Purple Train
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Thank you, I'll just set a quick one then.
What was the name of Class 50 locomotive 50014?
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What was the name of Class 50 locomotive 50014?
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Strat-tastic
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Leviathan.
Open floor if correct.
Open floor if correct.
Ashley Hill
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Warspite
Purple Train
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Correct.
Ashley Hill
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Who succeeded Edgar Anstey as head of production for British Transport Films?
Peter Mugridge
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Probably wrong as I think he was a freelancer, but Peter Handford "Mr Transacord"?
Ashley Hill
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Not Peter I’m afraid.
Peter Mugridge
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The only other name from that era that springs to mind is Ivo Peters, but again I think he was freelance...?
Ashley Hill
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Nor Ivo.
Whistler40145
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John W Shepherd?
Ashley Hill
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Is the correct answer. Your turn to produce the next question.
Whistler40145
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I'll declare open floor
xotGD
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They have all been relocated to heritage railways?
Gloster
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ARP boxes?
No sorry
No sorry.
Clue they all came from the same place.
Ashley Hill
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Saxby & Farmer?
D6130
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They were all built of reinforced concrete due to the wartime steel shortage?
Another clue LNWR.
Gloster
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From a kit of parts?
D6130
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They were all made of wood?
Sorry No
Getting warmer, something well known on the LNWR
One more clue, Rugby.
Gloster
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Large gantries?
Almost there, which large gantries
D6130
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The ones that used to straddle the West Coast Main Line and Northampton line at the South end of Rugby station? We're they dismantled upon resignalling with colour lights and installed as smaller units elsewhere?