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NoMorePacers
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The Northern line, even?
DaleCooper
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Did you know that, given an infinite amount of time, an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters would eventually get the answer to this question?
HMS Ark Royal
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NoMorePacers
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Monkeys? You must be going bananas!
DaleCooper, if you think monkeys can do it, try and answer the question yourself. I'm nearly held up for dead now.
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krus_aragon
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Might VKC 1553 be on the Victoria line, running from Victoria station through Kings Cross?
Not that I'd have a clue where on the line signal 1553 would be.
Not that I'd have a clue where on the line signal 1553 would be.
HMS Ark Royal
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Close enough to get it, I think... Southbound running tunnel in direction of normal travel - located at tunnel mouth at Kings Cross
Your floor
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krus_aragon
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Ah, thank you. (That was surprisingly straight-forward, once you got us concentrated on London. I feared there might be a lot more to-ing and fro-ing.)
Next up:
What was "Doctor" Tyer's prescription for the railways?
HMS Ark Royal
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Take two Asprin and call me in the morning
krus_aragon
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No, but he did help stop a major headache for railway operators...
Edit: and passengers too.
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HMS Ark Royal
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Withdrew WCRC's permission to operate trains
krus_aragon
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No, he wasn't around to do that.
Darren R
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Would this be a reference to Tyre's Tablet? Although far from foolproof (as demonstrated by the terrible head-on collision at Abermule in 1921), it was a system of interlocking at either end of a single track section that meant only one single track staff (or 'tablet') could be withdrawn from the machine and given to a driver as authority to proceed.
(Open Floor if correct.)
(Open Floor if correct.)
HMS Ark Royal
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Was it the Block system?
krus_aragon
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Yes indeed, I was thinking of Edward Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system, for regulating trains on single track lines. While we tend to refer to them as tokens these days, they were originally known as tablets:
Darren R has declared open floor.
HMS Ark Royal
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Well...
Which scrapyard gives rise to the "Train Tetris" or "Train Pyramid" meme?
Which scrapyard gives rise to the "Train Tetris" or "Train Pyramid" meme?
steamybrian
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I don't want to sound like sour grapes but that question is not railway general knowledge. That's a nerd knowledge question.
Peter Mugridge
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HMS Ark Royal
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Peter Mugridge
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What is special* about 483 007 on the Isle of Wight?
*By which I mean - it has a claim to fame that the rest of the surviving fleet don't.
*By which I mean - it has a claim to fame that the rest of the surviving fleet don't.
NoMorePacers
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It was the last train to be withdrawn from LU services
DaleCooper
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Is it licensed to kill?
Peter Mugridge
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Neither answer so far is correct.
theageofthetra
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As they were introduced during the blitz did parts of it survive a bombing?
Peter Mugridge
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No; the answer relates to the final years on 1938 Stock. There is something about that specific unit.
HMS Ark Royal
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Last one in use on 19 May 1988
Peter Mugridge
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Nice try, but as they are still in use, just not in London....
OK, I think a clue is needed. There was something special about this unit for the last couple of years of it's life on the Bakerloo Line prior to it being one of the five resurrected for short term Northern Line use.
HMS Ark Royal
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Last unit to get an EHO?
Peter Mugridge
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I don't know if it was that, but you are certainly thinking in the right sort of area now.
It's something that was done to it at Stonebridge Park.
I'm offline now and I'll check back in the morning. I have a feeling you're going to be the one to get this one...
It's something that was done to it at Stonebridge Park.
I'm offline now and I'll check back in the morning. I have a feeling you're going to be the one to get this one...