Joseph_Locke
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Nope. If I can add a clue? they're all dimensions.
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Nope. If I can add a clue? they're all dimensions.
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)EbbwJunction1
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Are they all (with one exception) dimensions of playing surfaces in metres?
If they are, I don't know which one is which or which one's the odd one out, so it's a total guess .... !
If they are, I don't know which one is which or which one's the odd one out, so it's a total guess .... !
Joseph_Locke
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This is a railway general knowledge quiz ....
One more guess and if there's no correct answer I will give it.
One more guess and if there's no correct answer I will give it.
DaleCooper
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1432mm is very close to 4' 8.5"; is it connected with gauges?
EbbwJunction1
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Ah, of course, sorry .... still, it's good to know that I'm totally wrong - and now completely stumped!!
Joseph_Locke
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Warm ...
DaleCooper
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Minimum distances to lineside structures?
Joseph_Locke
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Misery removal time;
1970, 1432, 1391, 1625, 41 and 108.
1970mm is the standard running edge to running edge dimension for a standard sixfoot;
1432mm was for a while standard track gauge (now back to 1435mm);
1391mm is standard check rail gauge;
41mm is standard flangeway in the majority of S&C;
108mm is the preferred toe opening the majority of S&C.
So these are all measured from one rail to another rail, but:
1625mm is the standard offset to an isolated structure not carrying the overhead line.
Therefore 1625mm is the odd one out because it isn't measured between two rails.
Open floor?
1970, 1432, 1391, 1625, 41 and 108.
1970mm is the standard running edge to running edge dimension for a standard sixfoot;
1432mm was for a while standard track gauge (now back to 1435mm);
1391mm is standard check rail gauge;
41mm is standard flangeway in the majority of S&C;
108mm is the preferred toe opening the majority of S&C.
So these are all measured from one rail to another rail, but:
1625mm is the standard offset to an isolated structure not carrying the overhead line.
Therefore 1625mm is the odd one out because it isn't measured between two rails.
Open floor?
theageofthetra
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Assuming it was as a result of the spoils of the Spanish- American war I'll go with The Philippine National Railroad?
Right historical episode and consequence, but wrong part of world: Philippines' railways have always been 3' 6" / 1067mm (in line with Japan and Indonesia not all that far away?).
theageofthetra
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Will go with Puerto Rico then?
P.R. it is: from the early 1890s, the beginnings of a planned metre-gauge system for the island had been opened -- expanded and linked-together by the Americans after annexation. To the best of my knowledge, the only public metre gauge ever to run in North / Central America or the West Indies. Nothing now left on rail in Puerto Rico, except a short tourist line on former sugar-mill trackage.
Your floor.
theageofthetra
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Where can you ride in a crystal carriage?
theageofthetra
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A clue - its in Austria
EbbwJunction1
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What's the answer, please?
theageofthetra
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Ok open floor. Its the Kristalwagon on the Zillertal Bahn. It was decorated inside by the nearby Swarovski Crystal attraction.
EbbwJunction1
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I'll take it if I may.
Here are four quotes (all by different people) relating to railways, but not necessarily by railway people:
"I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the XX-XX * though."
* removed to make the quote less easy to get (I hope!).
"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
"I'm proud to be a railway modeller. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine."
"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
Who said them?
Here are four quotes (all by different people) relating to railways, but not necessarily by railway people:
"I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the XX-XX * though."
* removed to make the quote less easy to get (I hope!).
"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
"I'm proud to be a railway modeller. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine."
"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
Who said them?
martinsh
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I think no 3 is Neil Young
Mvann
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No 3 is rod Stewart. No 4 is Jenny agutter
EbbwJunction1
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No, afraid not.
Yes, Rod the Mod did say that, but Jenny Agutter did not.
No, neither of them are right.
For this one (2), I will -- without great hope -- try Lucius Beebe.
DaleCooper
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2 - John Cooper Clarke
4 - Sally Thomsett
4 - Sally Thomsett
EbbwJunction1
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EbbwJunction1
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Over to you!
(No. 2) -- has got to be Dylan Thomas.
DaleCooper
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1. Kalashnikov