Railway General Knowledge.

[Peterthegreat]

Correct; another question which was answered quickly.

Thank you.
Which railway was the first thing Scotland to be authorised by act of parliament?

 

[D6130]

Edinburgh & Glasgow?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Edinburgh & Glasgow?

Not Edinburgh and Glasgow but it is named after the two towns it connected.

 

[D6130]

Dundee & Newtyle?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Dundee & Newtyle?

Nope. Further south.

 

[D6130]

Edinburgh & Dalkeith?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I've been running the Closed Stations Journey quiz on this website for the last 14 years, so I will venture the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway.

Open Floor if correct.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I've been running the Closed Stations Journey quiz on this website for the last 14 years, so I will venture the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway.

Open Floor if correct.

Kilmarnock and Troon is correct.
Open floor please.

 

[DerekC]

On which route was the first main line trip made by a standard gauge diesel locomotive in the UK?

 

[D6130]

Euston-Crewe?

 

[DerekC]

Euston-Crewe?

Not that one. This was a test run. It preceded the first trips of 10000/10001 (which might be what you are thinking about) by more than twenty years.

 

[EYFanatic]

I have a vague and hazy memory reading of a Graz 0-4-0 Diesel-Hydraulic locomotive for the LNER in 1924 hauling a rake of four carriages between London and Cambridge

 

[DerekC]

I have a vague and hazy memory reading of a Graz 0-4-0 Diesel-Hydraulic locomotive for the LNER in 1924 hauling a rake of four carriages between London and Cambridge

That's a vey precise vague and hazy memory - but spot on! The LNER website tells you as much as seems to be known:

https://www.lner.info/locos/Experimental/Graz040.php

Little appears to have been recorded about this locomotive which ran tests on the G.E. section of the LNER in 1924. It was a diesel-hydraulic 0-4-0 built by the Graz Works in Austria. Some sources list this as being built by Simmerung-Graz-Pauker, but other sources list this company as only coming into existence in the 1940s. It appears to have been their first diesel locomotive.

Although it was a small locomotive, better suited for shunting duties, trials included main line haulage of four passenger coaches between London and Cambridge in August or September 1924.

I did wonder how fast this machine could go - running it on a main line might have been quite disruptive! But maybe at night.

Anyway your test track to try out.

 

[EYFanatic]

DLR trains have run in both London and Essen - in which other city did they run some journeys in and around?

 

[Peterthegreat]

DLR trains have run in both London and Essen - in which other city did they run some journeys in and around?

Did one run in Manchester?

 

[EYFanatic]

Did one run in Manchester?

Correct

The platform is yours

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
What was Berth 24?

 

[Ashley Hill]

A British Transport Fillm featuring the staff and activities of Berth 24 at Hull Docks. The SS Bravo was the vessel featured IIRC. Also a prize bull and an excavator.

 

[Peterthegreat]

A British Transport Fillm featuring the staff and activities of Berth 24 at Hull Docks. The SS Bravo was the vessel featured IIRC. Also a prize bull and an excavator.

Thar is indeed correct.
Please direct the next question.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Who directed the three British Transport Films Rail, Snow and Locomotion?

 

[Gloster]

John Schlesinger?

 

[Ashley Hill]

John Schlesinger?

No, he directed Terminus.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I can think of two prominent cameramen from that era, but I don't know if either of them did British Transport Films...

First up in my mind is Ivo Peters of Somerset and Dorset fame?

 

[D6130]

Edgar Anstey?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Neither Ivo Peters nor Edgar Anstey.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The other name I was thinking of from that era is Peter Handford, although again I have no idea if he had anything to do with BTF...

 

[Ashley Hill]

The other name I was thinking of from that era is Peter Handford, although again I have no idea if he had anything to do with BTF...

Not Peter Handford.
The person concerned was a well known director and editor of many commercial films including BP and Shell. His films won many awards and Rail received an Oscar nomination.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Clearly this is going nowhere so I’ll give the answer. It was Geoffrey Jones.
Open floor…..

 

[A S Leib]

The answer to this question I have is one which I can't easily back up online, so somebody might have a different answer, but it's been long enough.

What was the first international (between sovereign states) railway?

 

[xotGD]

Something between the USA and Canada?