Railway General Knowledge.

[Zoe]

The line from Chester General to Rock Ferry?

Not what I'm looking for.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Norton Fitzwarren?



Floor open if it was.

 

[Zoe]

Norton Fitzwarren?

You are getting close but no, Cogload Junction to Norton Fitzwarren wasn't the most westerly.

 

[dzug2]

Maybe Exminster then.

 

[Schnellzug]

N. Abbt to Aller Junction?

 

[Zoe]

N. Abbt to Aller Junction?

Correct. Formation was DR, DM, UR, UM.

 

[Schnellzug]

Thank you. OF for now, until I can think of something.

 

[Welshman]

OK - try this while Schnellzug's thinking:-

In the days of steam, what was one unauthorised use for the bucket while the crew of a steam-hauled freight train were held in a loop? [No - not as a WC!]

 

[dzug2]

To leave a bucket of coal at the lineside for onesself or one's mates to pick up later?

 

[Welshman]

No - apparently they just used to throw the coal out while passing!

 

[ole man]

To chuck it over the oncoming train??

 

[Schnellzug]

To boil a great big mug of tea.

 

[Welshman]

Interesting thoughts, both of you. But No!

Clue - this would not work with colour-light signalling.

 

[dzug2]

Pour hot water over the signal cables so that they would expand and.....

Not really sure what the result of that would be.

 

[Welshman]

The signalman wouldn't be able to pull anything off until he'd tightened-up the wires. Then, when they'd cooled-down and contracted, the wire would break the next time he tried pulling it, throwing him across the floor of his box. I guess he would not be a happy man!

{the answer is "No" by the way!}

 

[deltic1989]

If there was a river nearby then i suppose they could use it for a spot of fishing.

 

[Welshman]

Perhaps!

I'm aware Schnellzug may want his turn now, so I'll give the answer I was looking-for.

If they were likely to be held in the loop for some time, I gather the crew would hang the empty bucket on the balance lever of the signal, and then settle down for a snooze. When the signalman eventually pulled the signal off, the extra clattering noise of the bucket falling on to the ballast would wake the crew!

So it was a useful alarm, although doing nothing for the shape of the bucket

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Now, over to Schnellzug.

 

[Schnellzug]

Very considerate of you. I haven't, however, thought of anything yet, so the F remains O for anybody who'd like a go.

 

[Zoe]

A fairly easy one now: Two BR succesive BR chairmen had the same name, what is this name?

 

[Schnellzug]

Bob Reid, wasn't it? Chosen, of course, because their initials were BR.

True or false: Sir Peter Parker was the alter ego of Spiderman.



:roll:

 

[Zoe]

Bob Reid, wasn't it? Chosen, of course, because their initials were BR.

Correct.

 

[dzug2]

Bob Reid, wasn't it? Chosen, of course, because their initials were BR.

True or false: Sir Peter Parker was the alter ego of Spiderman.



:roll:

Leave out the 'Sir' and it's true.

 

[ole man]

Easy one this to keep it going

Sitting in a railway station with a ticket for my destination? is a line from which Simon and Garfunkel song?

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Easy one this to keep it going

Sitting in a railway station with a ticket for my destination? is a line from which Simon and Garfunkel song?

Homeward Bound.

Open floor!

 

[Welshman]

OK -

Where would it have been possible to approach a colour-light signal with the aspects red, yellow, yellow, red, showing vertically and simultaneously?

 

[clagmonster]

London Underground?

 

[Welshman]

Not what I had in mind.

 

[deltic1989]

I want to say some veriety of SPAD indicator. But if memory serves, they are 3 vertical reds flashing with STOP written on the middle one.

 

[Welshman]

Sorry, no.
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A clue is in the question:-

Where would it have been....

These signals are no longer found on the network, but they were.....

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Euston new lines?