Railway General Knowledge.

[D6130]

La Tour de Carol?

 

[A S Leib]

That would be another.

 

[D6130]

Rodez?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Aurillac?

 

[A S Leib]

Rodez?

Aurillac?

Yes and yes.

 

[DerekC]

Seems as though it's time to declare who won the right to set the next question.

 

[A S Leib]

There's one answer I haven't seen yet. @D1511 and @Peterthegreat are tied on three and I don't have a tie breaker prepared if neither can get the final one.

 

[DerekC]

Can I suggest a pictorial tiebreaker for a change. This picture is clearly of a Fairlle locomotive called Mountaineer, but which railway did it run on?

 

[D6130]

Ffestiniog?

 

[DerekC]

Ffestiniog?

Is the obvious answer but not correct - you are in the right country, but too far north!

 

[EYFanatic]

Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway

 

[DerekC]

Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway

That's right. The loco was ordered in 1869 for the Nassjo-Oscarshamm Railway in Sweden, but for reasons unclear it ended up on the BP&GVR. It lasted until about 1900, after which (in the way of small impoverished railways) the remains were put to good use - the boiler ended up as a culvert in Burry Port and the bogies were used for transporting heavy machinery to a colliery.

Your road, I think.

 

[EYFanatic]

Thank you


In the 80s, a Class 86 hauled train was stopped at Carlisle, examined and taken straight out of service despite no mechanical failure or defect to loco or coaching stock - for what reason did this happen and what had the train crew and passengers witnessed?

 

[Brightonboy]

C

Thank you


In the 80s, a Class 86 hauled train was stopped at Carlisle, examined and taken straight out of service despite no mechanical failure or defect to loco or coaching stock - for what reason did this happen and what had the train crew and passengers witnessed?

Could this be the night of the dreadful PanAm bombing over Lockerbie?

 

[EYFanatic]

C

Could this be the night of the dreadful PanAm bombing over Lockerbie?

Well, that question lasted about as long as a trip on a Class 139... You are, of course, correct

Your floor

 

[Peterthegreat]

There's one answer I haven't seen yet. @D1511 and @Peterthegreat are tied on three and I don't have a tie breaker prepared if neither can get the final one.

Berlin?

 

[Brightonboy]

Well, that question lasted about as long as a trip on a Class 139... You are, of course, correct

Your floor

Hmm, I didn't think to prepare anything....

But I think this is a valid question - The Southern Railway (and then Southern Region) denoted all its electric multiple units with a number indicating the length of the unit and then 3 letters. There was one exception (afaik) which had only a number and then 2 letters. What was it?

 

[Tester]

Hmm, I didn't think to prepare anything....

But I think this is a valid question - The Southern Railway (and then Southern Region) denoted all its electric multiple units with a number indicating the length of the unit and then 3 letters. There was one exception (afaik) which had only a number and then 2 letters. What was it?

4-DD

 

[Brightonboy]

4-DD

Quickly and accurately answered (at least, the answer I was looking for) - the Bulleid double deckers themselves. Travelled in them just once, on a London Bridge - Dartford service. The floor is yours.

 

[Tester]

Quickly and accurately answered (at least, the answer I was looking for) - the Bulleid double deckers themselves. Travelled in them just once, on a London Bridge - Dartford service. The floor is yours.

Sadly I didn't, although I managed a look around one of the carriages in poor condition in Northamptonshire a while back.

Open floor

 

[A S Leib]

Berlin?

I was focusing too much on Intercités de Nuit ones to count that, but that's right. Albi was the one nobody got.

 

[xotGD]

Just to get things moving...

Gateshead depot was 52A.

Which depot was 52B?

 

[D6130]

Heaton?

 

[xotGD]

Heaton?

Yep!

 

[D6130]

Yep!

Thanks! Continuing on the same theme:

Which motive power depot had the code 65H in BR days?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Helensburgh.

 

[D6130]

Correct! Your turn to allocate the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Which fictional character threw herself to death in front of a freight train.

 

[Gloster]

Anna Karenina?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Anna Karenina?

That's the one.
Please throw yourself into the next question.