Railway General Knowledge.

[RDP]

It hit a derailed train near Thirsk in 1967.

 

[D6130]

It hit a derailed train near Thirsk in 1967.

Correct. I'll give you that. To be more precise, it was a derailed cement train.

Your turn.

 

[RDP]

Open floor.

 

[Eyersey468]

Correct. I'll give you that. To be more precise, it was a derailed cement train.

Your turn.

As an aside to this, wasn't that the accident where the driver saw a cloud of dust up ahead and instinctively knew something was wrong so made a full brake application thus preventing a far worse accident from happening?

 

[Gloster]

As an aside to this, wasn't that the accident where the driver saw a cloud of dust up ahead and instinctively knew something was wrong so made a full brake application thus preventing a far worse accident from happening?

I think so. If I remember the secondman was standing braced in the doorway with detonators in his hand to be ready for when they came to a stop. The behaviour of the cement wagons led to BR looking into the behaviour of vehicles on CWR and its research department becoming one of the world leaders in the area of the wheel/rail interface.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Open floor.

I will try to keep matters moving.

From an existing railway line in Scotland, there was a proposal to build a line over 33 miles in length, which although receiving approval, was never built. What was the name of the proposed railway and on which line was it planned to start at?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Garve to Ullapool?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garve to Ullapool?

Correct. It was planned to run from Garve on the existing Dingwall and Skye Railway.

 

[Peterthegreat]

What did Gillespie Road station become in 1932?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It was renamed Arsenal, most probably with that football club in mind.

 

[Peterthegreat]

It was renamed Arsenal, most probably with that football club in mind.

It certainly was.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Another one from my Scottish railways historical locker....

There was once suggestions which never passed the discussion stages that railway expansion in the area west of Thurso could be achieved by opening a new direct line from a station on the Sutherland and Caithness Railway.

Which was the station from which the new line would have been built?

 

[D6130]

Lairg?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lairg?

Lairg was not a station on the Sutherland and Caithness Railway and was situated quite a distance further south than the one in question.

 

[SuspectUsual]

I assume Forsinard and then northwards alongside the river?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I assume Forsinard and then northwards alongside the river?

Absolutely correct in all aspects.

Over to you to set the next query.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Open floor please - not going to be around much over the next 48/72 hours

 

[Calthrop]

Probably an easy one -- which extremely strange, indeed unique, public passenger railway in these islands: was abandoned fractionally over 100 years ago?

 

[RDP]

Listowel & Ballybunion?

 

[Calthrop]

Listowel & Ballybunion?

I reckoned this one wouldn't last long -- this is correct. The L&B's last train ran on Oct. 14th 1924. The line had been rather badly knocked-about in Ireland's recent civil war; and with the Irish Free State's "Grouping" equivalent about to come into effect, from start of 1925: the embryonic Great Southern Railways (effectively, merging all companies solely in the Free State) refused to have anything to do with something as weird and "dodgy" as the then L&B -- while feeling them thus, to have been spoilsports; it's not hard to see their point of view.

@RDP -- 'tis yerself, with the blessing, to be setting the next question.

 

[RDP]

Cheers.
Try this (fairly easy) one.

This station was opened on 1st September 1884 with two platforms. A bay platform was added in 1890 and it assumed its present name in 1895. It was rebuilt in 1961 with twin island platforms but one of these was abandoned in 1999. Where am I?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Folkestone Central?

 

[RDP]

Folkestone Central?

Correct. I didn't think that would last long.

Your turn.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Which grade II* listed station opened in 1880 and closed in 1969?

 

[Spamcan81]

Hawick?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Hawick?

Not Hawick.

 

[Spamcan81]

Not Hawick.

Anywhere else on the Waverley Route?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester Central?

 

[D6130]

St Boswell's?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Anywhere else on the Waverley Route?

Nope.