Railway General Knowledge.

[DerekC]

Clue points to Chatham?

For Anchor Wharf - that's right. So which railway?

Anchor Fuel works, Maendy nr Cardiff served by the Taff Vale Railway

Absolutely right. Tick in box

Anchor butter works, but where?

Somewhere in Devon, maybe??

 

[Snow1964]

Anchor butter works, but where?

I am guessing somewhere in the London docks, assuming it was a packaging plant for imported New Zealand butter. Just a guess

 

[341o2]

Anchor butter works, but where?

Must have been at Cowes, Isle of Wight Central railway (joke alert)

 

[Gloster]

Must have been at Cowes, Isle of Wight Central railway (joke alert)

Or ‘Udders-field.

 

[DerekC]

Churn Halt on the DN&S would be the most obvious place, I would have thought!

 

[DerekC]

OK - I will draw a line now. Score is:

@Gloster - 2
@AndyPJG - 1
@341o2 - 1

The answers to the others are:

• Anchor Bay - wharves on the south shore of the Thames at Erith - served by the SE&CR
• Anchor Brick Works - in Swadlincote, Leicestershire - served by a branch from the MR Leicester to Burton on Trent line
• Anchor Bridge - in Lostock Hall, Lancs - crossed by the L&YR chord from Farington West Junction to Lostock Hall Junction

@Gloster - your floor (mind the greasy bits - some of the butter escaped).

 

[Gloster]

There have been four public railways in Britain with a gauge of two-foot three-inches (2”3’) exactly. Please name them.

 

[Calthrop]

1) Talyllyn

2) Corris

3) Plynlimmon & Hafan (very short-lived)

4) Campbeltown & Machrihanish

 

[Gloster]

All four correct. Your turn to wield the track gauge.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks. Back to boring four-feet-eight-and-a-half...

A couple of years ago, I set a question involving several identically-named pairs of relatively out-of-the-way, and mostly defunct, stations in different respective parts of Britain: furnishing pre-grouping ownerships and broad geographical locations re each pair, and asking people to give the name in each case. The general picture got, was that the above-described as set, was somewhat overly abstruse. I'm venturing to try a similar exercise; but involving just one name-pair, and fuller clues.

These two stations, identically named, can be described as broadly speaking, at opposite ends of England; each was in "coal country", but a relatively rural version thereof. One was on a line of the London & North Western Railway; the other, on a line of the Great Western. One lost its passenger service in the 1920s, the other in the 1950s; their lines, in both cases, survived stations' pass. closure "in some sort" -- but both are long-abandoned as at the present day. A stretch -- some distance away from "our" station -- of one line, is featured in a well-known and much-loved film.

Please give the relevant name.

 

[Gloster]

I came to the conclusion that the film was probably ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ and therefore it was the North Somerset Coalfield, or maybe the Bristol one. I got no further until I was looking something non-railway up and a chain of thought ended with the realisation that there is a Camerton in Cumbria, as well as one in Somerset.

 

[Calthrop]

I came to the conclusion that the film was probably ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ and therefore it was the North Somerset Coalfield, or maybe the Bristol one. I got no further until I was looking something non-railway up and a chain of thought ended with the realisation that there is a Camerton in Cumbria, as well as one in Somerset.

Camerton(s), indeed: Somerset, on the GW Limpley Stoke -- Monkton Combe ("Titfield") -- Camerton -- Hallatrow branch (pass. service withdrawn, and line completely abandoned west of Camerton, in 1925); and Cumbria, between Workington and Cockermouth on a notionally isolated segment of the LNWR: route continued east from this last, as the nominally independent Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Ry. -- the Cumbrian Camerton station closed to passengers in 1952, but the section continued open to all traffic, until abandoned west of Keswick in 1966.

Your floor !

 

[Gloster]

Most of Harry Wainwright’s locos for the SE&CR were built at Ashford, but all the ‘L’ class 4-4-0 were built by outside builders. Which two companies were responsible?

 

[341o2]

Beyer Peacock and Borsig

 

[Gloster]

Correct. The draughtsman’s pen is yours.

 

[341o2]

When TOPS was introduced, which loco became 01.001 and where did it spend most of its working life

 

[xotGD]

D2001? Holyhead Breakwater.

 

[class321]

I should have passed sooner.

I hope this is OK as a question. The photo was taken on a train.

Which country was the photo taken in?
View attachment 91731

Could be Thailand or India

 

[Gloster]

Iran?

 

[class321]

Iran?

Iran would be Urdu or Arabic. The writing doesn't match.

 

[341o2]

Location right, not D2001

 

[xotGD]

D2501?

 

[Gloster]

I think that the type was up in the D29XX area.

 

[341o2]

I think that the type was up in the D29XX area.

You are thinking correctly

 

[martinsh]

D2951 ?

 

[341o2]

D2951 ?

Actually D2954 Sister loco D2955 became 01-002. 001 was out of use from 1973, while 002 worked the line until it closed in 1980

Your floor

 

[martinsh]

Open floor

 

[xotGD]

Since I got part of the last question correct, I think I'll take the floor:

What is the name of the pub on Dewsbury station?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Lancashire Arms?

 

[Metrolink]

West Riding refreshment rooms?

Open floor if so...