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DerekC

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Cowley said:
Going with it being a one off I’m going to try for 10800 (the class 15 look alike), and this is where I’m even more uncertain - designed by the LNER (grits teeth and prepares for embarrassment)?
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D6130 said:
The Ivatt Fell locomotive ordered by the LMS?
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Cowley said:
Oh god of course it was (slaps forehead)!
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Now I am in a quandary because it was 10800 that was called "The Wonder Engine" by Southern crews when sent there for trials. (although it does sound equally appropriate for the Fell) And it was ordered by the LMS. So I have @Cowley who got it right but changed his mind and @D6130 who got the right railway for the wrong loco.

I think a tiebreaker is called for - another one from my 1959 Ian Allan - what was 18000 and where is it now?
 
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D6130 said:
Give it to @Cowley . I always like to keep sweet with the mods!
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Ah that’s very nice of you @D6130. :)
I’ve just logged on and I’ve got quite a lot of stuff to deal with so I’ll pass it to you.

(18000 has been discussed recently, it’s the gas turbine loco which is now at Didcot @DerekC)
 
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Cowley said:
Ah that’s very nice of you @D6130. :)
I’ve just logged on and I’ve got quite a lot of stuff to deal with so I’ll pass it to you.
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Oh dear! I was hoping you wouldn't say that, as I also have quite a lot of stuff to deal with over the next few days! OK, here goes:

What was unusual about the branch line built during the second world war from the West Highland line at Faslane Junction - between Helensburgh Upper and Shandon - down a 1 in 37 gradient to 'Military Port No. 1' and why was it so?
 
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D6130 said:
Oh dear! I was hoping you wouldn't say that, as I also have quite a lot of stuff to deal with over the next few days! OK, here goes:

What was unusual about the branch line built during the second world war from the West Highland line at Faslane Junction - between Helensburgh Upper and Shandon - down a 1 in 37 gradient to 'Military Port No. 1' and why was it so?
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Is the unusual feature that it was built with continental style track and signalling, to double up as a training site for military personnel prior to D-day?
 
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swt_passenger said:
Is the unusual feature that it was built with continental style track and signalling, to double up as a training site for military personnel prior to D-day?
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I shall accept that answer. The particular feature to allow for that training was that it was double track (later singled) with right-hand running. Your turn to take a trip down to the shipbreaking yard!
 
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What was the reason apparently given at the time for changing the name of Cornhill station in Northumberland to Coldstream, a place on the other side of a river in a different country?
 
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Was it as mundane as: Coldstream (just in Scotland) is a bigger and better-known place than its English opposite number Cornhill -- more potential passengers would want to go to Coldstream, and "Cornhill" would likely mean nothing to them?
 
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So that the naming ceremony of "Coldstream Guardsman" could be held there?
 
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Gloster said:
There was another station called X (Cornhill) or similar?
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AIUI it was because there was another existing “Cornhill”, in Banffshire on the Great North of Scotland railway, and the NER policy at the time was to try and avoid name duplication so they changed it in 1873, nearly 25 years after opening.

please take the reins… :D
 
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Southern Railway King Arthur 767 was named Sir Valence, but had originally been intended to carry another name. Why was the change made?
 
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Well, no one seems to have come up with an answer, so I will give a big clue. It had been intended that 767 would carry the name Sir Modred (or possibly Mordred). So why was that name regarded as unsuitable?
 
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Maybe because Mordred was (according to legend) the b*stard son of King Arthur and his sister and killed his father? (The automatics made me put the asterisk in!)
 
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DerekC said:
Maybe because Mordred was (according to legend) the b*stard son of King Arthur and his sister and killed his father? (The automatics made me put the asterisk in!)
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Basically, yes. Other sources say it was because he was a traitor, but being an all-round nasty bit of work seems to have done for his chances of being immortalised on a loco.

To you to choose the next quest.
 
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Is it the one that was painted up with Chris Frome in yellow when Tour de France came to London

(currently watching Commonwealth games cycling road race which made me think of this possibility)
 
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