Railway General Knowledge.

[Peterthegreat]

Yes, too easy wasn't it ... you have the Producer's Chair.

Yes. I have the full collection.
Question follows.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Apologies for the slight delay.

Where would you find the world's shortest passenger carrying railway?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Apologies for the slight delay.

Where would you find the world's shortest passenger carrying railway?

Unless it's a funicular somewhere, I'd suspect Hythe Pier?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Unless it's a funicular somewhere, I'd suspect Hythe Pier?

Nope. The Hythe Pier railway is 7 times longer.

 

[SteveM70]

Is the Cadeby Light Railway still in existence?

 

[341o2]

The Angel's Flight Los Angeles at just under 300 ft long

 

[Peterthegreat]

The Angel's Flight Los Angeles at just under 300 ft long

It is indeed. Your turn to set the question.

 

[341o2]

Keeping with the subject of short railways, which country has the shortest national railway?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Vatican City ?

 

[341o2]

yes, total length 300m, within the Vatican, one station, mostly freight traffic.

your floor

 

[Ashley Hill]

Nothing off the top of my head so open floor.

 

[Calthrop]

Railway nationalisation in Spain took place in 1941 -- at least in part, because of the railways' being badly messed-up by the country's then recent civil war (oddly, nationalisation took in all the broad gauge, but none of the very extensive narrow gauge). Please give the pre-nationalisation names of any two of the former broad-gauge companies / undertakings which, in this move, were merged into the new national outfit, the RENFE. (Names may be in Spanish, or English equivalent -- or any other language, within reason !)

 

[Calthrop]

Would seem difficult to find any hint, which isn't a dead giveaway; but "if that's how it is"... there are two cardinal compass points, out of the four: naming which, would answer the question with satisfactory correctness.

 

[Gloster]

The only one I can think of is the Norte. There was also one with three lengthy place names in it which had some early 0-8-0 locos.

 

[Calthrop]

Grand -- that's one of them. I won't "unveil" here, the three-lengthy-place-names outfit; but it was to a fair extent, a "routes rival" of the Norte. Any more, anyone?

 

[Peterthegreat]

The MZA?

 

[Calthrop]

That's the three-place-name one, as "above-your-post" -- any chance of the actual names?

 

[Peterthegreat]

That's the three-place-name one, as "above-your-post" -- any chance of the actual names?

Madrid, Zaragoza and Alicante.

 

[Calthrop]

Correct. @Gloster and @Peterthegreat, that gives you one each. With my liking for tie-breaker questions: might you be up for one such?

 

[Gloster]

I’ll give it a try.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Correct. @Gloster and @Peterthegreat, that gives you one each. With my liking for tie-breaker questions: might you be up for one such?

OK by me!

 

[Calthrop]

OK -- sticking with Spain (I don't think one will need, for this one, to be a particularly learned scholar of the language): what is the big Spanish rail junction whose name translates as "inn or market of the baths"?

 

[Peterthegreat]

OK -- sticking with Spain (I don't think one will need, for this one, to be a particularly learned scholar of the language): what is the big Spanish rail junction whose name translates as "inn or market of the baths"?

Venta de Banos?

 

[Calthrop]

Venta de Banos?

That's the one !

Senor Pedroelgrande: it's your floor.

 

[Peterthegreat]

That's the one !

Senor Pedroelgrande: it's your floor.

Muchas gracias.
Question to follow!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Where would you find Europe's highest railway bridge (highest = distance from floor to bridge)?

 

[Calthrop]

The Landwasser Viaduct, Rhaetische Bahn, Switzerland? (Just to come up with something.)

 

[Snow1964]

I vaguely remember it is (if it is still there) somewhere in former Yugoslavia. But I don’t know enough to give give a proper answer

 

[Peterthegreat]

The Landwasser Viaduct, Rhaetische Bahn, Switzerland? (Just to come up with something.)

Sorry incorrect.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I vaguely remember it is (if it is still there) somewhere in former Yugoslavia. But I don’t know enough to give give a proper answer

Indeed it is. Needs to be a bit more accurate though.