Railway General Knowledge.

[DerekC]

@Spamcan81 - any bids?

 

[DerekC]

It was actually 1881 - but in the absence of a better offer from @Spamcan81:

@LSWR Cavalier - your floor

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Thanks very much, I dreamed up some questions about names of locomotive engines

Several Schools class engines were named after establishments outwith the area served by the SR, please name them

The GWR had several 'Abbeys' but no Abbey Class, which class did the Abbeys belong to?

What is unusual about Bricklehampton Hall, Drysllwyn Castle (1 point each) & Broughton Castle (3 points)?

Union Castle and Brancepeth Castle were not GWR Castles, what classes did they belong to?

 

[xotGD]

Schools: Stowe, Rugby, Harrow

Abbeys: Halls

Unusual: The things they were named after don't exist.

Brancepeth Castle is in the north east. So some form of NE kettle?

 

[Calthrop]

I think there was a "Schools" named Repton -- near Burton-on-Trent !

 

[Gloster]

Was Union Castle a Merchant Navy?

 

[Spamcan81]

The GWR Abbeys were part of the Star Class.
Union Castle is a Merchant Navy
Brancepeth Castle - B17?
Drysllwyn Castle was carried by three different Castle Class locos at different times.
Broughton Castle ? Bricklehampton Hall ? neither place in GWR territory?
Schools outwith SR area :
Repton - Derbyshire
Stowe - Buckinghamshire
Wellington - Shropshire
Harrow - Middlesex
Cheltenham - Gloucestershire
Radley - Oxfordshire?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

There are more schools not mentioned yet
Abbeys were not Halls or Stars
Unusual names/places? They do/did exist!

I used Observers Locomotives 1955

I shall tot up the answers in the morning, serves me right for dreaming up a multi-question
'Three points' is a clue

 

[Spamcan81]

There are more schools not mentioned yet
Abbeys were not Halls or Stars
Unusual names/places? They do/did exist!

I used Observers Locomotives 1955

I shall tot up the answers in the morning, serves me right for dreaming up a multi-question
'Three points' is a clue

Star Class locos 4061 to 4072 were named after abbeys. Of these all but two were rebuilt as Castles and became 5083 to 5092 in the process but retaining their abbey names.

 

[Gloster]

Were the Abbeys Saints?

Are there three Broughton Castles?

Was Blundells a school? I think that Uppingham was a School
for a while, until the school complained and it became Bradfield, which I would guess is in Essex (at least it is an Essex sounding name).

 

[Cowley]

Were the Abbeys Saints?

Are there three Broughton Castles?

Was Blundells a school? I think that Uppingham was a School
for a while, until the school complained and it became Bradfield, which I would guess is in Essex (at least it is an Essex sounding name).

Blundells was a Schools and was (and still is) a school in Tiverton, so not on a Southern Railway route although only about twelve miles from one (Crediton).

 

[Gloster]

Blundells was a Schools and was (and still is) a school in Tiverton, so not on a Southern Railway route although only about twelve miles from one (Crediton).

I knew it was a school near Tiverton, but wasn’t sure if it was member of the Schools class.

 

[Cowley]

I knew it was a school near Tiverton, but wasn’t sure if it was member of the Schools class.

That was unfortunately about all I had to offer for this question so I jumped on it.
The only other thing I thought of was that I think ‘Drysllwyn’ was spelt wrong. Maybe the other Castles mentioned were spelt wrongly as well possibly?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

No, not spelt wrongly, but the answers are more to do with language than with engineering

More Schools please!

@Spamcan81
Correct, the Abbeys were Castles in 1955*
Brancepeth Castle was not a B17
@Gloster
You are warm but there were not three BCs
There were two Banbury Castles, 7011 + 5095 (this is not a clue)

* I only have the info from 1955, with rebuilds and renamings it is hard to be sure what was true when

 

[Gloster]

Having explored further I ran down a somewhat obscure connection to Broughton Castle. I won’t say what it is until asked.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

@Gloster
Are you thinking of the names of the inmates? If so you get a bonus point, but that was not the answer I had dreamed up

 

[Gloster]

@Gloster
Are you thinking of the names of the inmates? If so you get a bonus point, but that was not the answer I had dreamed up

Indeed I was, but as I looked it up I won’t claim the point.

 

[xotGD]

Westminster School
Roedean School

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Still looking for schools outside the SR, someone said that ww2 was won on the playing fields of one such school

 

[Gloster]

Well, Waterloo was said to have been won on the playing fields of Eton, but somewhere someone said that World War II was won at the LSE (London School of Economics) and I very much doubt that that was a Schools’ name. An alternative is Westminster (the Parliament), but both that school and Eton are in SR territory.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

It is a small town on GWR territory, beyond the Severn

 

[Gloster]

Shrewsbury? Pity they didn’t use Oswestry, a school older than Eton.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Shrewsbury is another valid answer, but ww2 was not won there, according to the locals in the small town

It is in three choirs land. A famous composer who lived there gave his name to a class 50 engine

 

[SteveM70]

Malvern?

 

[Gloster]

Something that I heard or read recently in connection with the airfield at Defford, which was used by aircraft operating for the Telecommunications Research Department (TRE). The TRE was moved from Langton Matravers in Dorset, a bit too easy a target for a German raid, to Malvern. I think that in Dorset they used some Avro 504K, a type that had already seen service in World War I.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

@SteveM70

Malvern is right, the RRE, or, RSRE, or Qinetic was formed there

Whatabout these, still not solved, look at the names:

Bricklehampton Hall, Drysllwyn Castle and Broughton Castle*
*3 points, the book does not list 3 x BC, but..

 

[Gloster]

Having looked something up, I could have a guess at the three pointer.

 

[SteveM70]

Broughton Castle isn’t actually a castle, it’s a fortified house. I’m guessing that’s not worth 3 points though so I may be barking up the wrong tree

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Having looked something up, I could have a guess at the three pointer.

You may, perhaps the question is a bit too cryptic

 

[Gloster]

Could it be that Broughton Castle, Broughton Grange and Broughton Hall are the same building, although there were three locos? (Presumably one for Twisleton, one for Wykeham and one for Fiennes.)