Railway General Knowledge.

[Mcr Warrior]

1900

No, wasn't then.

 

[xotGD]

1901

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1901

No, wasn't then, either.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

A clue. A number of other stations opened the very same year (if not the exact same date) on the same section of CLC line, including Flixton, Irlam, Glazebrook and Warrington Central.

 

[D6130]

1889?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1889?

No, not then, but that's nearer than the previous guesses so far.

 

[xotGD]

1885

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1885

No, not 1885. Try a little before then.

 

[Peterthegreat]

1879?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1879?

No, but getting nearer!

 

[xotGD]

1875

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1875

No, but almost there!

 

[SwindonManor]

No, but almost there!

1876?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1876?

Sorry, no. Earlier than that.

 

[SwindonManor]

Sorry, no. Earlier than that.

1870

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1870

No. Not then.

 

[SwindonManor]

No. Not then.

Quite a bold guess here - 1850

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Quite a bold guess here - 1850

Erm, no. 1875 was almost there! (See post #16,572).

 

[Peter Mugridge]

1874, then...?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1874, then...?

No. But definitely getting closer!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

1873..........................?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1873..........................?

We have a winner! Yes, 1873 was the year when Urmston railway station opened, also Flixton, Irlam, Glazebrook and Warrington Central & possibly one or two others on that section of CLC line.

@Peter Mugridge. Would you be so kind as to now set the next question?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The value of counting down incrementally from the clues...

Thank you...

Now the next question:

Of the many class 87s that were exported for further use, there is something about three of them which distinguishes them from the remainder of the exported class 87 fleet, but a small number of the exported class 86s share the same feature.

What is that feature?

The locomotives in question are:

87 004
87 017
87 023

 

[D6130]

Still fitted with cross-arm pantographs instead of the later Brecknell-Willis type?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Still fitted with cross-arm pantographs instead of the later Brecknell-Willis type?

I don't know about that - it's something else rather more visually obvious ( once you know what it is ) that I have in mind.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Nameplate?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Nameplate?

That's good enough... Those three have all retained the names they had when they were running in the UK.

Please unveil the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
What was 47853's claim to fame in an earlier guise?

 

[Whistler40145]

Wore the XP64 livery in the 1960s?

 

[xotGD]

Is it the 47 that carried XP64 livery?