & Killamarsh - on LDEC Sheffield branch
Killamarsh Central - on GC main line

 

[steamybrian]

I am unsure if I have asked this question before but here goes-


Apart from Paddington what was the only other London Terminal station to have and be served by GWR 7 feet broad gauge trains prior to 1892..?

 

[Springs Branch]

Did the GWR run some of its broad gauge suburban trains over dual gauge track on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Moorgate?

 

[steamybrian]

Did the GWR run some of its broad gauge suburban trains over dual gauge track on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Moorgate?

They did but for the purposes of this quiz I classified Moorgate as a through station.
The answer I was looking for was a London Terminal station

 

[theageofthetra]

Vine St in Uxbridge?

 

[steamybrian]

Vine St in Uxbridge?

No- not the answer I was looking for

(I do accept that Vine Street was a terminal station in "Greater" London)

 

[theageofthetra]

London Victoria also had broad gauge for a short period.

 

[steamybrian]

London Victoria also had broad gauge for a short period.

Correct.....
Victoria was the answer I was looking for

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A week has now elapsed since the correct answer to the last conundrum was given.

In the rules section on the very first posting on this quiz, it does state that there is a time period of 48 hours allowed for the setting of a new conundrum on this particular quiz....or the declaration of "Open Floor" should then so apply.

 

[AndyPJG]

Apart from the well-known South Devon railway, which other railway used an atmospheric propulsion method?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Apart from the well-known South Devon railway, which other railway used an atmospheric propulsion method?

1)....The Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction Railway from 1840 to 1843

2)....London and Croydon Railway (trialled the system in 1844)

 

[AndyPJG]

1)....The Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction Railway from 1840 to 1843

2)....London and Croydon Railway (trialled the system in 1844)

I was thinking of the Crystal_Palace_pneumatic_railway (as a large bore atmospheric rly) but you are correct.

Your floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In May 1994, the Channel Tunnel was formerly opened by Queen Elizabeth II and I ask the question.... who was the personage who acted for France?

 

[Welshman]

President Francois Mitterrand.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Correct

Your turn to set the next one.

 

[Welshman]

Which is the "odd-one-out" of these three stations managed by Northern?

Bramley
Deighton
Brighouse

 

[Marton]

Interesting. Could be several, at least three.

Bradley has offset platforms

Brighouse is served by grand central as well as northern

All have reopened but Brighouse is the only one on the site of the old station

 

[Darren R]

Deighton - because the original station was on a different line to the present station, whereas Bramley and Brighouse are (more-or-less) where the original stations stood.

 

[Welshman]

Deighton - because the original station was on a different line to the present station, whereas Bramley and Brighouse are (more-or-less) where the original stations stood.

That's what I was after - the original Deighton station was on the branch to Kirkburton.

Your turn.