Railway General Knowledge.

[444045]

Shoreham

Sorry not correct - both the stations are on SWR between Woking and Weymouth

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Bournemouth has an air show* and was also a 4-REP destination. Is it that one...?


*In normal times anyway...

 

[444045]

Bournemouth has an air show* and was also a 4-REP destination. Is it that one...?


*In normal times anyway...

You are correct Sir - The Bournemouth was indeed a buffet name

Only 1 to get now

 

[Nick_C]

Beaulieu?

 

[444045]

Beaulieu?

Well done - you are correct - the final answer

All you need to do now is put the names to the units for extra points

 

[xotGD]

Well done - you are correct - the final answer

All you need to do now is put the names to the units for extra points

LOL!

 

[444045]

As its taken quite a while to get all the buffet names right then I don't think it fair to draw this out further -

Here are units with their associated buffet name -

3001 The Kingston - 3002 The Waterloo - 3003 The Farnborough - 3004 The Solent - 3005 The Hampton Court

3006 The Bournemouth - 3007 The Winchester - 3008 The Sandown - 3009 The Wimbledon - 3010 The Vauxhall

3011 The Beaulieu - 3012 The Brooklands - 3013 The Avon - 3014 The New Forest - 3015 The Stour

xotGD & LSWR Cavalier both got the same amount of correct answers - so can you decide who poses the next question please

 

[xotGD]

As my answers were all total guesswork I shall let @LSWR Cavalier take the floor.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Thanks very much, @xotGD

Which New Town in Germany is infamous because express train drivers repeatedly forgot to stop there?

 

[Calthrop]

A totally blind guess: is there, conceivably, linguistic cleverness afoot? "New Town" = Neustadt (Rhineland-Palatinate)??

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

@Calthrop
There are so many Neustaedte..
The place I am looking for is not one of them, but it really is 'new', founded in the 20th century

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki tells me that the Rhineland-Palatinate Neustadt is Germany's biggest town of that name ! I haven't the faintest idea what the correct answer might be ...

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

It is a prosperous town on an ICE route, many trains are not timetabled to stop there, I think that is the problem

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

No answers for two days, so here is a clue
It is not far from Dreileben ['three lives'] where there was a derailment recently, but on another line

 

[xotGD]

After looking at a map: Wolfsburg?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Wolfsburg is the right answer, one suggested reason was that there is a big car factory there

In fact DB cooperated with vw, people buying new cars and collecting from the factory got a discount on their last train trip before downgrading to driving

 

[xotGD]

Closer to home - HS is the depot code for which current or former locomotive depot?

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Closer to home - HS is the depot code for which current or former locomotive depot?

Going off a very vague thought of something I’ve seen on Twitter - Washwood Heath?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Surely that has to be Bradford Hammerton Street. I seem to remember it had some 08 shunters allocated there at one time - 1970s.

 

[xotGD]

Surely that has to be Bradford Hammerton Street. I seem to remember it had some 08 shunters allocated there at one time - 1970s.

Correct! Your turn to occupy the depot Foreman's office...

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Lets stay on the theme 62C was the depot code pre-tops of which depot?

 

[Ashley Hill]

That would be Dunfermline. (Not my shedplate)

 

[GRALISTAIR]

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That would be Dunfermline. (Not my shedplate)

Indeed 62C was Dunfermline Townhill - you are allocated the next question.

 

[Ashley Hill]

What do the shed codes 19B,25A and 41C have in common?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Total guess - they were all at various times the code for the same place?

 

[Snow1964]

All next to River Sheaf ?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Correct,but where?

 

[341o2]

Sheffield

 

[martinsh]

19B and 25A imply an ex Midland shed - so Millhouses ?

Open floor if correct

 

[GRALISTAIR]

41C is Wath but still Sheffield Area and was at one time (pre 1965 ish?) Millhouses