Railway General Knowledge.

[SteveM70]

Glazebrook

 

[SteveyBee131]

Well, let’s start with Penzance.

Good

Fazakerley (Liverpool)
Edit:
Hazel Grove
Brizzle Temple Meads

Fazakerley and Hazel Grove, good.

Maze Hill.

Good.

Leighton Buzzard
Danzey
Fazakerley

Leighton Buzzard and Danzey, Good. You were beaten to it with Fazakerley though.

A couple not too far from here....

Fitzwilliam
Frizinghall

Both good.

Walton on the Naze

Good.

Lenzie
Devizes
Norton Fitzwarren

London Zones 1 - 6!

Thinking ahead: Birmingham Curzon Street

Only Lenzie in those.

Glazebrook

Good.

So between you all I count 11 so far.

Two more (plus the three bonuses if anyone is good with 3 letter codes)...

 

[xotGD]

Lazonby and Kirkoswald

 

[SteveyBee131]

Lazonby and Kirkoswald

Good.

So there's 1 left...

 

[Ashley Hill]

Belsize Park on the Northern line?

 

[SteveyBee131]

No.

It's on Network Rail, down an unelectrified branch line in the territory of GWR

 

[Ashley Hill]

That'll be Furze Platt!

 

[SteveyBee131]

That's the one

So we have our baker's dozen of stations on Network Rail containing a Z, well done everyone!

@341o2 got 1, @Gloster @AndyPJG @xotGD got 2 each.

@SteveM70 and @Ashley Hill got 3 each, so I'll let you both come to an agreement who is in charge of the platform next

 

[SteveM70]

I’m happy for @Ashley Hill to be stationmaster

 

[Ashley Hill]

Blimey,haven't done one of these for a while so here's an easy one.
In the British Transport Film 'Single Line Working' which two stations appeared as Averton Hammer and Boiland?

 

[Gloster]

Shepton Mallet and Binegar.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Shepton Mallet and Binegar.

Well I said it would be easy! The projection room is yours.....

 

[Gloster]

Which classes of pacific (4-6-2) were built during by BR’s workshops between 1948 and 1960? And, as a bonus, how many of each class? (For clarity, there is one class that is sometimes seen as two classes: here it is only one.)

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Clan (10x?)
Britannia (about 30?)
Duke of Gloucester (1?)
MN/WC/BB?
A3 by Peppercorn?

 

[Gloster]

Clan (10x?)
Britannia (about 30?)
Duke of Gloucester (1?)
MN/WC/BB?
A3 by Peppercorn?

Five classes correct: I regard BB and WC as one class, but MN as a separate one. Two totals correct.

 

[DerekC]

Both LNER Peppercorn A1 and A2, I think, rather than A3. (about 20 A1s and 40 A2s - complete guess!)
Weren't one or two of the LMS "Coronation" class completed after nationalisation?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

@DerekC
Please, what sort of loco is that in your picture?
I think the LNER got the numbers wrong, counting down instead of up. Like canon, the better eos cameras had lower numbers

 

[Gloster]

Both LNER Peppercorn A1 and A2, I think, rather than A3. (about 20 A1s and 40 A2s - complete guess!)
Weren't one or two of the LMS "Coronation" class completed after nationalisation?

All three classes are correct and we now have all eight classes concerned, but I will give it a little longer to get the totals of each class.

 

[341o2]

WC/BB 39, 34071 to 34110
MN 9 35021 to 35030

 

[Gloster]

WC/BB 39, 34071 to 34110
MN 9 35021 to 35030

Both correct, although it is actually 40 and 10, but the loco numbers are right. That leaves Coronation, A1, A2 and Britannia class totals.

 

[341o2]

That would the the entire Brittania class of 55 locos 70000 - 700054

 

[Gloster]

That would the the entire Brittania class of 55 locos 70000 - 700054

Correct. Three to go: the Coronation answer in #10,966 was half right.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

One Coronation? Completed 1953 for THE Coronation? Or two Coronatii, if I may guess twice?

I was overthinking, could its have been a cryptic question involving 2-6-4 tanks?

 

[Gloster]

One Coronation? Completed 1953 for THE Coronation? Or two Coronatii, if I may guess twice?

I was overthinking, could its have been a cryptic question involving 2-6-4 tanks?

No, it was not a trick question. The answer is one as the last Coronation, 46257, was completed in 1948.

 

[Gloster]

The last two were 49 A1 and 14 A2.

With five classes that makes @LSWR Cavalier the winner. The draughtsman’s pen is yours.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Thanks very much

On the cover of 'A Hundred Years of Railway Weighells' Sidney W is shown on the footplate of an engine that probably never ran in the North-East. Which engine?
On the back of the book is a photo of one of the greatest LNER loco types at one of the greatest locations, please identify both.

What locomotive engine appears on the cover of 'Southern Steam' by O S Nock?

On the front and back covers of 'Narrow Gauge Railways, England and the fifteen-inch' by Humphrey Household appears a locomotive operating at the wrong end of the country, if its name is anything to go by, which engine?

I have been worried about making questions too easy. Or too hard, so I included clues

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

A clue: the engine Sid is standing on is more like Thomas than Percy, it has visited a real Island (not Sodor), where 0-4-4 tanks were ubiquitous.

 

[Gloster]

A clue: the engine Sid is standing on is more like Thomas than Percy, it has visited a real Island (not Sodor), where 0-4-4 tanks were ubiquitous.

Lord Fisher?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Lord Fisher?

Had to check that. No, it is a very small engine, but not that small

 

[Gloster]

It is possible that the loco I am thinking of is called Ironside.