Railway General Knowledge.

[Peterthegreat]

The last GWR design locomotive to be built?

I'll give you that. It was actually the last pre-nationalisation design locomotive to be built.

 

[RDP]

An easy one methinks.

By what nickname were the Southern Railway class Q1 0-6-0s known?

 

[D6130]

"Coffee Pots" or "Charlie's".

 

[RDP]

"Coffee Pots" or "Charlie's".

Charlies is the correct answer derived from their original numbers C1-40.

Your turn at the regulator.

 

[D6130]

Charlies is the correct answer derived from their original numbers C1-40.

Your turn at the regulator.

Thanks. Next up:

The above-mentioned Q1 class locomotives were designed by O.V.S. Bulleid. What did his initials stand for?

 

[Gloster]

Oliver Vaughan Snell?

 

[D6130]

Oliver Vaughan Snell?

Correct! Your turn to design chain-driven valve gear.

 

[Gloster]

How many (I will allow up to plus or minus five) Standard tanks of all three types did BR build?

 

[RDP]

235?

 

[Gloster]

235?

Just within the tolerances: it was 230. 155 2-6-4T, 45 Class 3 and 30 Class 2 2-6-2T

 

[RDP]

Whoops!!!!

Don't know where the extra five came from.

Open floor.

 

[DerekC]

In my 1959 Ian Allan "British Railways Locomotives" there are just two classes of Eastern Region tender engines with only one member. One is the Class W1 4-6-4 (ex-"Hush-Hush") No 60700. What is the other? (Class and wheel arrangement will do, the number would be a bonus).

 

[RDP]

If by Eastern Region you mean ex LNER it could have been the preserved ex GNSR class D40 4-4-0 49 Gordon Highlander.

 

[DerekC]

If by Eastern Region you mean ex LNER it could have been the preserved ex GNSR class D40 4-4-0 49 Gordon Highlander.

I should have said that I was looking for a locomotive still on the operational list in 1959.

Hint - the locomotive in question, although on the operational list in 1959, is now preserved in museum condition.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

62785.

Class E4.

2-4-0.

 

[DerekC]

62785.

Class E4.

2-4-0.

That's the one. Sole survivor of a class of 100. AFAIK still at Bressingham on loan from NRM. They were evidently a very useful locomotive, many of them being dual brake fitted (vacuum and Westinghouse) and being recorded as far afield as Holyhead and Hastings, according to Preserved British Locos. In LNER days some of them were allocated to the Barnard Castle - Tebay route over Stainmore which was a different world from their home territory.

Your rural East Anglian branch to potter happily along.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Thank you.

55 015 was fitted with a plaque roughly a year prior to withdrawal from BR service; this commemorated what occasion?

 

[Peterthegreat]

It took part in the 150th celebrations of the Liverpool and Manchester railway in 1980.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

It took part in the 150th celebrations of the Liverpool and Manchester railway in 1980.

It did indeed - you may unveil the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Sorry but I will have to declare open floor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway class 21 0-4-0ST locomotives were mainly built at their Horwich Works, but the first three were built elsewhere. Which company built those first three and when did they first enter service?

Since I have been somewhat admonished in a posting on the General Knowledge Quiz, for setting a conundrum said to be exterior to "general knowledge", please let me know if this question above is also too far removed from knowledge of the thread contributors and I will withdraw it.

 

[martinsh]

I would guess they went for somewhere local - Vulcan Foundry ?

 

[D6130]

Beyer-Peacock?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I would guess they went for somewhere local - Vulcan Foundry ?

That is correct, so I now just need the year that those Vulcan-built locomotives entered service.

 

[martinsh]

Total guess - 1885 ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Total guess - 1885 ?

Extremely near, but not correct.

 

[D6130]

1886?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

1886?

Is the correct year.

Your turn to set the next question.

 

[D6130]

Is the correct year.

Your turn to set the next question.

Thanks. Continuing on the Lancashire & Yorkshire theme....in which year was that company's Horwich locomotive and carriage works finally closed by BR?

 

[RDP]

1966?