Railway General Knowledge.

[Ash Bridge]

Could it be Calshot? As far as I can see the nearest station to that location is Beaulieu Road.

Hmm... Just noticed it's more shale than sand there, so perhaps not.

 

[theageofthetra]

Westgate on Sea? Shallow, very sandy and had one at St Mildreds Bay.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Westgate on Sea? Shallow, very sandy and had one at St Mildreds Bay.

We have a winner, that is not only the station and resort I was thinking of but also the exact bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgate-on-Sea#/media/File:St_Mildreds_Bay_Westgate_22805_-_2.jpg

The ramp at the left in the above image with a small bridge over it is the former seaplane access and the tennis courts and green above that are all that remains of the former base - I believe the tennis courts are in fact on the exact site of the hangers.

 

[theageofthetra]

Name ten different designs to articulate a steam locomotive.

 

[Mvann]

Garratt, Meyer, kitson meyer, mallet, double fairlie, modified fairlie, Shay, union garratt, heiseller. Can't think of the 10th at the mo.

Climax loco is the 10th

 

[theageofthetra]

Well done and there are quite a few more French and German designs. Your floor

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Climax loco is the 10th

Really?

 

[Mvann]

Where would you have found jumbo, negro and sambo?

 

[krus_aragon]

Where would you have found jumbo, negro and sambo?

The LNWR's rebuilt/improved Precedent classes were known as Jumbos, but I can't recall that any of their locomotives were known as negros or sambos. (They did, however, paint all their locomotives black...)

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

The USA?

 

[Mvann]

Neither answer is correct.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Neither answer is correct.

Ah... I was going for an American racist thing

Would it be the LMS?

 

[Mvann]

Not LMS or any of its constituents

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I'll try a sneaky guess and say it is on the planet Earth - my floor I think, given that answer...

 

[backontrack]

Nope, it's on Traken. :P

 

[theageofthetra]

Ireland. They were on on the GS & W.

 

[Mvann]

Ireland. They were on on the GS & W.

Correct.

 

[theageofthetra]

In what year and between which places did the first suburban commuter railway open.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Depending on your terms, I would suggest 1863 Farringdon to Paddington

 

[theageofthetra]

No before that.

 

[Mvann]

London to Greenwich 1836

 

[RoundNewcastle]

The Newcastle and North Shields Railway opened on 18th June 1839, Now part of the Tyne without wear Metro " Yellow Line "

 

[krus_aragon]

I suppose there may have been commuters travelling on the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, which carried passengers from 1807.

 

[theageofthetra]

Hmmm good point about the Swansea and Mumbles but I think that would be more for taking residents of Swansea to a day at the seaside?. The one I am after is before both London & Greenwich and Newcastle & North Shields.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Probably too obvious to be right, but was it the Stockton and Darlington in 1825?

 

[backontrack]

Crab & Winkle - from Canterbury to Whitstable? I believe that was 1831.

 

[theageofthetra]

Not those -they were early railways but not ever really for commuters. Hint -it links to the previous question.

 

[krus_aragon]

Not those -they were early railways but not ever really for commuters. Hint -it links to the previous question.

The Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834)? For MPs commuting to Westminster.

 

[theageofthetra]

Correct. Your floor.

 

[krus_aragon]

Thank you. Following the Irish Mail route back to the mainland...

The central piers of the Britannia Bridge (as pictured in my avatar) rise above both the railway and the modern road deck. My question is: why were they built so tall?