Railway General Knowledge.

[martinsh]

Close, but no cigar.

Clue : this steam loco was built in 1992 !

 

[Calthrop]

I'm not good on Switzerland generally -- building date no help, I'm afraid.

Reckon that "whatever", it can't be the Brienz -- Rothorn line: never electrified !

 

[martinsh]

Reckon that "whatever", it can't be the Brienz -- Rothorn line: never electrified !

No. But the loco I travelled behind has since been sold to the Brienzer Rothorn Bahn

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Montreux - Glier - Roches de Neyer?

 

[martinsh]

Montreux - Glier - Roches de Neyer?

Well it's actually Montreux - Glion - Rochers de Naye, but that's the one. Your floor

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Which 'small town in Germany' has two Hauptbahnhofs?

 

[Calthrop]

Wild guess -- not knowing detailed gen about the Hauptbahnhofs -- Bonn? Open floor if correct.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

No, Bonn has stations on both sides of the Rhein but only one 'Hauptbahnhof'
The town sought is even smaller than Bonn

 

[xotGD]

I'm thinking it is somewhere previously divided by the border. Hence one station in the west and the other in the east.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

No, not on the border, not Berlin
Berlin has had at least two Hauptbahnhofs, but not at the same time: what is now Ostbahnhof used to be 'Hauptbahnhof'
The new Central Station opened in 2006, suggestions for naming it were sought
Mercifully, it was named 'Hauptbahnhof'

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Aachen?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Not Aachen, but less than 2h from there by stopping trains

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Osnabruck

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Not Osnabrueck, although the two-level station there is interesting, apparently trains can run from OS-Top to OS-Bottom

The 'small' town sought has a team the Bundesliga

 

[xotGD]

Gelsenkirchen

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

No, not Schalke 0-4
The full name of the football team from the town with two Hauptbahnhofs is similar to the name of the German team managed with great success by Juergen Klopp

B....

 

[341o2]

Munich?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Sounds very similar, but longer
The the team is still in the first division of the Bundesliga

 

[341o2]

Borussia Mönchengladbach

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Moenchengladbach is the right answer
Moenchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Rheydt Hauptbahnhof are the stations, Rheydt is part of Moenchengladbach

There are plans to rename the latter station 'Moenchengladbach-Rheydt Hauptbahnhof', then it might have the longest name
The people of Rheydt insisted on keeping 'Hauptbahnhof' in the name

Over to you, 341o2

 

[341o2]

What is the world's longest single route tramway?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Ground based or aerial?

 

[hexagon789]

The Kusttram in Belgium I believe

 

[341o2]

You are right. It runs almost the entire length of the Belgium coast, some 42 miles long, and a single journey takes some 2hr 20 minutes from De Panne in the South to Knokke-Heist in the North. Usually worked in two sections, change at Ostend

Over to you

 

[hexagon789]

You are right. It runs almost the entire length of the Belgium coast, some 42 miles long, and a single journey takes some 2hr 20 minutes from De Panne in the South to Knokke-Heist in the North. Usually worked in two sections, change at Ostend

Over to you

Quite a line and the only long, non-urban route that survives of a once huge secondary network of tram lines in Belgium I believe.

Question: what happened to railroad foreman Phineas Gage in 1848 and what significance does it hold today?

 

[SteveM70]

Phileas Gage worked on the construction of the railways in America, and was involved in an accident whilst blasting that caused a metal spike of some sort to pass clean through his skull. He somehow survived and lived about another 20 years (possibly less, my memory is hazy on this bit). He became not surprisingly a bit of a cause celebre. Not sure what you mean about the significance today - that he helped shape our understanding of the role of the brain in shaping personality and mood?

 

[hexagon789]

Phileas Gage worked on the construction of the railways in America, and was involved in an accident whilst blasting that caused a metal spike of some sort to pass clean through his skull. He somehow survived and lived about another 20 years (possibly less, my memory is hazy on this bit). He became not surprisingly a bit of a cause celebre. Not sure what you mean about the significance today - that he helped shape our understanding of the role of the brain in shaping personality and mood?

That's it exactly and yes that is what I meant by "significance", that it increased the understanding of brain injury and personality changes related to that.

Your floor

 

[SteveM70]

All the class 50s were named in 1978, apart from two which didn’t get named until September 1979.

Which two?

 

[444045]

I think that 50006 Neptune was certainly one as it was the 1st refurbished of the class - not sure of the other

 

[SteveM70]

I think that 50006 Neptune was certainly one as it was the 1st refurbished of the class - not sure of the other

Indeed it was. Not sure if that was the reason, but it’d make sense if it was