I'll have a go.
Di-bloc is a form of electric key token working employing solid state interlocking. The first application of this system was commissioned in May 2022 on a UK heritage railway. Which railway and between which two stations?
I’ve looked at what part of the world you’re based in and taken a guess at the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, possibly on the single line section to Dungeness. Unfortunately I’m not sure where it starts though?
I'll give it to you. The system is in operation between New Romney and Romney Sands replacing the tablet and ticket system previously used.
your turn.
Which early public railway in the south of England was built to the "Scottish Gauge" of 4ft 6in and operated using it until the line closed in 1939?
Glasgow Buchanan St? I will guess eleven?
(Not sure what the question was here but...) Glasgow Buchanan Street only had 5 passenger platforms. It had a huge goods yard to the east side of the site.
Had Glasgow North ever been built, then it would've been a 14-platform terminus instead, but we'd have said goodbye to Queen Street High Level forever.
Which early public railway in the south of England was built to the "Scottish Gauge" of 4ft 6in and operated using it until the line closed in 1939?
The Sandy & Potton Railway was, as far as I can find out, standard gauge - it seems unlikely that it was anything else, as it was built after the GNR had arrived in Sandy. It was taken over by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway and eventually the LNWR and operated as part of the main line network until closure in 1968.Sandy & Potton?
Right gauge and mode of operation but as you say, closed later - I think the last commercial operation was in 1947 - after that it was token movements to keep the right of way across the South Devon main line open.The Lee Moor Tramway was this gauge - but didn't close until 1960
I believe this one was laid to standard gauge from the start.Liskeard & Caradon?
Wrong gauge, I am afraid. The Furzebrook Tramway (aka Pike Brothers' Tramway) started life in about 1840 using 4ft gauge (the exact figure seems to be uncertain) and was converted to 2ft 8in gauge steam operation by 1866.Furzebrook Tramway (Isle of Purbeck)?
That's the one. Portland really is almost an island- the natural link to the mainland is via Chesil Beach which involves a walk of about eight miles along the shingle bank - not much fun!Was it that thing on the Isle of Portland, whatever it was called? That's not a true island is it...?
No idea if it was a non standard gauge or not, but it's the only island that isn't that I can think of that once had a railway and doesn't now...
That's the one. Portland really is almost an island- the natural link to the mainland is via Chesil Beach which involves a walk of about eight miles along the shingle bank - not much fun!
The Portland Railway (often called the Merchants' Railway) ran from a pier at Castletown to quarries in the interior of the island. It was never regauged or connected to the main line network, although it ended up with exchange sidings with the standard gauge branch from Weymouth. The branch itself had a very complicated history involving the GWR, the LNWR, the Admiralty and two or three independent companies.
Your island to play on!
You have the name, so you are one third the way there, but you are describing the advert for it... not the actual ticket...Started as Capitalcard
Was white with red and blue stripes from memory, although for reasons that I can't remember, sure there was a picture of a 13 amp plug
That's close enough... they weren't quite square but they were indeed larger and on thicker card than any other ticket; you could have also offered purple and orange for the colour - they were colour coded according to discounts and whether they were peak or off peak - they also had ones coloured like the then InterCity tickets which were for the out-boundary versions.4" x 4" square.
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