Railway General Knowledge.

[D6130]

Longlands Junction to Eryholme?

 

[Whistler40145]

Sorry no

 

[D6130]

Connington South to Fletton Junction?

 

[Whistler40145]

No

A clue, a famous record took place on part of the section in question

 

[Peter Mugridge]

No

A clue, a famous record took place on part of the section in question

Stoke Bank?

 

[Whistler40145]

Nearly

 

[Whistler40145]

Have we given up?

 

[D6130]

Whitmore Summit - Crewe?

 

[Whistler40145]

It's on the East Coast Mainline

 

[Whistler40145]

I think we've gone far enough with this one

The answer is Grantham to Peterborough

 

[Peterthegreat]

I think we've gone far enough with this one

The answer is Grantham to Peterborough

Sorry that is nowhere near straight.

 

[DerekC]

I think we've gone far enough with this one

The answer is Grantham to Peterborough

Sorry that is nowhere near straight.

That's right - it isn't. See OS map screenshot below:

 

[DerekC]

A quick and dirty survey of the line on the OS map plus a measure on Google Earth does suggest that York (Skelton Junction) to a point about 1.5 miles north of Thirsk station beats other candidates handsomely, at about 22.75 miles. So I think @Peterthegreat takes the biscuit.

 

[Whistler40145]

I'll go into hibernation

 

[D6130]

A quick and dirty survey of the line on the OS map plus aq measure on Google Earth does suggest that York (Skelton Junction) to a point about 1.5 miles north of Thirsk station beats other candidates handsomely, at about 22.75 miles. So I think @Peterthegreat takes the biscuit.

Pendant alert: There is a gentle curve at Pilmoor, a few miles South of Thirsk. Therefore the longest straight on the national network remains Barlby (just East of Selby) to Hessle (just West of Hull) at a fraction over 18 miles...on the Down line only. The Up line has an 'S' bend at Gilberdyke to allow a faster turnout onto the Google line. Purely as a matter of record and not relevant to the question!

I'll go into hibernation

Don't do that! We all make mistakes occasionally - I've made many myself - and you've come up with some interesting and challenging questions in the past. Hopefully you will continue to do so!

 

[xotGD]

the Google line.

Trains hauled by a search engine?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Hopefully an easier one.
Where would you find Wilder Robert?

 

[D6130]

Trains hauled by a search engine?

Whoops! I seem to have dropped a Goole(y) there by not checking autocorrect before posting! Put it down to the 36° heat here in Tuscany!

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you.
Hopefully an easier one.
Where would you find Wilder Robert?

It is, I believe, the nickname of a secondary line somewhere in Germany -- don't recall where. Not to be confused with "Rasender Roland" -- the 750mm gauge on the island of Ruegen.

 

[Peterthegreat]

It is, I believe, the nickname of a secondary line somewhere in Germany -- don't recall where. Not to be confused with "Rasender Roland" -- the 750m gauge on the island of Ruegen.

It is in Germany but you need to be a bit more specific .

 

[Calthrop]

It is in Germany but you need to be a bit more specific .

Leider kann ich das nicht tun.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Leider kann ich das nicht tun.

Wie Schade.

 

[Calthrop]

Since I used -- tantalisingly -- to know the answer to this one: have Googled it, and thus well-and-truly disqualified self. (Feel that I ought to have remembered; with my christian name being Robert -- though I like to consider myself fairly tame.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yo soy un hombre sincero.....I just about recall a narrow-gauge railway that transported kaolin. I think it was somewhere in the Leipzig region.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Any offers?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Well as there are no offers I will declare open floor.
Wilder Robert is the name given to the narrow gauge Döllnitzbahn line south of Oschatz in Saxony.

 

[Calthrop]

Well as there are no offers I will declare open floor.
Wilder Robert is the name given to the narrow gauge Döllnitzbahn line south of Oschatz in Saxony.

@Peterthegreat: I'm tempted to be evil, and take a leaf out of this recent book of yours. Another 750mm gauge outfit -- this one closed very long-since. Local folk affectionately called it La Panderola. Where was it? (I won't let the torture go on, on this one, for anything like as long as you did .)

 

[D6130]

Istria? ....the formerly Italian occupied part of Croatia, but originally Austrian when its narrow gauge lines were built.

 

[Calthrop]

Istria? ....the formerly Italian occupied part of Croatia, but originally Austrian when its narrow gauge lines were built.

Afraid not. Possible small clue: the line concerned, was in a country where 750mm was the exception rather than the rule.

 

[D6130]

Catalonia (Spain)? San Filieu-Girona?