Railway General Knowledge.

[Snow1964]

46003 ?

 

[Peterthegreat]

46003 ?

Sorry not 46003.

 

[xotGD]

44003

 

[Peterthegreat]

44003

Correct. Skiddaw was the first to be withdrawn in July 1976. Over to you.

 

[xotGD]

I thought it was a 44, but had no idea which one!

Next up: How many LNER Class A4 locomotives were built?

 

[WizCastro197]

I thought it was a 44, but had no idea which one!

Next up: How many LNER Class A4 locomotives were built?

35?

 

[xotGD]

35?

Yep! The floor is yours...

 

[WizCastro197]

Open Floor please.

 

[Calthrop]

A variation on a question which I have asked in the past (but, re a different year): certain years in the 20th century would seem to have been particularly "sad and bad" ones for closures of, often, attractive lines -- if one likes, rather than despises, "railway byways". Such a year was, in my opinion, 1951: in the British Isles, and further afield. Please give three instances of 1951 closures; preferably, "regardable as regrettable" -- in these islands, or overseas.

 

[D6130]

If we're looking at closures to passenger services, I can offer:

Glasgow-Aberfoyle

Balloch-Stirling

Chathill-Seahouses

 

[Ashley Hill]

Turnchapel Branch
Camerton Branch
Princetown Branch.

 

[Calthrop]

If we're looking at closures to passenger services, I can offer:

Glasgow-Aberfoyle

Balloch-Stirling

Chathill-Seahouses

I'd been thinking, rather, total abandonment -- but I ought, then, to have made that clear ! -- in my haste to set question, didn't frame it any too well ... since I didn't rule out "passenger only, retained for freight", I'll give you Glasgow -- Aberfoyle; Seahouses branch was total closure, I think (one of those which particularly sadden me); but the Gartness -- Stirling section of your middle submission, lost its passenger service in 1934 -- retained for freight, but bits of that stretch were abandoned pre-1951.

Turnchapel Branch
Camerton Branch
Princetown Branch.

Turnchapel, and Camerton (freight-only remnant of Limpley Stoke -- Camerton -- Hallatrow line), yes; but Princetown branch's closure to all traffic was in 1956, I think you'll find.

@D6130 and @Ashley Hill: you're "level pegging" with two each. Can either of you submit a valid "third"? -- or, three from anyone else?

 

[D6130]

Turiff-Macduff (Inveramsay-Turiff remained open for freight until 1966).

 

[Calthrop]

Turiff-Macduff (Inveramsay-Turiff remained open for freight until 1966).

Yes ! (Another line I'd love to have done).

@D6130: your turn.

 

[D6130]

@D6130: your turn.

Thanks.

Next question: Name ten locations in Britain where water troughs were installed to enable locomotives to refill there tenders on the move.

 

[315801]

2 places that I can think of are Bushey although I do not know the exact location and possibly beatock summit although not confident on the 2nd guess

 

[Gloster]

Hest Bank?
Fairwood Junction?

 

[D6130]

2 places that I can think of are Bushey although I do not know the exact location and possibly beatock summit although not confident on the 2nd guess

Correct in the first instance, but not in the second.

Hest Bank?
Fairwood Junction?

Correct....you are currently in the lead.

 

[xotGD]

Ais Gill?
Somewhere near Thirsk?

 

[D6130]

Ais Gill?

Close....but a few miles further up the line.

Somewhere near Thirsk?

Also close....but a few miles futher down the line!

 

[Gloster]

Was there a set at Madeley near Crewe?
Blisworth?

EDIT: Pilmoor?

 

[D6130]

Was there a set at Madeley near Crewe?

I'll give you that one....they were on the short level stretch at Whitmore Summit close to Madeley.

Blisworth?

Close....but a few miles up the line from there.

You're currently still in the lead with three.

 

[DaleCooper]

Werrington

 

[Loppylugs]

Goring-on-Thames

 

[Gloster]

Roade?
Pilmoor?

 

[D6130]

Werrington

Yes.

Goring-on-Thames

Correct.

We have five now. Plenty more to go at (There were many more than ten).

 

[D6130]

Roade?

Close....they were actually named after the next station to the South - Castlethorpe - but I'll give you that. The associated water-softening plant was still in situ, IIRC, well into the 1990s.

Pilmoor?

Correct. You're still in the lead with five.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Lickey Incline

 

[Peterthegreat]

Diggle
Muskham
Bawtry
Loughborough

 

[xotGD]

Blea Moor
Northallerton