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341o2

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I consider that I correctly identified Bude and Bodmin North, Callington as a result of hints and time to stop guessing as to the fourth, which when revealed agree to open floor for the next question
 
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341o2 said:
I consider that I correctly identified Bude and Bodmin North, Callington as a result of hints and time to stop guessing as to the fourth, which when revealed agree to open floor for the next question
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Well I'm not messing around as there's clearly a lack of interest so the answers are:-
Bodmin North
Bude
Callington
Wadebridge
As nobody put all four answers together in one post I don't really see how it could be open floor. As a conciliation ,unless the Quizmaster objects,I'd like to table the next question.

Which diesel loco is buried in Patersons Tip ,Glasgow?
 
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That’d be 27043, along with a handful of DMU bodyshells as well.

Open floor.
 
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Newmarket 1967 was the last use of horses for shunting. My question could have been worded better - I was looking for the location and date for the last line to be operated by horse power.
 
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The Port Carlisle horse dandy (which as you say is in the NRM) was replaced by steam in 1914. One horse operated line lasted much longer than that -in fact long enough to be owned and operated by BR. Clue - it was narrow gauge.
 
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The remnant of the Nantlle Railway (3ft 6in. gauge) from the Talysarn terminus of the short branch diverging at Penygroes from the Bangor -- Afonwen line (all ex-LNWR) to the slate quarries at Nantlle. The line with its to-the-last horse operation, ceased to run in 1963.
 
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Thanks.

In which well-loved comic novel, is which British pre-Grouping railway company lampooned as being exceedingly inefficient and incompetent -- the lampoon essentially exaggerated and unjustified, in that it in fact revolves around just one particular oddity to do with the company concerned?
 
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Would that be Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, regarding the illogical development of Waterloo and subsequent platform numbers
 
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Would that be Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, regarding the illogical development of Waterloo and subsequent platform numbers
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Yes, indeed -- Waterloo terminus was notoriously confusing and hard-to-navigate for the passenger, until radical rebuilding in the 1920s; but Jerome kind-of goes berserk with this, in the interests of comedy: with his Three Men wanting to travel from Waterloo to Kingston-on-Thames to join their boat, he describes a scene of utter incompetence and cluelessness at Waterloo -- with nobody, not even the train crews, having the faintest idea what train was going where, from which platform. In his narration, they end up bribing a loco crew to have their train be the eleven-whatever to Kingston: and he concludes, "This is how we got to Kingston by the London & South Western Railway". This strikes me as over-the-top exaggeration, starting from a basically rather tame "mess situation": I've never heard elsewhere, that the LSWR was anything other than fairly good at doing its job !

Your turn to grotesquely and inaccurately take the mickey out of your target of choice...
 
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I'll go for a more factual one.
9 July 1967. The end of Southern steam. Which was the last locomotive in service?
 
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No, my choice of alias is that 34102 was the last unrebuilt pacific in action on BR commercially, and there is a dispute as to whether this loco achieved the "ton" during the final months of SR steam
 
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As noone else has answered, while 35030 worked the last passenger working Weymouth to Waterloo, the honour goes to 77015 which worked a van train later in the day

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Let's stay on the Southern Region, but about 2 decades further on...

The original batch of class 159 DMUs were built as 158s, but modified on delivery. Whereabouts were said modifications carried out?
 
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SteveyBee131 said:
That's the one :D The workshop is yours ;)
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Sorry for the tardy response - house move and all that...

Okay: described by some as Immingham’s ‘demon’ loco, what was the identity of the Class 47 which was said to be cursed, after a clairvoyant predicted its demise in an accident?
 
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