Railway General Knowledge.

[backontrack]

I'll take it!

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Which open access operator operates services on this route? Each picture represents a station that is called at en-route.

 

[hexagon789]

I'll take it!

EDITED SIGNS

Which open access operator operates services on this route? Each picture represents a station that is called at en-route.

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Grand Central

First image is King's Cross

Second is Pontefract (liquorice having been manufactured there in the past giving rise to the so-called "Pontefract Cake"

Third is the bank Halifax's logo so therefore town of Halifax.

Fourth image is presumably the nameboard at Bradford-on-Avon and thus refers to Bradford Interchange.

 

[backontrack]

Grand Central

First image is King's Cross

Second is Pontefract (liquorice having been manufactured there in the past giving rise to the so-called "Pontefract Cake"

Third is the bank Halifax's logo so therefore town of Halifax.

Fourth image is presumably the nameboard at Bradford-on-Avon and thus refers to Bradford Interchange.

All right! Over to you.

 

[hexagon789]

Open floor

 

[A Challenge]

Where and when (what year) was the Battle of Saxby?

 

[backontrack]

Ah, yes! 1844, I think. The Earl of Harborough didn't want the Syston and Peterborough Railway to come near his estate, so it ended up with the S&P navvies clashing with the estate workers.

 

[A Challenge]

Correct

 

[backontrack]

Thanks

The closed North Wales station Aber was so named because its name was a shortened version of the name of the village it served, which is close to a waterfall. What is that village called?

 

[Calthrop]

Abergwyngregyn?

 

[backontrack]

Abergwyngregyn?

Correct! Over to you.

 

[Calthrop]

Open floor, please.

 

[krus_aragon]

Here's a quickie:

As well as the closed Aber station in North Wales, there is also an Aber station near Caerphilly that remains open.

Name a further three closed stations in Wales that had 'Aber' in their name, and three open stations with 'Aber' in their name.

 

[Calthrop]

Closed:
Aberedw (Mid-Wales line, Cambrian Rys.); Aberayron (GWR); Abergywnfi (terminus of GWR branch from Tondu)


Open:
Abererch (Cambrian Coast line); Abercynon (South Wales Valleys); Abergynolwyn (Talyllyn Railway)

 

[krus_aragon]

Closed:
Aberedw (Mid-Wales line, Cambrian Rys.); Aberayron (GWR); Abergywnfi (terminus of GWR branch from Tondu)


Open:
Abererch (Cambrian Coast line); Abercynon (South Wales Valleys); Abergynolwyn (Talyllyn Railway)

A lovely spread of stations there (of the many to choose from).

Your floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks.

As at 1958, which country of the world had more railway trackage per square kilometre or mile, than any other? Note: this very definitely includes industrial lines, in the widest application of the word; and when I recently discovered this information, which country which it turned out to be, was -- to me -- most unexpected and surprising.

 

[Cowley]

It probably isn’t Mr Caltrop but how about Ireland?

 

[Calthrop]

It probably isn’t Mr Caltrop but how about Ireland?

Nope. (Notwithstanding martinsh's jest of a couple of days ago -- this is one question I've set, which has nothing at all to do with Ireland .) I have the impression that re trackage vis-a-vis land area, railways were relatively thin on the ground in Ireland even at its rail peak.

 

[krus_aragon]

If we're going into spherical cow territory here, narrow gauge lines could give the highest trackage per square kilometre, because you can fit more lines on the same area of land! :P

 

[Cowley]

Nope. (Notwithstanding martinsh's jest of a couple of days ago -- this is one question I've set, which has nothing at all to do with Ireland .) I have the impression that re trackage vis-a-vis land area, railways were relatively thin on the ground in Ireland even at its rail peak.

Now I’ve said it I do feel a little silly.
I’m going to go Route One...
The UK?

 

[A Challenge]

Leitchenstein?

 

[Calthrop]

Seems I'm none too bright with the multi-quoting routine: I'll just reply to posts in order.

krus_aragon: whimsical territory aside -- though the country has had a modicum of narrow gauge (very little, if any, now remains); it is and has been always strongly predominantly, what by all normally observed conventions is definitely not-narrow-gauge.

Cowley: not UK -- as stated in my original question, the country which had this distinction as at 60 years ago is one which greatly surprised me, and which I'd not have thought of in this connection, in a million years.

A Challenge: I think I see your logic here; but it isn't Liechtenstein.

 

[A Challenge]

Monaco on the same logic?

 

[Calthrop]

Monaco on the same logic?

Rightly or wrongly -- the answer is not a project of this narrowly logical approach.

 

[Cowley]

This is actually a really good question. Let’s try for...
Poland?

 

[theageofthetra]

Belgium- small area, lots of tramways etc?

 

[theageofthetra]

Was also going to suggest Czechslovakia - hundereds of miles of tramways, lots of industrial lines plus a lot of main lines?

 

[Calthrop]

None of the European "usual suspects". In fact, it's not in Europe at all.

 

[theageofthetra]

Hong Kong?

 

[martinsh]

India ?

 

[Cowley]

Cuba?