Railway General Knowledge.

[Ash Bridge]

Rolls-Royce.

The company was founded in Manchester's Midland Hotel in 1906, and they produce luxury cars and jet engines.

Precisely! Well done,

Your Floor.

 

[DasLunatic]

DLR trains can also be found working in Germany. Where, and why is this?

 

[Ash Bridge]

DLR trains can also be found working in Germany. Where, and why is this?

On the Essen Stadtbahn, when the DLR was extended to Bank? the older vehicles apparently did not meet the required safety standards for use in the tunnelled sections and were subsequently replaced with a new build which met the requirements, the Essen system needed extra rolling stock at the time and the old DLR units were considered suitable and therefore purchased for use there.

 

[DasLunatic]

That's good enough for me. Your floor.

 

[BestWestern]

[beaten to it by a better answer!]

 

[Ash Bridge]

[beaten to it by a better answer!]

I'll have to be truthful, without wiki I'd have been stuck on that one

Haven't got a suitable question at the moment so I'll declare Open Floor

 

[BestWestern]

I'll have a chuck at it...

I am a railway station. I was built in three stages, across two different centuries. My oldest part is still standing, but no longer sees any trains. The headquarters of a long defunct railway company stands alongside me. There is something absent from my platforms.

Which station am I?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I'll have a chuck at it...

I am a railway station. I was built in three stages, across two different centuries. My oldest part is still standing, but no longer sees any trains. The headquarters of a long defunct railway company stands alongside me. There is something absent from my platforms.

Which station am I?

Bristol Temple Meads?

 

[BestWestern]

Bristol Temple Meads?

In one! What is missing from the platforms!?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

In one! What is missing from the platforms!?

Friendly staff...? Joking aside, is it the fact you have no Platform 14?

My floor, I believe

 

[BestWestern]

Haha! Yes, the mysterious 14!

Your floor

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Thanks...

According to myth, what is the purpose for any train carrying the headcode 0L00?

 

[BestWestern]

Royalty?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Royalty?

Nope...

 

[BestWestern]

To clarify, is this indeed a train? Formed of railway vehicles and running on the metals!?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

To clarify, is this indeed a train? Formed of railway vehicles and running on the metals!?

Yes... At least one train has run under this code - others may well have done so

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Light engine, going into sidings.



Open floor if correct.







Rather annoyingly I thought Temple Meads for the last one but couldn't think of an old headquarters next to it - because I automatically think of Swindon for the GWR...!!

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Light engine, going into sidings.



Open floor if correct.

Nope... This one may take some time to get - unless we have any signallers in the house

 

[BestWestern]

I can only guess....

0 denoting a light locomotive?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I can only guess....

0 denoting a light locomotive?

Yes, the 0 means a light engine - but it is not on my answer card

 

[DasLunatic]

A movement involving Caroline in some manner?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

A movement involving Caroline in some manner?

Nope.

 

[martinsh]

Newhaven Marine ?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Newhaven Marine ?

No...

 

[deltic1989]

Lickey Banker returning from banking?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Lickey Banker returning from banking?

Nope - try again

Slightly off topic, changed my signature for a week

 

[krus_aragon]

A driver going light engine to the L00? :P

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

A driver going light engine to the L00? :P

No, but we're on the right sort of thinking - try again

 

[BestWestern]

Train with no lavatories, perhaps requiring toilet stops?!

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Train with no lavatories, perhaps requiring toilet stops?!

Nope...