Railway General Knowledge.

[steamybrian]

You're all-correct, "so far as". A clue: the LMS had trackage on both of the two major islands of our island group.

OK -- must be LMS- NCC.
I will leave to other members of the forum to identify the other tramway in Northern Ireland

 

[kevconnor]

I will make a start with
1. LMS
2. One of them is the Stony Stratford- Wolverton (3 feet 6ins gauge)
3. 1926- a politically turbulal year.!

I cannot think of a second such tramway in the same year

Was the Northern Ireland Narrow Gauge the Portstewart Tramway?

Ifaccepted as correct I'll leave steamybrian to decide if he wants to post a qs or declare open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Portstewart Tramway (Irish "sub-standard" 3ft gauge) is right. Carry on, gents.

 

[steamybrian]

I will pass the floor over to kevconnor as he correctly answered the second part of the question

 

[kevconnor]

Open floor.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Open floor.

I'll take it...

During the cold war, what was the most dangerous train operated by the British Army in Berlin?

 

[TheEdge]

The S and U Bahn services that due to historical oddness found themselves straddling and crossing the Iron Curtain between West Berlin stations

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

The S and U Bahn services that due to historical oddness found themselves straddling and crossing the Iron Curtain between West Berlin stations

No...

Try again

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Would this be the express train that ran across East Germany to Berlin from West Germany?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Would this be the express train that ran across East Germany to Berlin from West Germany?

I said "British Army", so not exactly...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Oh.

I had thought that train was run by our lot.

Ah well...

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Oh.

I had thought that train was run by our lot.

Ah well...

I shall clarify... This train is not the Military Train, but was run by the military with armoured windows except for guy driving (I'll award the question to the nearest)

 

[theageofthetra]

Nothing to do with the bottle of port challenge between Potsdam and the terminus?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Nothing to do with the bottle of port challenge between Potsdam and the terminus?

*chuckles*

Nein... Dew muzt try agaieeeen

 

[Calthrop]

Nothing to do with the bottle of port challenge between Potsdam and the terminus?

*chuckles*

Nein... Dew muzt try agaieeeen

A wild guess -- and I'm not knowledgeable about the details of the Cold War Berlin situation -- was it anything to do with nuclear weapons?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

A wild guess -- and I'm not knowledgeable about the details of the Cold War Berlin situation -- was it anything to do with nuclear weapons?

No...

Peter is the closest, but I want to be a little closer before I start awarding

 

[krus_aragon]

Were the British army involved in any of the supply trains around the time of the Berlin Blockade, perhaps the first train after the blockade was lifted?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Were the British army involved in any of the supply trains around the time of the Berlin Blockade, perhaps the first train after the blockade was lifted?

Not the blockade that we all know and love... I should point out it did involve a blockade but the train never ran
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A clue again... In time of war would this train run

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Wouldn't be the mobile nuclear command train by any chance would it...?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Wouldn't be the mobile nuclear command train by any chance would it...?

Meh - close enough to get the win


Your platform

 

[Peter Mugridge]

In BR publicity material for the abortive early 1970s attempt to build a Channel Tunnel, what type of train was depicted inside the tunnel in much of the imagery?

 

[backontrack]

Gordon the Blue Engine?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Gordon the Blue Engine?

One presumes you mean Gordon the Big Engine...

#

Going wild here, but a 423?

 

[backontrack]

One presumes you mean Gordon the Big Engine...

This is a different Gordon...

 

[Phil.]

In BR publicity material for the abortive early 1970s attempt to build a Channel Tunnel, what type of train was depicted inside the tunnel in much of the imagery?

Early seventies - probably the APT.

 

[theageofthetra]

A 4 Vep given the preserved one is Gordon Pettitt?

 

[DaleCooper]

The Orient Express?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

One answer which may have been posted in jest is in fact rather close to the actual answer - but it wasn't the APT! To be clear... I am thinking of the images which showed a train actually inside the tunnel.

 

[Whistler40145]

I'll say the HST.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Not a diesel.

Think in terms of which region the tunnel.............