Railway General Knowledge.

[DerekC]

Locomotive number?

 

[Gloster]

Locomotive number?

Sorry, not that either.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I've never heard of the book, so here's an off-the-wall suggestion: is it connected with the mileage from somewhere to somewhere?

I've just looked it up, and I'm none the wiser about the actual book ... although I do know what the title now means, though! I'll leave it for others to guess (my suggestion above is wrong, by the way).

 

[Gloster]

I've never heard of the book, so here's an off-the-wall suggestion: is it connected with the mileage from somewhere to somewhere?

I've just looked it up, and I'm none the wiser about the actual book ... although I do know what the title now means, though! I'll leave it for others to guess (my suggestion above is wrong, by the way).

As you say, it is wrong. However, you are in the right area.

 

[DerekC]

Milepost? (if it's an American book a 1222 milepost would be a possibility)

 

[Gloster]

Milepost? (if it's an American book a 1222 milepost would be a possibility)

Sorry, wrong again, but you are in the right area of railway knowledge. It is not an American book: it is set on this side of the Atlantic.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Bell code for signalling? 1-2-2-2?

 

[Spamcan81]

Since the statutory 48 hours has passed, I think we can declare open floor!

Apologies. Work got in the way and I forgot to check back in to the quiz.

 

[Spamcan81]

Anne Holt’s detective/thriller novel 1222 starts with a railway accident. However, the title has a particular railway significance. What is it?

The number of the locomotive?

 

[Gloster]

The number of the locomotive?

Sorry, no.

 

[Gloster]

Bell code for signalling? 1-2-2-2?

Sorry, no. (But I like the thinking.)

 

[Cowley]

The wheel arrangement of the loco involved in the accident?

 

[Gloster]

The wheel arrangement of the loco involved in the accident?

Sorry, no.

The answer is one of those bits of general knowledge that many people know. As examples, but not separate clues, many people with no real interest in railways know that the Severn Tunnel is the longest rail tunnel in Britain or that Shap is a major summit/big hill.

One other clue: Anne Holt is Norwegian.

 

[Inversnecky]

Finse 1222m highest point of the Bergen railway.

 

[Gloster]

Finse 1222m highest point of the Bergen railway.

Correct. The book is set, or at least starts, at Finse, which is the highest station in Norway. The highest point is in the tunnel a little further west.

I hand over the setter’s quill pen to you.

 

[Inversnecky]

Correct. The book is set, or at least starts, at Finse, which is the highest station in Norway. The highest point is in the tunnel a little further west.

I hand over the setter’s quill pen to you.

Cheers, let me have a think!

 

[Inversnecky]

OK, which is Scotland's oldest original railway station that is still in use?

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Arbroath?

 

[SteveM70]

Dundee?

 

[Inversnecky]

Dundee?

Warm....

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Aberdeen?

 

[Gloster]

A station on the Dundee & Newtyle?

 

[Inversnecky]

A station on the Dundee & Newtyle?

No, sorry.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Broughty Ferry, the station the south bank opposite Dundee? Or maybe Golf Links Halt?

 

[Inversnecky]

Broughty Ferry, the station the south bank opposite Dundee? Or maybe Golf Links Halt?

Well done, Brought Ferry, being opened in October 1838.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Thanks very much

I just got out my copy of the European Train Timetable 2001 (Thomas Cook), there are lots of named trains, but who (what were the people noted for) or what were these trains named after? There is usually some geographical connection too, often the train serves the place where the famous person lived

1 Elbflorenz
2 Caspar David Friedrich
3 Porta Nigra
4 Regensburger Domspatzen
5 Claus Stortebeker
6 Theodor Mommsen
7 Hans Boeckler
8 Hoellental
9 Otto Lilienthal
10 Strelasund

 

[Gloster]

3 - Porta Nigra is a city gate. (In Aachen?)
4 - Regensburg Cathedral
8 - A valley, possibly up behind Freiburg i. B.
9 - An early aeronaut.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

3 - Porta Nigra is a city gate. (In Aachen?)
4 - Regensburg Cathedral
8 - A valley, possibly up behind Freiburg i. B.
9 - An early aeronaut.

3 half a point, it is not in Aachen, where is it and what is special about it?
4 something to do with that building
8+9 correct

 

[Calthrop]

6: German classical scholar and historian

 

[Gloster]

3 half a point, it is not in Aachen, where is it and what is special about it?
4 something to do with that building
8+9 correct

4 - Is it to do with the spire? (I keep thinking of spätzle, which is edible, if heavy going.)