steveandrews
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- 13 Jul 2012
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Quite right, sir!
The chaldron wagon is awaiting someone's attention.
The chaldron wagon is awaiting someone's attention.
Well I'll take a guess at the East Lancashire railway? I was reading about it recently and saw that there were a few disused stations on it. I can remember one as being Stubbins? Can't remember the others without looking it up though.
Having just travelled this way on Closed Stations Journey Quiz, I'll have stab at the Severn Valley Railway, with Eardington, Alveley and Foley Park?
Go on Mr Bridge, yours was the more detailed answer.
Trip-cock to operate on the Met Mainline, the last time one worked on the main line?
Was the loading gauge (sorry if this isn't the right phrase) reduced in height to allow it to work on a restricted line?
Well Mr Bridge. I'm sitting on an old bus with Mr Cowley senior and he says he vaguely remembers one having a name, possibly on a red plate. Unfortunately he doesn't remember what the name was.
Was it to mark the fact that the .loco was the xx,xxxth loco built at (yyy works)?
I haven't a clue, really, but let's say it was 41262 and the inscription referred to the 2,000th locomotive built at Crewe Works.
Well I think it would be bit cruel to press for more after all your efforts so I will accept that answer
The number is actually 41272 which was the 7000th locomotive built at Crewe Works in 1950, it carried a plaque just below the BR totem on the water tank on each side of the loco, just to add Crewe works actually built its 2000th loco as early as 1876!
Thanks very much ... I'm impressed that I was only 10 out in the number and even more impressed about the Works' output!
Anyway, try this one:
Two GWR Castle Class locos have a separate, but connected, royal connection. What is it, and what happened after the second occurrence?
Did one of the Kings perhaps drive them both after naming them?