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DasLunatic
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It is not, no.
martinsh
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Is it the 5MT because there are no members of that class running on the Island of Sodor ?!
DasLunatic
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I'll give it to you for the Sodor link. When did a Shed move to Sodor anyways...?
martinsh
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So what was the right answer then ?
E2 = Thomas
35 = Bear
5MT = ??
04 = Mavis
66 = ??
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Name 5 pre-grouping railways in the UK who electrified part (or all) of their line(s).
Tramways and underground railways don't count.
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The 5MT is Gordon (post-rebuild) and the 66 has never appeared on Sodor AFAIK.
theageofthetra
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If we are talking about the 'proper' books then I don't recall Gordon being rebuilt-it was an A3? Henry was 'rebuilt' only to get around Awdrey's frustrations with his earlier illustrators errors and inconsistencies -from a Greenly Atlantic to a random 4-6-0 I believe.
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LBSCR
LSWR
L & Y
NER
LNWR
These were electric pre grouping but not sure thats what you meant?
Grimsby & Immingham
Liverpool Overhead
martinsh
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Correct - you could have also had the Midland (Lancaster - Morecambe - Heysham)
theageofthetra
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What was the heaviest 4-8-4 ever built and what unusual feature did it have?
The USAs Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad had many examples in, by its reference, several different classes of basically very much the same type of 4-8-4; built by Baldwin, between the 1920s and 1944. The final thirty, designated as class 2900, were built in 1943 and 1944: owing to wartime shortages, some different kinds of metals vis-à-vis the earlier batches of the type, were used in their construction. (This was the unusual feature.) It caused the 2900 class to be heavier than their earlier counterparts of this type: in fact, the heaviest 4-8-4s ever built.
theageofthetra
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Correct loco but not the correct unusual feature. This feature required special signs to be placed on the lineside.
theageofthetra
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Another clue- the signs were near some bridges and tunnels.
theageofthetra
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Correct it had a funnel extension which was raised and lowered via a small piston. Quite a few locos in the US tried various ways of reducing the smoke affecting the crews vision and to improve draughting. Some even had a duct the the length of the boiler where exhaust gasses could be funneled away from the cab in long tunnels. The ultimate solution to the fume problems in tunnels and snowsheds were the famous cab-forwards but even they had aircraft style oxygen masks in the cab . Your floor
If you're sure that's OK -- thanks.
Which LNER branch line connected with an industrial / agricultural light railway system, in total well over twice the branch line's length; with some remaining freight on parts of this complex, continuing to run into the 1980s? And, please give the name of the "industrial" system.
Which LNER branch line connected with an industrial / agricultural light railway system, in total well over twice the branch line's length; with some remaining freight on parts of this complex, continuing to run into the 1980s? And, please give the name of the "industrial" system.
martinsh
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Stoke Ferry branch - connecting with Wissington Ligth Railway ?
Correct, martinsh; your floor. (Bad luck, Cowley -- as seen, you were a couple of hundred miles too far north.)
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martinsh
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What British locomotive was built in 1922 but never entered revenue service before being scrapped by BR in 1950 ?
theageofthetra
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Armstrong Whitworth steam-electric loco? (though I think this may have been scrapped before 1950 unless it survived as a fixed generator in some workshop)
martinsh
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No - but you're in the rigth part of the country
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Time for a clue methinks !
This was not a steam locomotive
Was it a type of Tyneside electric locomotive?
martinsh
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Electric yes. Not neccesarily Tyneside
theageofthetra
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NER class EE1. It sat unused because after grouping the East Coast electrication project it was built for was put on hold. For quite a time it turned out! What a waste.
martinsh
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theageofthetra
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There was a locomotive built in the US that was conventional (i.e not a fireless) but had no accomodation for or carried a fireman although one was employed. Why was this & what was it the worlds first of?
martinsh
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Is this the Southern Pacific Cab Forwards ?
theageofthetra
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No they had a fireman. This was coal fired, had a very specific role and was the worlds first of this wheel arrangement.