The continuious quiz

Pretoria · Post by **Pretoria** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:08 pm

TommyDodd · Post by **TommyDodd** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:39 pm

I know it's not my turn, but it's all gone very very quiet...

So where's this?

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:52 pm

Athens?

TommyDodd · Post by **TommyDodd** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:10 am

Right country, wrong town.

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:10 am

SINCERE APOLOGIES I'm in the middle of moving house, and for some reason my 'watch this subject' didn't work.

Sorry, chaps. I've not been deliberately ignoring it: why didn't someone send me a PM?

Thessalonika?

TommyDodd · Post by **TommyDodd** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:24 pm

Wrong end of the country.

CLUE: Everything in the picture is metre gauge

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:41 pm

Kiato maybe?

TommyDodd · Post by **TommyDodd** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:08 pm

...or maybe not.

Clue II: Junction station

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:06 pm

Corinth?

TommyDodd · Post by **TommyDodd** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:16 pm

All game stabs, but it would have been guessed by now if it was going to be guessed at all. Twas Pyrgos, junction for the Olympia branch. I believe it was your turn next anway, MdeC.

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:49 pm

I shall have a ponder...

Converted to double track in 1803, I am 2 inches wider than Amalthaea.
One long length was not converted to double track and remained single. The reason for the track remaining single still survives, although in an incomplete form.

What is the name of the reason?

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:25 pm

budget cuts by network rail

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:57 pm

alanf · Post by **alanf** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:13 pm

The Surrey Iron Railway?

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:23 pm

Close - right sort of vintage of railway, but not that railway.

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:11 pm

Something 4' 2" gauge?? Amalthaea ran on the Padarn railway which was 4' gauge....................

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:10 pm

Getting warm...

TommyDodd · Post by **TommyDodd** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:19 pm

Unable to think of anything 4'2" gauge I thought "cryptic!" and found a drawing. Note that he said 2" wider than Amalthea and didn't mention gauge at all. According to Boyd, Amalthea was 7'8" broad in the beam. Unfortunately I can only find one 8' gauge line and the Johnstown Incline was built too late to count. Foiled again!

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:45 pm

TommyDodd:68042 wrote:Foiled again!

If you need proof of my cryptic mind, just ask our mutual friend Mr. Hudson...

Sadly, you're getting colder. I though somebody might get Johnstown, but that's a dead end unfortunately. However, as Johnstown is an Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, I can say that what I'm after is a Grade II * listed thing.

alanf · Post by **alanf** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:45 pm

The reason Stodhart Tunnel. Peak Forest Tramway

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