Railway General Knowledge.

[Cowley]

Right then, I’ve got to go to work now so I suppose you’ll have to work this one out between you.
@SteveM70
@Gloster
@Whistler40145

You all got in with one answer each so over to you.

 

[SuspectUsual]

I’ll pass thanks

 

[DerekC]

Come on @Gloster or @Whistler40145 - one of you needs to pick up the baton!

 

[Whistler40145]

Open floor

 

[Gloster]

Open floor.

 

[Snow1964]

Here goes then.
Which new railway yard partly opened in 1917, was built by German Prisoners of War. Was closed in 1960s, but part of site is now back in use.

 

[RDP]

Feltham?

 

[Snow1964]

Feltham?

Yes, well done, all yours

 

[RDP]

Cheers. Try this one.

Which signal box controlling semaphore signals is the only operational Network Rail signal box within the boundaries of the English shire county where it is situated?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Yeovil Pen Mill?

 

[Neo9320]

Egginton?

 

[xotGD]

Oakham?

 

[RDP]

Egginton?

Not the only one in Derbyshire.

Oakham?

Not in a shire county and has no semaphores.

 

[Neo9320]

Not the only one in Derbyshire.


Not in a shire county and has no semaphores.

Ah, of course, I was placing Egginton in the north Staffordshire area. Senior moment…

 

[Whistler40145]

Shrewsbury?

 

[Gloster]

Haven’t we had the answer in #13,420?

 

[RDP]

Yeovil Pen Mill?

Sorry missed that one. That is indeed the correct answer. After Basingstoke took over control of the Salisbury-Exeter line resulting in the closure of Templecombe, Yeovil Junction and Chard Junction boxes Yeovil Pen Mill is now the only operational Network Rail signal box in Somerset.

Your turn to pull the levers.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Which is the last operational signal box on Network Rail to have signalled broad gauge trains?

 

[Gloster]

Par.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Par.

Par is correct. Your turn to ask on!

 

[Gloster]

There is an operating Network Rail signalbox even older than Par on a line that used to see broad-gauge trains. Which box?

EDITED: ‘operating’ added.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Stoke Canon?

 

[Gloster]

Stoke Canon?

No. I have added operating to the question for clarity.

 

[RDP]

Ascott under Wychwood?

 

[Ashley Hill]

St Mary’s Crossing?

 

[Gloster]

Ascott under Wychwood?

St Mary’s Crossing?

Neither are correct, but one answer (so far) is very close. I can add that it appears that the box very probably handled broad-gauge trains. (There are reason for my obscure phrasing.)

 

[Ashley Hill]

Morton in Marsh?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Evesham?

 

[Gloster]

Morton in Marsh?

Evesham?

Neither. When I said that one answer had been close, I did not say which answer. And by close I mean single digit miles.

 

[Gloster]

I will further add that the first answer was the nearest geographically.