Railway General Knowledge.

[martinsh]

OK. How about

Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Surinam
Venezuela

Country which could either be included or not was Paraguay - connection to network was by train ferry.

 

[Calthrop]

martinsh, I'll say "correct -- your floor".

I was reckoning Paraguay -- because of its cross-river train ferry -- as part of the big network for sure. The one I saw as "could go either way" was Peru: technically and marginally on the big network -- Tacna, at the country's southern extremity, the terminus of a short 4-8-and-a-half-gauge line to Arica (Chile), joining there the metre-gauge Arica - La Paz section: all other systems / lines in Peru (variously 4-8-and-a-half, and 3ft) unconnected to the big network, and each other.

 

[martinsh]

Sorry about the delay - forgot about this.

How many countries in the EU have their most common railway gauge as something other than standard ? Name them ?

 

[Phil.]

I'll have a try at....
Estonia, Lithuania, Finland. I think they're all Russian gauge.
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland - politically they're separate countries.
Portugal and Spain. I don't think that Spain has more standard than broad just yet.

That makes 7. Whaddya reckon?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I'll have a try at....
Estonia, Lithuania, Finland. I think they're all Russian gauge.
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland - politically they're separate countries.
Portugal and Spain. I don't think that Spain has more standard than broad just yet.

That makes 7. Whaddya reckon?

Estonia, of course, also well known for having a railway running through a football stadium!

 

[RJ21]

What about Latvia? Sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia

 

[martinsh]

What about Latvia? Sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia

That completes the list - youir floor

 

[RJ21]

Countries of Europe without railways, by my count there are four.

 

[DaleCooper]

San Marino
Cyprus
Iceland
Andorra
Malta

 

[RJ21]

You learn something everyday, I'd not noticed Andorra.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Andorra, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Malta and San Marino

 

[DaleCooper]

If you include Faroe Islands and Gibraltar you should also include Jersey and Guernsey (but not Greenland I suppose)

 

[Phil.]

What about Latvia? Sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia

Blast! I forgot about Latvia. Well, it has been fifty years since I got my G.C.E. O level Geography at C.

 

[Calthrop]

If you include Faroe Islands and Gibraltar you should also include Jersey and Guernsey (but not Greenland I suppose)

If the Channel Islands get into the mix: one could be a real pain, and make a case for Guernsey not being railway-less. This would be on the basis of the islands' being administratively divided into the two Bailiwicks of Jersey, and Guernsey: the latter entity comprising as well as Guernsey itself, the lesser islands of Alderney, Sark, and Herm. Alderney still has an operational railway: a venerable standard-gauge line which long existed to bring quarried stone down to the harbour, for maintenance of same; now active as a -- very laid-back -- tourist operation.

 

[RJ21]

Fortunately the Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Faroe etc are dependencies of other countries (the UK/Crown & Denmark) so helpfully are not actual countries, but they do make interesting additions to the list all the same. Over to someone for a new question I think.

 

[Calthrop]

Might I jump in? No bloody Latin America with this one, I promise -- it's about Great Britain.

What stretch (to be precise, two stretches) of line opened some two-thirds of the way through the 19th century; peaked and declined quite early in career; had services suspended throughout World War I; re-opened very briefly post-war, then closed down for good; but proved useful, unofficially, for fun-lovers for another dozen years?

 

[Cowley]

The Leek and Manifold? I'm thinking it might be somewhere with a hill.

 

[RJ21]

I was going to.put an answer in yesterday, open floor if I am right, Solway viaduct to Annan, post closure usage as a route to the pub when Scottish pubs were forced to close on a Sunday.

 

[Calthrop]

RJ21--correct: Caledonian Railway's Solway Junction route, Annan -- Brayton (with running-powers stretch over part of North British Carlisle -- Silloth line), including Solway viaduct. Open floor, as per your wish.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I'll take it - which railway station has a connection with the Lord Lucan disappearance?

 

[Springs Branch]

I think Lucan's suspected getaway car was found in Newhaven so I'll say ....

Newhaven Marine ?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I think Lucan's suspected getaway car was found in Newhaven so I'll say ....

Newhaven Marine ?

Not NVM... Try one of the others

 

[Springs Branch]

OK, let's toss a coin ...... Newhaven Harbour ?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

OK, let's toss a coin ...... Newhaven Harbour ?

Yep... One or two accounts state that he was spotted by the station before boarding a powerboat

Your floor

 

[Springs Branch]

What is next in this (railway related) sequence ....

EB, WA, NA, EA, WC, ??

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

Hint: Touch in in Zone 3.

 

[DaleCooper]

SB - Shepherd' Bush?

 

[Springs Branch]

SB - Shepherd' Bush?

.... is correct - departing Ealing Broadway on the Central Line tube, subsequent stations conveniently have two-word names with initials as shown.

Your Floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

Open floor.

 

[backontrack]

I'll take it!

Which is the next letter in this sequence?

L, PH, O, RRH, MC, U, WCH

 

[NoMorePacers]

Is this in the UK?