Railway General Knowledge.

[Darren R]

Open Floor

 

[cjp]

Name ten stations where Chiltern's train service terminate

 

[krus_aragon]

Name ten stations where Chiltern's train service terminate

Oof!

Not being of the area, and refusing to resort to using the interweb, I'll open the bidding at six guesses:

London Marylebone
London Paddington (Do they still do an odd service this way?)
Birmingham Snow Hill
Banbury
Aylesbury
Princess Risborough

 

[cjp]

Good start - anyone for ten (or more)

 

[steamybrian]

Without looking on the web..

Marylebone
Paddington
Aylesbury
Aylesbury Vale Parkway
Princes Risborough
High Wycombe
Banbury
Leamington Spa
Stratford-on-avon
Birmingham Snow Hill
Birmingham New Street
Kidderminster
South Ruislip


...If Correct then open floor...

 

[cjp]

That will do nicely
(There are a few more which is surprising for a franchise which I perceive as small)

So it is Open Floor .

 

[Peter Mugridge]

When and where was the last time clerestory roofed stock was used in daily passenger service in the UK - within the context of timetabled services that were listed in the NRTT?

 

[Marton]

Wirral Line. c1956

 

[theageofthetra]

London Transport District line Q stock lasted until early 70's?

 

[Whistler40145]

Hold on, unless I'm going gaga, NRTT is National Rail Time Table & National Rail has only existed since 1999.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hold on, unless I'm going gaga, NRTT is National Rail Time Table & National Rail has only existed since 1999.

From 1974 onwards British Rail published an annual timetable book (in similar format to today's NR Timetable), but IIRC this was referred to as the All Lines Timetable (not "national")
Before this, until 1973, BR's timetable books were published on a region-by-region basis. So to be precise the original question might have referred to the appropriate Regional Timetable.

Also to be really pedantic, the Wirral Line was probably not known as such in 1956-57, this name coming about as part of a new Merseyrail branding initiative in the early 1970s.

None of this really alters the essence of Marton's answer though - the trains involved were still running between Liverpool and the Wirral and would appear in the LMR regional timetable of the era.

 

[Marton]

I take that as a correct answer and will post shortly.

I believe the Wirral Railway was a precursor of part of the Wirral Line from 1882.

 

[Springs Branch]

I take that as a correct answer and will post shortly.

I believe the Wirral Railway was a precursor of part of the Wirral Line from 1882.

Since the original question was posted by Peter Mugridge, maybe he should confirm the answer is correct before proceeding.

Sorry if the last post might have implied I was saying "right answer" to someone else's question - I had intended just to reply on the National Timetable query.

 

[Marton]

Missed that. I didn't check the question setter.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

There was one line where this type of roof lasted until later than the stated answers.

For clarity, NRTT means "NRTT or equivalent volume"; basically - as long as the service was on part of what we now call the national network, it counts.

Just a bit of a clue - the stock involved was not on the line it was originally built for at the time it became the last such in regular use.

 

[Whistler40145]

Island Line on Isle of Wight?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Well done - yes. They used ex-Underground Standard Stock until the 1938 stock was moved across around 1989/ 1990. While one or two of the later built vehicles with elliptical roofs did end up on the Island, the majority were of the earlier design.

Your floor.

 

[Whistler40145]

Right, here goes.....What's the longest railway journey in the world?

 

[krus_aragon]

Right, here goes.....What's the longest railway journey in the world?

Some would have us believe it's any journey in a pacer :P

But to be a bit more serious, are you thinking in terms of longest distance or longest time?

 

[Springs Branch]

Is there a version of the Trans-Siberian route to Vladivostok where the train starts in Ukraine rather than Moscow, hence clocks up more kms than its better-known cousin?

Without a bit of Googling, I don't know the western terminus or distance involved.

 

[Whistler40145]

Spot on Springs Branch

Yes, it's the Trans-Siberian Express, Moscow (Russia) to Beijing (China), 7826 km and takes 131 hours (5.5 days).

You certainly wouldn't want to do that on a Pacer!

 

[Springs Branch]

Having looked a bit more closely at how far you can travel without leaving the same carriage, I think there are a couple of longer trips than Moscow/Beijing at 7800-ish km.

