Railway General Knowledge.

[Ashley Hill]

Signal boxes situated on piers?

 

[RDP]

Signal boxes situated on piers?

No. It is to do with the signalling and is relevant to one signal box in each county.

 

[D6130]

Intermediate Block Signals?

 

[Tetragon213]

Mixed upper and lower quadrants under the control of a single box?

 

[RDP]

Mixed upper and lower quadrants under the control of a single box?

No but warm.

 

[Gloster]

Semaphore Distant?

 

[RDP]

Semaphore Distant?

Again warm but not that.

 

[D6130]

Semaphore distants slotted with a semaphore stop signal on the same post which is controlled from the box in rear?

 

[RDP]

Semaphore distants slotted with a semaphore stop signal on the same post which is controlled from the box in rear?

No. Nothing to do with distant signals.

 

[Gloster]

SR-design rail-built signals?

 

[RDP]

SR-design rail-built signals?

No but it is something specific to do with semaphore signals.

 

[xotGD]

Wooden signals.

 

[Tetragon213]

Bidirectional semaphores?

 

[RDP]

Wooden signals.

No...

Bidirectional semaphores?

and no.

It's much simpler than that.

 

[xotGD]

A box controlling the signals doesn't two different companies?

 

[RDP]

A box controlling the signals doesn't two different companies?

Not sure what that is supposed to mean but nothing to do with any particular company.

 

[Tetragon213]

Semaphores that face right instead of left?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Boxes which had slotted post signals?

 

[RDP]

Semaphores that face right instead of left?

Boxes which had slotted post signals?

Neither of those.

Everyone is all round the answer which is much simpler.

A further clue.

The signal boxes concerned are Deal, Hastings, Yeovil Pen Mill, Marchwood and Ryde St. Johns Road.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Last semaphores in their county?

 

[Gloster]

No Absolute Block?

 

[RDP]

No Absolute Block?

No because...

Last semaphores in their county?

...is correct.

Your turn to clear the line for the next question.

A few related items of interest.

Yeovil Pen Mill and Ryde St. Johns Road are also the last operational national network boxes in their counties.

While semaphores also exist at Grain these protect a level crossing and are operated from a ground frame.

While Deal has the last remaining semaphore running signals in Kent ground disc shunt signals still exist at Canterbury West and Maidstone West.

 

[xotGD]

How can that be the answer to the question which was:

"Signalling wise, what links the counties of Kent, East Sussex and Somerset?"

I'm confused.

 

[RDP]

How can that be the answer to the question which was:

"Signalling wise, what links the counties of Kent, East Sussex and Somerset?"

I'm confused.

That was the original question. I was adding further clues along the way.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Which DMU was (currently) the last train to work a passenger train on the Cattewater branch?

 

[Gloster]

Which DMU was (currently) the last train to work a passenger train on the Cattewater branch?

Class 140?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Class 140?

Not the 140.

 

[Gloster]

The GWR-liveried Class 117?

 

[Tetragon213]

Class 950?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Neither of the above I’m afraid.