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Let's try another one:

These are codes listed on the Rail UK web site; what do they refer to?

CAN Cashmores, Newport
STU British Rail at Stewarts Lane MPD
WBB T W Ward, Briton Ferry
WBF Woodham Brothers, Barry

I should say that I don't know whether they are official codes or just ones that have been created by the web site itself.

Let's give you a clue: These places were sad ones for enthusiasts.

The overall answer is that they are the codes given to the places where locomotives and rolling stock was scrapped. I've given you the individual answers above.

As I say, I found these on the Rail UK web site, and I don't know whether they were official or just something that they made up - does anyone know, please?

Anyway, I'll declare open scrapyard ..... over to you!
 
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I'm confused as to the present situation here. Is it "open floor"; or are we still waiting for a resolution of the scrapyard question?
 
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EbbwJunction1 said:
Yes, it's an open floor.
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Thanks. If I may, I'll pose one.

As at just before the 1923 Grouping: which English railway companies had trackage in Scotland; and which Scottish railway companies had trackage in England? This applies both to direct ownership, and to part-ownership in joint lines.
 
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English lines in Scotland :
the Portpatrick & Wigtownshire Joint included the midland & LNWR
the Forth Bridge Railway included the Midland, the North Eastern & the Great Northern

Scottish lines in England :
the Caledonian ran into Carlisle, as did the North British
 
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martinsh said:
English lines in Scotland :
the Portpatrick & Wigtownshire Joint included the midland & LNWR
the Forth Bridge Railway included the Midland, the North Eastern & the Great Northern
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There was a little bit more "English in Scotland", which I'll ask for too.

Scottish lines in England :
the Caledonian ran into Carlisle, as did the North British
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Both -- particularly the North British -- did more in England than just running into Carlisle; but you've identified the companies concerned: so, fine. There was another Scottish company which had a tiny presence in Carlisle; but so infinitesimal, that I won't insist on it for the answer.
 
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"Hint, for whoever" -- the "little bit more English in Scotland" could be seen as a small piece of revenge on the part of the English company, for the North British's extensive incursions into Northumberland.
 
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The short "English trackage in Scotland" was part of the Tweedmouth -- St. Boswells route. This line -- North Eastern Railway out of Tweedmouth -- stayed just on the English side of the Border, as far as Carham; where line crossed into Scotland, but remained NER property for some 3 or 4 miles further -- through Sprouston station, to the (end-on) Sprouston Junction, whence the line on westward was North British Railway property.

martinsh, you've been the only responder; and except for the above brief incursion of the NER into Roxburghshire, you basically answered the question. So; your floor.

(The "third Scottish presence in Carlisle" concerned a Glasgow & South Western Railway "joint" interest in two very short freight-only sections in Carlisle city: the Dentonholme Joint Committee [GSW / NB / Midland], and the Carlisle Goods Traffic Committee [GSW / Caledonian / Midland / LNW]. As said previously -- minutiae which it would be hyper-pedantic to demand.)
 
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martinsh said:
Name three British narrow gauge railways that had part of their trackbed flooded by reservoirs after closure.

Bonus points if you can name the reservoirs as well
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Well I can think of two - The Festiniog (the reason for the deviation), is it Tanygrisiau?
I think the Lynton and Barnstaple ran through a part of Whistlepound reservoir?
Don't know a third one so I'll let someone else take the glory with the correct answer. :)
 
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I thought Ffestiniog but it's still open, as for another I have seen photos of narrow gauge railways being used during the construction of Derwent Reservoir and then flooded by the construction of Ladybower but I don't think that's the answer.
 
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Cowley said:
Well I can think of two - The Festiniog (the reason for the deviation), is it Tanygrisiau?
I think the Lynton and Barnstaple ran through a part of Whistlepound reservoir?
Don't know a third one so I'll let someone else take the glory with the correct answer. :)
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The first: as above, the Central Electricity Generating Board's Tan-y-Grisiau reservoir (sometimes called Llyn Ystradau) -- created while FR not in service over that section.

Whistlepound on L & B as above.

Third: Ogston Reservoir, flooding part of route of Ashover Light Railway.

If I'm essentially right here: Cowley has got most of the answer already -- so please let the floor be his, or make it "open floor".
 
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Calthrop said:
The first: as above, the Central Electricity Generating Board's Tan-y-Grisiau reservoir (sometimes called Llyn Ystradau) -- created while FR not in service over that section.

Whistlepound on L & B as above.

Third: Ogston Reservoir, flooding part of route of Ashover Light Railway.

If I'm essentially right here: Cowley has got most of the answer already -- so please let the floor be his, or make it "open floor".
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This is correct - so whoever wants the flooded trackbed can have it ...
 
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Well I'd say open floor or give it to Mr Calthrop. I have no intelligent questions about my person right now.
 
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It's still open floor, the morning after; so OK, I've got another one.

We've had a couple of questions about long-physically-isolated parts of Great Britain's rail system. Similarly, but concerning Ireland: which Irish line -- with a passenger service -- never had a physical connection with Ireland's main system; and was the last regular single-pair-of-driving-wheels-loco user in the British Isles?
 
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What, from 1948 until the mid-1950s, was formed of three senior railway officers, Derek Barrie (Chairman), E.S. Cox and George Dow?
 
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Which private railway in the north-east of England was owned by a family with Irish roots until it was taken over by the NER in 1900?
 
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Londonderry Seaham & Sunderland -- connection with Marquis of Londonderry and family? If this suffices as an answer; open floor.
 
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