Railway General Knowledge.

[hmp455]

Weren't the 165/0s first, working out of Marylebone.

Correct, the Chiltern lines as part of it's total modernisation.

Your floor

 

[D6975]

I think I'd better leave the floor open - got a very busy weekend coming up so even if I set a question, I won't be able to monitor the answers.

 

[Welshman]

OK - try this:-

Which surviving relic of a former Yorkshire-Lincolnshire link was still carrying people into this year, and for what purpose?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I note you say "carrying people" but you do not say anything about them being carried from one place to another, so I would hazard a guess that this is the restaurant ship P.S. Tattershall Castle which is moored on the Thames in London?



Open deck if it is.

 

[Mvann]

Thinking on that line, it could have been ps Lincoln castle.

 

[clagmonster]

The Lincoln Castle was scrapped earlier this year, so would make sense, although has not had any public access for a good few years.

 

[Welshman]

I note you say "carrying people" but you do not say anything about them being carried from one place to another, so I would hazard a guess that this is the restaurant ship P.S. Tattershall Castle which is moored on the Thames in London?



Open deck if it is.

Well, done, Peter - you spotted the hidden clue.

The answer was PS Tattershall Castle, and I deliberately said carrying "people" not passengers, as they were not literally moved anywhere, but rather used the old steamer as a viewing platform to see the Thames flotilla which formed part of the Royal Jubilee Celebrations on 3rd June this year.

As you have said, now it is "open deck"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As you have said, now it is "open deck"

September 1982 saw a new British locomotive haulage record set. Why was this unusual ?

 

[clagmonster]

Generally such records are attempted using new build locos. 1982 was towards the end of introduction of class 56s and the start of the development of the class 58. I am going to suggest that the record was in weight hauled and involved 47901, which was unusual that it was a second rebuilt testbed for a locomotive class still in the design stages.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not so...I was surprised when I read of this event.

 

[clagmonster]

Hang on, was it the stunt, I think at the East Somerset Railway, involving a 9F and a stone train?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hang on, was it the stunt, I think at the East Somerset Railway, involving a 9F and a stone train?

I will give the full answer. Since steam locomotive traction was officially ended in 1968, it was strange to relate that it was indeed a steam locomotive in 1982 setting this new haulage record.

The locomotive, as you rightly say, was a Class 9F Standard Class, 92203 Black Prince which was in preservation. The place where this occurred was the Foster Yeoman quarry in Somerset and the hauled weight of laden stone waggons was 2,178 tons.

Over to you to set the next one.

 

[clagmonster]

I have read the weight before, but would never have remembered that or the identity of the 9F without reading up. I also confused the location of the event - the ESR and Merehead quarry are very close to each other and are linked by rail.

Sticking on the same theme, which famous person was largely responsible for the preservation of aforemention 9F (92203) and the East Somerset Railway?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sticking on the same theme, which famous person was largely responsible for the preservation of aforemention 9F (92203) and the East Somerset Railway?

David Shepherd, the reknowned artist.

 

[clagmonster]

David Shepherd, the reknowned artist.

Is the correct answer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

What member of the Society of Friends, born in 1792 and died in 1851, who had worked in the town of his birth for a renowned furniture maker of the highest quality, had a great impact on the facility of railway travel for both railway companies and passengers, and also, what was this improvement that he brought to bear ?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

George Mortimer Pullman?

The improvement being comfort levels.

Open floor if it is him.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not so. I cannot give any further clues than I already have done.

 

[deltic1989]

My first thought on this is Thomas Chippendale. But im unsure as he was i believe born in Otley and worked in London.

 

[Old-School]

Thomas Edmondson,
Born and worked in Lancaster and inventor of the "Edmondson Ticket" his final invention was a machine which would print tickets in batches complete with the serial numbers

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thomas Edmondson,
Born and worked in Lancaster and inventor of the "Edmondson Ticket" his final invention was a machine which would print tickets in batches complete with the serial numbers

Absolutely correct.....Please set the next one.

 

[Old-School]

Peter Schuyler Bruff (1812–1900), born in Portsmouth, England, was a civil engineer best known for founding the seaside resort town of Clacton on Sea, formed his own Railway company, what was it called.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastern Union Railway, which built the line from Colchester to Ipswich, when the main railway company (Eastern Counties Railway) did not have enough of their own funds to complete this final section of their line.

 

[Old-School]

Eastern Union Railway, which built the line from Colchester to Ipswich, when the main railway company (Eastern Counties Railway) did not have enough of their own funds to complete this final section of their line.

It certainly was.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Open floor.

 

[Welshman]

What, in railway terms, was the "Battle of Nottingham"?

 

[Mvann]

It was between the midland and great northern railways over a line between derby and Grantham I think.

 

[EM2]

What, in railway terms, was the "Battle of Nottingham"?

It was to do with the GNR and MR both wanting to take over the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway, who ran from Grantham to Colwick.
An ANB&EJR train pulled into Nottingham with a GNR loco on the front. It began to run round, and then found itself trapped between two MR locos. It was in effect 'captured', held in an MR shed, the tracks was lifted and it took seven months and a court battle for the GNR to get it back!

 

[Welshman]

Yes, well done, EM2, although mvann gave the essence of the answer first, you gave more details.

In 1852, a train from London reached Nottingham Midland via the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston & Western Junction Railway. When the engine tried to run round, it found a Midland engine blocking its path. It was escorted to the shed, and kept prisoner, as the tracks were removed!
[I hope this does not give Richard Branson ideas!].

 

[Mvann]

If you have a new question em2, I'll let you go as I'm cooking my dinner.