Railway General Knowledge.

[D1511]

I can picture it but can't for the life of me remember the name. Is it the one with a massive rubber gangway? It's something like MP3 but not MP3...

Yes, I can see you know the exact units from their nicknames......they are very distinctive!

Class AM96?

That's the ones! I had the pleasure of a trip in one from Lille {or is that Rijsdel??) to Bruxelles last week!
For those unfamiliar, this pic shows why they have the nicknames they do.......Danish Nose is a reference to similar danish units, but Rubber Nose is also used, along with "toilet seat" for reasons that are fairly self-evident!



Time for you to hang a bog seat round your neck and give us the next question!

 

[D6130]

Thanks! Next up:

Which class of Belgian EMUs are known as 'Break' units?

 

[D1511]

I know this, as I was swatting up on Belgian trains before my trip the other week, but I'll give others a chance first.....

 

[Peterthegreat]

AM96?

 

[D1511]

AM96?

That's the "toilet seats" pictured above!

 

[Peterthegreat]

That's the "toilet seats" pictured above!

Oops. I meant AM80!

 

[D6130]

Oops. I meant AM80!

Correct. Your turn to avoid the toilet seat. (Hint: Don't drink four bottles of Trappist beer on the trot....so to speak! ).

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you. Please decipher.
34B 60A 8B73G.

 

[xotGD]

Thank you. Please decipher.
34B 60A 8B73G.

I only know 52A

 

[D1511]

I only know 52A

64B here!

 

[Ashley Hill]

HYISWARE?

 

[Peterthegreat]

HYISWARE?

You're on the right lines....

 

[RDP]

He is warm?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Is correct.
It is a conversion of the old shed codes in to the more modern TOPS codes.
Hornsey, Inverness, Warrington and Ramsgate.

Please warm us with the next question.

 

[RDP]

Cheers.

Trivia. The TOPS code for Ramsgate was originally RM then changed to RE then back to RM.

An easy one.

Which heritage railway celebrates its centenary in 2027?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch.

 

[RDP]

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch.

Correct.

Your turn to celebrate with the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.
Which was the first standard gauge preserved railway (ie run by volunteers) in the world?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Bluebell?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Bluebell?

Not the Bluebell.

 

[Kentish RYS]

Middleton Railway?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Middleton Railway?

That's the one.
Your go.

 

[Kentish RYS]

Thank you,

Related to the above, what was the first passenger working in preservation on the Middleton Railway formed of. I'm not after exact types like LNER A1 with LNER teak coaches just in general what it was like steam locomotive with bogie coaches.

 

[D6130]

An ex-LNER Sentinel vertical-boilered 0-4-0T steam shunter hauling a 16 ton mineral wagon and a brake van?

 

[Kentish RYS]

Sorry, incorrect

 

[Cowley]

I think @D6130 is correct with the Sentinel, but I think it might have been hauling an old double deck tram of some sort?

Edit - actually, scrub the Sentinel. I think it might’ve been an 0-6-0 saddle tank called Hardwalton or Sharlwalton or something similar?

 

[Kentish RYS]

I think @D6130 is correct with the Sentinel, but I think it might have been hauling an old double deck tram of some sort?

Edit - actually, scrub the Sentinel. I think it might’ve been an 0-6-0 saddle tank called Hardwalton or Sharlwalton or something similar?

So you are half right, the 'coaching stock' was an ex Swansea amd Mumbles Double Deck Electric Tram, the loco however not quite. I'll give you a very vauge clue, the Middleton Railway still left the Bluebell Railway eoth one first in preservation.

 

[Cowley]

So you are half right, the 'coaching stock' was an ex Swansea amd Mumbles Double Deck Electric Tram, the loco however not quite. I'll give you a very vauge clue, the Middleton Railway still left the Bluebell Railway eoth one first in preservation.

Well the Bluebell was famed for being entirely steam worked until fairly recently, so I guess some kind of diesel shunter towed the tram?

 

[Kentish RYS]

Well the Bluebell was famed for being entirely steam worked until fairly recently, so I guess some kind of diesel shunter towed the tram?

And there you have the other part of the answer! From a quick search online it was a Hunslet on loan from Hunslet themselves.

To combine the info from my question and the one before this is the Preservation Firsts involved:
The Talyllyn was the first Preserved Railway
The Middleton Railway was the first Standard Gauge Preserved Railway
And
The Bluebell Railway was the first Standard Gauge preserved Steam Railway

@Cowley your floor...

 

[Cowley]

And there you have the other part of the answer! From a quick search online it was a Hunslet on loan from Hunslet themselves.

To combine the info from my question and the one before this is the Preservation Firsts involved:
The Talyllyn was the first Preserved Railway
The Middleton Railway was the first Standard Gauge Preserved Railway
And
The Bluebell Railway was the first Standard Gauge preserved Steam Railway

@Cowley your floor...

Thanks @Kentish RYS

What two diesel locomotives arrived together after being purchased directly from BR, at Ropley on the Mid Hants Railway in 1985?