D6130
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D1023 and D1048?
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Ashley Hill
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One did one didn’t.
Ashley Hill
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Correct. Your turn to miss an open day
.Correct. Your turn to miss an open day
I missed it as well!
Ok, let’s have the numbers of five BR era heritage livery repaints of diesel locos into green livery please?
D6130
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Damn. I meant to add authentic heritage livery repaints but forgot!
Your turn to pick up the catalogue of RAL numbers and pick a question @D6130!
D6130
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A bit tied-up with travelling back from Italy just now, so open floor please!
Harking back to post #14,576: there is a song -- also in the "folk" idiom rather than otherwise -- which is a probably less-well-known counterpart to Percy French / West Clare / Are ye right there... : theme, a railway in the north of England which -- like the West Clare -- for a time in the past, was run in a decidedly shambolic way (but subsequently cleaned up its act). The song being about this railway in its chaotic times -- please give the song's title, and the name of the railway.
Looks like this one isn't going anywhere -- don't see any way of giving hints: it would seem this is one which "you either know, or you don't". The song is Moses Of The Mail -- the railway, the Lancashire & Yorkshire: which for a while in the 19th century, was organised and operated with a considerable degree of incompetence and inefficiency -- things were in time "turned round", and the railway became admirably efficient.
Open floor.
Open floor.
DerekC
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OK let's try an easy one to get the show back on the road. As 4472 is to Flying Scotsman so 9499 was to???
D6130
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'Big Bertha'.....the 0-10-0 Lickey banker?
DerekC
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Not that one. Its origins were a lot further north - although maybe it got about a bit?
Whistler40145
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Wandering Willie ?
DerekC
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Brilliant - your floor!
Whistler40145
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Open Floor
DerekC
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Since that one didn't last long - which railway was double track, but (at least initially) reserved one track for first class passengers?
DerekC
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I have realised that my introduction was wrong. I think the railway in question must have had four tracks, one pair of which was initially reserved for first class passengers.
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DerekC
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Not the USA. Home territory.
Spamcan81
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York and North Midland?
DerekC
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Nope. It's a railway I had never heard of until a couple of days ago. A clue - it was very short and had an unusual (although not unique) source of power.
Spamcan81
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Wind power?
D6130
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Listowel & Ballybunion? Clutching at straws now!
martinsh
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Clifton Rocks Railway in Bristol ?
DerekC
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No - water power.
Not that straw though!
That's the one. An underground funicular operated by water - just like the Lynton to Lynmouth one but in a tunnel. If I am reading the history right, it was double funicular with two pairs of cars, one pair for first class and one for second.
Your inclined plane.
martinsh
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Open Floor
Spamcan81
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A easy one to keep things going.
Prior to closure, which station was the least used on the London Underground network?
Prior to closure, which station was the least used on the London Underground network?
Ashley Hill
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Blake Hall?
Spamcan81
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Correct. The right away is yours.