Firstly, there is the traditional Moscow/Vladivostok journey on the Rossiya (or similar) which is generally quoted at about 9,260 km (give or take a km)

But apparently twice a month there are through carriage(s) attached to a Trans-Siberian train in Moscow which is/are detached before Vladivostok and then proceed across the border to Pyongyang in North Korea (with similar in reverse).

This “Direct Carriage” facility appears on the English-language version of the Russian Railways website - but apparently is not readily available to your average western punter on account of North Korea’s restrictions on independent visitors.

The journey is quoted as 8d 15hr 35min one way, 8d 8hr 3min the other and a distance of 10,267 km.

So you thought parliamentary trains running once a week were bad? Look at the frequency in a country where there is no parliament!

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Following on the long-haul railway journey theme....

The completion of the USA's first transcontinental railroad in 1869 is well-known in railway history - Promontory Summit, Golden Spike and all that.

But in which year did the first regularly scheduled passenger train start to run right across the US, linking cities on the Pacific & Atlantic coasts?
What was the train's name and who operated it?

 

[theageofthetra]

UP in 1873 with the 'Overlander'? It can't be before this as the bridge over the Misouri had not been built.

 

[Springs Branch]

I don't think the Overland trains started from the East Coast, the emigrants, settlers etc had to make their way to some point in today's mid-west to join those trains.
The train I have in mind joined a city actually on the Atlantic coast with one on the west coast.

 

[theageofthetra]

If you mean the 'Transcontinental' an excursion run by the Boston board of trade. That was a one off special and as it was in 1870 and prior to the Missouri bridge it wasn't a continuous journey. The first railway to cross from an Atlantic to a Pacific city was the Panama RR in 1855- as it was US owned and operated I think there was some odd arrangements whereby the stations at either end were US territory?

 

[Springs Branch]

If you mean the 'Transcontinental' an excursion run by the Boston board of trade. That was a one off special and as it was in 1870 and prior to the Missouri bridge it wasn't a continuous journey. The first railway to cross from an Atlantic to a Pacific city was the Panama RR in 1855- as it was US owned and operated I think there was some odd arrangements whereby the stations at either end were US territory?

As you say, the Transcontinental train was a one-off publicity stunt after the opening of the Union Pacific/Central Pacific line, but it's not what I meant.

The answer I'm seeking relates to a full-size named train with regular week-in-week-out service across some of the familiar 48 contiguous states of the USA (and its start date is probably later than you might expect)

 

[deltic1989]

Having looked a bit more closely at how far you can travel without leaving the same carriage, I think there are a couple of longer trips than Moscow/Beijing at 7800-ish km.

Firstly, there is the traditional Moscow/Vladivostok journey on the Rossiya (or similar) which is generally quoted at about 9,260 km (give or take a km)

But apparently twice a month there are through carriage(s) attached to a Trans-Siberian train in Moscow which is/are detached before Vladivostok and then proceed across the border to Pyongyang in North Korea (with similar in reverse).

This “Direct Carriage” facility appears on the English-language version of the Russian Railways website - but apparently is not readily available to your average western punter on account of North Korea’s restrictions on independent visitors.

The journey is quoted as 8d 15hr 35min one way, 8d 8hr 3min the other and a distance of 10,267 km.

So you thought parliamentary trains running once a week were bad? Look at the frequency in a country where there is no parliament!

--- old post above --- --- new post below ---


Following on the long-haul railway journey theme....

The completion of the USA's first transcontinental railroad in 1869 is well-known in railway history - Promontory Summit, Golden Spike and all that.

But in which year did the first regularly scheduled passenger train start to run right across the US, linking cities on the Pacific & Atlantic coasts?
What was the train's name and who operated it?

I remember reading a blog about these Korean coaches written by an Austrian (I think) that actually did the journey. A fascinating read. I seem to remember it was called "The Forbidden Railway".

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Found a link......http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.co.uk/

 

[DasLunatic]

Well, this one's dead...

I board the 1213 AGA train to Liverpool Street at Thorpe-le-Soken, alighting at Ingatestone 49 minutes later. What is its headcode this Saturday? (16-05)

 

[Welshman]

1n37?

 

[DasLunatic]

Correct.