Railway General Knowledge.

[Peterthegreat]

Johnson 2Fs?

 

[RDP]

LNW Special Tank 0-6-0ST (Wolverton Works shunters)?

 

[DerekC]

Johnson 2Fs?

Not those - although there are some Johnson 1F 0-6-0Ts which at an introduction date of 1878, made it into the final heat!

LNW Special Tank 0-6-0ST (Wolverton Works shunters)?

They are the ones! Ian Allan says "Introduced 1870. Webb version of Ramsbottom "Special Tank". Numbered CD3, 6, 7 and 8. No 8 was named "Earlestown". There's a very nice picture of one of them here:

https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwr/rugby/shed/lnwrrm3004.JPG

Sadly none were preserved.

Your floor @RDP

 

[RDP]

Cheers.

With it being Friday 13th I thought this was appropriate.

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch railway never had a no. 13. The official excuse was that a similar locomotive to its own no. 12 had been built for export following trials on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. Where was it exported to?

 

[xotGD]

India

 

[RDP]

India

Not India but heading in the right direction.

 

[xotGD]

China

 

[Peterthegreat]

Japan

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burma

 

[RDP]

China

No

Japan

Is correct. The locomotive B-BDH no. 3 John Southland II was built by TMA Engineering in 1988 for the Shuzenji Romney Railway, Niji no Sato (Rainbow Park), Izu, Shizuoka and was based on RH&DR no. 12 then named John Southland but renamed J. B. Snell in 2014. This railway incidentally also has two 2-6-2 steam locomotives built by the R&ER and based on Northern Rock these being no. 1 Northern Rock II and no. 4 Cumbria as well as being the home of former Fairbourne Railway 4-6-2 Ernest W. Twining.

Your turn to export the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

No

Is correct. The locomotive B-BDH no. 3 John Southland II was built by TMA Engineering in 1988 for the Shuzenji Romney Railway, Niji no Sato (Rainbow Park), Izu, Shizuoka and was based on RH&DR no. 12 then named John Southland but renamed J. B. Snell in 2014. This railway incidentally also has two 2-6-2 steam locomotives built by the R&ER and based on Northern Rock these being no. 1 Northern Rock II and no. 4 Cumbria as well as being the home of former Fairbourne Railway 4-6-2 Ernest W. Twining.

Your turn to export the next question.

Thank you.
The SNCF automotrice Z 7001 was given which nickname?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Any offers?

 

[D6130]

Thank you.
The SNCF automotrice Z 7001 was given which nickname?

"La Flêche d'Argent" ("The Silver Arrow")?....clutching at straws here!

 

[Peterthegreat]

"La Flêche d'Argent" ("The Silver Arrow")?....clutching at straws here!

No. Not Silver (nor Golden) Arrow.
The name is that of a boy and is derived from Hebrew.

 

[D6130]

Isaac?

 

[xotGD]

Joseph?

Just like Class 47s!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Isaac?

Not Isaac.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Joseph?

Just like Class 47s!

Nor Joseph.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I don't think anyone will get it so the answer is Zébulon.
Z 7001 was used to test many of the features used in TGVs.
So.open floor please.

 

[Calthrop]

I don't think anyone will get it so the answer is Zébulon.

(Not a question -- just a thought that comes to mind.) --

Derived by any chance, from memories of the long-ago kids' TV cartoon series The Magic Roundabout ? -- originally a French creation, adapted for the Brits as appropriate. The on-a-coiled spring character who appeared at the end -- catchphrase "BOING ! Time for bed !" -- was called Zebedee in the English version; in the French original, he was Zebulon (can't do the accent).

 

[Calthrop]

It's still "open floor" -- so; something which, by chance, lately cropped up in another venue in our Quizzes and Games ...

What was, likely, Britain's earliest abandonment of a a significant length of public railway with passenger service: occurred in 1851. Between which two points was this?

 

[Gloster]

Orton and Rothes? (Although I think that might have been a year or two later.)

 

[Calthrop]

Closure Orton -- Rothes was early in rail history, but still a good deal more than a year or two later; so it's not that one, I'm afraid.

 

[martinsh]

I think this was part of the Newmarket Railway from Great Chesterford to ???

 

[Calthrop]

This will do -- indeed, part of the Newmarket & Chesterford Railway, short-lived as an independent entity (1848 -- 51); its brief but chequered career was closely bound up with its bigger neighbour the Eastern Counties Railway. N & C was taken over as of 1851, by the Eastern Counties; in the course of this, EC opened new line Cambridge -- Six Mile Bottom -- "re-vamped" route to Newmarket, making it a bit longer from the south -- but enabling closing of the not quite 10 miles between Great Chesterford and SMB, thus, in 1851 -- the stretch in question.

Your turn to be off to the races...

 

[martinsh]

Off to the races ? OK, name 5 British racecourses that have or used to have their own dedicated railway station.

NB closed racecourses are allowed to be included.

 

[RDP]

Kempton Park (now in normal use).
Folkestone (Westenhanger racecourse platforms). The racecourse and dedicated platforms are now closed although Westenhanger station remains open.
Newbury (Newbury Racecourse station now in normal use).
Bogside (racecourse and station now closed).
Aintree (Aintree Racecourse station closed in 1952 but the nearby Aintree formerly Sefton Arms station remains open).

 

[martinsh]

Kempton Park (now in normal use).
Folkestone (Westenhanger racecourse platforms). The racecourse and dedicated platforms are now closed although Westenhanger station remains open.
Newbury (Newbury Racecourse station now in normal use).
Bogside (racecourse and station now closed).
Aintree (Aintree Racecourse station closed in 1952 but the nearby Aintree formerly Sefton Arms station remains open).

You've reached the winning post - well done !

You could have also had Cheltenham, Nottingham and Stratford upon Avon - probably others as well

 

[RDP]

Open floor.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Which is the largest and busiest railway station in the UK with no passenger toilet facilities?