AQ11 - trivia questions in our region

[whole diary]

[ChrisB]

* Two GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) operated stations between which you cannot buy a ticket

I'll guess Heath High Level and Heath Low Level.  I know that you can't buy a ticket between Catford and Catford Bridge (Geoff Marshall made a video about this), and the Heaths are similarly close to each other.
[Edit: probably the wrong answer because they are probably TfW rather than GWR, doh]

Worcestershire Parkway High Level to Low Level.

[grahame]

* Two GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) operated stations between which you cannot buy a ticket

I'll guess Heath High Level and Heath Low Level.  I know that you can't buy a ticket between Catford and Catford Bridge (Geoff Marshall made a video about this), and the Heaths are similarly close to each other.
[Edit: probably the wrong answer because they are probably TfW rather than GWR, doh]

Worcestershire Parkway High Level to Low Level.

Same station, Chris?  - both WOP and isn't it one sequence of platform numbers off a common atrium?

[ChrisB]

Fair - so the Low Level & either of the other Worcester stations....

[johnneyw]

* Two GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) operated stations between which you cannot buy a ticket

I'll guess Heath High Level and Heath Low Level.  I know that you can't buy a ticket between Catford and Catford Bridge (Geoff Marshall made a video about this), and the Heaths are similarly close to each other.
[Edit: probably the wrong answer because they are probably TfW rather than GWR, doh]

Something in the back of my mind said it might be two local Plymouth stations that are close to each other....or has my imagination rather taken over?

[PhilWakely]

* Two GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) operated stations between which you cannot buy a ticket

St Budeaux Ferry Road and St Budeaux Victoria Road

[Chris from Nailsea]

* Closed 7th September 1964 and re-opening, perhaps, on 12th September 2027

Portishead.

Good luck with that one. 

[TonyN]

* Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)▸ stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train

Also Bedwyn no trains to destinations further down the line or from further down the line call there.

[ellendune]

* Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train

I reckon....

Bourne End
Bere Alston
Coombe Junction

What about Carmarthen (which, like Bourne End, originally had two ends) and Swansea

[Western Pathfinder]

Clifton Bridge Station on the Port Z line ...

[grahame]

Clifton Bridge Station on the Port Z line ...

I'm playing the game of "here is the answer - but WHAT question does this address".  Is it the one about many years from being built to its first train?   ...  It may be but not the one I had!

[Surrey 455]

**Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train:

Banbury, Basingstoke and Gatwick Airport. - Although I guess technically they are not GWR stations but stations GWR use and you can leave them in other directions with other TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)'s. Maybe need to think again

Ah, I was going to say Redhill but that's a Southern station.

[grahame]

* Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train
I had Coombe Junction, Bere Alston and Pilning and had overlooked Bourne End

* Two GWR operated stations between which you cannot buy a ticket
St Budeaus Ferry Road and St Budeaux Victoria Road

* Engineering feature over 7000 metres long and carrying a main line
Severn Tunnel

* Over 500 metres long and carrying a Community Rail line over a river
I had Tamerton Foliot bridge over the Tavy, but the Thames bridge on the Windsor Branch may fit the bill. Is that community rail though?

* A journey on which the last through service leaves at 05:44, a journey on which the last through service leaves at 07:11, and a journey on which the last through service leaves at 07:21 (though not today  Angry )
Paddington to Greenford, Chippenham to Penzance and Melksham to Worcester

* A station which was built in 1850, but did not see its first train until 1857
Bradford-on-Avon

* A railway that was standard gauge for the first 20 years after it opened, then dual gauge, then back to standard gauge.
Truro to Penzance - West Cornwall

* Standard gauge is 4'8.5" - but where in the west was there a railway with a 4'6" gauge
Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway

* Passenger services started on 25th March 1807 and ceased on 5th January 1960
Swansea and Mumbles

* Closed 7th September 1964 and re-opening, perhaps, on 12th September 2027
Portishead

[stuving]

* Over 500 metres long and carrying a Community Rail line over a river
I had Tamerton Foliot bridge over the Tavy, but the Thames bridge on the Windsor Branch may fit the bill. Is that community rail though?

The Windsor branch certainly is not a Community Rail Line - perhaps more royal than communal - but its viaduct is well over 1500 m long. The Tavy bridge, however, is less than 500 m long however you measure it. Wikipedia has 453 m, implying it has stretched quite a bit in use since it was built, and announced as 1429' long (436 m). More prosaically, I suspect it is now being measured to the ends of the parapets, rather than to the abutment faces; is the latter the "official" way of doing it?

[Ollie]

* Three GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)▸ stations which - though not terminii - you can only leave in one direction on a passenger train

Also Bedwyn no trains to destinations further down the line or from further down the line call there.

Although not frequent, Bedwyn has services from both directions.