Railway General Knowledge.

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Certain pre-1948 grouping British railway companies ran purpose-built wooden lined metal bodied waggons. What type of specialised cargo was normally carried in them ?

 

[deltic1989]

Gunpowder??? or Gold??

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gunpowder??? or Gold??

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I accept "Gunpowder" as the correct answer.

Your turn to set the next one

 

[deltic1989]

I will open the floor as i may not be able to be online until very late tomorrow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I will open the floor as I may not be able to be online until very late tomorrow.

I will set another easy one in the interim period as you have stated "open floor".

What station was originally built as a single platform station in 1874 as a private station serving a castle that had an "arts and craft style" waiting room constructed for it in 1902. It has been closed and reopened twice in its existence to date.

 

[steamybrian]

Dunrobin Castle.

(if correct.. open floor..)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunrobin Castle.

(if correct.. open floor..)

Most correct.

As stated, OPEN FLOOR has been called

 

[Welshman]

OK - try this one:-

Through which station were some passenger-carrying trains in the past regularly scheduled to pass twice, to avoid reversal?

 

[D841 Roebuck]

OPreston. Glasgow/Edinburgh to Blackpool services used to pass through theformer ELR platforms to Lostock Hall, turn right and then right again back onto the WCML facing north, pass through Preston again and head for Blackpool.

 

[steamybrian]

Brighton- Hastings and Ashford trains all reverse at Eastbourne and pass through Hampden Park twice

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Brighton- Hastings and Ashford trains all reverse at Eastbourne and pass through Hampden Park twice

But that involves a reversal, surely?

 

[Welshman]

OPreston. Glasgow/Edinburgh to Blackpool services used to pass through theformer ELR platforms to Lostock Hall, turn right and then right again back onto the WCML facing north, pass through Preston again and head for Blackpool.

Correct.

I used to wonder what any passengers paying attention thought when they passed through Preston station twice in the space of about 10 minutes!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Which three stations in Hampshire, Somerset and Warwickshire rhyme with each other?

 

[steamybrian]

Which three stations in Hampshire, Somerset and Warwickshire rhyme with each other?

Fratton, Yatton and Hatton

(..open floor if correct..)

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Frat/Yat/Hatton is correct.

 

[Old-School]

First opened in 1836, which South-East London railway station in Bermondsey, was the first railway terminus in London and the original terminus of the London and Greenwich Railway (the capital's first railway).

 

[clagmonster]

Bricklayers Arms?

 

[Welshman]

Tooley St, now London Bridge?

 

[Old-School]

Neither of the above, sorry folks

extra clue:
this station was rebuilt twice and relocated 200 yards from its original site during the 2nd rebuild.

 

[hmp455]

Spa Road

 

[Old-School]

Correct

Well done hmp455

 

[hmp455]

On which lines did Network SouthEast's first Networkers operate?

 

[Welshman]

Charing Cross/London Bridge - Dartford & Gillingham lines?

 

[clagmonster]

I would imagine that the first were class 465s, thus something off Slade Green. I'm going to have a punt that the first worked passenger trains in the Medway Valley before being let loose on the suburban stuff, as a damage limitation exercise should they fail en masse.

 

[hmp455]

Nope, but a good guess

 

[steamybrian]

I believe the DMU version of the Networkers worked on the Great Western Lines out of Paddington before the EMU version was introduced.

 

[D6975]

Weren't the 165/0s first, working out of Marylebone.

 

[Welshman]

Charing Cross/London Bridge - Dartford & Gillingham lines?

OK - if that's wrong, let's try a different angle:-

By "operate" I assume you mean regularly, in passenger traffic.

But IIRC, they were built at York, so I suppose, being pendantic, the very first lines on which they operated [as ECS], were the EC main lines on their journey to the South-East. :roll:

 

[D6975]

OK - if that's wrong, let's try a different angle:-

By "operate" I assume you mean regularly, in passenger traffic.

But IIRC, they were built at York, so I suppose, being pendantic, the very first lines on which they operated [ie were dragged], were the EC main lines on their journey to the South-East. :roll:

The 465s were built at York and Met-Cam, but they weren't the first networkers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Would it be the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury line with the Class 165/0 DMU ?